Dorset Council has submitted its bid for the Government’s Bus Back Better £3 billion fund to revitalise the nation’s bus services.
In March the Government launched Bus Back Better, a new National Bus Strategy for England with aims to rejuvenate local bus services by making them:
More attractive for passengersMore affordableEasier...
Hi, I'm currently researching the Bedroom Tax and how it will effect residents from Dorset. If you are being one of the social housing residents being effected please contact me so I can tell your story and allow you the opportunity to show others how much it is going...
Mums to be from across Dorset are set to benefit from a new telephone service that is being launched in April. From Monday 11 April the Dorset Maternity Labour Line will be operated by midwives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week offering advice and support to women who...
As millions of parents admit they struggle to help with maths homework, the nation needs a maths confidence boost
Parents have less confidence talking to their kids about maths and science than they do sex education, reveals new research from learning and assessment provider Renaissance
Maths was the subject most likely to...
807,000 women are registered as part-time self-employed workers in the UK, and Dorset’s own Tara Howard is one of them. As a mum of four children, who are now in their teens and early twenties, Tara launched the Venus Awards in 2010 to acknowledge local Dorset women in business. She...
Hadland Care Group held its annual awards ceremony on Saturday with a masquerade theme, to reward staff members for their contributions over the past year. The group consists of Tops Day Nurseries, the Aspire Training Team and Reside Care Homes and employs over 430 staff in more than 18...
Dorset Police, Devon & Cornwall Police and their Police and Crime Commissioners, are educating people under the age of 18 about the consequences of sexting. Sexting is the term used for the sending or receiving of sexual, naked or semi-naked images or videos which can be taken by...
Dorset Mind is thrilled to announce that BBC Children in Need have awarded them a grant of £8,966 to fund befriending services for young people. Dorset Mind’s Befriending Coordinator Claire Bridges said, “Over the next year, funding will enable us to train volunteers to provide one-to-one practical and emotional...
A Dorset sixth-former has led a drive to support a pioneering medical research programme that is helping to find a cure for Coronavirus. Tristram Waters, an 18-year-old Computer Science student at Bryanston School near Blandford, researched and developed a plan to capitalise on the School’s computing resources to support...
When I first reported on child poverty in Britain, I was struck by the faces of children I spoke to, especially the eyes. They were different: watchful, fearful.In Hackney, in 1975, I filmed Irene Brunsden's family. Irene told me she gave her two-year-old a plate of cornflakes. "She doesn't...
