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Sunday, September 8, 2024
Popular clothing retailer, Jacqueline’s Boutique, has opened a new store in Brewery Square and is being supported by a very special customer, Valerie Singleton. Valerie, who is best known for being a presenter on popular children’s series, Blue Peter, has been friends with the owner of Jacqueline’s Boutique for many...

Baby Steps

Healthwatch Dorset have published a new report about maternity services in Dorset, called Baby Steps.   Healthwatch Dorset spoke to over 100 local women and their families to find out what it's really like when you have a baby in Dorset. They organised two events in Boscombe, ran a facebook survey and...
March started with county (and the whole country) in the grip of the 'beast from the east!'. Most of Britain had an extensive covering of snow and even down here in the soft south conditions were pretty dire for a couple of days. This not only wrought havoc with...
Bournemouth & Poole College has embarked on an exciting new partnership with local celebrity chef, Sarah Ali Choudhury, to host two new Indian cooking hobby courses. Former college student, Sarah Ali Choudhury, is an accomplished celebrity chef and TV personality who has built a reputation for delivering simple Indian...
Swanage & Purbeck Development Trust has been presented with a £10,000 grant from Talbot Village Trust to modernise its centre. The Centre is owned and run by the Swanage & Purbeck Development Trust and operates as a focal point of Swanage, with many members of the community relying on...
More than 300 Bournemouth & Poole College students took part in a charity football tournament and carried out random acts of kindness as part of their Student Volunteering Week. The fifth year of the event, which ran from 19to 23 March and was organised by the Students’ Union, featured...
The incident happened at around 10.15am on Saturday 17 March 2018 as the victim - a woman aged in her 50s - was walking her dog in Puddletown Forest.She had got lost and flagged down a passing cyclist to ask for directions. As the man was giving her directions...

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WE NEED YOU NOW! Because of the amazing success of Dorset Eye the costs of hosting, managing and updating the site have escalated significantly. Dorset Eye has a unique model of empowering the public. Without the funds to meet this hosting payment we will struggle to continue in the longer...
Any sensible person will shout hoorah! https://twitter.com/Corbynator2/status/1048864963161481216 Douglas James
Healthwatch Dorset has been finding out more about women’s experience of screening services to help inform local GP’s and the national NHS screening programme. Fewer women are going for cervical and breast screening appointments. According to the NHS, 1 in 4 women did not attend a cervical screening appointment in...