Words and pictures: Tom Scrase.

The very colourful flower displays in Wimborne Minster added to the great setting for the 22nd annual duck race on the River Allen in aid of Wimborne in Bloom, and it was all of a quack again this year.
It took place at the bottom of Mill Lane, starting by the bridge and mayor of Wimborne Carol Butter gave a hand to get the ducks on their way down river – by permission of the Slocock Trust – and over the finishing line beside the garden at the back of the Rising Sun in East Street.
Tickets to sponsor a duck were sold in town before and on race day itself at £1 each.
The winner of the first duck home received £50, second £25, third £10 and fourth, fifth and sixth, £5 each.
The proceeds – more than £1,400 – were in aid of Wimborne in Bloom funds.