Stour and Avon

Learning the works

After weeks of seeing diggers and workmen in action outside their windows, children from Tops Day Nurseries, on Wimborne’s…

Autism school creates ‘Model Classroom’

Portfield School in Christchurch has unveiled its first ‘Model Classroom’ – an architect-designed environment for learning, created specifically around…

‘Lewis’ lords it in scarecrow competition

Lewis-Manning Hospice Care’s Day Hospice patients entered a competition to design a scarecrow and were delighted to scoop first…

School heading in the rights direction

Lockyer’s Middle School in Corfe Mullen has retained its Rights Respecting Gold award from Unicef UK. Only 20 such…

Wimborne’s Only Wedding Dress Boutique Opens A Second Store!

Popular amongst many Dorset brides, Minster Bridal Boutique located at Millstream Close sells exclusive wedding dresses hand-picked from designers…

‘Treemendous’ effort from every pupil at St Michael’s school

Every pupil at St Michael’s Middle School in Colehill has planted a tree – with more than 520 saplings…

Hospice care staff deliver bags of cheer

Lewis-Manning Hospice Care staff have delivered ‘Bags of Kindness’ to their patients and families in East Dorset and Purbeck….

A Day at the Farm… with Tiffany Fleming

Tiffany Fleming is a volunteer at High Mead Farm in Longham, Ferndown. High Mead Farm is a working farm…

Would-be snappers invited to visit club

If you fancy yourself as the next Lord Lichfield or David Bailey, then Richard Soley at Ringwood Camera Club…

The signs of Alabama rot in dogs

Alabama rot or Cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy (CRGV) was first identified in the UK in 2012. There have been…