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Thursday, December 19, 2024
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...

Why We Strike

Staff at Bournemouth University have released a video explaining why they are joining nationwide strikes organised by UCU (University and College Union) from Monday 25th November to Wednesday 4th December. This comes as the universities' representatives ruled out talking about pay which has declined by almost 20% in real terms...
I have been doing some research across twitter, looking at various politics hashtags & accounts. After searching through a numerous amount, I found an account called @MAY_A_PAIN (See pic attached) This account is the best one on twitter. They do everything UK politics - • Tweet about #PMQs • AIM tweets @theresa_may...
Any sensible person will shout hoorah! https://twitter.com/Corbynator2/status/1048864963161481216 Douglas James
A colony of fairy penguins, have moved into a brand new state-of-the-art enclosure at Weymouth SEA LIFE Adventure Park, opening on Saturday, May 26. Twenty fairy penguins have relocated from Manly SEA LIFE Sanctuary in Australia to Weymouth in Dorset, due to the closure of the Manly Sanctuary in February....
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...
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...
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...
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...