Dorset’s DocBike wins road safety award
A CHARITY founded in Dorset that works to save lives on our roads has been recognised with a Royal…
How to do the festive season your way
By Alice Johnsen. EVERY year Christmas is preceded not just by Advent but by a steadily building pressure cooker. From…
‘Temporary’ classrooms end in sight
LAST week came the announcement that I have been campaigning on long and hard in Parliament. The Government has confirmed…
Gurkha Welfare Trust ambassador plans epic trek across Nepal
Local photographer Johnny Fenn, from Mere, is planning to kickstart 2023 with an incredible fundraising challenge – walking the…
2,200 lots on offer in three-day sale with something for everyone
CLARKE’S Auctions at Semley would like to wish its clients a happy Christmas and is looking forward to seeing…
LibDems plough the middle way
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers! I hope these columns over the past year…
Forget ‘goblin mode’ – my word of the year has to be ‘change’
In case you missed it, Oxford Dictionaries, for the first time, asked the general public to choose their ‘word…
Classic Christmas
GIRLS in Years 7 and 8 at Hanford School in Child Okeford staged a nativity play which was as…
Arts group in need of a driving force
NOT-FOR-PROFIT organisation Free-Expression Creative, based in Blandford, is looking for a proactive trustee to help deliver arts to the…
St Nicholas nativity
Families and friends of St Nicholas Church of England Primary School very much enjoyed the children’s nativity performance in…
