Health and Well Being - Dorset South

This October, Dorset Wildlife Trust is once again offering its free Will writing service to its 25,000 members.  The free Will service is for members wishing to make a simple Will or update an existing one. There is absolutely no obligation to leave a gift to Dorset Wildlife Trust for this service, but wewould be honoured if our members will support the...

Emergency services personnel and members of the public who experienced stress and other issues during the pandemic are to benefit from free mental health workshops.  The interactive sessions will be delivered online by Dorset Mind from 14-19th September.  These will be funded by a Safer Dorset Fund Covid-19 grant, provided by the Office...

Weymouth Town Council are pleased to announce that the local Health walks will be starting again as from Monday 7th September 2020. Over the past few weeks, as lockdown restriction began to ease, our volunteer walk leaders in Weymouth have been working behind the scenes to ensure the safe return of their...

Male suicides in England and Wales were at their highest rate in two decades last year, official figures show.  The suicide rate for women was also the highest since 2004, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Men accounted for around three-quarters of suicide deaths registered in 2019...

Update: Officers searching for a missing man from Poole are pleased to confirm he has been located. Benedict O’Neill, aged 23, left Banbury train station at around 8pm on Sunday 30 August 2020 and was due to return to his home address in Poole.  Following enquiries and searches by officers, Benedict has...

I know some people have been excited to see the cruise ships in the bay. However, we need to be aware of the massive amount of pollution these ships produce. The 44 cruise ships that regularly dock in Southampton produce as much air pollution as 260,000 cars. So the...

We should expect more animal-to-human disease outbreaks to emerge in future, a leading scientist has warned. Professor Sarah Gilbert, who is heading the development of Oxford University's coronavirus vaccine, says human activity is driving the rising threat of viruses and that the risk is unlikely to reduce as globalisation continues."Greater population density,...

At last educating about the menopause has been added to the school curriculum. Vital for both women and men that such a huge change both physically and mentally is explored and discussed. Join us in helping to bring reality and decency back by SUBSCRIBING to our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ1Ll1ylCg8U19AhNl-NoTg and...

Update Officers searching for missing Poole woman Noeliene Adiedo are pleased to confirm she has been found safe and well. The 27-year-old was reported missing having last been seen at her home address at around 9am on Friday 28 August 2020. Following searches by officers, she has now been located in the...

The term domestic abuse may still carry with it connotations of violence behind closed doors between a husband and wife. It is important to recognise, as the police and support agencies in Dorset do, that domestic abuse is not limited to physical harm and can affect anyone. The common...