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Fresh plans to extend the clubhouse at Sturminster Marshall Golf Club have been submitted five months after an appeal over a previous scheme was denied.
Plans to develop the building were refused by Dorset Council in October 2021, and an appeal dismissed 12 months later.
Now, however, CL Planning on behalf of the club, has submitted a revised plan for the building, which the application said would ‘secure the longterm viability of the golf club’.
“The Sturminster Marshall Golf Club needs an alternative income stream to ensure that the level of profit made by the club is sustainable and sufficient to enable required continued investment into the facilities at the club,” it said.
“The proposal provides opportunities for increased covers, helping to secure the club’s future.”
It describes the current clubhouse as ‘non-
descript, suburban, 1980s-style with no particular architectural merit’.
The new plans are described as working ‘in harmony with the site’s opportunities and constraints’ providing the opportunity to enhance the golf club’s facilities on site, while providing additions that result in a well-balanced and proportioned building, befitting the site’s setting and the viability and success of the golf club’. It would see a first-floor terrace created, with the project increasing the number of covers available at the restaurant.
“The scheme has been carefully conceived to positively enhance the site’s setting while having regard to the openness of the Green Belt,” it added.
For more details on the plan, and to comment, log on to dorsetcouncil.gov.uk and search for application reference P/FUL/2023/00233.
The Ferndown branch of Re engage takes elderly people out once a month on a Sunday afternoon.
We arecooking for more reserve drivers for just once or twice a year on a Sunday afternoon when the regulars can’t come.
This is followed by tea at volunteer host and hostesses’ homes.
You will meet up with another driver and elderly folk at the tea venue.
A four-door car while be required.
If you can help, email carolyndennis934@gmail.com or phone 01202 424482.
A royal Picnic in the Park is being held from noon5pm at Verwood Memorial Recreation Ground on Sunday, May 7, in honour of the Coronation of King Charles III.
All Verwoodians and their families are invited. More details are available from Verwood.gov.uk.
Pamphill School introduced a Lego afterschool club this term which is open for all years.
Youngsters in Year 3 who wanted to join a special project had the task of building the Taj Mahal, whilst the rest of the pupils used their imagination and built whatever they wished from a huge assortment of bricks kindly donated by parents and friends. The club is so popular that nearly a third of the school attends.
Not only have the children shown how incredibly imaginative they are, it also has had an added benefit in helping them to relax after a busy week at school.
As one mum said, ‘My boy comes home so chilled after Lego club’.
Mike Wheeler, the headteacher said: “Lego club has been a roaring success since it started up this term.
“It has provided a wonderful outlet for the children’s creativity and teamwork. Some of the group have also shown outstanding perseverance and attention to detail to build the highly-intricate model of the Taj Mahal. “They’ve all shone like stars.”
The next project is already under way... the Great Pyramid of Giza!
Christchurch Rotary Club held its 12th annual wine-tasting to raise funds for the Rotary EndPolioNow programme. Over £1,500 was raised at the Captains Club which, when augmented to £4,500 by the two-for-one additional funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is sufficient to immunise more than 11,000 children.
The EndPolioNow programme started in the 1980s, when Rotarians embarked on the ambitious idea of wiping out polio from the world. They inspired other international agencies to join in, including the World Health Organisation and more recently, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Some 40 years later, they are close to the finishing line. New, so-called Wild Polio, cases have reduced from 350,000 a year in 125 polio endemic countries in 1985 to some 60 new cases in 2022 – all occurring in isolated parts of just three countries, Mozambique,
Pakistan and Afghanistan. That is a reduction from an average of 1,000 new cases a day to an average of one new case every six days.
But that’s still 60 cases a year too many, and so, with traces of the polio virus being detected during routine environmental samplings in a north London sewerage works in June 2022, Christchurch Rotary continues to run activities like the annual wine-tasting, which attracts around 60 guests for an evening combining education with fun, to support this vital cause.
Organiser Peter Boardman said:
“Our huge thanks to Tim and Robert at the Captains Club for the use of their function room for the evening, and for hosting and providing the delicious supper.
“Also to all the staff and to Chris of Ellis Wines for supplying the wines, guiding us through the wine tasting and quiz, and for very generously donating the huge bottle of red wine for the auction – much appreciated”.
A new restaurant set to open in Wimborne has now applied to create a hotel on the first and second floors.
Loungers UK, which runs a chain of restaurant/bars across the country, has applied to Dorset Council for permission to create five ensuite bedrooms on floors one and two of the former TSB building, in the Square.
Last month (February), an application to change the use of the first and part of the second floor of the building from a bank to a restaurant was approved.
Now, the firm hopes to create the rooms - two on the first floor, three on the second. It hopes permission will be granted to change the use of the floors to a hotel, in conjunction with the restruant.
Current, the first floor comprises ‘offices, storage, staff rooms and toilets’, while the second floor is a ‘residential flat which can be accessed via a separate entrance’, the application says. The scheme would see a ‘modest rearrangement’ of these floors to create the rooms.
“The proposals require the removal of some modern partitions and the erection of some internal partitions to create the five en suite bedrooms,” it said.
It added: “The building has been extensively altered internally given the previous use as a bank. The bank fit-out has removed a lot of the previous historic fabric within the building, particularly the first floor.
“The second floor has been in use as a flat as accommodation for bank employees.”
There would be no alterations to the rear elevation and only minor changes to the front, it said.
For more details, and to comment on the plans, log on todorsetcouncil.gov.uk and search for application reference P/FUL/2023/00861.
Ladies from Wimborne Methodist Church Lunch Club presented £1,000 to Victoria Hospital, Wimborne. The cheque, right, was given on behalf of the Lunch Club by Vi Ashpool, Mary Cawley, Mary Bennett, Kate Gillingham and Muriel Guilmant and accepted by Matron Debbie Straw. The money will go towards refurbishment of Hanham Ward Day Room, which will benefit patients and staff.
Dorset residents who live in park homes, houseboats or off the electricity grid, or who pay for their energy through a landlord, housing manager or site owner can now apply for assistance with energy bills. The Government’s Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding is now open for applications for payments of £400 to households who do not have a direct relationship with an energy supplier and therefore were unable to previously receive it.
Applications can be made through the government form, which can be found by searching ‘Apply for energy bill support if you do not get it automatically’ into the gov. uk webpage search bar, or through an online search engine. Applications must be made by May 31 2023.
People who are unable to complete the online form should contact the government helpline on 0808 175 3287.
The Mayor of Wimborne Minster’s annual Thanksgiving Service took place at the church this month.
Councillor Carol Butter and civic dignitaries were on the Minster Green after they had paraded around the town and before the service.
The parade commenced at 2.30pm from Church House, on to the High Street, turning into the Square, then turning into Church Street and entering the Cornmarket and onto the pathway to the Minster.
The service was conducted by the Reverend Canon Andrew Rowland.
The mayor’s Sergeant and Crier Chris Brown, supported by the Wimborne Militia, were in attendance, performing their role as ‘protector of the Town Mayor and the Town from disorder and rebellion’. Words and pictures: TOM SCRASE
From the initial shock of discovering asbestos beneath the sanctuary floor, Wimborne Methodists grasped the opportunity to refresh and modernise.
There followed several months of planning and extensive work to remove the pews and renew the flooring.
During this time Sunday worship continued in the upstairs hall.
With refurbishment now complete we have comfortable aquamarine chairs and modern décor enabling the Church to offer a large multi-purpose area for all ages.
This is in good time for Monday, April 3, when craft, music and stories will be part of the all-age Easter Celebration. The afternoon will conclude with tea.
To compliment the refurbishment, a generous bequest from a deceased member of the church has purchased a beautiful Allen organ to be installed in the early summer.
To register the congregation’s gratitude a plaque will be attached to the organ in her memory with the words: ‘A gift which keeps on giving’.
Along with the bright and welcoming coffee lounge, which is open 10-12, Monday to Friday, Wimborne Methodists are working to maintain and offer their Church and premises as an asset for the community. Why not look in for a coffee and view the new-look sanctuary or enquire about booking the premises ?
Elizabeth RundleWimborne
Russia propagandists think the International Crimes Court arrest warrant is a big joke because Putin is beyond the reach of justice.
I guarantee that Putin isn’t laughing.
Other countries may continue to do business with Russia, but having the country’s leader charged with war
Our Spring Show is tomorrow, Saturday, March 25, in the memorial hall, Station Road, West Moors. It is an open show and it starts at 1.30pm.
There are classes for flowers which include the West Moors Daffodil Championship, Floral Art, Homecrafts and Handicrafts. Schedules available from me on 01202 871536 or email s.hamlett139@btinternet.com.
Sue HamlettWest Moors Horticultural Society
crimes doesn’t enhance its diplomatic efforts.
Vladimir Putin may have no intention of ever leaving home, but he now knows he’s considered a fugitive and subject to arrest if he ever wants to visit an ICC member country.
Mike Fry UptonWimborne Library has several new events coming up. Georgia And The Iceberg is on April 14, 11am-noon. Aimed at ages seven+ this fun, interactive play is brought by Dorsetborn Theatre Company. Join us for a brrr-iliant adventure filled with puppetry, jokes, and a heartwarming original story.
When Georgia goes to visit her big sister Helena,she discovers a giant iceberg on a collision course with the nearby penguin colony. If she must journey across the
ice to warn them. Book via the library or on Eventbrite.Our new D & D Club starts on April 21, 3:45pm-4:55pm. For ages 10-16. Do you play Dungeons and Dragons?
Or would you like to learn?
To book a spot contact us. Cuppa And Company is now extended!
Every Monday 10:30am-5pm. Join us for a welcome and cuppa! More details on 01202 882770.
Kim Pheby Library manager
by Faith Eckersall
From greener asphalt to solar-powered hotboxes, Dorset Council has revealed the weird and wonderful ways it’s reducing its carbon footprint.
The council has cut the carbon emissions of laying asphalt – the black top covering on our roads – by 15 per cent, simply by helping pioneer the use of a special additive at manufacture.
A spokesman explained that previously, asphalt needed to be heated at a very high temperature to reach the right consistency for road-laying.
“Now we can lay it at a much lower temperature and use more in one visit,” he said.
“This enables faster completion of resurfacing works, minimising time on site for contractors and disruption for motorists and saves money by using less energy.”
Typically, conventional asphalt is produced at around 190C. Low energy asphalt is effective at 40C less, reducing carbon emissions by around 15 per cent.
The council is also repurposing old road surfacing – traditionally sold or re-used in maintenance projects – into new road surface, as part of its partnership with Corfe Mullen firm Allasso Recycling.
“Last year, we used over 14,000 tonnes of this sustainable surfacing, an increase
We have been awarded this much sought after accolade for our work with Gold Standards Framework
of 8,000 tonnes on both the previous two years,” said the spokesman.
To further cut emissions, and costs, Dorset council has become the first in the UK to power the hotbox – which keeps asphalt at the right temperature - by solar power. The 415-panel array is on the Charminster depot’s roof and is one of more than 100 Dorset Council solar panel projects benefitting from £19million of central government funding.
The council said: “When in use, it runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week using a
maximum of four electric elements – not more energy than a kettle - and its purchase price was the same as a new gas-powered box.”
The renewable energy costs nothing to generate and is also used to charge the depot’s growing electric vehicle fleet and power tools, as well as help power its buildings.
Excess energy generated by the solar array is fed back into the National Grid although the council is now looking at battery storage options.
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The revelations about the true nature and extent of ‘Government by WhatsApp’ are of great concern. Our democracy is founded on the principle that Government decision-making is open and transparent so that Members of Parliament are able to hold Government to account on the basis of evidence.
I asked the Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt, about this. She told me: ‘This is deeply regrettable... I would just hope that on such serious matters as the Covid inquiry, the Westminster bubble can rise to the challenge of dealing with this in the manner in which it deserves to be addressed’. She went on: ‘My understanding is that people’s WhatsApp messages have been captured and are being captured for that Covid inquiry’. The Minister’s complacency has since been exposed by John Edwards, the Information Commissioner, who has warned that the lack of clear
controls over the rapid increase in the use of private messaging Apps poses real risks to transparency and accountability within Government. He has called for new requirements on Ministers and civil servants to maintain the public record.
Another disturbing aspect of the Government’s lockdown
policy is its decision to set up the Rapid Response Unit to control public debate around the justification for lockdown. As a result of a Subject Access Request, I have discovered that this Rapid Response Unit was using taxpayers’ money to collect and store the content of various interviews which I gave about lockdown.
Interviews with LBC, Newsnight, Times Radio, the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and TalkRadio were transcribed and disseminated. On enquiring why my personal data being treated in this way, I was told that: ‘The Rapid Response Unit was used to understand the spread of information and potential disinformation and help inform how the Government communicates effectively with the public’. That answer discloses a disturbing mission-creep from the original justification for the Rapid Response Unit, which was to ‘combat false and misleading narratives’.
All I was doing was questioning the justification for face masks, the justification for restricting the freedom of those who had been vaccinated, challenging the need for all care home staff to have vaccinations and calling for the roll-out of vaccines for healthy children to be paused. Far from disseminating ‘false and misleading narratives’, I was challenging the Government’s use of them.
My reference in December 2021 to further restrictions forming ‘part of a scaremongering propaganda campaign’ can now be seen to have been prescient. Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps now confirm that that was, indeed, the Government’s intent!
My conclusion, therefore, is that Parliament must ensure that Government never again uses the tools of totalitarian regimes to intimidate and deter MPs from challenging restrictions on freedom.
‘STOP THE BOATS, STOP THE BOATS, STOP THE BOATS!’ shouted Prime Minister Sunak and his henchman Home Secretary ‘Cruella’ Suella Braverman, as the Tories attempt to fix their own 13 years of failed immigration policy and hoodwink the British public into giving them some credit for doing so.
This attempt deserves to fail as it does not follow the British way of decency and compassion normally shown by us Brits to foreigners.
It follows a worrying trend of xenophobic behaviour against certain types of asylum seekers.
It has been exacerbated since Brexit with the resulting loss of huge swathes of summer immigrant labour and the return to Eastern Europe and Poland in particular those members of our workforce who were vital to keeping our nation afloat.
Contrast this current furore with the welcome received by the flow last year of Ukrainian refugees which shows the British sense of fair play and justice of which this current Tory Government seems incapable.
The Home Secretary then rounded on Gary Lineker for criticisinge the language being used by the Government concerning the Bill.
‘Invasion’, ‘menace’, etc - it is factually correct to state that these tropes are similar to those used by nationalist parties in 1930s Germany. What if the terms of this Bill by Cruella had been applied when her and her husband’s forebears were attempting to leave Europe and come to the UK and had been denied admittance?
She, Sunak and Schapps should be reminded of facts like that when following a blatantly populist policy to help bolster their falling
ratings in the polls.
If they followed the stories of these boat people from France and the terrible privations undergone by most of them then they would be showing more sympathy to their wanting to cross one final hurdle - the Channel - in their asylum chase.
Back to Lineker – by the time this column goes to press, he
may well have been reinstated, due to the solidarity shown by his fellow presenters leaving Match of the Day anchorless. What shouldn’t be forgotten is how he was suspended whilst Richard Sharp, the BBC chairman and Tory donor, has remained in post despite failing to declare the £800,000 loan he facilitated for Boris Johnson. The same Johnson (remember him?) who is now attempting to ennoble his disgraced father.
This discredited allowance of up to 100 grace and favour awards to leaving PM’s should be abandoned forthwith. It is so out of date in the egalitarian world we profess to maintain.
Also for the scrap heap should be the practice of political appointments to the post of BBC chair.
Broadcasting should be independent of government. Maybe then we wouldn’t run out of MOTD presenters.
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Across the country, and indeed across the world, firefighters are consistently voted the most trusted profession. Most of us have coveted the dressing up costume as a child, enjoyed sitting in the fire engine at community events and wondered at the heroes who run into those places the rest of us run from.
For me, that is a personal awe – as my dad was a firefighter in London for 30 years and I had the joy of regular visits to the fire station, watching them slide down the pole, borrowing the helmet for party games and supporting their sports teams, either running the London Marathon or dragon boating down the Thames.
As a councillor I was delighted to be able to join the Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Authority, and I remain a regular visitor to Fire Stations in the constituency and in the wider BCP area.
The fire service has changed so much in the last 50 years as
homes have become safer and smoke detection has improved. Since the early 1980s, firerelated fatalities have fallen by two-thirds but in recent years the number of incidents attended by fire services has increased. Road accidents, medical and welfare issues – including extractions from homes –alongside flooding, animal rescue and supporting other agency incidents now form significant parts of the role of a service that is undergoing massive staffing pressures and inadequate funding. The funding comes partly from a central government grant, which has fallen by at least 25% over the last decade, and through a local precept paid with Council Tax.
Currently the fire precept for a band D property in Dorset is just over £80 PER YEAR, a ridiculously small price to pay if you need cutting out of a car wreck, rescuing from your home
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Firefighter numbers are also down, with the majority of Dorset front-line firefighters being part time (retained) and working another job alongside. I would like to see more investment in the fire service so that more preventative work can be done – their Safe and Well programme is genuinely life
changing for vulnerable people, and the Safe Drive Stay Alive young drivers’ scheme operated through schools is among the hardest hitting programmes I have experienced. Observing training sessions recently for bariatric extraction and breathing apparatus rescue, it is clear that the technology officers need to use and the skills they apply as well as their intense courage, emotional resilience and physical strength should be rewarded.
I am delighted the Fire Brigade Union have avoided the need to strike for fair pay but the continuing battle that public sector staff face in trying to maintain a decent standard of living whilst costs rise and funding is squeezed cannot continue. As a nation we need to be honest that effective public services across the board need decent, consistent funding and well-paid, highly-trained professionals.
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Christchurch Rotary Club held its 12th annual wine-tasting to raise funds for the Rotary EndPolioNow programme. Over £1,500 was raised at the Captains Club which, when augmented to £4,500 by the generous two-for-one additional funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is sufficient to immunise more than 11,000 children.
The EndPolioNow programme started in the 1980s, when Rotarians embarked on the ambitious idea of wiping out polio from the world.
They inspired other international agencies to join in, including the World Health Organisation and more recently, the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation. Some 40 years later, they are close to the finishing line. New, so-called Wild Polio, cases have reduced from 350,000 a year in 125 polio endemic countries in 1985 to some 60 new cases in 2022 – all occurring in isolated parts of just three countries, Pakistan, Mozambique and Afghanistan. That is a reduction from an average of 1,000 new cases a day to an average of one new case every six days. But that’s still 60 cases a year too many, and so, with traces of the polio virus being detected during routine environmental samplings in a north London sewerage works in June 2022, Christchurch Rotary
continues to run activities like the annual wine-tasting, which attracts around 60 guests for an evening combining education with fun, to support this vital cause.
Organiser Peter Boardman said: “Our huge thanks to Tim and Robert at the Captains Club for very generously donating the use of their splendid function room for the evening, and for hosting and providing the delicious supper.
“Thank you also to all the staff involved, and to Chris of Ellis Wines for supplying the wines, guiding us through the wine tasting and quiz, and for very generously donating the huge bottle of red wine for the auction – very much appreciated indeed”.
by Lorraine Gibson
Making your mark in a competitive market can be hard - especially one as avidly rated, compared and scrutinised as the tourism industry.
So bravo to the four East Dorset tourist attractions that, after a tough judging process involving nearly 500 applicants, have made it to the finals of the Tourism Awards at Eden project.
Entry and judging processes began in the south last April and the top performers selected are now hoping for success in the regional final to be held at Eden Project on March 23.
The Awards, the culmination of 10 months of evidence-gathering and judging, are recognised for their rigorous assessing. Independent judges spent months poring over submissions, websites, social media and review sites, as well as carrying out business visits, often incognito. Their reports and recommendations then went to an independent panel who made the final decisions.
The finalists will have to wait until the Eden Project event to learn whether they’ve won Gold, Silver or Bronze trophies and some
will be nominated to represent the South West in the national VisitEngland awards later in the year.
So who made East Dorset’s roll call of honour?
Step forward:
l Wimborne’s innovative Museum of East Dorset, or MED, finalist in the the Small Visitor Attraction of the Year.
Set in a historic house, with a beautifullypreserved kitchen, it tells the stories of the people who lived and worked there over the centuries. Visitors are immersed in the narrative via interactive events, drama, exhibits and fascinating artefacts. museumofeastdorset.
l Also in Wimborne, Renouf’s Cheese & Wine Bar is shortlisted for the Casual dining award.
Groaning sharing boards of fab fromage et charcuterie are just the start, add olives, pates and, of course, du pain and you’ve got a personal deli to enjoy with likeminded gourmands.
The wine list, devised to enhance, and its Grade II-listed home add to the experience and to why you may need to book up to 3-5 weeks ahead.
renoufswinebars.co.uk/shop-renoufs.
l Nestling in a woody part of Ferndown is Birchcroft Hideaway, up for the Unsung Hero Award.
As its name suggests, it sits in a secluded spot, hugged by rhododendrons. Its big attraction is its close proximity to a woodland which guests can walk straight into and admire the wildlife, which includes deer and many species of bird.
It also happens to lead to the local pub, so a torch is recommended for the journey back! birchcroft-hideaway.co.uk.
l Commended for Café and Tearoom of the Year is Seasons Kitchen and Coffee Barn, in the heart of the Moors Valley nature reserve.
It serves up everything from a cuppa or a full breakfast, to full-on meals and desserts. It is popular with all ages and, being in such a fantastic location, it’s the perfect spot for a pre- or post-nature ramble and dragonflyspotting treat.
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The full list of finalists and commended entrants is at southwesttourismawards.org. uk.
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Liberty’s Owl, Raptor and Reptile Centre is named after Liberty, our Alaskan Bald Eagle, one of the many birds of prey that we have on display at the Centre, which is located just outside Ringwood near the natural beauty of Hampshire’s New Forest National Park, and close to the splendour of Dorset’s World Heritage “Jurassic” Coast. At Liberty’s you will find a large collection of Birds of Prey, including Owls, Hawks, Falcons and Vultures, as well as a collection of Reptiles and other creepy crawlies in our Reptile House.
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Get ready for an egg-citing Easter at Dorset’s top family theme park between 1st to 16th April 2023.
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My recent article about the controversial Beeching Report, the subsequent decimation of our railways and the famous Pines Express train resulted in these fascinating and poignant insights from readers, Diana Shiner from Bearwood, Susan Jones from Broadstone and Ian and June Orbell from Upton.
Diana fondly recalls journeys on the Pines Express in its heyday: “In 1951/2, my husband was doing his National Service at RAF Credenhill, Hereford; we were married in 1952 and I joined him there. At Easter and in the summer we picked up the Pines Express en route from Manchester to Bournemouth. “It was packed with holidaymakers and I had to stand in the corridor or sit on the suitcase. “We left the train at Broadstone, then an important junction, where two lines crossed the private golf course of Lord Wimborne of Canford Manor, now the school.
“One line was the Somerset & Dorset railway, taken by the Pines Express, the other, a branch line through to Wimborne and beyond. Happy memories.”
Susan recalls her school days: “My husband and I attended Lockyer’s School, Corfe Mullen and around 1951, we walked in crocodile style to Corfe Mullen Halt to catch the train to Cheddar for the day.
“It was a thrill to be able to stretch out your arm to stop the express. My son still does the same today!
“My husband lived at the Violet Farm (no longer there) and at 11.57, could hear the chuff-chuff of the Somerset & Dorset as it made its way through the cutting.”
For Ian, remembering the train invokes wonderful childhood memories but also comes with a very sad tale: “The Pines Express first came to my attention as a young sprog of about eight, just after the war ended. As most kids were doing, armed with notebook and pencil, I would cycle to Poole
railway station from my home in Oakdale for a spot of train watching. “Having paid my penny for a platform ticket I could spend all day there if I wished.
“At this time, my grandparents lived near Branksome railway station so I’d cycle to see them. Their neighbours were a lovely couple, Mr and Mrs Flynn. Mr Flynn was a Southern Railway engine driver, his main route being with the Pines Express. “Hanging around Poole station, I often met him for a quick ‘hello’ on one of his through stops.
“On a visit to nan’s I was talking trains with Mr Flynn in his garden when he suggested I be at Poole station the next afternoon as he was returning through and back to Bournemouth West station.
“I did and sure enough his train arrived, right on time. He said, ‘throw your bike in the guards’ van and come on up onto the footplate’. I didn’t have to be asked twice.”
Ian’s boyhood dream moment had arrived.
“He sat me on his driver’s seat and I kept my hand on the throttle lever, up over Parkstone bank with stops at Parkstone and Branksome
stations, ending at West station.” Joking, he adds: “Now that I considered myself a fully-ledged engine driver, I drove the Pines Express several times and, of course, was the envy of my mates.”
Aged 10, on a trip to Blackpool for a holiday with his parents, he ‘educated them fully on the pros and cons of steam engines and the Pines in particular.
“My wife June’s first trip on the Pines was with her friend when she was about 15 and going to Westbury. They made it to Templecombe to make the change to the West/East line to London but, were distracted by a bunch of sailors heading home from Plymouth.
“When asked where they were heading, they replied Westbury - just as they were entering Hungerford. They were advised to leave the train.
“The happiest part of this tale was that about a year later we met and made it to the alter. That was 61 wonderful years ago.
“The unhappy part was that in the early Sixties Mr Flynn, who loved his job so much but was approaching retirement, died... on the tracks near Branksome Station.”
The Pines Express story is being brought to life through the Wimborne Railex Model Railway Exhibition, an award-winning scale model of the terminus station with the Pines Express train in action.
April 15 and 16, Allendale Centre, Wimborne.
Find out more about the Homemakers at Verwood House and Upton Manor, and their ground-breaking approach to care.
Homemakers - encourage and support everyone, going out of their way to help people to embrace and enjoy life.
“I love everything about Verwood House. My mum (and I) have been made incredibly welcome. The loving attitude, care and attention shown to my mum by the Homemakers and other staff alike has been amazing.”
Daughter of a Verwood House Resident
“She has settled very well, she is no longer lonely and enjoys being with people all the time. The facilities are fabulous, the care is top class, and Mum is happy.”
Verwood House and Upton Manor are luxurious and welcoming care homes offering residential, dementia and nursing care, as well as short breaks. Situated in idyllic locations, each home benefits from a thriving community, and exceptional features and facilities, including an inhouse wellbeing and beauty salon, where residents can enjoy a range of welldeserved pampering experiences and treatments.
Aside from their unrivalled environments, what really sets Verwood House and Upton Manor apart is their dedication to ensuring that people can live the life they choose – the warm and caring team – known as
Whether that’s organising a special event in the private dining room at Verwood House, or sitting down to watch a classic film in comfort in the cinema at Upton Manor, each home is a wonderful place to call home.
Scooters and Servicing
Scooter servicing from just £40 – give us a ring and we’ll book you in.
As the weather warms up, things are getting much busier here at the Purbeck Mobility Centre. Andy has been hard at work servicing our customers’ scooters ready for spring and sales of the Illusion - our ultra lightweight, aluminium boot scooter – are booming. With the heaviest part at just 9.9kg, full suspension and a range of lithium battery options, this robust scooter is proving very popular indeed. See our website www.purbeckmobility.com for further details.
Cosyfeet have a new range of very stylish, comfortable shoes and slippers for spring/summer 2023. Don’t forget to pick up the new catalogue when you are passing.
We have many other products at the shop for all of your mobility requirements. Come and meet us at St John’s Hill, Wareham, BH20 4NB. We look forward to seeing you.
Come and meet us at St John’s Hill, Wareham, BH20 4NB. We look forward to seeing you.
Tel: 01929 552623 Web: www.purbeckmobility.com
Daughter of an Upton Manor Resident Verwood House and Upton Manor are part of Hamberley Care Homes, who were named Residential Care Provider of the Year in 2022, in recognition of their ground-breaking approach. To learn more about life at these luxury care homes and meet their award-winning teams, book in your tour today:
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GoodOaks Homecare, the UK’s only carbon neutral homecare company, is now providing its’ live-in care service across East Dorset. This personalised alternative to residential care covers areas such as Ferndown, West Moors and Verwood.
GoodOaks calculates that the homecare sector produces over 484,000 tonnes of CO2 annually, a figure that is growing every year roughly in line with the growth of the care sector. To keep the 1.5*c target alive, that number needs to be reduced, dramatically.
Care professionals are reliant on their cars to visit clients, powered by older diesel or petrol engines, often in stop-start traffic and moving around suburban areas. GoodOaks calculates all the miles travelled by its care teams every year, and offsets the carbon produced by investing in tree planting and green projects.
Directors, Sam Jones and Adam Downer, said: “Becoming carbon neutral was an important investment for us to make. It’s so important we all do what we can to make greener choices, for our generation, and future generations.”
£95,000
A well presented one bedroom ground floor retirement apartment for over 60+. Situated within a stone’s throw and easy level walking distance of Wimborne Square. NO FORWARD CHAIN.
• Security entrance phone system
• Entrance hallway with storage cupboards
• Spacious sitting room overlooking courtyard garden
• Good size bedroom with built in wardrobes
• Double Glazing and night storage heating For
Our live-in care professionals can help with:
• Meal Preparation
• Medication
• Personal Care
• Companionship
• Help around the home
• And much more…
To find out more call or visit: enquiries@goodoakshomecare.co.uk 01202 125882
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We’re coming back Just like the Old Days
of Sherborne (near the Abbey) Thirty years of dealing in antique and Collectible Toys.
Top prices paid for all types of model railway, die cast cars, early Action Man and Star Wars, Scalextric, Meccano, unmade Airfix kits etc. Those magical makes; Hornby, Dinky, Triang, Spot-On, Corgi, Subbuteo, Britains, Timpo plus plus plus
Telephone: 01935 816072
Mobile: 07527 074343
Each auction always includes following sections:
Jewellery and Silver - Works of Art Ceramics - Pictures - Books
Miscellaneous Collectables such as Stamps, Postcards and Toys
Furniture - Garden and Agricultural Items Contact us
entering items into our auctions!
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The Close, Ringwood, BH24 1LA www.ringwoodauctions.co.uk
1994 Honda RC45 £40,000-£45,000, 1927 Motobecane being sold without reserve, 1935 Norton International £15,000-£17,000, 1968 Egli Vincent £50,000-£60,000
There are bikes spanning the past 100 years in the Charterhouse specialist auction of classic and vintage bikes on Thursday, March 30, with estimates in excess of £1million.
“We have been particularly busy with a great entry of nearly 170 classic and vintage motorcycles for this auction,” said Charterhouse motorcycle specialist George Beale.
“There are bikes in the auction from across the United Kingdom and even one which came to us on a slow boat from Japan!”
The bikes come in all shapes, sizes and conditions. There are race-winning bikes, off-road bikes, commuter bikes, touring bikes, fast bikes and slow bikes. With shed-stored projects to show-winning bikes and 50cc mopeds up to 1,100c bikes estimated from £500 to £250,000, there is pretty
much something for everyone interested in two wheels and an engine.
The auction, being held at The Haynes Motor Museum, Sparkford, BA22 7LH, starts at 11am.
Viewing, at Haynes, is on Wednesday, March 29, 9.30am4.30pm, on the sale day from 9.30am or you can see all the lots on charterhouse-auction. com where live internet bidding is also available.
Charterhouse are now accepting further entries for their summer auction of classic and vintage motorcycles also being held at the prestigious Haynes International Motor Museum.
George Beale and the team at Charterhouse, The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne, are available for help and valuations on 01935 812277 or via bikes@charterhouseauction.com
Nicki Edwards - The Cambridge Lady has been helping people lose weight using the 1:1 Diet By Cambridge Weight Plan for nearly 10 years now.
“My job is really rewarding and inspiring, I get to meet some really lovely people every day,” she said.
“ It can also be challenging, draining and stressful just like many other careers really!
“However, the greatest reward of all is watching my clients grow in confidence, gain back their self respect, get the bounce back in their step and even become a little cheeky along the way!
“People do not appreciate the impact being overweight has on them, not just visually but mentally as well, not forgetting the massive impact on health too.
“In all my years I have never met anyone who is overweight who can truly say they are happy in their skin.
“I’ve been privileged to help people not just get their lives back on track, simply be in less pain, get a new job, amazingly be able to start a family, but also improve many serious health conditions from Diabetes to heart issues.”
Nicki has a great understanding of how it feels to struggle with weight gain, having
lost four and a half stone herself with the diet some 15 years ago.
Nicki added: “I’ve heard many of the reasons why people say they gain weight and have used them all myself too!
“I knew I was making a difference for
people when a gentleman client was leaving my house one day after our consultation and he turned around and said to me: “Do you have any idea how you make people feel so much better about themselves?”
Martin decided that our lunches were becoming boring and that we needed to spice them up a bit!
He found this recipe and decided to give it a try.
It seems a bit ‘faffy’ but the end result was very filling and tasty and was certainly different to the normal boring sandwiches. Some of the preparation could be done in advance, so that you only have to cook the patties. Or you could make a batch of patties and freeze some and just take them out when you want them, making the salsa fresh.
Ingredients
1 head of broccoli
1 bunch of spring onions
600g Maris Piper potatoes
1 red pepper
1 x 400g tin of cannellini beans
60g Cheddar cheese
½ teaspoon smoked paprika
4 free-range eggs
1 x 80g bag of watercress, spinach & rocket
olive oil
red wine vinegar
sea salt
black pepper
extra virgin olive oil
Trim the broccoli. Finely chop stalk, then break the florets apart.
Trim and finely slice half a bunch of spring onions.
Peel and chop 600g of potatoes into 3cm chunks, cook in a pan until tender, adding the broccoli florets for the last 3 minutes. Drizzle, 1 tablespoon of olive oil into a
large frying pan on medium heat, add the sliced spring onions and broccoli stalks and cook until softened, then remove from the heat.
Drain the potatoes and broccoli and allow to steam dry, tip into the frying pan and leave to cool while you make the salsa. Deseed 1 red pepper and dice, and trim the remaining spring onions, then finely chop and place in a bowl with 1 tablespoon of red wine vinegar and a pinch of sea salt and black pepper.
Drain and add 1 x 400g tin of cannellini beans to the frying pan, grate in 60g of Cheddar cheese, season with salt and pepper, then sprinkle in ½ a teaspoon of smoked paprika. Mash and mix together well,then divide into 8 equal-sized balls and pat into flat rounds.
Place the frying pan back on a mediumhigh heat, drizzle in 1 tablespoon of olive oil, then add the patties and cook for 2 to 3 minutes on each side, or until golden and crisp, then remove (and keep warm) while you fry 4 eggs to your liking.
To serve, place two patties and a fried egg on each plate, then top each with a spoonful of salsa. Serve 1 x 80g bag of watercress, spinach & rocket on the side and toss with a little extra virgin olive oil and red wine vinegar, if you like.
At Tiien Thai Restaurant, we are proud to create exceptional food that is carefully prepared and beautifully presented. Experience joy and harmony in a serene yet contemporary environment where the most exciting Thai food will be served.
Our chefs source only the finest authentic Thai ingredients to produce the most sublime flavours.
The team at Tiien will guide you on a magical adventure of tastes, aromas and textures.
Be it a slice from the shop, a custom cake or a brownie box to your door, we pride ourselves on making our customers smile with delicious handcrafted cakes.
We bake daily in our kitchen here at Chocobake, creating a range of scrumptious cakes, brownies, slices and biscuits, all made with local ingredients where we can and no additives or preservatives. We sell our cakes whole or by the slice, so you can buy a treat for yourself or order a delicious handmade dessert for entertaining. As well as this we make gorgeous birthday cakes in rich chocolate, co ee, lemon or traditional vanilla. Just come in and talk to us.
If that is not enough to tempt you, you can enjoy a freshly ground co ee or a delicious REAL hot chocolate whilst you browse our selections of other local produce.
Monday - Friday 9:00am - 4:00pm Saturday 9:00am to 3:00pm
A quaint "Foodie" shop in the heart of Wimborne Minster, Dorset. Our aim is to share with you our love of fine quality chocolate and delicious cakes, which have been baked on our premises with ingredient’s sourced with local and organic suppliers.
Delivered UK wide.
One of the country’s top business leaders is set to speak at a Dorset Chamber event.
Shevaun Haviland, who is director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), will appear the chamber’s President’s Lunch on April 19. Dorset Chamber president Caron Khan is hosting the lunch, which will also mark the official launch of a three-day Dorset Business Festival 2023 being held in October.
She said: “Shevaun is one of the UK’s most influential and highprofile business leaders so I am delighted that she has agreed to speak at my President’s Lunch as my special guest.
“The event will also herald the build-up to our much anticipated Business Festival in what promises to be a very exciting year for the Dorset Chamber.”
Ms Haviland will give the keynote speech at the lunch at
the Italian Villa in Poole with a focus on the work of the BCC, the economy and campaigning priorities for 2023 to 2024.
Dorset Chamber – the leading business support provider – is the only organisation in the county to be accredited by the BCC.
As Dorset’s voice of business it works with the BCC and fellow chambers to champion the cause of members and influence decision makers at Westminster. The President’s Lunch, sponsored by Dorset Business Premier Festival Partner Lester Aldridge, is one of the highlights of the chamber’s calendar.
Chief executive Ian Girling said: “This promises to be a superb event with one of the titans of the business world.
“Our thanks go to Shevaun for agreeing to attend and to Lester Aldridge for its much valued support.”
A Breathlessness service has been launched at Wareham Hospital, hosted by LewisManning’s Breathlessness team. Director of Clinical Services, Hayley Bonner said: “The hospice’s expansion of the Breathlessness service is fantastic to see. We are thrilled to be offering this service in Wareham, as part of our strategy to bring hospice care ‘closer to home’. It’s fantastic that we can do exactly that for patients who really value the ease of getting to a close-by clinic, but with the same expert and friendly staff they would see in our Poole hospice.” Louise added: “The service will be run out of Wareham hospital on a Wednesday, with regular appointments available. “We help people with conditions, such as heart failure, COPD and lung cancer who struggle with breathlessness. The service is very patient centred – the assessment is an opportunity for me to learn about what coping strategies the individual already uses and together we look at other ways to help.”
Maggie Hardy from the Wareham Hospital
Friends attended the launch, as well as NHS district nurses and clinicians from the local area, staff members and trustee Ian Marshall. Patients need to be registered with a GP surgery and any healthcare professional directly link to your care can refer you to the Breathlessness service.
For more information, call: 01202 708470 and ask to speak to our Breathlessness Team or visit Lewis-Manning’s website. Lewis-Manning Hospice Care provides extraordinary care to patients and their loved ones facing a life-limiting illness across East Dorset & Purbeck. We offer a range of free hospice care services including:
- Day hospices, virtual and in person
- Creative arts and wellbeing support
- Lymphoedema clinic
- Breathlessness clinic
- Bereavement & family support
- Complementary therapy
- Hospice at home
This year we need your help to raise £3.4m to continue providing our important services in your community.
Our important work increases people’s physical and social well-being, reduces isolation and loneliness, supports people to stay in their homes longer, and alleviates the huge pressures on family and carers. Visit: lewis-manning.org.uk.
Volunteers are being urged to come forward to become breastfeeding peer supports for new mums in Dorset.
The Breastfeeding Network (BfN) Dorset is looking for mums who are passionate about breastfeeding to volunteer and help support parents across the county.
BfN Dorset is commissioned by Public Health Dorset to provide families with information and support with a range of everyday breastfeeding challenges, support with positioning and attachment as well as emotional and moral support.
“From pregnancy through to natural-term weaning, combi-feeding, expressing or exclusively breastfeeding, all parents are welcome at any stage of their journey,” said a spokesman.
The fully-funded training gives mums the opportunity to gain an OCN accredited Level 2 qualification.
They will then go on to volunteer in their community, offering friendly support and information to other parents, as well a safe space and a community for like-minded parents.
“Our volunteers receive regular supervision sessions to help with their ongoing training and support needs, and become part of the wider Breastfeeding Network team, as
well as being able to go on and complete further training if they want to (dependent on availability of funding),” the spokesman added.
The next BfN Dorset Level 2 peer helpers course is running from April 20, lasting for 12 weeks, with a two-hour session per week delivered online via Zoom.
BfN Dorset is looking for volunteers across Dorset, particularly:
Somerford (Monday mornings)
Weymouth (Monday mornings)
Blandford (Friday mornings)
Wareham/Bovington (day tbc)
Dorchester (day tbc)
Sherborne (Tuesday mornings)
Boscombe (Monday mornings).
Sam Morris, a peer helper volunteer, said: “I’m very privileged to support families when they’re growing and moving into the next stage of their life, as much as I can help others, it’s personally rewarding to be in this lucky position too.”
Ashley Gallimore, BfN Dorset service manager, added: “Our service relies on our amazing volunteers to support parents, and our training courses really equip our volunteers to do this.
“The OCN accreditation means that our volunteers are gaining a qualification and valuable experience while also doing something they’re all so passionate about. “We’re so excited to expand our team of volunteers.”
Fill in the application form at breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/30859-2. For more information, visit breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/dorset.
Often people question the role of a sports therapist and sports massage therapist. This article will look to clear up some of that confusion and shed some light on the role of both these specialities.
Sports massage therapists
Starting with sports massage, people often have misconceptions and believe it is just a ‘normal massage but harder’; while often practitioners will use high pressure on certain areas, it is not as simple as that.
Sports massage has specific benefits in order to aid with rehabilitation and recovery in individuals with long-term or acute injuries.
We understand that sports massage can be an important part of a patient’s journey to an improved range of movement, pain reduction, and ultimately greater fulfilment in life.
Informed assessments of a patient’s injury needs are carried out to ensure a targeted specific treatment.
Massage can provide a window of opportunity for patients to take responsibility for their own health improvements.
A sports therapist uses their knowledge and skills to treat injuries, advise on injury prevention and support with rehabilitation.
If you have recently sustained an injury, a sports therapist will be able to complete a formal assessment to provide appropriate treatment and rehabilitation in order to reduce pain and strengthen the area.
Sports therapists can help to reduce pain caused by a long-term chronic condition. This can be achieved through identifying
We strive to give every patient the absolute best chiropractic and massage care , as well as providing outstanding customer service. We are a motivated team passionate about getting you better and enabling you to live a pain free life, getting you the best version for you !
Conditions we can treat:
• Migraines
• Lower Back Pain
• Joint Pain
• Frozen Shoulder
• Tennis Elbow
• Neck Ache
• Sports Therapy
(NORMALLY £120)
certain movements that cause pain, applying soft tissue techniques and exercise prescription.
Prehabilitation or preventative rehab, is taking the ‘reactive’ strategies used in physical therapy, neuromusculoskeletal rehab, as well as strength and conditioning, and implementing these in a proactive manner with the goal of reducing the risk for injury and improving overall physical capacity.
If you are suffering from a sporting injury, a sports therapist can provide a specific programme to allow you to safely return to sport and get back to doing what you love. They will ensure the programme is fitted to you so you can return to your sport safely, preventing injury, and improving your performance.
If you feel sports therapy or sports massage may be right for you, give us a call on 01202 604707 or email us on admin@ wimbornewellnesscentre.co.uk – we can’t wait to help you!
As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) engaged with local schools to highlight the importance of connection for mental wellbeing. The teams work with schools across the county to help children feel more resilient, helping them with techniques to look after themselves and strategies to help them cope better with life’s ups and downs.
And during this year’s awareness week, the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area MHST visited Bayside Primary School in Poole to deliver a workshop about connecting with others. As well as chatting with the children about their mental health, the team’s activities included creating paper chains highlighting all the ways pupils can connect as class members. And the Weymouth, Portland
and West MHST attended an awareness-raising event for parents and carers, hosted by St Osmund’s Middle School in Dorchester.
On social media the team created a challenge, encouraging children and young people to try and connect with others in different ways throughout the week.
They also gave hints and tips on how to engage in group or team activities to meet like-minded people and make friends.
Nova Bovaird, clinical lead (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) for the MHST service, said: “A lack of meaningful connection is a key driver in loneliness and anxiety. “So it is important that young people connect and establish friendships which can allow them to support one another as well as help positive mental wellbeing.
“The week was a perfect opportunity for us to share what we do with the wider community and encourage
children to connect with people of all ages in a variety of circumstances.”
During the week, the team also encouraged young people and their parents to share the local RUOK? campaign’s ‘see it, save it, share it’ graphic, to provide others instant information on available support in Dorset. Find out more and download the graphic to share at publichealthdorset.org.uk/ruok. Children and young people can access support from their local MHST by speaking to a teacher or designated mental health lead. School staff and parents can also contact the team if they have any concerns about a pupil. Find out more at camhsdorset. org/about-camhs/mental-healthsupport-teams-mhsts.
Dorset HealthCare offers a wide range of mental health support for all ages – visit dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk/ takeastep to find out more or call the Trust’s 24/7 Connection phone line (0800 652 0190) or NHS 111 for urgent support.
Every year, we lose billions of pounds to fraudsters. With scams ranging from the simplest con trick to the most sophisticated high-tech online fraud, it pays to be as wary as possible.
One of the most frequent methods of fraud that people worry about is that of the fake phone-caller claiming to be someone they are not, including going as far as impersonating a police officer.
Thankfully the latter is fairly rare, but there have been occasions when fraudsters have posed as police officers to trick people into divulging personal information that allows them to defraud them of money.
Dorset Police has this advice to help you avoid such a scenario: “If you’re on the phone to someone who called you but you have doubts about them, we recommend that you hang up and wait five minutes before you call us.
“There have been cases of fraudsters keeping the line open after a victim has hung up. Leaving several minutes between calls will make sure that the call has closed.”
For investigative purposes the police may get in touch in person.
Here is how legitimate officers would do so: By phone or by email. Whichever method they use, they will identify themselves clearly as an officer and tell you why they’re contacting you.
They will never:
Ask you for your bank details or PIN
Ask you to transfer funds to another account
Ask you to hand over cash or bank cards to a courier
Ask you to pay a fine or a fee to them or a third party over the phone or online
Ask you for access to your computer,
passwords or log on details over the phone or online
Ask you to register personal details in an attachment or website online
Ask you to ‘assist’ in an investigation by doing any of the above
State that you are committing a crime by not complying
Communicate in an abusive, threatening or coercive manner.
If they contact you by email, they will not: Ask for remote access to your computer
Ask you to click on a hyperlink to participate in an investigation
Send you unsolicited emails with attached files, especially zip or macro-enabled Microsoft Office files
Ask you for any login credentials or passwords
Remember if you’re unsure about whether the person you’re dealing with is a genuine police officer, just stop the conversation and call the police on 101 to check.
If you think you’ve been a victim of fraud, report it to Action Fraud either at actionfraud.police.uk or by calling: 0300 123 2040.
With more children being born and living longer with increasingly complex conditions, respite care couldn’t be more vital in the years to come.
Julia’s House has been there for local families providing this vital care for the last 20 years and will only be able to continue to be by their side for the next 20 years with the support of the local community.
When parents receive the devastating news their child has a life-limiting or life-threatening illness, their world falls apart. It is an anxious and lonely existence. Julia’s House is their lifeline.
“The demand for our services has never been greater,” comments Beth Whitworth, Family Support Services Lead Nurse. “The families have come out of the pandemic and straight into a cost of living crisis. It’s an incredibly difficult time for them.”
Julia’s House relies almost entirely on generous donations from local supporters and businesses to fund this vital care for families across Dorset and Wiltshire, receiving just eight per cent Government funding.
You have the power to change lives – and it won’t cost you a penny right now.
Pledging to leave a Gift in your Will is a wonderful way of showing local families you care and will give the charity the confidence to continue developing its life-changing care service for the most vulnerable children and families, long into the future.
A gift of just 1% from your Will can make 100% difference to overwhelmed parents going through dark times. Be remembered for bringing light back into the lives of local families.
We are gearing up for Spring here at FCS.
A difficult winter for us, seeing demand increase and supplies diminishing, means our fundraising efforts will be even more important to ensure we can support those most vulnerable in our community. This, coupled with our love for community events and fun, has led us to launch our Easter Fayre!
On Sunday, April 2, Ferndown Day Centre will be transformed into a positive riot of Easter! Building on our successful Christmas Fayre (which attracted more than 650 people), local craftspeople, artisans, and our own raffle, facepainting, games, food and seriously popular ‘water or wine’ stall, will be watched over by THE EASTER BUNNY!!
This mischievous little fellow will be keeping children and adults on their toes, as well as giving out a few chocolate treats here and there.
Live music will be in the courtyard, which we recommend
is enjoyed whilst sampling delicious homemade cakes with tea, hot chocolate, or hot dogs. Santa, settled happily back in Lapland, is replaced with a children’s craft activity room, where youngsters can come and complete a range of crafts makes including Easter cards, chicks, bunny hands and enter a colouring competition. No prior booking is required for
this but we will be allocating slots on the day to manage flow and maximise fun and creativity.
A £2 entry fee covers all craft materials and entry to the competition.
Meyers Estates Ferndown will be back with an Easter picture trail competition too.
A car boot/table-top sale will also take place outside, with booking for this to be announced. Do visit our website and follow us on Facebook to keep up to date on the latest developments. Our Easter Fayre page is ferndowncommunitysupport.org. uk/easter-fayre-2023/ And if this wasn’t enough (trust me it feels like it!!), we are once again running our free cooking club in the holidays, and our ever-popular Easter Trail. This year the Trail takes place in Poor Common.
Download the clues and trail from our website and follow our family-friendly trail at any point during the Easter break. Then make sure you submit your answers on our website to be in
Hannah Hobbs-Chell is a horticulturist and garden designer/consultant.
If you have a question for her, email:hannah.hobbschell@ outlook.com including a picture if relevant
with a chance to win a chocolaty prize thanks to Vantage Accountants!
There is no cost to enter our trail. In the background, we continue with our shopping and medication delivery scheme for those unable to get out; our food, pet, hygiene bank; brunch club stay and play; and our NEW community allotment at Longham.
Easter promises to be a great opportunity to have fun, take part and meet the community, and raise vital funds for our work at the same time.
As spring arrives, gardens, pots or patios are now a riot of colours, flowers and foliage and Tulips, Daffodils, beautiful Acers and Azaleas, Rhododendrons, flowering shrubs and early perennials many scented.
It’s the perfect season to plan and plant new beds, borders with trees, shrubs, perennials, and seasonal plants.
Summer patio containers, and basket plants should now be available to give summer-long flowering, foliage and scents to fill garden and patios and planters.
Lots of vegetables can still be sown from seed or planted out both in the garden and in tunnels and greenhouses for crops, of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Lawns, beds, borders can all now be weeded, top dressed with compost.
Fertilise to encourage healthy growth and flowers.
Pruning of roses, trees and shrubs and cutting back and tying up of all plants can still be done now, to shape, tidy and encourage new growth and flowering.
A visit to your local nursery, garden centre where they will be fully stocked with a large selection fresh ready to plant stock of trees, shrubs, perennials, seasonal vegetables and flower plants is essential. Lots of new and unusual plants should all be available to enhance and make your garden grow.
Poole Lighting is the UK’s leading supplier of domestic lighting.
Designed with passion in the UK and ethically sourced throughout the world, you will find our products in the UK’s best high street and internet retailers.
Typically, our product is retailed by our customers using their own brands but
Dorset-based Repair Shop star Sonnaz Nooranvary, above, has helped launch a new award recognising young upholsterers. The upholstery expert’s company, Sonnaz Ltd, has teamed up with charity Heritage Crafts to create a new Young Upholsterer of the Year Award, with a £1,000 prize, open to anyone up to the age of 25. Heritage Crafts was set up to safeguard traditional craft skills and aims to ensure these skills are passed to the next generation.
The Young Upholsterer of the Year Award aims to celebrate a young heritage craftsperson aged 25 or under who has made an outstanding start to their career. Sonnaz is a British-Iranian upholsterer based in Wimborne and a regular expert on BBC show the Repair Shop. She started her craft career with an apprenticeship in upholstery at Sunseeker Yachts, but quickly expanded from yachts to other upholstery and furnishings when she set up Sonnaz Ltd in 2011, where she employs a small team of dedicated makers.
“Having been an apprentice, I know the challenges that can be faced first hand,” she said.
“I feel it’s vital to recognise and celebrate those who have been able to overcome challenges and become an exceptional young craftsperson in the process.” Applications are open now and close on Friday, May 5, at 5pm. Visit awards.heritagecrafts.org. uk.
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we also have more than 75 years of experience with our own specialist lighting brands of Endon, Interiors 1900 and Saxby. Twenty-eight years ago we opened the Factory Shop in the middle of beautiful Poole.
We are proud to bring you fantastic end-of-line products that are no longer
available on the high street at incredibly low prices. We are open six days a week Sunday to Friday and you can also visit us online at poolelightingfactoryshop. com where you can buy direct with confidence and as well as your statutory rights all of our product is guaranteed by us from 12 months plus.
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Verwood Horticultural Society was going to close this February after 76 years, but the members managed to save it, and also put on a Spring Show for the community within three weeks.
More than 280 exhibits were brought to the hall by local residents, showing off their gardening talents as well as handicrafts, homecrafts and flower arranging.
The morning was a hive of activity with exhibitors presenting their flowers, pot plants, crafts and baking on the show benches, and adding the finishing touches to their flower arrangements.
The youngest exhibitor, Felicity Habgood (three), entered a beautiful coloured drawing as well as a Vegetable Vehicle in the special Junior Classes.
When exhibitors and members of the public were let in at 1.30pm, there were murmurs of congratulations and appreciation around the hall as people saw their First, Second and Third Prize Awards.
The Society’s new chairman, Ollie Greensmith, was delighted at the number and quality of the entries.
“It’s the Society members and general public who come together to make a show like this,” he said.
“I’m surprised how much variety there is on the show benches, given the recent cold snap.
“The daffodils are certainly late this year,
so it’s a great achievement to have so many on display here today”. Anyone is welcome to join the VDHS, who have a brand new website to promote their Society ( verwoodhorticulturalsociety.co.uk). There are lots of details about the Society - monthly meeting dates, scheduled talks and Show details including 2023 Handbooks, Show Rules and Entry Forms.
Community gardening was the topic for two speakers at the latest meeting of Christchurch Rotary Club. Such schemes have become popular as a way of improving physical and mental health, as well as helping with food security.
Angela Gray, operations co-ordinator at the Grounded Community charity, outlined the objectives and development of the organisation.
It was established in 2020 out of a church community project, The Secret Garden, which had been created in 2012 to grow food on an area of unused land behind St Clements Church in Boscombe. Over the years the emphasis had broadened to encourage people to grow their own food, often in community groups.
By 2022, the charity’s core team had grown to nine part-time staff and 140 volunteers, with funds totalling £400,000 from the National Lottery and various local funding groups.
This enables them to run six projects over four sites, and to partner with two local Community Interest Companies.
The charity’s mission is to educate, share and grow, so as to reconnect members of the community with nature, with food, and with each other by building
an abundant circular food system with a culture of storing, re-using and redistributing food surplus, she said.
Working with local housing associations, they have installed large numbers of raised beds in residents’ gardens, and have worked with local schools to
develop their school gardens and green spaces in line with the RHS gardening curriculum.
One of the Community Interest Companies is Your Planet Doctors, a CIC created in 2021 by Dr Anne Hayden, MBE, a recently-retired Dorset GP, who spoke next.
Anne said she founded the CIC to help address the problems of food insecurity and mental health problems by encouraging communities to grow their own food together in sustainable ways. Other projects, often in conjunction with other local organisations, involved teaching people to grow and swap different crops, and to participate in schemes that enable them to exchange vegetables for other food items.
The aim now is to extend this work more widely, and thus to help build mutually supportive communities enjoying better health and assurance of affordable nutritious food.
Moving the vote of thanks, Mike Wood congratulated the speakers on very instructive presentations about truly valuable community initiatives and welcomed the inclusion of work in local schools, as the children would be able to take the message home, and so get more people to take part in the various projects.
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VDHS Cup - Best Exhibit for Narcissi/Daffodils : John Manston.
Ted Batten Memorial Cup - Highest points in Flowers and Plants : Bill Howarth.
Dorothy Hardy Memorial Platter - Best Exhibit in Flowers and Plants : Bill Howarth.
Verwood Trader’s Cup - Highest Points in Flower Arranging : Diane Ponting.
Sue Davis Memorial Bowl - Best Exhibit in Homecraft : Laura Jerome.
Best Exhibit in Handicraft : Allison Dilley.
Best Exhibit in Novice Flower Arranging : Margaret Wilkes.
Best Exhibit in Flower Arranging : Diane Ponting.
Best Exhibit in Men Only Flower Arranging : Norman Castro.
Best Exhibit in Photography : Jason Shrubb.
Junior Certificate : Felicity Habgood.
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Feeder, Jake Bugg, Vengaboys, East 17 and Goldie Lookin Chain will be headlining at a top Dorset festival, later this spring.
Teddy Rocks was started 10 years ago by Tom Newton, to raise money for charity after losing his younger brother, Ted, to the rare cancer, Ewings Sarcoma. Now the one-off pub gig has turned into an annual event which sees 5,000 people descend on Charisworth Farm at Blandford to camp for three days.
It has grown to six stages, a funfair, shops and stalls, and a selection of gourmet food traders. Since Teddy Rocks was launched, Tom has donated almost £500,000 to charities that support children with cancer and last year the event scored the Best Family Festival at the 2022 UK Festival Awards.
Teddy Rocks takes place from April 28-30.
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Butlers by name, not by nature, the Battling Butlers contemporary variety show is the creation of a double act attached by an invisible thread. A proper family affair, it’s performed by real-life father and son duo, Simon Pullum and Loki Pickering and is full of engaging tales of everyday life.
Juggling babies, toddlers on stilts and teaching his young son, Joey to ride his first unicycle are all part of everyday life for single dad, Joe Butler, in what this sweet and affecting account of family love and the evolving relationship of a father and a son.
Through an entertaining mix of physical theatre, circus skills, original songs and live - and lively - music, the Battling Butlers also muse over role reversal and the inevitability of change, as the old order
makes way for the new. From Bash Street Theatre, based in Cornwall, Pullum and Pickering - with original music from Julian Gaskell - will be bringing their act to Yetminster Jubilee Hall, Sherborne this evening, Friday, March 24, and
Child Okeford Village Hall, Blandford on Saturday, March 25 and Royal Manor Theatre Portland, Sunday, March 26 - all dates at 7.30pm.
For tickets and info visit: artsreach.co.uk and bashstreet. co.uk.
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Skinny Lister and Imperial Leisure are among acts confirmed for a cider and music festival in May.
The Cursus Cider & Music Festival returns to Myncen Farm, home of Cranborne Chase Cider, on the bank holiday weekend - May 26 to 28.
Now in its eighth year, this year’s event boasts a line-up including Skinny Lister, The Longest Johns, Imperial Leisure, The Dreadnoughts, Sound Of The Sirens and Skimmity Hitchers (pictured right), with a mix of other local, national and international acts. With a capacity of just 500, organisers promise an intimate, family-friendly festival, with a dedicated DIY Den activity area for kids with an emphasis on meeting new people in a safe and fun environment. Other attractions include a
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even more attractive for those with younger festival goers. Organiser Kev Davis said: “After a cold and wet few months, everyone is looking forward to festival season. With a new site and best line-up yet, we can’t wait to be back.”
Award winning internationally acclaimed company Ridiculusmus present
Adult tickets for the Cursus Cider & Music Festival start at £89, with discounts for children. Previous years have sold out in advance so early booking is recommended.
For more details and to book, log on to cursusfestival.com.
Relive the music of guitar master, Carlos Santana with new band Very Santana’s year-spanning tribute show, tomorrow.
The West Midlands-based outfit’s live show aims for all the authenticity and individuality that’s made Santana, currently touring the US right now, a living icon of the music industry. Obviously, they are all huge fans, but guitarist Rolly in particular has always dreamed of performing a complete Santana show. His forensic knowledge of Santana, coupled with the passion of a true fan, makes the solid base from which this new group has evolved.
They embrace Santana’s entire legacy so far, with early-era numbers like Black Magic Woman, Oye Como Va and Samba Pati, right through to late Seventies big hitters, such as Europa and She’s Not There. A round-up of the more contemporary,
multi-Grammy awarded stuff, like Smooth and Maria-Maria, completes the deal. Tomorrow, Saturday, March 25. Tickets - online £20.35; box office £18.50 tivoliwimborne.co.uk.
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The bustling market town of Skipton will provide an opportunity for exploration before a relaxing, guided cruise on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, and visit to the historic hilltop town of Haworth for an insight into the lives of the Brontë sisters. The tour price of £494 includes four nights dinner, bed and breakfast at the hotel, all your luxury coach travel and excursions, and the expertise and care of our wonderful tour guide.
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Over February half term Poulner Players performed a modern and upbeat adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s novel The Wind In The Willows, by Julian Fellowes with music and lyrics by George Styles and Anthony Drewe.
Poulner Players, chairman Dene McDermott said: “For the first time in our 47-year history we achieved a complete sell-out of every performance.
“All credit must be given to the incredibly talented director, Becky North and musical
director Matt Timmins, cast, production team.
“We had our concerns about undertaking such a challenging production. “Had Amateur Theatre fallen victim to the Pandemic, would audiences return to a small provincial theatre, could we cover the production cost of such a high-profile musical show?
“All our concerns were unfounded. The choice of show brought in new talented members to boost a core of existing
members and with this augmented cast, achieved a sell-out run of all six performances.
“We received rapturous praise and excitement from our delighted and supportive audiences. When all the sums have been done we expect to make a sizeable donation to Cherry Tree Nursery, Caring for People, Caring for Plants.”
At the end of May Poulner Players will stage Alan Ackbourn’s It Could Be Any One Of Us, a murder mystery.
The recent Jazz at the Allendale event, organised by Wimborne Rotary, saw a capacity audience enjoy a concert programme of music and vocals provided by Swing Unlimited Big Band, pictured right.
The band presented a wide and varied selection of music ranging from traditional classics by Glenn Miller, to a second half medley of James Bond film themes which wowed the audience.
There was no doubting the warm response of the audience, who generously contributed to a retiring collection which raised more than £2000.
After deduction of expenses this will go to support Youth Music Wessex, the Turkish Earthquake Disaster and other Rotary charities.
Spring weather is known to make us feel more cheery and motivated.
Snowdrops, crocuses and daffs appear, boats are spruced up and launched onto the river and you start spotting artists (although still well wrapped up) sitting at their easels on the quay or in the forest to catch that new light.
Buoyed by their recent exhibition success at Salisbury Hospital, members of Ringwood Art Society are looking forward to a packed programme of events to take them through the year.
In response to a survey undertaken last year, the group is now running a wider range of activities and a greater choice of times including a mix of daytime and evening, whole days and half days – so there is something for everyone from demonstrations, tutor-led activities, small social group paint-a-longs, ceramics and plein air.
Non-members are welcome to join in with many of their activities which is a great way to meet new people and see if belonging to the group would suit them, thereby opening up the chance to exhibit.
The next opportunity is a half-day workshop in modern calligraphy using brush pens tomorrow, Saturday, March 25, held at Greyfriars. For further information on this and other activities, see their website ringwoodartsociety. org and to reserve a place email programme@ringwoodartsociety. org.
Park near the Church, which is usually open.
There’s a lovely patch of snowdrops in the Churchyard. Then cross over the bridge on which you are encouraged to play Pooh sticks and maybe toss a snack to the resident otter.
You’ll notice from a plaque that it’s over 20 years since Zelston was a best kept village!
I wonder why as it looks pretty good now.
Walk along to the village green at the water’s edge and read the helpful and interesting notice board.
Then make your way back past the Church and walk north-west uphill for a mile along the private road/public bridleway through Bushes Farm and into the final field before the woodland where the hedge is the parish boundary.
You’ll have to stray into the adjacent Mordon parish as there’s no loop in Zelston.
Having gazed at the view, enter the woodland where there’s a crossing of
bridleways. Turn right and head north eastwards along the edge of the wood for about half a mile until, at the end, the path joins a farm track leading downhill south east for a mile to the tiny hamlet of Mapperton where there’s a junction. Turn right and in a third of a mile you’ll be close to the main road, the A31.
Just before the road there’s a signed footpath that takes you south westward alongside the Winterborne.
After a furlong you’ll cross the parish boundary back into Winterborne Zelston at the hamlet of Huish.
The path then continues westward along the edge of several fields and passing a pond that might have swans in it. Then the Church will be in sight and you head towards it and will soon be back at your car, having walked a little over four miles.
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When his latest recruit turned up for work four years late, panting for breath and covered in fur, Mike Lammas didn’t mind in the least. New employee, Ron, who enjoys running, is no ordinary team player, in fact, he’s a dog, and an extraordinary one at that.
The cocker spaniel show-dog crossed with a worker, is a hearing assistance dog who now supports Mike, who’s profoundly deaf, in his business, Train AV, Ferndown which he founded to offer training and other services in audio visual and digital signage.
That he’s running a business revolving around sound, despite the challenges he faces, is inspring, and the arrival of his ‘ears’, aka, Ron, is the icing on the cake.
“It comes as a revelation to many people to discover that although I work in a world of sound, I’m profoundly deaf, the by-product of a neurological condition I suffered when I was 27,” he says.
“I was determined not to let my disability put an end to using my skillset, nor force me to give up my passion to run my own AV training business. I have become an accomplished lip reader and take translators on foreign assignments.”
Unfortunately, in the past couple of years, Mike’s hearing has deteriorated, and he endures high levels of pain. Undeterred, he sought advice and talked to customers.
“After advice from a pain consultant, I decided to do what was best for me and hoped everyone in my industry would understand. I’ve been polling clients . . . to see if there
would be any objections to me bringing a hearing assistance dog on site. My customers are so supportive, and Ron’s got many invites to go to workplaces.”
It took four and a half years to be matched with Ron; a highly-intelligent hound, he’s trained to be Mike’s ears, alerting him to dangers and specific sounds. But, how easy is it to make the assistance dog thing work?
Mike explains. “As Ron will be travelling all over the country with me, it was important to have a dog with a legal right of entry into premises, such as workplaces and restaurants. Hearing Dogs for Deaf People are one of the few charities who provide dogs with accessall-areas status.
“As soon as his harness and jacket go on, he knows it’s time for work. His whole demeanour changes and he focuses fully on me. It can cost up to forty-thousand pounds to
train an assistance dog and I cannot thank the Hearing Dogs for Deaf People enough. Ron is making a huge difference to my working life and my home life too.”
David Robson of hearing dogs charity, said: “We are thrilled that Ron is already making such a difference to Mike’s life. Our dogs alert deaf people to important and life-saving sounds, such as smoke alarms, alarm clocks, Skype call alerts and text messages.”
Follow Ron’s career via his own dog blog, coming soon to Train AV’s website: trainav. co.uk, also Twitter at @train_av_ RonHD. Also visit: hearingdogs.org.uk.
Hello, I am Baloo. I am a three-year-old neutered Border Collie.
I am a big gentle dog, friendly to strangers of all ages, affectionate and playful and love having my tummy tickled.
I have lived with a cat, ignore horses, cattle, bikes, even sheep, but I am anxious of some cars.
Unfortunately, I have been diagnosed with epilepsy and require daily medication to stop the distressing fits.
We have got the right medication and regular checks need doing. I am covered by the Petplan lifetime policy which will be transferred to the new owner.
I need about two hours exercise a day –walks and free running in the garden.
I very much like to potter around the house and garden, or the local woods. I do need human company as I get separation anxiety.
Help with veterinary fees may be available when using our vets.
If you are able to offer me or one of my lovely friends a forever home or a foster home, please contact our office.
We also have lots of other dogs looking for their forever homes.
Waggy Tails Rescue are in need of more foster homes.
If you are at home most of the time, have a secure garden and experienced with dogs then please give us a ring and discuss fostering for us.
It is a very rewarding experience and enables us to continue helping these dogs. (no children under 10 in the house please).
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Tiffany Fleming is a volunteer at High Mead Farm in Longham, Ferndown. High Mead Farm is a working farm run to promote the benefits of engaging with animals, soil, and nature. They ‘create purposeful roles for our co-farmers, young people and adults alike, to help bring about a sense of well-being and self-worth that many have never experienced before’.
I fully acknowledge the majority of my ramblings tend to be weather related, and that can get a tad repetitious.
But, at this time of year, we rarely enjoy perfect weather at the farm; it is always too windy, too wet, or too cold – and all these conditions have a huge impact on how our days pan out at High Mead. So, I was thrilled to wake on the morning of our most recent
Open Day to see the sun shining, especially after what felt like a week of non-stop showers (or for those in North Dorset and beyond, snow!). By the time I made it to the Farm, the weather had closed in and grey skies threatened. However, although it was a little drizzly, the actual rain held off until exactly five minutes after closing and, if the look on the faces of the remaining visitors
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was anything to go by, much fun was had by all.
I was greeted on my arrival by the most amazing smell of fresh donuts and hot chocolate – an aroma that stayed with me long after I had left, causing my stomach to rumble and me to rue not giving in to temptation and missing out on the chance to indulge. The only real downside to volunteering at High Mead is the constant compulsion to spend. Each new delivery to the Farm Shop signals an opportunity to splash out – be that on heavenly hellebores, picture-perfect parsnips, or the delicious Dorset ginger-based drinks the Shop stocks.
It takes serious willpower not to give in to temptation and it is all too easy to absolve yourself on the basis it is ‘all for a good cause!’.
However, donuts aside, there was very little I could have purchased this time; the event
was so busy the Farm had been practically stripped bare. We could not have wished for a better day and, despite being a free-toenter event, the generosity of our visitors has made the world of difference as we seek to recover some of our winter running costs. Whilst the monetary benefit is motivational and makes the extra efforts of the staff and volunteers worthwhile, I think bigger still is the opportunity for our wonderful helpers to turn the spotlight on the important work they do and raise awareness of all that High Mead Farm stands for.
I stood back for a few minutes, watching the team engaging with our guests, in the knowledge that even had the heavens opened that morning, our volunteers would still have turned out to welcome people to the Farm because that’s what they love to do and because they are absolute stars, each and every one of them.
He’s been an exhibitor with his prizewinning Limousin cattle. He’s been a scrutinising judge of the highly competitive cattle show classes. Now Nick Hill will be running the show! been an exhibitor with his prize-winning Limousin cattle. He’s been a scrutinising judge of the highlycompetitive cattle show classes. Now Nick Hill will be running the show! With more than 40 years of hands-on experience in farming and livestock management, show breeding, competing, and judging, Nick has been appointed by Gillingham & Shaftesbury Agricultural Society as new Show Secretary and Event Organiser for two of Dorset’s leading rural shows.
Nick will be responsible for the Spring Countryside Show, the first show of the year in Dorset’s rural events calendar. Still in its infancy, this two-day April event, showcasing rural life and crafts as well as live music, steam engines and classic cars, was launched last year to great reaction at the Turnpike Showground in Motcombe. Nick said: “My aim is to continue the massive success and growth of these shows, both the Spring Countryside Show which received 12,000 visitors in its first year and the Gillingham and Shaftesbury show in August which had a record number of 25,000 visitors in one day.”
Earlier this year, the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Agricultural Society, which runs both shows, announced that the annual August show will be a two-day event. Nick said: “This proves the huge success of the show and the need to just keep getting better and take the show to an even more exciting level!”
At 13, Nick became a member of the Young Farmers Club, progressing to group secretary and Federation Chairman, where he was responsible for organising shows and rallies.
After leaving school, he worked on his father’s 150-acre farm in Somerset, specialising in beef cattle and eventually took over the management of it. Here, he established a herd of Pedigree British Limousins, competing at agricultural shows throughout the country, including the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show.
He is also a member of the prestigious National Judging Panel and Breeds Standard Inspection Panel for the British Limousin Cattle Society and has judged at the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show five times.
“I am determined to maintain the very strong links we have with agriculture and local businesses, whilst providing fun-filled days for the general public,” said Nick.
“I’m also a big supporter of encouraging more young people to consider careers in agriculture. We need forward-thinking farmers who will continue to innovate the industry.
“I’ve only been in this new role a few weeks and am already bowled over by the
enthusiasm of everyone, especially our amazing volunteers. We rely on over 200 of them to help us pull the shows together.” Show Chairman Giles Simpson said: “We look forward to what the future brings with Nick at the helm.
“We’re very excited to have someone with such an extensive background in the agricultural sector to be in the driving seat. “It means we will be keeping agriculture at the heart of our two shows, which is where we know we outperform other shows in the area.
“Nick is keen to keep building on the positive reputation that both the Spring Countryside Show and the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show have.
“Along with our Assistant Secretary Bonnie Cradock, together they’re already coming up with great new ideas to enhance both shows. Watch this space!”
Tickets are now on sale for both shows which takes place at The Turnpike Showground in Motcombe. Visit gillinghamandshaftesburyshow.co.uk.
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Home help needed
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Pay to be negotiated
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Knowledgeable, diligent, friendly gardener needed. Four hours a week, or as agreed. Acre garden near Zeals.Small orchard (apple, cherry, plum), pond, paths, shrubs, beds, kitchen garden, greenhouse, pear espalier, compost heaps, hedges. Contact Philip Schofield 07788 173522
Experienced bench joiner required for a small, modern workshop. Varied and interesting work.
Top rates paid for the right candidate. Contact 01935 872806 or joinery@jbennettjoinery. com for further details.
Cleaner/Housekeeper. 5/4 hours per week to help look after a lovely house in Donhead St Mary. Flexible hours and competitive salary. Please email rabyshopping@gmail.com or call 07792 000448
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Small friendly company looking for full time NVQ Level 3 Vehicle Technician / MOT Tester to join our friendly team. £24,000 - £40,000, please send CV to crackmoregarage@gmail.com or call 01963 251221
Experienced Tractor Driver / GFW required on busy dairy farm near Shaftesbury. Range of modern equipment. Farm and machinery maintenance skills an advantage. Regular time off. Accommodation available. Also relief milker required. 07970 925507
Cleaner / housekeeper wanted 8 hours per week. Days flexible.
Tollard Royal 07771 677678
Strong person to help maintain a one-acre pretty cottage and vegetable garden. Contact 01747 828449 if interested
Heating and Plumbing Engineer Required: Inafix LTD, Shaftesbury. Call 01747 865705
Carer required near Sherborne for occasional full day respite cover. Non-smoker References required £15p/h 01935 873988
Do you enjoy the outdoors? Being active and inspiring children?
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Set in a beautiful woodland on the site of an old iron age earthworks with access to the River Stour and all its Flora and Fauna. Come and join our team.
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Forest nursery practitioner -minimum Level 2 in childcare preferred, Part time.
Bank Staff - adhoc holiday and illness cover.
Trading as John Cooper Livestock Services
Applications are invited for a FALLEN STOCK COLLECTOR DRIVER
The job involves the dispatching and collection of farm animals; completing collection paperwork and driver records.
Candidates should hold a full driving licence – HGV 7.5 tonne or above, have completed Driver CPC and either hold a Firearm Certificate or be able to apply for one.
Previous experience of working in an agricultural or fallen stock background would be advantageous. Full training will be given.
For further details or to apply please contact Steve on 07831 383 392.
Farm worker wanted on dairy farm in Sturminster Newton. Telephone 01258 472162/472050
Full-time position on farm lambing and game-farm work. Interesting, varied work from egg to day-old to Poult rearing Telephone 01747 830088
Nanny wanted! To help 3 children aged 6, 10 and 12 in Ashmore. Driving licence essential.
Hours: 3-7pm daily. Call Kate: 07803 033431
Part-time help required for busy mixed farm Sheep experience essential Based near Shaftesbury 07879 452949
We are recruiting a person to run the bookkeeping and payroll part of our business for clients. You will be able to work as part of a small team and communicate effectively with clients and staff. You will have a track record of being able to prioritise jobs and work to deadlines.
The role is office based, but we can offer flexibility for some remote working after a suitable period of becoming acquainted with our working practices and systems. The role is for 3 or 4 days per week, with some flexibility required for busy periods. Pay is commensurate with experience.
Various shifts available but will include weekends. Good rates of pay and great tips. We need people with “can do” attitude, team players and a passion for good food and even better service! Plus over 18. A great work environment, and friendly team. Immediate start available, and encouraged. Call Sarah at the pub to arrange a chat/interview. Or email info@thewhitehorsehinton.co.uk
We are also looking for part time Kitchen Porters and Chefs, please get in touch.
Front of house staff required to join our team at the Kitchen at Kimbers’ between Wincanton and Bruton. A cheery, efficient, presentable, flexible disposition required.
Ideally barista experience albeit training can be provided.
Tuesdays to Fridays 8.30am to 3.30pm. One Saturday per month, occasional evening pop up events.
Email details to info@thekitchenatkimbers.co.uk
Oakwood Taxis require part-time drivers to cover various school runs in and around Dorset. Drivers can keep the vehicle at home enabling them to work more efficiently in their area. Must be over 25. Could suit semi-retired person. No area knowledge test required. All expenses paid for. Average 4 hours per day, school time only.
To arrange an interview please ring Andy on 01258 455555 or email oakwoodtaxis@aol.com
Cefetra Ltd is a major trader of grains and animal feed raw materials in the UK and Ireland, handling 5 million tonnes annually with a turnover of £1.5 billion. Cefetra Grain has a sizeable presence in sourcing and marketing domestic grains with an infrastructure of regional offices, grain buying teams and storage facilities across the UK.
We are looking to recruit someone with experience of working with farmers (buying or selling) to take on the role of a Farm Grain Buyer.
Working for a well-respected and successful agricultural business, you will be managing existing farmer accounts as well as developing new contacts to move the business forward.
Working closely with the office-based team, you will be providing a professional service, including up to date technical and market information for farmers.
Requirements:
Ability to build and develop business relationships with farmers and external clients.
Ideally experience of working in an arable farm sales environment and a good understanding of the arable sector. Good levels of literacy and numeracy. Commercial focus.
Flexible approach to work and managing changing priorities. Well organised and determined. Able to work alone and as part of a team. Clean driving licence. IT literate.
Salary: A competitive remuneration package will be offered depending upon experience.
Office based: Monday to Friday, 8.30am – 5.30pm, Henstridge Please
We are looking to recruit a quality laboratory technician to run the grains testing facility and to maintain our assurance schemes to ensure compliance with all food and feed legislation. In additional some H&S and sustainability work.
Requirements:
Ideally experience of working in an quality driven environment where attention to detail is key. Ability to work under pressure.
Flexible approach to work and managing changing priorities. Well organised.
Able to work alone and as part of a team. IT literate.
Salary: A competitive remuneration package will be offered depending upon experience.
Lab/Office based: Monday to Friday, 8.00am – 5.00pm, Henstridge Trading Estate, Templecombe BA8 0TN
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A highly organised and enthusiastic individual required to join our friendly, busy o ce team based near Wincanton. 37.5 hrs per week, Mon-Fri.
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Required in Wincanton. We are looking for a keen, hard-working person to prepare orders for loading onto vans and assist in the warehouse. The position involves some work in fridges/freezer, as well as an ambient warehouse.
Sunday - Friday 9.30pm-12.30am.
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Are you a Fully or Part qualified caravan e ngineer, mechanic or trades person who can turn their hand? Are you a caravan enthusiast who would enjoy working on some of the amazing brands we retail?
Our fully approved workshop team are looking for a new colleague. Award winning, friendly and well established. Blackmore Vale Leisure, touring caravan and motorhome dealership based in Shaftesbury. We will provide training to National Caravan Council Approved Workshop Scheme standards. Driving licence is essential. This is a full time role.
If you are interested please call Catherine on 01747 851497 or send your C.V to catherine.andrews@bmvcaravans.co.uk
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Have a vacancy for a Stores Person/Trainee Stores Person.
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If you are interested, please call us on 01258 473176 or send your C.V and a covering letter to vjcox@cjcox.co.uk
Fuel duty will stay the same price for another year, just as it has for the last 12 years.
This is part of the tax you pay on fuel and it’s included in the cost. This means motorists won’t pay more in tax for fuel, which is great news during the cost of living crisis.
2016 (16) BMW X3 2.0TD X Line Automatic 4x4 SUV 5dr. 190bhp, diesel, 8 speed automatic gearbox, 4 wheel drive, heated leather, Sat Nav, auto lights & wipers, cruise control, hill start & descent control, electric tailgate, parking sensors, head up display, high seating position, decent boot, upto 54mpg, 63,700 miles...........................................................................................£17650
2018 (18) Dacia Sandero 1.0SCe Ambiance 5dr. 75bhp, petrol, 5 speed manual gearbox, exceptional value budget car with air con, USB, Bluetooth, DAB audio, upto 53mpg economy, 26,900 miles ..............................................£7350
2020 (69) Ford Fiesta 1.0 EcoBoost ST Line 5dr. 125bhp, petrol, 6 speed manual gearbox, Sat Nav, park sensors, ST body styling, sign recognition, hill start assist, lane keeping aid, Bluetooth, auto lights, heated front screen, outstanding performance & upto 50mpg economy, only 16,500 miles ....£13650
2016 (16) Ford Fiesta 1.0 EcoBoost Zetec S 3dr. 125bhp, petrol, 5 speed manual gearbox, factory dress up kit & wheel upgrade, Bluetooth, hill start assist, city pack, parking sensors, heated front screen, multi award winning engine, outstanding performance & economy, upto 65mpg, Free road tax, 57,500 miles ............................................................................................£8250
2018 (18) Ford C-Max 1.0 EcoBoost Titanium Navigation MPV 5dr. 125bhp, petrol, 6 speed manual gearbox, high seating position, large boot with a low loading edge, Sat Nav, Bluetooth, cruise control, auto lights & wipers, hill start assist, parking sensors, sign recognition, multi award winning engine, 21,500 miles .........................................................................................
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2017 (17) Ford Kuga 2.0TDCi Titanium SUV 5dr. 150bhp, diesel, 6 speed manual gearbox, high seating, large boot, sat nav, sign recognition, parking sensors, auto lights & wipers, cruise control, partial leather trim, hill start assist, heated front screen, Bluetooth, great performance & economy, upto 60mpg, 58,700 miles .........................................................................................
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Tel: 01258 459798
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2014 (14) Ford Galaxy 2.0TDCi Titanium Automatic 7 Seat MPV 5dr. 163bhp, diesel, 6 speed automatic gearbox, high seating, flat folding 2nd & 3rd row seats, large boot with a low loading edge, cruise control, auto lights & wipers, park sensors, Bluetooth, heated front screen, hill start assist, owned by Mr Crew senior since 2017, brand new gearbox fitted at Ford in 2022, 69,900 miles ........................................................................................................£9950
2016 (16) Ford Transit Custom 2.2TDCi 290 L1 H1 Sport Van 5dr. 155bhp, diesel, 6 speed manual gearbox, Sport body styling, partial leather, heated seats, parking sensors & reverse camera, cruise control, auto lights & wipers, lane keeping aid, hill start assist, heated front screen, big alloys, air con, Bluetooth, 3 seats, bulkhead, integrated fold down roof rack, 52,900 miles, NO VAT to pay ..............................................................................................
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2016 (16) Ford Transit Custom 2.2TDCi 290 L1 H1 Sport Van 5dr. 155bhp, diesel, 6 speed manual gearbox, Sport body styling, partial leather, heated seats, parking sensors & reverse camera, cruise control, auto lights & wipers, lane keeping aid, hill start assist, heated front screen, big alloys, air con, Bluetooth, 3 seats, bulkhead, integrated fold down roof rack, 52,900 miles, NO VAT to pay ..............................................................................................£18950
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A leading Dorset funeral director has welcomed BCP Council’s decision to make Poole Crematorium operational again – after leading a campaign to have eco-cremators re-installed.
Nick Douch, managing director of Douch Family Funeral Directors, said he was delighted that councillors had listened to the concerns of their constituents. The local authority has decided to invest £2,437,516 in buying two cremators for the facility off Gravel Hill. The crematorium has been without cremators since 2020 and it has been run merely as a service chapel, with the deceased being conveyed to Bournemouth for cremation. As recently as September last year it was thought that its future would be only as a ceremonial function room, despite the huge area it serves and the increasing demand in the area.
However, at a recent council meeting various proposals were put on the agenda with members opting for the purchase and installation of two electric cremators, which they can promote as ‘green’.
Nick Douch, whose company runs seven branches in Dorset and who led the campaign, said: “It always seemed the wrong decision to close it permanently as a crematorium.
“We lobbied and campaigned hard and the
councillors really took the message on board and thankfully have decided to return it to an operational facility.
“The council’s plans had been to spend a great deal of money improving it just as a ceremonial venue.
“We always felt that the money would be better spent making it work as intended. “Part of our campaign was to lobby for electric cremators so the council could show off its eco credentials, and that is what they have gone for.
“The crematorium is used by people as far west as Blandford and Dorchester and it serves potentially half a million people. “Driving the deceased to Bournemouth for cremation was unsustainable with its cremators being the second busiest in the country and demand rising.
“We are grateful to John Ainsworth of Churches Together in Poole, Tony Reeves, who started the petition, local funeral directors who backed the campaign and the public who supported the campaign.”
You don’t have to be retired to play bowls as you can play evenings and weekends, writes Sue
Aplin.
At Ferndown we can play seven days a week, from April to September, up to 8.45 pm, depending on dusk.
Lawn bowls can be played purely for relaxation and social interaction but depending on your level of interest can also be more challenging and played club, county and even international level. Could you imagine playing a sport for your county - or even the country?
Three of our junior members already play for Dorset.
You are invited to attend one of our free Open Days on Sunday, April 16 or Friday, April 21.
These are from 10 am to 4 pm at our
friendly club at King George V playing fields, off Church Road, Ferndown. Bowls, and tuition from one of our coaches will be provided, but please wear flat shoes. If you enjoy our Open Day or cannot make one of those days, we also run Try Bowls sessions on Friday afternoons to help you make up your mind if you would like to join us.
The cost for these sessions is £20 for four weeks’ tuition, which will be deducted from your membership subscription if you join. If you couldn’t attend the Open Day, your first session will even be free.
Lawn bowls is not just for adults as it can be played by the whole family. As well as our general open days, we are also holding a Family Open Day on Sunday, April 30.
Bring your children along, (age seven upwards) and all have a go together! Teenagers are especially welcome and we can include them in adult games. We also run youth sessions on Sunday mornings from 10 -11am for youngsters from age seven (up to age 12 we ask that an adult accompanies them).
More ladies would be especially welcome as we are currently outnumbered by the men.
The annual Ladies v Men match is a hotly-contested, even if light-hearted, competition. A great way of getting exercise without getting too hot and tired. We would love to welcome you to our club. Please check our website ferndownbowls. co.uk for up-to-date information or call 01202 578375.
Readers will remember our feature on Joe Trent in the November issue following the team Great Britain Handball win in Kosovo.
Joe (# 38) has now moved from Denmark to Portugal to play for a senior team in Lamego and his younger brother Alex (# 36) is now playing in Denmark for a year himself after finishing his A-Levels at Corfe Hills School.
They were both selected for the recent U21 GB in Costa Rica and both were very
excited to be representing their country.
Joe and Alex started playing at Lockyers Middle School before joining local Handball club Poole Phoenix, then into South West Regional Academies and the England youth teams.
Like all sports during the Pandemic the down-time from National and International competition was frustrating but they are now on an amazing run of success progressing further than any previous GB squad.
The competition in San Jose was a historic event for GB as it was the qualifying tournament for the Junior World Handball Championships.
They took on the host nation Costa Rica, Australia, Cuba and Guinea, if they win they will go on to face huge Handballing Nations such as France, Norway and Denmark
It’s a big task ahead but they are feeling confident and determined to give it their best shot.
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Place 1 to 9 once each into every row, column and bold-lined 3×3 box.
No digit may be repeated in any dashed-line cage, and all the digits in each cage must add up to the value shown in that cage.
Trustees are looking to appoint a single person or couple (aged 50+) who is/are of good character and has strong links with Blandford or immediate area. Applicants must be of limited income and be non-smokers. No pets are allowed. There is no parking on site.
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