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Monday, October 14, 2024
A very special guest helps officially open a new £9 million cancer centre for Dorset Dorset’s new multi-million-pound state-of-the-art cancer treatment centre was opened by Martin Clunes OBE this week. The official opening at Dorset County Hospital was on Wednesday night (12 December) with almost 200 guests including charity donors,...
Working women in Dorset will be feeling the pinch even more this Christmas having lost £43 a week in real terms since the crash of 2008. The TUC South West has analysed figures from the Office of National Statistics to calculate the 13% fall in average pay. Men in Dorset have seen a...
Parking tickets are a fairly common occurrence for UK drivers – in 2017, nearly 6 million drivers were given one. Parking restrictions can often be hard to gauge, especially if you're in a rush or you're in an unfamiliar area – in a survey we conducted in 2017, more than 1...

The Rise of The Side Hustle

Research reveals that what we spend has now overtaken what we earn for the first time in 30 years – and we’re turning to second jobs – side hustles -  to make extra cash. As austerity takes hold, the UK is working even harder to make ends meet and the...
Dorset’s Christmases past will be brought to life in an evening of entertainment and song to raise money for Dorset Mind in West Dorset.   The New Hardy Players will be performing several different plays in the courtroom at Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum in Dorchester on Thursday, December 13.   Together with...

Portman Hunt all over A30

Is this acceptable? Some say yes. Landed gentry telling the peasants what to think. Again!   https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeWitness/videos/vb.1616430671910585/2525480714159569/?type=2&theater Douglas James
HELP SAVE POOLE A&E and MATERNITY FOR XMAS 2018 The CCG has looked at the issue of patient safety with ‘rose tinted glasses’, which has led to a biased view towards their desired outcome and distracted them from the realities of the difficulty of providing safe, effective care for major...
Sent to: [email protected], Maria Miller MP, [email protected], [email protected] Subject: UC Claimant Requirements and Advertising Good morning. Like everyone else who's eventually going to be subjected to being an unwilling guinea-pig for the train-wreck that is Universal Credit, I've been following the news reports that have been appearing lately. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/universal-credit-claimants-told-a… I see from the above...
West Dorset District Council’s Planning Committee has given its approval to a reserved matters application for 292 homes at Bank and Ridge Farm in Chickerell. The reserved matters application, which follows approval of an outline application in March 2018, comprises details of appearance, scale and landscaping of the development. The application...
Dorset Police is issuing a reminder to the farming community to ensure they correctly secure sharp tractor loader implements when travelling on public roads. In May earlier this year, officers attended a serious collision in the Furzebrook area of Wareham where a car collided with a tractor. The loading forks...