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What’s inside this week Arts & Entertainments 48-49 Antiques & Collectables 33 Business 50-53 Farming & Environment 46-47 Food & Drink 34-35 Health & Wellbeing 36-38 Home & Gardens 39-41 Items For Sale 32 Letters 12 Local Services 42-43 Motoring 45 MPs’ Round-Up 25 Pets 44 Property 61-63 Puzzles 20-21, 22-23 Recruitment 54-59 Sport 60 Stargazing 12

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Happy 21st birthday party at Dreamboats’ big regatta By Miranda Robertson A very special 21st birthday celebration is being held for Wimborne’s Dreamboats charity on August 22. Dreamboats was launched – quite literally – by Pat Hymers in 2000. Over the years she and her committee have added various craft to the mix and they now offer people the chance to hire boats, canoes, paddleboards and more. Their latest craft was donated by the family of Jenny Coates, who volunteered for them as treasurer, raffle prize collector, cake baker and more for many years. Pat said: “Jenny was a Wimborne person who was involved in several local things. She came to

Dreamboats just to help out but ended up being a hugely valuable member of the team.” Jenny’s boat will be available to use at Dreamboats’ annual regatta from noon until 5pm on August 22. The regatta has been held every year except last year and this year it will be bigger and better than ever, with boat races, live music from Paul Michael and Wimborne Marching Band, a bar, ice cream van, burgers and hot dogs, homemade cakes and tea, stalls and a raffle. Wimborne Radio will be there too. A cave experience for children will be there, plus a tombola. There’s no charge to enter. There will be a rowing race, with teams of up to three

people invited to take part for £5, and the chance to win a cup. Proceeds from the day will be ploughed into a new boat, especially designed to be able to accommodate disabled people. The boat, motor and lifejackets are anticipated to cost in the region of £15,000. Pat said: “We want to do that to include everybody in the community. It’s such a calm and quiet and delightful thing to do at a time of great stress.” n Dreamboats will be open all through the summer, weather permitting. The rowing boats, canoes, kayaks and stand-up paddle boards are all available 11am-5pm, last entry 4pm. See their new website dreamboats.org or find them on Facebook.

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Tributes to twinning group founder Dennis Fordingbridge Twinning strong family links with the Association has announced Beaugeard family in the death of its president Fordingbridge’s twin town and founder Dennis Bailey. of Vimoutiers, over further Dennis was involved with generations including the many local organisations Brard family. and well known in the “The families visited each town. other many times over the Member Derek Ayling said: “Dennis first proposed the idea of twinning in 1977 to the Chamber of Trade in order to ‘put Fordingbridge on the map’, and became characteristically obsessed by the project. “He emphasised that the twinning movement was by its nature, an organisation promoting AU REVOIR: Dennis Bailey peace, encouraging people to learn the customs 40 years of their friendship, and cultures of other the most recent being nations, learning their Madame Claude Brard languages and experiencing coming to Fordingbridge what life in a foreign for the 35th anniversary of country is like. twinning in 2017, when a “Above all, he felt that tree was planted in the twinning promotes Memorial Garden in friendships which last a Fordingbridge Rec. lifetime, and he was indeed “The association regrets the very embodiment of that Dennis will not see the this, having established 40th anniversary

celebrations, already being planned for the first weekend of July next year. “Dennis worked tirelessly at promoting the values of twinning, with the organisation originally known as Fordingbridge & District International Friendship Association. He and his late wife, Margaret, travelled to France every year, and to Germany and Belgium to the other twin towns of Vimoutiers. “His passion and drive for the movement ensured that twinning activities flourished and schools, footballers, musicians, choirs, firemen, historians, cyclists, scouts and countless individuals and families have all made visits and exchanges over the past four decades. politics and will prevail. “Dennis with his inspiration, passion and commitment to twinning, will be sorely missed. His passing will be marked by a special tribute at the 40th anniversary next July. “Au revoir, Dennis.”

Crime stats down

Crime has continued to drop in Dorset, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics. Dorset Police has seen a 13.4 per cent drop in recorded crime, and has the ninth lowest crime rate in England and Wales. ONS data shows that despite violent crime rising by 0.5 per cent nationally, it had reduced by 6.5 per cent in Dorset. The force area also experienced a 15.8 per cent reduction in reported sexual offences, compared to 9.2 per cent across England and Wales. Deputy Chief Constable Scott Chilton said Dorset continues to be one of the safest counties in the country to live and visit.

Veterans Hub

A new Veterans Hub is starting at Ringwood Library in Christchurch Road on Thursday August 5. The hub will be in partnership with the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust and Models for Heroes, which promotes model-making as a meaningful hobby with health and welfare benefits for military veterans. Just turn up at the Library every Thursday between 2pm-4pm.

School’s bid to up capacity supported By Nicci Brown Dorset Council’s Cabinet was on Tuesday recommended to support the use of the former Wimborne First School site in School Lane to increase the capacity of Beaucroft Special School just over a mile away in Wimborne Road, Colehill. It was also recommended to approve a budget allocation and delegate authority to the Executive Director for People and Children to enter into a construction contract, subject to a four-week formal consultation after which a further report will be brought back to Cabinet. 4

Legal advice is being sought, due to the status of Beaucroft as a Foundation School, on the lease of the first school site to the governors of Beaucroft School for use as post-16 provision on terms to be agreed by the Executive Director of Place. The project was backed by Cabinet in December last year as part of the council’s Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Capital Strategy 2020 – 2025 to support more children being educated locally in their communities, and is focused on post-16 provision. Funding had already been agreed for the project at St

Mary’s known as the Dorset Centre of Excellence (Shaftesbury), and Cabinet agreed in April this year a funding commitment of between £35m and £40m to support the implementation of the SEND Capital Strategy. The Beaucroft College project, which could provide the school with up to 80 additional places, is the first to be brought forward seeking funding from this capital allocation, and is anticipated will provide for students who otherwise would attend out of county Specialist Post 16 institutions at an average cost of £55,700

compared to an average cost of a place at Beaucroft of £18,200. Beaucroft’s co-head teachers Diane Makariou and Joe Barnett, in a letter to Dorset Council, said: “It is a very exciting project. We are delighted that a feasibility study has been completed and thank the local authority for their visions and commitment.” They say the increase in demand for places is evidenced in referrals for children who would thrive in their establishment had they space to accommodate them, and their outreach casework in mainstream schools.

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Objections to larger homes scheme By Nicci Brown Both Wimborne Town and Colehill Parish councils, and a number of local residents, have objected to an application by Barratt David Wilson Homes to increase the number of houses proposed at the Quarterjack Park Development at Park Farm, Leigh Road, where 75 were approved as part of an original 305 granted planning permission in 2018. The town council say that the additional 18 units proposed in application 3/21/0840/ FUL equate to a six per cent

increase which should be judged in the context of infrastructure and traffic flows which have not been supplied. “The total allocated units on this site were in any case above EDDC’s original provision at first planning approval. “This is not the ‘sustainable planning’ DC is striving for given the current traffic flows and infrastructure. “These extra properties will have a detrimental impact on existing neighbouring residents and there being no additional amenities means

people will have to drive, leading to an increase in traffic, more emissions, idling engines and poorer air quality, when traffic and air pollution is already a major cause for concern. “The residents of Wimborne Minster and the surrounding areas have been burdened with the majority of development in Dorset and should be safeguarded from poor quality planning and development.” They add that covid has proved that small houses are too small, especially if downstairs is open plan,

making it difficult for everyone to have their own space. Colehill Parish Council have said that the provision of too few parking spaces is likely to result in cars having to park on roads. Also, in common with others, they are concerned about the negative impact that a further increase in housing and traffic into and out of the development will have on the already congested junction where Wimborne Road West meets Canford Bottom roundabout.

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Tyler’s Friends: Helping to make a By Faith Eckersall newsdesk @stourandavon.net

Every parent wants to give their child the very best in life. In death that doesn’t change, it just becomes even more acute, says Kirsten Rust. And she should know. Together with her husband, Jon, Kirsten runs Tyler’s Friends, a small Dorset charity that helps provide memorials and headstones for babies and children whose parents cannot afford them. “If you have a stillborn baby or a child that is terminally ill, you have to pack a lifetime of love into a few short hours or days,” says Kirsten. “If parents lose a child at any time, they think of all the birthday and perhaps Christmas presents they would have brought them, all the things they wanted to do for them and the last thing they can give them is a memorial, which might cost over £1,000.” Kirsten, who works as a funeral director, has witnessed the sadness of bereaved parents who suffer guilt because they feel they are not providing for their lost child. “They say they look around a cemetery and see the other memorials and feel bad,” she says. Her husband Jon, who works with the funeral firm Nicholas O’Hara, lost a daughter and, says Kirsten, he strongly understands the feelings of bereaved parents, what one couple described as: ‘a horrible, dull and never-ending road of grief’. But what really brought the situation home to Kirsten was when a young woman she had known through

work lost her little son, Tyler, in 2009, on the day of his birth. “I got a call from Heidi to say she had lost her baby and she asked me to help

money to help them. “We held a quiz night and an auction and a long sponsored walk,” remembers Kirsten. Eventually they were able to

found paying for a headstone difficult so we decided to try and help more people.” They set about raising the money needed for memorial headstones or special butterfly plaques, for babies who have been cremated. Most of the parents who approach them are young, with little money and many have suffered a stillbirth, says Kirsten. “We advise and guide them about memorials, the possible choices you can incorporate; perhaps a symbol that means

‘You have to pack in a lifetime of love in just a few short hours’

with his funeral,” says Kirsten. “We looked after him and he had a full funeral in Lytchett Minster parish church.” Five years later, she learned that his parents had been unable to afford a headstone and so decided to raise some

pay for a memorial to Tyler Landon Lunn, with the inscription chosen by his parents. After speaking to a church minister, Kirsten says: “We soon realised that he was only one of many babies and children whose parents had

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lasting memorial to such a short life

COMFORT: Jon and Kirsten Rush of Tyler’s Friends and, left, some of the memorials to children they’ve helped organise

something, like a butterfly, and the rules of the cemetery they are using,” she says. Sometimes the charity is asked to help clean up a memorial or repair one and some of their requests involve memorials that are two decades old. They do not attend when the families first visit their permanent memorial. “It’s a time for them,” says Kirsten. However, the testimonies they receive show how important these moments are for bereaved families. Parents Danni and Jay said:

“Life doesn’t prepare you for losing your child. “It’s not the way around it should be. Not only were we struck by such a horrendous loss, we also suffered the

bereaved parents of children under the age of 18 do not have to pay for burial or cremation costs. They can also receive a contribution towards the

contribute to a memorial, of up to £1,000. “We try and help parents get something within that limit,” says Kirsten. The charity doesn’t currently means test those it helps, believing that even if parents have a little money put aside: “We would rather they spent it on a small holiday or keeping a roof over their heads.” Despite only starting in August 2017, they have already provided 44 memorials and eight butterfly plaques, for cremated babies. They have 15 memorials pending and have spent £76,000 so far, all raised by their enthusiastic team. “None of us get paid, it’s all done voluntarily and we’re so grateful to those who support us,” says Kirsten. She says the work of one trustee, Louise Christopher, shows the charity’s commitment. “She works full-time but bends over backwards for us, organising raffles and fundraising events,” says Kirsten, who also praises their patron, Dorset-based Indian food expert, columnist and TV star, Sarah Ali-Choudhury. Now, after 18 months of almost no fundraising – they had to cancel their summer ball, a golf day and a walk round the Isle of Wight – they are appealing to New Stour and Avon readers and businesses in East Dorset, to organise events and donate money or assistance such as website or SEO help, to their cause. “We are a small charity but we’d like to be bigger and expand our supporter base,” says Kirsten. “We know what a difference our work makes.”

‘None of us get paid, it’s voluntary and we are so grateful for support’ financial burden of being able to give our daughter the send-off she so rightly deserved. “That’s where Tyler’s Friends stood in.” Thanks to a law change in 2019, which created the Children’s Funeral Fund,

costs of a coffin. None of this is means tested but, on the minus side, it doesn’t include the cost of erecting a permanent memorial. Tyler’s Friends works with a monumental mason but they have a limit of what they can

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Oly taking on island swim challenge By Lorraine Gibson newsdesk@ stourandavon.net

When Oly Rush’s pal suggested that he should try swimming around the Isle of Wight, he meant it as a joke. But Oly, a swimming fanatic and environmental campaigner, has decided to actually do it to highlight of the plight of our polluted seas. Not only that, he’ll attempt a new world record by swimming non-stop around the 40x20km island for a gruelling 24 hours. Vegan powerhouse Oly, from Upton said: “I chose the Isle of Wight because last year when I completed the Jurassic Coast swim, a friend of mine pointed at it and said ‘you’ll be swimming around the Isle of Wight next.’ “He meant it as a joke but I think it planted a seed.” Circumnavigating the island is quite the challenge, only four swimmers so far have done it, with the quickest being Scott Dawson, who set the current record at 26 hours in 2016. Oly wants to top that by completing his swim in less than 24 hours and setting a new world record. Last year he raised more than £10,000 in sponsorship from the 96-mile Jurassic Coast swim for local charities that clean up plastic along Britain’s coastline and hopes to match that figure again. He’ll set off from Seaview, near Ryde on the Isle of Wight, and spend the next day and night in the water. Oly will be swimming for long stretches in pitch blackness. I ask him how he handles the instinctive human fear of

AMAZING AMBITION: Oly Rush is attempting to swim round the Isle of Wight in under 24 hours

complete darkness? Of the unknown? “You’ve just got to do it,” he says. “I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little nervous about the night section, “especially if I hit something like a jellyfish in the water, but it’s an adventure. On the Jurassic Coast swim, I hit a buoy and it almost gave me a heart attack.” On the day we speak, Oly has just been on a darkness training session the previous night. He’d been putting these off a bit but inevitably, as he says, “If you attempt to swim round the Isle of Wight in one go, you’re going to have to swim

through the night.” Unexpectedly, though, this time the experience turned out to be more mystical than miserable. “As soon as I got in, my hands were lighting up the water around me, it was bioluminescent algae. It magical. It was everywhere, every time my hand entered the water, hundreds of tiny sparkles!” “Suddenly, we were surrounded by all these little eyes staring at us,” he says. “It turned out to be a shoal of about 40 to 50 smooth hounds (a shallow-water shark).” After much joshing about meeting a shark in the dark,

they found themselves encircled by an entire group – of friendly, mini ones. “They came right up to us, nudging us and nibbling our fingers and toes. It was an amazing sensation.” Oly’s swim will take place round the end of August, so his training programme is, in his words, ‘just massive’. “Sub-26 hours is what I am aiming for,” he explains, “but it would be nice to do it in under 24.” The 36-year-old plasterer first started swimming at the age of six and his old coach is helping him train for the charity event. Oly added: “In the last five years I have developed quite an efficient stroke, which is 45 strokes per minute compared to most swimmers who are around 55 per minute. Scott Dawson, who broke the current record has put a team together to help Oly train and accompany him. They will follow him in six kayaks, a safety RIB and the private yacht of British yachtsman Brian Thompson, who twice broke the speed record for sailing around the world. So far, his planet-friendly endeavour has received over £1,160 out of a target £5,000. Thanks to that energyconserving super-stroke and Oly’s adventurous spirit he could well be swimming into the record books. n Go to: justgiving.com/ crowdfunding/plasticfight?utm _term=MzXa4eWxp And you can see his amazing, luminescent night-training session, complete with mini sharks on Instagram: _projectplanet_

Show jumping sand school given the go-ahead after appeal A replacement sand school at Horton Farm in Sandy Lane, Three Legged Cross, has been allowed on appeal to the Planning Inspectorate after Dorset Council refused an application by Mr R Smith in December last year. It was refused by the council due to the considerable increase in

scale of the proposed sand school, to be used to train showjumpers, which measured 60m by 60m with post and rail fencing around the perimeter together with a 41m by 16m area for turning and parking vehicles. It was felt it would affect the openness of the green belt and there would be a likely

requirement for supporting development which would be inappropriate in the green belt. The Inspector, M Bale, considered that the enlarged sand school would have no greater impact on openness and that “while the car parking area would be fairly large, there is no substantive evidence as to why it

would harm openness”. He also found no evidence to suggest that there would be a predictable requirement for supporting development and concluded that the proposal was not inappropriate development in the green belt. But an application for costs against the council was refused. 9

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Lockdown has been difficult for so many, but for some it has made something as basic as putting food on the table a very real struggle. Seeing this crisis unfolding, a group of local business people decided to step up and help. Paul Gunovsky is a director of the café at the Allendale Centre in Wimborne and is one of the founders of the Wimborne Community Food Supply, which provides free cooked meals to anyone in need. “We took over the café six weeks before the pandemic hit,” said Paul. “There has been a community fridge run from the Allendale for some time where people could come and take food if they are in need but we recognised that, with the lockdown, a lot of vulnerable people wouldn’t be able to get out to it so we converted the fridge to a food facility to provide cooked meals that could be picked up or delivered.” At the peak of the pandemic last year, Paul and his team of volunteers were providing around 600 meals a week. “I have lived in Wimborne for 30 years but I was shocked to find out there was so much hardship in the town,” said Paul. “Some families with up to four children were needing six meals a day.” All the food is donated by

FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD: Volunteer Liv Powis in the facility’s hub at the Allendale Centre

Putting food on the table in even the toughest of times local businesses, including Waitrose, the Co-op and The Olive Branch in Wimborne, as well as community groups such as The Friendly Food Club based in Dorset and Poole Food Bank. The facility also helped support Wimborne Town Council’s Resilience Group in its efforts to help supply food to those affected by the pandemic. The whole venture is run by volunteers who take delivery of the food, sorting it into batches ready to be made into meals by cooks

as well as delivering meals by foot or car or helping to hand out food to those who can come to the centre to collect it. Unlike with food banks, recipients don’t need to provide proof that they are in need of help. Individuals can approach the volunteers from a hatch at the back of the Allendale Centre Monday to Friday from 10am to 3pm and Saturday from 10am to 1pm or meals can be arranged to be delivered for those unable to leave their houses. Typical dishes include spaghetti

bolognese, cottag4e pie, chicken and vegetables and fresh desserts. The service even continued on Christmas Day, working with The Lantern Church in Merley to provide 300 traditional festive lunches each one delivered the day before, with donations of toys for the children provided by Queen Elizabeth School in Wimborne. As lockdown has eased, the number of meal donations has reduced to around 100 a week but for many it still remains an essential service.

Service proving to be a lifeline for struggling families Alan Jackman, who is 88 and lives in Wimborne with his wife Valerie, started using the service during the first lockdown. “It has been wonderful. My wife has Alzheimer’s so I can’t leave her on her own without a carer and I am losing my short-term memory which 10

means following a recipe and cooking has become very difficult. “A friend recommended the Wimborne Community Food Supply and it has been perfect for us. They deliver a cooked meal to us every day. It has made an enormous difference to us.”

Wimborne Community Food Supply recently received an award from the High Sheriff of Dorset in recognition of its exceptional work in the community – an accolade most assuredly deserved. “Well done to all involved with this fantastic facility.”

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Daughter’s plea to find old school scarf By Faith Eckersall A Devon woman is asking New Stour and Avon readers if they can help her track down an old school scarf which holds precious memories for her seriously ill father. Charlotte Sales, whose family lived in Fordingbridge, wants to locate one of the retro-style cloth scarves used by pupils at the Burgate School in 1965, as a gift for her father, a former civil servant in his 60s. “My father lives in Devon now but he was brought up in Fordingbridge and we have a holiday home in Alderholt because we all love the area so much,” she said. “He looks upon his schooldays very fondly, he enjoyed his education at Burgate, being in the choir,

SCARF APPEAL: Burgate School in Fordingbridge

all the activities; but one thing he’s always mentioned was losing his scarf.” Mrs Sales said her father had taken off the scarf to play a game of after-school football with some fellow pupils in 1965 and when he’d finished, the garment was missing. “It’s one of those silly things that happens in childhood but he’s never really got over it,” she said. “It’s always

been one of his adult regrets that he lost this scarf, which was very precious to him. “My son has joined a little private school and the first thing my dad said was ‘make sure you get him a school scarf and keep it safe’.” Mrs Sales is hoping that someone who went to the old Burgate Secondary School in the 1960s will have a scarf. “Perhaps it’s at the back of a cupboard or in a dressing up

box or they aren’t that attached to it,” she said. “I would happily buy it from them to give my dad back such an important part of his childhood.” She does not know what the scarf would have looked like, but understands it may have the school’s then-insignia on it and would be made of woollen cloth, not the more modern, knitted wool style. “I think it would have looked a bit like an old-fashioned university scarf,” she said. “I’m hoping that anyone who went to Burgate at that time and had one would know immediately what I meant and would be kind enough to sell one to me.” n If you have an old Burgate school scarf which you are willing to part with, you can contact Charlotte by emailing: newsdesk@ stourandavon.net.

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New route for cyclists Letters By Faith Eckersall newsdesk@stourandavon.net The first section of the new sustainable travel route which links Wimborne and Ferndown to Poole centre has opened. A new cycle lane, separate pedestrian pavements and a complete road re-surface has been installed on the section of Wimborne Road West in Colehill. The section represents the first completed infrastructure in the Transforming Cities Fund programme, which will eventually provide 78km of new cycling lanes, walking paths and improvements to bus services and infrastructure across south east Dorset. BCP and Dorset Councils – who have funded £100m of the improvements – say it will offer opportunities for more healthy, eco-friendly and safer journeys to work, education and leisure. Cyclist Lynsey Gentry, one of the first people to try out the new stretch said: “This cycle lane is really good; the smooth surface is a joy to ride on and it certainly makes me feel a lot safer about riding along this busy road. The fact that I am no longer on the main vehicle road also means I won’t be causing a delay to any cars trying to get past me.” Once fully completed, the cycle lane will eventually run 2.3km along Wimborne Road West and Leigh Road from the Canford Bottom Roundabout to the Brook Road Junction and will form a branch of the 27km sustainable transport route linking Poole Town Centre, Wimborne and Ferndown. It also fills a missing section on the Castleman Trailway, part of the National Cycle Network, which links Dorset to Ringwood and the New Forest. The council has also announced the start of work on a new road for north Dorset, south of Gillingham. The 1.3km-long residential route will have a 30mph speed limit and a shared footway/cycleway on both sides and will run between New Road and Shaftesbury Road.

Colonel Bogey’s a Brit! May I please correct you on a passage in your report of Mister Mac’s funeral. Colonel Bogey was a British march which became very popular with the British Forces. It was composed by Kenneth J Alford, (Major J Ricketts RM. Director of Music Plymouth Group Band Royal Marines) Paul Collett ex Musician Royal Marines Band Service Regarding your story on the paving being delayed in Blandford, Byron Quayle may have done some good work in arranging for these works but his comments have let him down badly. Working in the building supply trade there is a monumental shortage of basic materials due to the pandemic, shortage of road haulage etc. Boat loads of timber destined for the uk are being diverted to countries willing to pay

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inflated prices for the stock, cement is in short supply and on allocation, suppliers of paving blocks etc cannot get the basic component of their product to be able to produce the slabs. Some bricks for

example are on a 20plus-week lead time. Byron can be annoyed as he likes but he needs to think of others who have had to put work back or cannot work at all because of the shortages. Mark Pomeroy

Keep an eye out for summer meteors Night sky events with Bob Mizon MBE of the Wessex Astronomical Society Between August 11-13, wrap up warm and stay out late. Set up a deckchair or spread the recliner, lie back and watch for the Perseid meteors, ancient comet debris falling through Earth’s atmosphere. Every year on the same dates the Earth encounters these debris trails, and as the comet fragments barrel through the air they burn, forming bright streaks which seem to radiate 12

PLEASED TO METEOR: Summer meteor, pictured by CJ Baddiley

from a point in the sky. This month they appear in the constellation of Perseus. Don’t expect fireworks – in some years rapid rates might produce two or three a

minute, and in others you might wait twenty minutes or more. Sometimes they leave sparkling trails in their wake. Bright yellow Capella, rising

in the north-east, marks the general direction of their radiant point. Fortunately, the Moon’s light will not interfere with viewing this year. Clear skies!

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Rotary hands over 350 notes to Minster’s music appeal Wimborne’s Minster Makes Music Appeal has received £350 from the town’s Rotary Club. The money will be used to help with the cost of instruments and music lessons for disadvantaged youngsters as part of the Music Foundation to communicate the

Minster’s musical heritage to the community. The donation has been made despite the club’s inability to fund-raise during the covid pandemic. Wimborne Rotary president Jan Baseley said: “Although the club does hold charitable funds, it has proved

difficult to respond to all the requests we receive for help. However, we did want to support this important appeal and a legacy left to the club by a former member, the late Mike Stead who was a keen musician, enabled us to make this donation in his memory.”

Vintage tractors on show The Show at the Mow, a free entry vintage tractor show, takes place on Sunday, August 1 and is hosted by the East Dorset Tractor Pack, who are well known for their local tractor runs and rallies. The location of the show is the field adjacent to the Barley Mow public house, Colehill Lane, Colehill, Wimborne BH21 7AH. Please follow the signs to the ample parking available, about 100 yards up the lane in the field opposite. The static show will be displayed from 10am to 5pm and is sponsored by the Friends of Ferguson Heritage and the Ford & Fordson Association.

Ex-mayors urge overhaul of town’s traffic By Faith Eckersall

newsdesk@stourandavon.net

Two former Wimborne mayors are calling on Dorset Council to use the 30th anniversary of the town’s distributor road to undertake a ‘holistic’ examination of Wimborne’s town centre traffic issues. Dorset councillor for Stour and Allen Vale Robin Cook, and Anthony Oliver, want the county to give the system a: “Complete overhaul with a view to producing with a view a new scheme fit for the 21st century.” Mr Cook said subsequent traffic management schemes were ‘always done with the best of intentions’ but: “While they may address a particular problem in a particular area, that can often impact another area of the town.” They’ve used the 30th anniversary of the distributor road as a starting point

CAMPAIGN: Robin Cook and Anthony Oliver Picture: Tom Scrase

because, he said, it has such an impact on life in the town. Despite holding public meetings, a protest march at county hall and forming a spirited action group, campaigners lost their fight and the road now runs through Wimborne, from the bottom of Stone Lane’s junction with West Borough to Rodways Corner, taking in Priors Walk, Hanham Road, Rowlands Hill and Lewens Lane. Mr Cook said he understood the difficulties associated with road planning and gave the example of the popular Sunday East Street closure,

brought in to help businesses struggling to recover from the pandemic. “That’s easy to put in place one day a week and I’ve done some marshalling and helping down there and the general response from the public has been very positive,” he said. “People then say why don’t we close East Street permanently but if we did there would be a problem for the traffic coming down Park Lane because some of it wouldn’t get round the corner.” He believes that whilst funding any changes or improvements would be an

issue, now is the time to start looking at the town’s traffic issues for the future. “When the distributor road opened in 1991 that was 20 years in the making in terms of design,” he said. “Even if we said ‘yes, we’re going to do something about traffic now’ the ideas we are talking about wouldn’t be implemented for several years ahead, which is why I think now is a good time to start.” To make their call for a thorough review of Wimborne’s traffic issues, Mr Oliver and Mr Cook, who were Chairman and Secretary of the action group, took part in a photo call at Rodways Corner earlier this month. Mr Cook said: “July 1991 saw the last major alteration to the town’s road system which was partly due to the opening of the Wimborne bypass in 1980 and the variation in traffic movements.” 13

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Turn your youngster into a Wild World Hero this summer The Museum of East Dorset is holding a Wild World Heroes Activity morning on Tuesday, August 10 10am-1pm. Little ones will be helped to make finger puppets, beautiful birds and experience some ocean fun themed tasks, as

well as getting to grips with modelling dough and hearing a story. All the activities are based on Dorset Libraries’ Summer Reading challenge, Wild World Heroes. Entrance is via the museum garden tea room and whilst

there is no need to book, sessions cost £3. In addition to Little Explorers, the museum will also be hosting History Festival Friday children’s events every Friday throughout the summer holidays as part of the

Summer In Dorset council scheme. These will be £10 per child, or free for children on the scheme who have a booking code. To book go to museumofeastdorset.co.uk/ events or call 01202 882533.

Gargoyle unmasked as hero of NHS By Lorraine Gibson

newsdesk@stourandavon.net

Secrets lurk everywhere in the places where we live and work, we’re often just too busy to notice them. Take Christchurch Priory, for example. Next time you’re there, as well as marvelling at its wonderful architecture and grand arched windows, take time to look up and properly study its collection of gargoyles. Gargoyles are basically ancient water spouts, their mouths designed to act as funnels to disperse rainwater. They were only made to look scary to calm superstitious folk who believed they’d keep evil spirits at bay. Among the grotesque faces leering out from the Priory, tongues out, fangs bared and beaks poised ready to peck, there lurks a most unusual gargoyle in the form of a partially obscured face, instead of the usual mythical scare-monger. A new addition, it is a doctor wearing a surgical mask and is a tribute NHS

staff, thanking them for the brilliant things they have done for us during the pandemic. Look really closely and you’ll even see a blue-andwhite NHS logo to the left of the surgeon’s face. For more hidden curiosities, check out Ordnance Survey’s new Secret Stories self-guided walking tours app.

HIGH PRAISE: The gargoyle on the right at Christchurch priory is a tribute to the NHS staff who have worked through the pandemic

Overnight closure on A31 for 11 weeks for barrier repairs The A31 will be closed overnight for 11 weeks between Palmersford Roundabout and Canford Bottom Roundabout to allow a 50mph limit and road restrictions whilst barrier repairs take place. Highways England said the work was due to start on or after Monday, August 2, but the road closure order would come

into force on July 31. During this time the road will close at 9pm and re-open at 6am. However, the 50mph speed limit will run 24 hours and will be limited to the A31 eastbound carriageway between a point 110 metres west of Ameysford Roundabout and a point 50 metres east

of Palmersford Roundabout (A347) and between 130 metres west of Palmersford Roundabout and 760 metres east of Ameysford Roundabout on the westbound section. There will be a 3.25metre width restriction in lane one and a 2.75 metres width restriction on the outside lane. 17

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Celebrating 30 years of dramatic events By Faith Eckersall newsdesk @stourandavon.net

The description ‘site specific theatre’ seems a tad clunky for the fascinating, intimate and sometimes moving portrayals of life in east Dorset, produced by the Wimborne Community Theatre Company. However, the group’s flair for presenting nuanced and frequently untold stories in non-theatrical locations is the main reason it’s now celebrating 30 years in action. Gill Horitz, one of WCT’s founding members, says it is just that – theatre for and about the community. She explains that the company was first set up by a group of East Dorsetbased teachers and arts professionals to involve people in developing a community theatre which would capture the voices and stories of those living in a particular place and “the history we discover in our landscape”. Voyages, its first production, took place in 1991 and laid the standard for the next three decades. Set in the grounds of Kingston Lacy with a cast of nearly 200d people of all ages, it told the story of Henrietta Bankes, her young children; Viola, Daphne and Ralph, and their staff. They were preparing for King Edward VII’s visit to Kingston Lacy for tea in 1907, an event recalled in Pamela Watkins’ book A Kingston Lacy Childhood – Reminiscences of Viola Bankes. This historical event became the stimulus for the creation of a new legend about a healing 18

OUTDOOR THEATRE: Voyages at Kingston Lacy, with students from QE, Pamphill First School & Colehill First School. and, right inset, a flyer from the First World War production What They Left behind. Inset, bottom left: Gill Horitz

stone passed down through the generations from the Duotriges, the Celtic tribe in Wessex, through the hands of local woman, Alicia Payntere, in 1232 AD, to a servant in the last century A fictional journey was brought to life as the audience followed in the footsteps around the parkland, of the privileged Viola Bankes and her favourite nursery maid, Alice Maud Baker. Voyages, says Gill, was one of the most

complex productions, involving four local schools and taking place over a large area of landscape. “It was made possible by collaborating with partners who were generous and spirited and willing to try new approaches to how the public engage with historical landscapes,” she says. Those supporters included House Manager at Kingston Lacy, Howard Webber, Education Officer Barbara Webber, Estate Warden David Smith, and director of East Dorset Heritage Trust, Alan Wilson. In keeping with the group’s

desire to bring real stories to life, WTC asked Gladys Dukes, former Kingston Lacy under-housemaid in the 1920s, to meet schoolchildren to tell them about her time working for Ralph Bankes. At the time, Gladys said: “Most of the children’s questions were about what sort of cars they had. They couldn’t believe me when I said they had none until 1920. And they couldn’t understand it when I told them we were on call 12 hours a day and we obeyed orders without question.” Perhaps it is the romance of the property and estate, or

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outdoors developing community theatre

perhaps because Kingston Lacy and the Bankes family who owned it exerted such influence in the area, that the theatre has drawn on it more than once for inspiration in its work. WTC has staged two further productions in the grounds of Kingston Lacy, as well as many other locations including Holt Forest, Hambledon Hill, Wimborne town centre, Sturminster Mill, Wimborne’s Pump House, Knowlton Rings, and BytheWay at Colehill. “Gathering stories from local people has always been the hallmark of WCT productions,” says Gill. “In

2006, when we began developing The Lie of the Land, we invited local people to a meeting in Pamphill; they talked about the history of their families going back hundreds of years and about the sense of play and freedom they remembered as children, and the special atmosphere of the place.” She recalled: “Some residents had mixed feelings about changes that had taken place when Ralph Bankes bequeathed his estate of farms and cottages to the National Trust in 1982, and the growing influx of visitors to walk in

the Pamphill area.” She says WCT’s performances are: “Occasions when a new temporary community is formed, of actors and audience together in a special place, experiencing an atmosphere and energy brought into being by the collaging of ideas about history, memory and story.” That effect can be deeply felt. After watching Voyages, one person told her: “The use of the settings was marvellous, but most special for me was that it was an original work created by a community co-operating.”

That community came together again in 2016, as part of the town’s commemoration of the First World War. What They Left Behind explored the legacy of objects and memories and their effect on people in Wimborne during the First World War and how they connect to our lives today. Set in several town centre locations, the audience, divided into three groups, moved simultaneously to different locations: the Cornmarket, the Coles’ shop (in Priest’s House Museum), the museum garden, and Church House before finally returning to the Minster Green. Afterwards, audience members talked about the issues raised in the production. One person said: “The best part was making contact with the era; the First World War was brought vividly alive and made relevant to Wimborne.” Another added: “It took my emotions up, down and side to side. I’m not normally a great fan of ‘serious’ theatre but this has certainly changed my views.” Despite lockdown, WCT members have not been idle, they’ve been developing a production focussing on themes relating to the sense of what it means to live near the rivers Allen and Stour, and the importance of the river ecology in our lives, says Gill. Performances will take place on and near the Stour in spring 2022, with an exhibition and events in October at Walford Mill, situated, appropriately, on the river Allen. n Find out more and receive the WCT newsletter by visiting its website or emailing wimbornect@ gmail.com 19

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Rotary names new president

BUZZING: One of the wildflower meadows at Back of Beyond Camping and Glamping Park

Hive of activity at campsite By Faith Eckersall

A New Forest camping park has come up with a ‘beeyoutiful’ solution to helping Mother Nature – by sponsoring the New Forest and District Beekeepers’ Association. Back of Beyond Touring Camping and Glamping Park at St Leonards near Ringwood has become a company sponsor of the 100year-old NFDBKA after the association recently launched a new outreach programme to work with businesses and

organisations that are keen to help bees. Back of Beyond owner Martin Bowrey said: “With large woodland and heathland areas as well as bee hives on site, we’re well placed to support the NFDBKA and the local bee population by creating new wildflower meadows which are now starting to bloom. They will not only benefit our honey bees, wild bees and other pollinators, but also provide new areas of the park for our guests to enjoy.” Large areas of the park were

sown with a mixture of indigenous wildflower seed and grasses during the covid19 lockdown in early 2021. Selected for sandy soil, the indigenous seed mix contains 21 different types of wildflower and eight types of grass. Wildflowers include Common Sanfoin, Bird’s Foot Trefoil, Oxeye Daisies, Field Scabious and Viper’s Bugloss. n More information at backofbeyondtouringpark.co. uk / or email outreach@ newforestbees.co.uk

For the first time in two years, thanks to covid restrictions, Fordingbridge Rotary was able to make its handover to a new president in person. At an event held at the Old Beams Inn at Ibsley, outgoing president Toni Butler officially handed over to new president Will Peak. His father, Rotarian Chris Peak, of Gloucester, came along to watch. President Peak said his priorities for the coming year include engaging with and supporting local groups, ensuring the membership is active, and encouraging the club to grow its membership. n More info at fordingbridge-rotary.org.uk

Vaccine walk-ins Not got your covid vaccine yet? If you live in Hampshire there are now a whole swathe of clinics where you can walk-in, with no need to book in advance. The website is updated frequently and open to everyone over the age of 18. n More information at: hampshiresouthamptonand isleofwightccg.nhs.uk

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Pupils enjoy sounds of distant drums Merley First School was alive with the sound of drums in celebration of World Music Day. Pupils in Years 3 and 4 enjoyed an inspirational African Drumming workshop with a musician from Afric’Arts, provided by Soundstorm, the Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole music education hub. Merley First School Music Lead Hayley Walker said: “Cheikh, who is an African drummer, taught the children how to play bass and tone on djembe drums, which are rope-tuned drums played with bare hands. “The children then played a range of rhythms, while Cheikh played another rhythm to create a piece altogether. The children really enjoyed it and some said they would like to do drumming every day.” World Music Day takes place each year in more than 110 countries and 430 cities around the world and highlights the diversity of musical practices in all musical styles. Across the rest of the school each year group worked on

BANG ON: Merley First School pupils enjoy playing drums from around the world

activity ideas compiled with support from Soundstorm around the song A Musical Journey by Glyn Lehmann, which takes children on a musical voyage. In Early Years (EYFS), the children focused on India and enjoyed a song about the musical instrument the sitar, as well as trying out some Bollywood-style dancing. Year 1 pupils sampled body

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Trust confirms hospital’s Minor Injury Unit opening hours

Social media rumours that the Minor Injuries Unit at Wimborne’s Royal Victoria Hospital is under threat of closure are incorrect, says the health trust that runs it. After claims circulated on social media, Dorset Healthcare Foundation Trust reiterated its recent message, explaining the new ways its string of minor injuries units would work, as the county continues to fight covid-19. A spokesman for the trust said

all its MIUs had re-opened on June 21 for pre-booked appointments only, to avoid crowded waiting rooms. In its statement, the trust said: “With national restrictions now gradually being eased, all of the MIUs run by Dorset HealthCare will revert to their pre-covid opening hours. People are asked not to just turn up, but to call for a telephone assessment first – a system which has worked well during the pandemic.”

It said this would ensure people didn’t have unnecessary waits and will help to avoid crowded waiting rooms. “It will also mean some patients can be treated remotely and will not need to make an unnecessary journey. “NHS 111 is the way you can access the right treatment, in the right place, at the right time and will now be the gateway to the county’s minor injuries units along with a

range of other services,” said the Trust. “Rather than having to look up different MIU phone numbers, you can now go to 111.nhs.uk online or call 111 – and if you need to go to an MIU, the 111 service will book you in. The Royal Victoria MIU opening hours are now from 8.30am to 4.30pm on weekdays, with the last patient being seen 30 minutes before closing.

IT’S OPEN: Wimborne Mayor Kelly Webb with chairman Iain Stevenson Picture: Tom Scrase

Councillor Kelly Webb, Wimborne’s Mayor, cut the ribbon on Life Before Lego, the new exhibition at Wimborne Model Town. Tracing the history of Britain’s building toys with names such as

Bayko and Minibrix, the new facility also includes model dioramas of 1950s and 1960s Spot On cars, Minic roadways and Triang Hornby trains. A spokesman for the volunteer run charity attraction said: “Life Before

Lego is a unique celebration of British building toys.” The new display is open every day–together with the 1/10th scale streets of 1950s miniature buildings, with no booking required.

‘Crisis meeting’ on 600 homes scheme By Nicci Brown Wimborne Town Council has asked for a ‘crisis meeting’ between Dorset Council and Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole before a decision is made on plans for extensive development on land north of Oakley Lane, Merley. The outline application APP/19/00955/P by Richborough Estates Ltd being considered by BCP Council is for the phased development of up to 600 dwellings (C3 Use Class), and up to 62-bedroom care 24

home, together with accesses, public open space, allotments, play areas, attenuation basins, car park and a suitable alternative natural greenspace (SANG). It has attracted dozens of objections, from residents and a campaign group Save land north of Merley, founded when the land was removed from the Green Belt in 2018, and the town council has objected on planning policy grounds saying it is not sustainable development and will be reliant for infrastructure

support, shopping, health services, schools and recreation on the Dorset Council community of Wimborne Minster. In their formal response to the application, they say: “The development is not being considered alongside the other additional developments Wimborne Minster has taken already with most of the new housing not yet lived in – so the true extent of impact is not yet known. “Please consider a crisis meeting with Dorset Council

to look at the wide strategic view of how life will be for existing residents and road users before making a decision that can never be undone.” They say that in recent years, the community of Wimborne Minster has seen over 1,500 new homes added to the area – and BCP Council is effectively proposing to increase the local population and demand on services by an additional 40 per cent of homes relative to these recent new developments.

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MPs’ round-up

My role as a teller really counts in the House Many people have asked me about my work as a whip in the Chamber of the House of Commons. One of my jobs is to undertake the role of “teller”. Tellers are the people who count the votes when a vote (a division) is called. Two MPs are chosen from each side to be tellers, with one from each side in each division lobby to ensure an accurate count. The Speaker announces the names of the tellers at the beginning of the vote, shortly after the exit doors to the lobbies are closed. The tellers’ votes are not included in the count for or against the motion, but are recorded on the side of the vote that they agree with. If no one is willing to be a teller, then the vote automatically goes to the other side. It is surprising, but this does happen from time to time perhaps most often when a vote

MP for Mid Dorset Michael Tomlinson is called unexpectedly. The division bell sounds across the Palace of Westminster, and MPs have eight minutes to get into the division lobby before Mr Speaker calls, “Lock the doors!” If you are late, even by a few seconds, the door will be locked against you and you cannot vote. After the MPs have been counted out of each division lobby, the Tellers return to the House floor to

announce the result to the Speaker, and if you ever watch Parliament TV (parliamentlive.tv/Commons) you can see this process happening. In “normal” times, the four tellers all walk into the chamber, with the “winning” side standing on the Speaker’s left. This is why the MPs can know the result of a vote before the actual announcement of the voting numbers. For especially close votes, you can sometimes hear a roar in the House when the tellers take their places for the announcement – indicating the result. For covid-related reasons, currently only one teller announces the result, so we have not seen this for a while. Since the 2019 election, I have been a teller 50 times, out of 297 votes. As a whip I have been in the Chamber of the House of Commons almost every day

that the House has sat throughout the pandemic. You may have seen that during the pandemic we have been operating on a hybrid system in parliament, with some MPs being in the Chamber in person, and others appearing virtually, from their constituencies, their offices, or even their living rooms. MPs have also been able to have proxies, and most MPs have been on a proxy for several months. Proxy votes are relatively new, and were first introduced for new parents – for MPs on maternity, paternity or adoption leave. When the pandemic began, and most MPs were asked to work from home, proxy votes were expanded and allowed for all MPs. Like many families, we had to self-isolate for 10 days in July, but thanks to the proxy system my votes were still counted.

Government has avoided scrutiny from MPs for long enough When a full House of Commons returns on September 6, MPs will be fighting to restore Parliament’s proper role in our national life. The Johnson administration has invested heavily in its ‘Parliamentary bypass’ project. By making new policy announcements at press conferences it avoids scrutiny from the people’s elected representatives. By enacting law by decree, there is no opportunity for proper debate or the making of amendments. The Government has exploited the ‘zombie Parliament’ with impunity. That must end in September. The sense of impotence among backbench MPs is palpable. Our constituents need answers in the face of conflicting and chaotic policies such as the Track and Trace ‘pingdemic’, the traffic light scheme for holidays, vaccine passports and face coverings.

Christchurch & East Dorset: Chris Chope The Government’s refusal to share vital information caused deep frustration during the debate on compulsory vaccination for care workers. Initially we were told that an impact assessment was available which would include the number of care home employees who would face dismissal without compensation. During the debate, however, the Minister refused to say what had happened to that impact

assessment. Had it been suppressed? The minister used the mantra that ‘The impact assessment is being worked on’ leaving open the interpretation that the reference was to a new assessment with the old one having been ditched. This dissembling boiled over into a vote in which 36 Conservatives showed their exasperation by voting against the regulations. I was a Teller for the Noes. My scepticism was reinforced by the subsequent failure of the Minister to answer my follow-up question about ‘the date on which work on the assessment a) began and b) is due to completed’. n There is rising anger from constituents about the poor service being provided by the DVLA. Those seeking their first provisional driving licence or renewal of a vocational one are subject to delays of six to ten weeks. As their applications

cannot be done online these delays are impacting the life chances of young people and those who drive for a living. The cause is ‘industrial action by the Public and Commercial Services union’ which is ‘designed to have maximum negative impact on members of the public’. How callous is that? This latest manifestation of monopoly exploitation of the weak and vulnerable by public sector trades unions is unacceptable. n Many businesses and constituents in Christchurch, including visitors to the popular Monday market, were affected by the interruption of internet services last month. Cash once again became ‘king’. The Minister responsible has told me that the incident was reported by BT to Ofcom which will now decide what further investigation is needed. It is, however, another reminder of our dependence upon the internet. 25

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Dorset’s dustcarts and waste recycling vehicles are at the forefront of a new campaign to help people suffering domestic abuse. From the middle of this month, they’ll be carrying ads to signpost the help available for anyone who is being abused physically or mentally in their own home. The banners displayed on the council’s vehicles, including waste and recycling trucks and mini buses, are carrying the following messages – that controlling behaviour is domestic abuse, that it’s not CAMPAIGN: Katie Bielec, a Dorset Volunteer Ambassador, and Cllr Graham Carr-Jones in okay for people’s partners front of a new banner to threaten or hurt them, and that people should be treated with respect. And the reason these innocuous vehicles have been chosen is simple – they enable important messages to be taken into law. The Act aims to domestic abuse work, said: safety. Their specialist team the centre of communities, promote awareness, protect “Over the past 18 months, offers community and right outside properties and support people our relationships have been accommodation-based where abuse may be taking experiencing domestic hugely important. However, services and give expert place. abuse, transform the justice for some people, sadly, advice, information and The help and advice will be response and improve home has not been the emotional support to ensure offered by the You First performance. safest place. safety and build the organisation, whose As part of the new Act, “If you are feeling unsafe or confidence to move on.” operations director Tonia Dorset Council is set to frightened because However, all those involved Redvers said: “These receive an additional someone in your home is in the campaign have urged banners are wonderful £650,000 from the hurting you, either people who are in or who because they help get government to fund its new physically or mentally, it’s are witnessing other people information out into the duty to provide support for not your fault. Confidential in immediate danger from heart of our communities, victims and their children, advice and support are domestic abuse to where people can take a including safe always there for you, immediately dial 999. discreet picture of the accommodation. whatever your age or Dorset Police’s lead on the number, use it for And it couldn’t be more gender.” force’s vulnerability themselves or pass on to a needed. Between 2011 and Portfolio Holder for programme Julie Howe family member or friend, 2016 there were 12 Housing and Community said: “Domestic abuse takes where safe to do so.” domestic homicides in Safety Graham Carr-Jones, many forms and can happen The banners advise anyone Dorset. Seven victims were said the aim of the banner to anyone. We will listen, experiencing difficulty in female, five were male, campaign was to let Dorset we will support you, and their relationship that three involved children residents struggling at home we will safeguard you.” confidential advice and help murdering their parents and know that support is always is always available. The one involved a parent available, and how to n The You First domestic campaign’s launch came murdering a child. access it. abuse helpline can be just days after police were There were 3,923 reports of “Our partners at You First contacted on 0800 032 bracing for a rise in violent domestic abuse are there for you, whatever 5204, 24 hours a day, or domestic abuse, following from 2015-2016, with 1,775 your age and no matter search online for ‘DVA help the end of the Euro 2020 of those coming from the what time of day it is,” he Dorset’. football tournament, and Dorset Council area. said. “They work with men, Calls are free but the with the Domestic Abuse Dorset councillor Mollie women and children to number may show up on Act 2021 finally becoming Rennie, who leads on reduce harm and increase some itemised phone bills.

New banner bid to consign domestic violence to the bin

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Crackdown on anti-social behaviour By Faith Eckersall

Mr Sidwick, who says he is

newsdesk@stourandavon.net making ASB a central plank of

People’s lives are being ‘ruined’ by anti-social behaviour and they are confused about who is responsible for tackling it, Dorset’s Crime Commissioner claims. Launching a new, county-wide drive to stamp out the antisocial behaviour, David Sidwick said: “I’ve spoken to so many people across the county who have told me how their lives have been ruined by persistent nuisance. It’s also important people realise that many anti-social behaviour problems are the responsibility of different agencies such as local authorities, and I’ll be working with all of these agencies to make sure we get this message across more clearly.”

his forthcoming police and crime plan, was speaking at the launch of Operation Relentless, an initiative by Dorset Police to tackle the anti-social behaviour that ‘traditionally increases’ over the summer months. Superintendent Alan Setchell, the force’s anti-social behaviour lead, said: “We know from speaking to our communities and from public surveys that anti-social behaviour is an ongoing issue and remains a real concern to residents and businesses. “It’s a very visible form of disruption in our communities and is closely linked to how safe people feel. When it is persistent it can have a significant impact on people’s lives.” He said the force had a number of operations underway to

tackle anti-social behaviour in hotspot areas, including a new Multi-Agency Command Centre that co-ordinates summer resilience staff to hotspot areas across the BCP area and in Dorset County. Operation Relentless had been introduced to allow police to provide a clear and consistent message that they take reports of anti-social behaviour seriously and it is not STAMPING IT OUT: Dorset’s acceptable. Crime Commissioner David He called on people to help Sidwick police by reporting incidents of anti-social behaviour involving such activity and officers continue to work closely with loud, abusive, rowdy or the respective local authority to intimidating alcohol-related identify and reduce incidents.” behaviour, drug misuse and n You can report anti-social intimidating gangs of people. “We know that there is not one behaviour at dorset.police.uk or simple solution to all the issues by calling Dorset Police on 101. As always in an anti-social behaviour can cause,” he said. “Each policing emergency where life is at risk or a crime is being committed, area throughout Dorset has its dial 999. own dedicated plan to tackle

Residents given opportunity to have say on parish future Colehill residents have a unique chance to shape their parish’s future by taking part in a household survey for the new Neighbourhood Plan. The survey will help identify the key planning priorities which the Neighbourhood Plan should focus on, said Councillor Leslie Gibson. “It only takes 10 minutes to complete and will seek to understand what residents currently like about the area and anything that might need changing, including any additional recreational or community facilities required,” she added. Since the 2011 Localism Act, producing a local plan has been a requirement for authorities. “Once a draft plan is produced it is independently examined and then subject to a local referendum,” said

Cllr Gibson. “If approved, the plan then has legal force and will sit alongside the Dorset Council Local Plan.” Across Dorset, 28 areas have so far completed Neighbourhood Plans, and a further 25 are currently in production. It aims to lay out a vision for how those living or working in Colehill want to see the area develop, by setting policies on such things as house design, environmental standards for new housing, protection for greenspaces, and support for new local infrastructure such as safe cycle ways and footpaths. Paper copies of the survey are being delivered to every household in Colehill, with responses required by August 14. More information from neighbourhoodPlan @colehill.gov.uk.

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Chance to be James Bond at the wheel of an Aston Martin If you’ve ever wanted to make like James Bond for the day, by driving an Aston Martin Vantage to the limit round the famous Silverstone racetrack, now’s your chance. The John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation is offering one person the opportunity to drive the high powered, 4.0-litre twin-

turbocharged V8 engine car at the home of British Motorsport for just £1. The JTYAF Aston Martin Driving Experience raffle will see the lucky winner receive instruction from professionals and then try out the thrilling circuit. All proceeds from the raffle will benefit the JTYAF which supports deserving

local young people to achieve their ambitions. The charity was set up by the parents of Royal Marine Lieutenant John Thornton of Ferndown, after he died in Afghanistan in March 2008. A spokesman for the charity said: “Young people are experiencing many challenges in these uncertain and difficult times, and they

need our support now more than ever before.” The competition is open to UK residents aged 18 and over, although the driver must be over 21 years of age and the closing date is Thursday September 9. n Tickets can be purchased online at jtyaf.org/shop/ aston-martin-drivingexperience-raffle-tickets.

All change at Rotary as new president Jan takes charge Wimborne Rotary scored a first by holding its 2020 presidential handover outdoors – because the club was still under covid restrictions. Club members gathered at Pamphill, where outgoing president Neil Hutchinson, handed the chain of office to Jan Baseley, and welcomed her as the new president. Also confirmed were president elect Ron Franks, and junior vice-president Graham West. On taking office, Jan told members: “During the past 15 months all the usual activities of the club have effectively had to be suspended. “We have been unable to meet face-to-face, with no social activities and no

ROTARY HANDOVER: President elect Ron Franks, president Jan Baseley, outgoing president Neil Hutchinson and vice-president Graham West

charitable fundraising.” She acknowledged the part played by Zoom meetings and regular newsletters and

said the club anticipated that normal activity would resume shortly. “We are always keen to hear from

people who may be interested in joining Wimborne Rotary,” she added.

Hospice welcomes £6,400 NFU donation NFU Mutual Wessex has donated £6,400 to the LewisManning Hospice. The donation follows two others, to Salisbury Foodbank and Julia’s House Children’s Hospice earlier this year. The money comes from a national £2 million ‘Agency Giving Fund’ launched by NFU Mutual head office. Claire Warren, Trust Fundraiser at LewisManning Hospice Care, said “Thank you to NFU Mutual Wessex for this extraordinary grant which will help Lewis28

Manning Hospice Care to provide extraordinary hospice care services to the people of East Dorset and Purbeck. Our virtual day hospice gives our patients access to our specialist palliative care team from the comfort and safety of their own homes. Using handheld tablets provided by LewisManning, patients connect with our nursing staff and other patients.” Senior day hospice nurse Mandy Harris said: “The purpose of these sessions is to promote a sense of

wellbeing and a positive approach to living with a life-limiting illness, as well as to alleviate the feeling of loneliness that patients may be experiencing and giving clinical advice and support.” Steven Bartlett, senior partner at NFU Mutual Wessex, said: “Covid-19 continues to have a huge impact on everybody, including our customers and their local communities. “Lewis-Manning Hospice Care has been making a wonderful difference to our community during these

challenging times, and we feel extremely proud to hear how our support has made an impact.” NFU Mutual, the UK’s leading rural insurer, announced this £2million fund in February to help local frontline charities during 2021. This follows £1million of support delivered by NFU Mutual’s Agency Giving Fund in 2020, which helped charities across many sectors to keep their life-changing services going throughout the pandemic.

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Diamond girl Gillian’s amazing six-stone loss Meet our Diamond Member of the Year 2021 Gillian Head. She’s lost an incredible six stone and has been at her target weight for three years. She joined the Corfe Mullen Slimming World group in February 2017 after her doctor told her to lose weight. Gillian said that she needed to have a hip operation and the doctor said: “You are clinically obese and I cannot do anything until you lose weight.” She was so upset and hurt by this. No one had ever called her obese – in fact the word itself was quite a shock. After speaking with her daughter, at the age of 78 Gillian joined Slimming World. She said that first day before she arrived, she was petrified, a bag or nerves and was feeling very

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MATCH OF THEIR DAY: Georgia Matthew, back row second from left, and on her left is coach David Staddon, along with Verwood First School’s Oak Base, the reception year

It’s all kicking off for school’s young footballers Children at Verwood First School and Nursery, recently inspired by the European football championships, showed off their skills to coaches from AFC Bournemouth. The reception year were put through their paces by staff from the club’s Community Sports Trust. Verwood First School is part of Wimborne Academy Trust (WAT), which produced England’s Ben White

and Chelsea FC’s Tino Anjorin. Georgia Matthew, early years lead at Verwood First School, said: “The children really enjoyed it. “They worked on their skills and played a game. The coaches were great and really encouraged them. “Those who weren’t hugely into football are now much more interested. And who knows, in the future one of these children might be

pulling on the England shirt.” David Staddon, one of the coaches, said: “The club’s community trust reaches 4,000 people a week – from two-year-olds to 99-year-olds. “We love working with Reception children as they clearly love being outside running around. “Their enthusiasm is infectious and we hope to get around more of Wimborne Academy Trust’s schools.”

Council meetings set to continue online By Nicci Brown After ceasing the virtual streaming of meetings of Dorset Council committees on July 19 in line with government guidelines which enabled meetings to be held in person, Dorset Council has agreed that cabinet and committee meetings held between now and the end of September will take place informally and online, due to increasing covid-19 rates across Dorset. Council leader Spencer Flower said: “While we do want to be able to get back to conducting council meetings in person, we have duty of care to our members, 30

employees and any members of the public who often take part. “With cases of covid-19 increasing as they are, we feel it would be safer to continue with virtual informal meetings for the next couple of months and then review the situation again in mid-September.” But there continues to be a possibility that live streaming will continue once the usual face-to-face meetings are resumed. Service managers for communications & engagement and democratic & electoral services have reported a lot more public questions for committee

meetings while they have been held virtually, and good viewing numbers on their YouTube channel. “From our point of view, having the meetings livestreamed has definitely increased public engagement.” “Figures for the numbers viewing meetings show a large increase on the numbers that we used to see in our committee rooms. They are not an entirely accurate reflection as we can’t tell if someone logs out and then logs back in or if the numbers are all different individuals. “We weren’t webcasting before the pandemic so we

don’t have comparable figures but there have been a lot of “clicks” on our committee recordings and because of this success it is our plan to add webcasting to our committee meetings when we can meet in person.” Cabinet meetings and area planning committee meetings particularly reveal a high level of engagement in the first few months with 139 views of Cabinet in May last year and an average of over 30 since, and average of over 70 viewing the first two virtual western & southern area planning meeting, and 30-40 viewing northern and eastern area meetings.

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By Faith Eckersall

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Road safety campaigners in East Dorset claim they ‘feel abandoned’ and pedestrians are ‘living in fear’ as they battle to have the speed limit lowered on a ‘dangerous’ 40mph road. But Dorset Council and the county’s police see no reason for reducing the limit from 40mph to 30mph on the stretch between Wimborne and Ferndown. SLOW DOWN PLEA: Vehicles pass very close together along Who’s right? Stapehill Road, with pedestrians fearing for their own safety Residents started their campaign to lower Stapehill Road’s speed limit four years ago, after what they say were a number of accidents and near misses on the carriageway, which sees 5,000 vehicle movements every day. According to Stapehill rat run between Ham Lane accommodate them when Road’s Neighbourhood there are two opposing and Wimborne Road West Watch and Community oncoming vehicles or when with no footpaths,” he says. Speedwatch co-ordinator, they are near a bend where Three years ago, a 1,131David Frankl, a former the visibility is limited.’ signature petition was Highways Engineer, the handed to Dorset Council in They claimed this deterred road has numerous a bid to have the speed limit people from using the road problems. to access local facilities reduced. “The carriageway averages including the local Old Signatories claimed that: between 4.8 – 5.3 metres Thatch pub, the bus stop, the wide, has no pavement and a “Stapehill Road falls into church, Knoll Gardens and the Department for number of bends,” he says. inhibited the development of Transport classification of a “There are no footpaths and a village ‘community’. ‘village’ where there are pedestrians live in fear of However, Dorset Police said more than 20 residences walking down the road as within a 600-metre length of at the time that it would not cars will not slow down to support a reduction ‘due to pass and a number of people road and where the speed the lack of statistical data limit is recommended to be have been hit by passing that is normally used to 30 mph. vehicles Horses are scared support applications.’ “Stapehill Road is 1,709 by cars racing past.” “On two visits to the area by metres in length with a total He claims the road is so the road camera safety team of 33 properties distributed dangerous that one resident over both sides of the road,” over a period of 30 minutes has taken to driving their and 90 minutes per sessions, said the petition. “There are teenage children to the bus there were only two stop, rather than letting them over 20 residential offences, which would dwellings, as well as walk, because he ‘fears for suggest that traffic is additional businesses and a their safety’. “We need a travelling at or below the care home within 600 lower speed limit and some metres of its length, thereby current restriction,” said the way of getting pedestrians classifying it as a ‘village’.” force. “It is possible that if off the road,” says Mr the limit was reduced, The campaign group said Frankl. He claims residents fear that non-motorised users such as motorists may look for overtaking opportunities and pedestrians, dog walkers, the problem is getting potentially come into worse, as the number of new cyclists, horse riders, and conflict with manoeuvring developments increase in the mobility scooter users were vehicles.” in danger because ‘there is Wimborne and Ferndown Mr Frankl claims that area. “It’s a narrow road, a little or no room to

Campaigners face uphill battle in bid to cut speed limit

campaigners feel ‘abandoned’ but hopes there may be a way forward, if money could be obtained from the Transforming Cities Fund, which has seen Dorset and BCP Councils jointly receive £79 million to spend on new facilities including 78 kilometres of new walking and cycling routes in the area. “We understand there are proposals for a cycle way along Ham Lane to Canford Bottom roundabout and then along Wimborne Road east and west so we have asked if it could come down our road instead,” says Mr Frankl. He has started a new petition to this effect, asking for a simple pathway ‘not a pavement’ to be constructed along Stapehill Road and reducing the speed limit to: “allow safer passage for cyclists, as well as other non-motorised vulnerable road users and residents leaving their driveways.” So far, 33 people have signed. A spokesman for Dorset Council said it was aware of the concerns raised by residents of Stapehill Road and had reviewed them extensively in recent years. “The existing 40mph limit remains, on balance, appropriate, and it is understood that this view is shared by our colleagues at Dorset Police,” said a spokesman. “Whilst the concerns raised have not been addressed in the way requested, they have been considered and reviewed at length. Consultation on the Transforming Cities Fund schemes remains in progress and the views of Stapehill Road residents will be reviewed accordingly.” You can sign the petition by going to change.org and searching for Stapehill Road. 31

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Nursing home plan blocked

Probus Club in golf club meet

Ferndown town councillors have maintained their objection to the extension of the 26-bedroom nursing care home at Marchfield House, 434 Ringwood Road, Ferndown on the grounds that it will be overdevelopment of the site. The application by Mr C Gardiner is for a two-storey front/side extension to provide additional

Wimborne’s Probus Club will now be meeting every month at a new venue, Broadstone Golf Club. The first meeting will be on Thursday, August 5, and then every first Thursday of the month. The club always welcomes new members, who can contact secretary John Kent at secretary@ wimborneprobus or by phoning 01202 693279.

accommodation for a total of 28 registered bedrooms, and is a resubmission with a revised design of application 3/20/0566/FUL which was refused permission by Dorset Council in November last year. The town council’s objection is based on the visual impact and the failure to overcome their previous concerns at the poor design, together with

insufficient parking provision. At its meeting on Tuesday July 27, the planning and consultative committee considered a number of more recent applications, including application 3/21/0160/OUT to demolish 84 Golf Links Road, Ferndown and build a block of four two-bedroomed and six three-bedroomed apartments in its place.

Items for sale Bees, 6 frame nucleus 14"x12", 2021 Queen (daughter of imported Danish Q) 07905 820687 (Wimborne) Gent’s black leather horseriding boots.Size 10 immaculate. £75 june@ chesterhouse.plus.com. 5 post windbreak. 100% cotton canvas, used once. Metal spikes and ferrules and side attachments. 4ft 5inches x 11ft. £30. 01202 827711. Royal Doulton Shire Horse £25. Various China Shires from £10. 01202 696603. Rabbit Hutch, Large, as new on legs £30 01258 268810. House + Run combined suitable for bantams, rabbits, tortoises £35 01258 268810. White oscillating floor fan 3 speed adjustable height settings like new £15. 2x small wicker dog baskets

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Lots sell Rapide-ly at auction The Charterhouse specialist auction of classic and vintage motorcycles at the Haynes International Motor Museum was a huge success, totalling £365,000. “There was a great line up of motorcycles from the 1920s through to modern superbikes” said George Beale. “They were also in all shapes, sizes and conditions!” Top lot was a recently built Manx Norvin – a hybrid bike with a Vincent engine and a Norton frame. Having been built for display the owner had never ridden it. Selling on the hammer for £43,000 one of the first things the new owner did was to take it for a short ride. Also in the auction, a 1947 Vincent HRD Rapide with a Watsonian sidecar, in the same ownership since 1965, sold for £29,750, a 1974 Ducati Sports, owned POSTCARDS WANTED All types. Pre-1950 Best prices paid 01202 743860 Or 07922 069270

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from when it was just two years old, sold for £28,000, and a 1962 BSA Rocket Gold Star made £18,000 selling to an Australian collector. Charterhouse are now accepting entries for their next specialist auction of classic and vintage motorcycles at Haynes on Thursday, October 14 and for their next specialist sale of classic and vintage cars, also at Haynes, on October 5. To arrange a free home visit call 01935 812277 or email info@charterhouse-auction.com.

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Food & Drink

Cooking... As a child, my sister and I spent a lot of time with my grandma, and she used to take us blackberry picking. I can’t remember where we used to go, and Wimborne has changed so much, so many new houses. My grandma had a circle of friends from the church and there seemed to be an endless supply of cooking apples, runner beans etc. I think there was a sort of free trading thing going on, as my grandma was a really good needlewoman and I think she maybe did repairs, made clothes etc in exchange for produce!! Anyway, back to blackberries! Once we had them back to her flat, she taught us how to make blackberry and apple crumble. An easy dish to make, but lovely to eat, a sort of comfort food, or you can

with Martha Legg constantly reminds us, and is trying to decide between a scooter and a bike for her birthday, although she has told me that she could have both! She loved weighing up the ingredients and then rubbing in the fat to the flour. Then helped to layer the crumble and the fruit.

jazz it up for a dinner party. Now I am a grandma, so I took my granddaughter blackberry picking last year, and the ones that didn’t end up in her mouth were used to make a crumble. She knows that crumble is one of grandad’s favourites, and she wanted to help me make it. She’s nearly three, as she

Ingredients: 6 or 8oz Self Raising Flour (It depends on how much crumble you want, my husband likes a lot of crumble.) 3 or 4oz Margarine 3 or 4oz caster sugar. It’s basically half fat and sugar to flour, so you can make more or less depending on how much you want. I also sprinkle some cinnamon in, to bring out the flavour of the apples. Then rub the fat into flour to

resemble breadcrumbs, stir in the sugar and the cinnamon. It’s difficult to gauge how much fruit, sometimes it depends on how much you have got, or your preference. I peel and chop the apples and leave the blackberries whole. In an oven proof dish, approx. 8 inches round and deep, (up to about 4 inches, but it doesn’t matter if its deeper, but you don’t want the layers of crumble too thin.) I always put a layer of crumble in first and then put in the fruit, then another layer, etc ending up with a crumble layer. Cook in the over on 180 degrees until the top is golden brown, you can serve it with cream, ice cream or custard. Delicious! And grandad loved it!

The Great Dorset Chilli Festival moves to a new venue in the Blackmore Vale The much-loved Great Dorset Chilli Festival takes place on 31 July & 1 August, at the new venue of Stock Gaylard, near Sturminster Newton. The specialist food festival celebrates the world of chilli peppers, from chilli plants and chilli sauces, chilli cheese to chilli chocolate; and includes plenty of food shopping and crafts for family members who might not like the hot stuff. Listen to live music, including the mariachi band, whilst enjoying international street food for lunch, perhaps with a beer, cider or cocktail. Highlights of the festival include the chilli-eating competition which takes place each afternoon, cooking demonstrations and talks, and the chilli cook-off competition which sees teams compete to make the best gallons of chilli. On the Saturday, teams will be asked to cook a “chilli verde”, which is a green pork, chicken or vegetable chilli. On Sunday, teams will be cooking the traditional red chilli. For ticket information please see the website!

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This is how summer is meant to taste Nothing speaks summer more than a zesty lemon cake, this recipe is perfect for summer picnics, afternoon teas or just to enjoy with a cup of tea. Lemons are very high in vitamin C and although a citrus fruit, they are technically a berry. Lemon Meringue Cake Ingredients 335g margarine 335g caster sugar 6 free range eggs 335g self-raising flour A drop of milk 1 lemon 200g unsalted butter 400g icing sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Lemon curd 1 meringue nest Method Preheat your oven to 170c Line 2 round 7” cake tins at the bottom and around the sides Cream together the margarine and caster sugar until pale and fluffy Gradually add the eggs, one at a time, beating between each one until fully incorporated Gently fold in the flour, taking care not to beat out all the air you have created in the earlier beating process Zest one lemon and add to the cake batter along with a drop of milk, gently mix Bake for approximately 30-40 mins until golden brown, and the sponge bounces back when

gently pushed down with one finger, please note oven cooking times vary from oven to oven Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out to finish cooling on a wire rack To prepare the buttercream, mix the butter, vanilla extract and icing sugar together, if you have a mixer put it on a fast speed for a good five minutes to achieve a pale and fluffy buttercream To achieve a really zesty lemon cake I like to cut each half of the sponge into two, so that I have four circles of sponge, you can just assemble keeping to the two sponge halves if preferred but using four will give you extra layers of the luscious lemon curd. Spread the buttercream on top of

one circle of sponge, then top the buttercream with lemon curd, place the next circle of sponge on top and repeat with the third circle of sponge. Finally place the fourth circle of sponge on the top and spread buttercream around the sides and over the top To decorate, pipe swirls around the edge or leave with just the already spread buttercream and spoon lemon curd over the top and finish with a generous sprinkling of the crushed meringue nest. n TOP TIP Once you have zested your lemon, chop the lemon into pieces and put in a jug of water with ice cubes, some chopped cucumber and mint leaves for a refreshing summer drink.

Recipe from Sadie Smith, award-winning baker and cake designer at Cake by Sadie Smith in Wimborne.

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What if you made a difference to your life today? By Susie Carver, consulting hypnotist with Sea Change Hypnotherapy in Wimborne Are you someone who constantly ruminates over the outcome of a particular action? Perhaps you jump to the worst case scenario in your mind and tell yourself all the things that could possibly go wrong. Sometimes, things seem so uncomfortable and difficult to us that we decide it's just easier and safer to not do them at all. But WHAT IF you CAN do this? WHAT IF it all goes perfectly? WHAT IF you give yourself permission to start making the changes that will move you in the right direction? Our bodies respond to our internal self-talk - the words

we hear and pictures we conjure up in our heads. So when we tell ourselves negative things it's a bit like rubbing Aladdin's lamp - the genie pops up in a puff of smoke, says “As you wish” and gives us exactly what we have asked for. We need to change that internal self-talk to something positive - and that can be easier said than done! But WHAT IF there was a way to prove to yourself that you can learn to do things which seem uncomfortable or difficult? Here's an exercise you can do which introduces an important principle - that action precedes confidence. It involves brushing your teeth with the hand you would not normally use. Yes, really!

Get a sense of yourself now, going into your bathroom. Use all your senses to imagine yourself there – see, feel, smell, hear the familiarity of your bathroom. See yourself reaching out for your toothbrush, and as your hand is just about to grasp it, allow this to be the trigger that instantly snaps you into picking it up with your opposite hand. Apply the toothpaste and begin brushing. At first it will feel weird and uncomfortable and wrong and difficult. You may tell yourself it’s pointless and want to give up. But if you persevere, it will become increasingly easy over time. And you can celebrate your achievement by acknowledging, “I CAN do this uncomfortable, difficult

thing and still be OK!” Soon after that you come to realise that all uncomfortable, difficult things can become automatic and easy. This knowledge then starts to map across into other areas of your life. You discover that you can do all sorts of things that once seemed impossible, simply because you have altered your neural pathways and allowed your unconscious to accept a new possibility. Remember, confidence is a bi-product of previous success, and just like that genie in the lamp, your unconscious mind will always give you exactly what you ask for. So why not ask yourself “WHAT IF?” and start making those changes today? n seachangehypno.com hello@seachangehypno.com

Sometimes, even a coach needs to be coached As a qualified personal and professional coach I don’t need a coach myself because I know all the tricks of the trade and I could undoubtedly just coach myself… In theory yes, however in practice, I can be just like anyone else… I can lack motivation. I can become overwhelmed with my to-do list. I can tell myself it doesn’t matter if I put this or that off until tomorrow, or even for another week or two. I can come up with excuses and I can talk myself out of doing things because ‘I’m probably not clever enough anyway.’ And maybe I’m better off just bumbling along in my comfort zone, happy and safe, doing what I always do. To be totally honest, I’m not

happy with that. I don’t want to just bumble along being frustrated with myself, for not living my life to the full or achieving my true potential. So what do I do? I can walk myself through a coaching session as if I were coaching a client. In fact, I do this and it does work to a certain extent. However, I am mindful that this enables me to pick and choose which questions to ask myself, potentially avoiding the ones that might have me digging into something that might feel a bit too difficult. I’m also likely to be super critical of myself and not overly objective. Oh, and I don’t have to tell anyone when I don’t do the things that I say I’m going to do as

there’s no-one holding me able to make progress with accountable. my goals, big and small. I choose to be coached Coaching has helped me because if I didn’t see the change career, study for three value in coaching, how could diplomas, end a relationship, I possibly be an effective grow my business, and even coach myself? Once we think help me write articles for this we know everything, we stop magazine! growing. And my ultimate goal? My coach asks me questions To reach my goals and be the which help me to explore best version of myself. what I want and why. And to do that, this coach My coach motivates me to needs a coach! identify what is standing in my way and empowers me to think of options that focus on what I could do, then facilitates me in deciding what I am going to do. My coach positively challenges me and supports me whilst giving me the time and space to find my solutions. Ultimately my coach holds n Victoria Arnold is a life me accountable. coach from Wimborne With my coach I have been Victoriaarnold.co.uk 37

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Go swimming with endorphins We are lucky enough to live in Dorset where there are an abundance of beaches, lakes and rivers and there is increasing research that suggests there are lots of advantages to swimming in cold water. The benefits may include boosting your immune system, improving circulation, burn calories and reducing stress. Cold water is thought to boost endorphins which are our feel-good chemicals and some people find it relieves depression. It’s also a great way to make friends and socialise as cold water swimming groups are gaining in popularity. It’s worth mentioning though if you are not used to swimming in cold water, make sure you give your body time to adjust. Cold water can be dangerous and can cause ‘cold shock’ where your body’s breathing

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SHORE THING: Members of East Dorset Open Water at Shore Road

and heart rate dramatically change. The sudden rapid breathing alone creates a risk of drowning even for confident swimmers in calm water. It’s recommended to always swim in pairs or small groups so that you can support and keep an eye out for each other.

It’s also advised to stick to waters you know and ideally have a lifeguard present and wear a life jacket. There is no strict definition of ‘cold water’ so it can be preferable and safer to at first stick to the warmer months whilst acclimatising to the water. Staying in for a short

amount of time to start with and building resilience to the cold water takes practise so listen to your body A few ideas of local places to go include: Eye Bridge, near Wimborne Minister, Lake Pier, Poole Harbour and Pamphill, Dorset Stour. A good place to start might be looking at the website eastdorsetowsc.org and wildswimming.co.uk. These groups can provide information on the best wild swim locations, whether a river swim, a lake or a beach. One such group – the East Dorset Open Water Swimming Club – is a friendly group that meets at Shore Road Beach, near Sandbanks, from April to October, at 6pm on Tuesday evenings and 10am on Sunday mornings. Check their website for more details.

Water, water everywhere; it’s a good idea to drink it Don’t forget to stay hydrated, particularly during this hot weather. Hydration is an ongoing and accumulative process; so if you want to be hydrated tomorrow, drink plenty today! As an endurance runner, staying hydrated for a run begins with upping my fluid intake the day before. I don't wait until I'm thirsty to start topping up and the same should apply to everyone. Our body doesn't really differentiate between how it gets fluids, so you don't need to drink only water (this isn't a green light to drink alcohol though!) Lots of tea and coffee probably isn’t a great idea and people have different 38

tolerance levels to the caffeine – but it can be watered down or topped with milk and it does count! Think of water as the main centrepiece to other drinks. As a general guidance, sugary (and therefore calorie laden) drinks should be drunk in moderation, particularly by people seeking weight loss (and your dentist will thank you for it). Our bodies are incredible and pretty good at regulating these trace minerals and vitamins and tend to let us know pretty quickly if things go wrong; my husband was once so unwell he refused anything but water for several days and ended up hallucinating giraffes due to an electrolyte deficiency.

Our bodies are very delicate and very clever and if he'd just drunk some tea, juice or milk and/or eaten something, he would have avoided this (amusing sounding), but actually very serious situation. We get around 20% of our fluid intake from food – pretty much all food has some fluid present in it, even food we might consider dry, like bread. Our fluid requirements depend on our size, gender, age, activity level and of course variables like how hot it is or even how many layers of clothes we're wearing in colder weather. You'd think something so innate like drinking water when we're thirsty would be second nature but like many

things, there's a market today and money to be made from suggesting we need help with regulating to most natural and life giving behaviour. From sales of brightly coloured water bottles and flasks with fluid markers, to mobile phone apps reminding us to drink and asking us to log our fluid intake. While these might be helpful to some people, try and let your body be your guide (unless of course, you're hallucinating wild animals – in which case listen to your wife!). n Katrina Keeling is a Wimborne-based personal training and fitness instructor. kkeelingfitness@gmail.com kkfitness.co.uk

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Home & Garden

Dessicated to the one I love...

I am an imposter. A self-taught gardener, nurtured in organic gardening by parents to whose combined horticultural (and in one case agricultural) brilliance I, and my garden, are profoundly indebted. I am but an avid enthusiast, so, dear fellow gardener, take heart, as Beth Chatto (also a self-taught gardener) says in her 1982 book, ‘I have discovered what knowledge I have largely by stumbling over the solution’. My suggestion of the challenge of transforming a parched, windswept expanse into our ‘Andalucian garden’ was met with some beer spluttering and not a little mirth by my co-

creator. There we were, huddling from a March gale, in our usual weekend position at 4pm on the tippety-top of our 55 metres above sea level, bemuddied, at the end of our spring gardening day. In front of us the euphemistically called ‘garden’ spread out, denuded of colour. Not entirely promising. ‘Hmmm’ he questioned rhetorically, ‘…will the fun never end? Here? It’s too burning and blustery; more like a desiccated garden! Thus the new project was named. Enticing butterflies, moths and ladybirds is a virtuous cycle; the more effort one puts in, the greater the magnitude of arrivals. Providing naturally sourced water from our well elsewhere in the garden suffices and the sustenance to wildlife from this new planted area should enhance the pollinator population exponentially. Our desiccated garden will not be watered apart from nature’s endowment of annual rainfall.

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Focal points and different heights are rewarding. Consequently, a double-sided border with bigger herbaceous shrubs such as philadelphus lemoini, or choisya ternata ‘white dazzler’ and smaller plants either side is an aromatic start. Extra soil from excavations elsewhere will create undulations and size. Leaf colour, shape and enduring

interest are vital as we garden through the seasons, so seeking scented, eclectic shaped, yearround visual and olfactory delight is a focus. Choosing plants is most avid horticulturalists’ delicious and delectable past time. Nepeta cataria is necessary for Pixie, our resident Cornish feline horticultural expert, to recline in splendour. On the extreme baking southern edge will nestle the revealed rhizomes of the new bearded iris for which I have hankered, behind which will sway white phlox. Hemerocallis lemon coloured ‘fragrant returns’, will bejewel a large area and white lavender ‘arctic snow’ will border the internal edge combined with rose scented geranium ‘attar of roses’ and heliotropium ‘reva’. Cistus ladanifer, favourably compared to one of the most famous of perfume ingredients, ambergris, is an oft ignored glory.

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Gardening...

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Sowing seeds during August? Make sure you know the drill As I write, we are currently amid a heatwave, but in Britain’s fickle climate by the time you read this we may well be experiencing weather more akin to autumn. For the vegetable gardener, August is a month of harvest, but also a last opportunity to sow vegetables and fill those spaces vacated by earlier harvests, such as peas and

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Pets

Look out for ticks during warm weather The lovely warm weather is here, but unfortunately this means so are ticks. Ticks are small, blood-sucking bugs and range in size from as small as a pin’s head to as large as a pencil eraser. They attach by inserting their mouthparts into your pet’s skin and will suck blood slowly over several days (given the chance) as part of their complex life cycle. These unsightly parasites can pose many risks to our pets. Whether it’s through sore inflamed lumps after being bitten, right through to serious diseases such as Lymes disease and Babesiosis. Heather, woodland and coarse grassland are all home to ticks – we have an abundance of these types of areas here in Dorset, so you need to be aware. Ticks will climb onto blades of grass or shrubs and stretch out their legs, waiting for your dog or cat to pass by and latch on. Disease is spread through their saliva, which is only released BEAUTIFUL PURE-BRED BRITISH SHORT HAIR KITTENS for sale Tel 07799 296502 BABY BUNNIES looking for lovely homes! Mini lop/ Rex cross. Ready to go 31st July. £60 each. 07970 916660. Beautiful POODLE CROSS GSP PUPPIES for sale. 4 remaining. Henstridge. 07967 634706 ALSATION PUPPIES for sale, one girl, 7 boys. All microchipped. Ready 26th July. Both parents can be seen. Father is an ex-police dog. £800 each. 01747 850129 FOX RED LABRADOR PUPPIES FOR SALE. Both parents are KC registered. Working/ family pets. £2,000. 07527 202088

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Farming & Environment

A Day at the Farm... Our new columnist 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’. June and July have been cracking months at High Mead. By mid-June the air was thick with giddy excitement, none of us could quite put our finger on why but there was a really happy vibe. To be fair the atmosphere is always positive, it is one of the qualities that gets a mention from first time visitors, but this was different. The proposed launch of a new community farm shop seemed to have piqued interest and we were feeling the love from many different sources. Within just few hours of asking we had been gifted a brand-new till from a generous local benefactor, identified a dozen brilliant volunteers, received a pledge of free materials from Travis Perkins and CCF, and secured enough funding

from the Friends of Canford School committee to complete the shop ready for a July launch – happy days indeed. However, when the farm’s director Mark, and horticultural head Jo returned from a weekend away and announced their engagement, it became clear that it wasn’t just veg that had been flourishing. Love was in the air and it was just the news we need to lift us out of lockdown. Whilst high spirits remained, high winds and high volumes of rain, followed by sun, meant the team had little time for celebration. Harvest was well underway as were numerous additional duties such as waging war on an overwhelming number of weeds. Whilst a totally organic ethos is great for the planet it doesn’t half create a lot of extra work. The relaxation on social distancing saw the return of school visits to the farm, and the sound of children’s

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STAYING COOL: One of the alpacas in a paddling pool

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Volunteers take the plunge to keep River Allen tidy A chair, an old drum and several pieces of cutlery were part of the haul from the fourth River Allen clean which took place in Wimborne. Despite a higher river level than usual, nearly 40 volunteers took to the water at the Rising Sun pub, wading and clearing their way up to Walford Mill. Along with the above items, volunteers also dredged up discarded bottles and cans, a traffic cone, old railings, scaffolding and fishing lines. The River Clean was started in 2017, when a group of neighbours from Poet’s Corner, including Robin Lithgow, Phil Main and David Emes, got together after becoming dismayed at seeing the river used as a dustbin. Mr Emes said: “We were fed

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Arts & Entertainment

Gwen’s publishing debut at age of 82 By Faith Eckersall

A project to raise money for Witchampton’s 15th century church tower has resulted in one villager becoming a published author at the age of 82. Gwen O’Brien has seen About a Village: Witchampton and More go on sale this month. It’s her first venture into solo book publishing but, as the longserving editor of the village newsletter – she’s been producing it for the last 18 years – she had plenty of material to choose from. “The church is 15th century and needs a lot of looking after and they wanted some fundraising done so I suggested compiling a book from the stories in the newsletter,” says Gwen. A computer whizz, Gwen had saved newsletters from

the millennium onwards on her computer harddrive. After reading every one of them she compiled up to 140 pages of publicationworthy tales, which she produced between May and March. Despite occurring in what is thought of as the modern era, Gwen says the stories show how village life has changed in just 21 years. She designed the book herself, using her own painting as the cover and teaching herself the intricacies of laying out a manuscript for publication. Gwen, who was president of

the village’s Women’s Institute for 16 years, believes her experience helping to produce their book of walks in 2007, which beat more than 700 others in a WI competition, helped. However, she says, producing the Witchampton book, which also covers the Crichels, was a ‘bit of a learning curve’. “I did it on separate Word pages before I learned how to string them together,” she says. She also added photos, old and new, of village locations.

One problem was covering the pandemic era which affected the village in the same way as many others – almost everything got cancelled, Gwen says. “In the end I emailed a lot of people that I know and asked them to tell me what happened to them in lockdown and we had some amazing stories back; a person who was bereaved, someone whose first greatgrandchild was born, another person who’d got stuck in Spain,” she says. The book was launched with a cake sale at Witchampton’s Village Shop and costs £10, with all profits from the sale going to the Witchampton Church Tower restoration fund. Copies are on sale at Witchampton Village Shop and from the editor by emailing: gwenob@ btinternet.com.

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Arts & Entertainment

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this energy fuelled race to create the most potent pigmented pink paint! The Lost Colour- will be performed at Broadmayne First School at 2pm on Saturday, August 21 and again at Lytchett Matravers Village Hall at 2pm on Sunday 22 August. Tickets must be booked in advance, full details about the event is available when booking. After the show children can

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Choir on song at Bestival slot Dorset’s coolest bunch of choralistas, the Funky Little Choir, will be joining the likes of Fatboy Slim, Sophie EllisBextor, Friendly Fires, Level 42 and Heather Small to entertain the crowds at this year’s Camp Bestival familyloving music and camping festival at Lulworth Castle. Founded in Christchurch in 2013 and Led by Sandie Elkins, the 200-strong ‘Funky’, has members aged from eight to 80, all from around Christchurch and Bournemouth. They can’t wait to return to everyone’s favourite fancy dress festival at the castle to

perform their trendy takes on club classics in an eclectic lineup that also includes Groove Armada, kid’s (and grownups’) favourite, Mr Tumble and The Worzels. The choir, which has bagged loads of awards and been on Dorset choirmaster, Gareth Malone’s TV show, loves the fact although they’re an amateur choir they have a really big, professional sound, which they’ll be filling the arena with this weekend. They promise endless dancefriendly club and funky tunes and are looking forward to making some memorable moments when they interact

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DO YOU HAVE A RETIREMENT PLAN? Photo by Marc Najera on Unsplash

Just because saving for retirement is dif昀cult, it doesn’t mean you should give up; and the current reliefs and allowances on pension contributions should give cause for optimism. If you expect to retire on a 昀nal-salary pension and with no mortgage, your perspective on retirement may well be rosy; if you are grappling with debt and worried about having insuf昀cient pension savings, it may be a different picture. For some, the question is not how to retire successfully, but how to retire at all, given that there may be precious little in the way of a state safety net to fall back on. Of particular concern is the group of pre-retirees aged 55–64, only half of whom have given thought to how they will manage in retirement; and only a quarter know how much they have in their pension pot.1 These people may only have a few working years left to build their nest egg. Those able to put some aside really should: people massively underestimate the amount of money they need to save. People also underestimate longevity and therefore how long retirement could last. Many experts are warning that the end of 昀nal-salary pension schemes, chronic underfunding of de昀ned contribution pensions, and increasing life expectancy are creating a perfect storm that threatens to destabilise the 昀nancial wellbeing of the coming generation of retirees. The solution is to plan You have to ask yourself: how much will I need, and how much can I afford to put away? Then you need to factor in any other sources of retirement income and you can see the size of the gap you are trying to 昀ll. It’s vital savers know and understand all their options for using their pension; but also that they make the most of the current tax breaks while building one. The value of an investment with St. James’s Place will be directly linked to the performance of the funds you select and the value can therefore go down as well as up. You may get back less than you invested. The levels and bases of taxation, and reliefs from taxation, can change at any time. The value of any tax relief is dependent on individual circumstances. To receive a complimentary guide covering wealth management, retirement planning or inheritance tax planning, contact Peter Harding Wealth Management on 01202 830730 or email peterhardingwm@sjpp.co.uk. Peter Harding Wealth Management is a trading name of Peter Harding Practice Ltd. 1

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ARE YOUR RETIREMENT PLANS ON COURSE? Contact us for a pension review.

PETER HARDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT Principal Partner Practice of St. James’s Place Wealth Management

30 Haven Road, Canford Cliffs, Dorset BH13 7LP Tel: 01202 830730 40 High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8JG Tel: 01747 855554 9 Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3PU Tel: 01935 315315

Email: peterhardingwm@sjpp.co.uk Web: www.peterhardingwm.co.uk The Partner Practice is an Appointed Representative of and represents only St. James’s Place Wealth Management plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) for the purpose of advising solely on the group’s wealth management products and services, more details of which are set out on the group’s website www.sjp.co.uk/products. The ‘St. James’s Place Partnership’ and the title ‘Partner Practice’ are marketing terms used to describe St. James’s Place representatives. Peter Harding Wealth Management is a trading name of Peter Harding Practice Ltd.

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Business What an opportunity! Getting into the ad industry can be tough. But award-winning CHS is offering a free pass to an interview, no matter what a person’s experience or portfolio. All that’s needed is a creative mind which “knocks our socks off”. And while the Christchurchbased creative marketing agency is keen to hear from graduates wishing to work in the sector, its ‘Golden Ticket’ is open to all. Managing director Chris Southgate said: “We work in the most amazing part of the country with the best creative universities – Arts University Bournemouth and Bournemouth University. “But often we find graduates go off to work in places such as Bristol, Brighton and, of course, London. “We work closely with the universities. “What better way to say ‘thank you’ for collating on a project than to offer a ‘Golden Ticket’ to an interview? “But it’s not just graduates. “Some of our best people have come from nonadvertising backgrounds. “We’d encourage anyone keen to work in the industry to contact us.” Current vacancies at CHS include account manager, account executive, copywriter, middleweight creative, photographer and photographic stylist. Founded in the 1970s, CHS has an annual turnover of more than £4m and employs more than 60 people. Services include strategic planning, publications, branding and integrated campaigns which combine videography, photography, direct marketing, web design and advertising. Key clients include HSBC, Petplan, B&Q, Lakeland and – most recently – 52

GOLDEN WONDERS: Graphic designer Ben Greening, middleweight creative Sophie Cooke and marketing and PR manager Josh Seward with the CHS Golden Tickets. Below: the Golden Tickets and, inset, managing director Chris Southgate

Firm’s interview incentive a first class ticket to success

Purplebricks. The agency was appointed by the estate agent following a competitive pitch to help amplify the brand’s #HomeSupport campaign on social media. It follows Purplebricks’ confirmed partnership as Official Estate Agent of Team GB at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The campaign involved the

commission of four artists, each chosen due to their roles as elite sportspeople past and present. They included Rio 2016 silver medalist and professional boxer Joe Joyce, professional triathlete Vanessa Raw and former rugby player Henry Fraser,

who now paints using his mouth after an accident left him paralysed from the neck down. Each artist created a powerful image depicting what ‘Home Support’ means for them. The works inspired CHS to design #HomeSupport augmented reality (AR) filters. They’ll be integral to the campaign objectives of creating a visual show of support for Team GB, generate social buzz and provide an engaging way for the nation to virtually cheer on the athletes competing in Tokyo. The AR filters are part of a wider suite of social media assets from CHS, bringing to

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Andrew Diprose is the founder and editor of dorsetbiznews.co.uk, the No.1 business website in the county with more than 27,000 unique users life the story of the #HomeSupport campaign both nationally and locally. Chris said: “It’s a tremendous privilege to not just work with Purplebricks, but to support them on such an incredible campaign. “In a year when so many of us will be cheering on Team GB from thousands of miles away, this gives fans across the world the chance to cheer on our national heroes.” Gemma Schmid, head of brand at Purplebricks, said: “As a tech-led hybrid estate agent, it was really important for us to bring our Home Support campaign to life in a digitally innovative way that tied in with all our real-world activations and incredible artwork that’s been produced. “We hope these filters, and the wider story of Home Support we’re telling on social media, inspire the nation to keep the home fires of support burning as strong as we saw at the London 2012 games.” Chris, who joined CHS in 2009 and was appointed MD last October, said the agency was the busiest it had ever been. He added: “It really is the most exciting time to join us. “And it’s such a privilege for me to work with what I consider to be the best team and the best clients in the world.” n recruitment@chs.agency

JOB’S A GOOD ’UN: Site managers Dave Murnane, left, and Steve Chapman, centre, with construction director Nick Furner

Industry awards for site managers’ work Two site managers building new homes have received prestigious industry awards for their work at developments in Dorset. Bellway’s Dave Murnane and Steve Chapman, site managers at Badbury Reach in Wimborne and Windgreen Gardens in Corfe Mullen respectively, have won coveted Quality Awards in the National House Building Council’s (NHBC) 2021 Pride in the Job awards programme. Dave and Steve, who have been site managers at their developments since building work began, have now won 19 awards between them with the NHBC. The winners of the 2021 Quality Awards were announced following a yearlong judging process by NHBC officials. Now in its 41st year, Pride in the Job remains one of the most highly regarded competitions in the industry. It recognises site managers who demonstrate best practice and excellence onsite to build homes of the highest quality.

Dave said: “The most important thing about winning the award is that it recognises that customers are happy and that I am helping to deliver for Bellway. “I try my best every year and it is what drives me when I come into work every day. “This year has been really challenging with the pandemic, but we have a really good team who have been committed to working together to get the work done. “I am really excited about the next stage of the awards and I want to thank everybody who has worked at the site for all that they have done. “It is a team effort and from the labourers to the forklift drivers, everyone has contributed to the development’s success.” Steve said: “This is a really big achievement for me and I have been pleased with how well the development has gone so far. “To be a good site manager is to be firm but fair and to command the respect of your colleagues.

“I have been making sure that all the materials and the construction of the homes are on schedule as buyers expect that from a national housebuilder. “Working through the pandemic has been tough and there have been times we were operating with a skeleton team, but we have managed to work through it. “It is a team game and just because I am at the top of the ladder, it does not mean the people beneath me are any less influential. “I am looking forward to the next stage and we are all hoping that the development can win the Seal of Excellence award.” Dave and Steve will now progress to the next stage of the competition, which will see the winners of the Seal of Excellence and overall Regional Award announced. Nick Furner, Construction Director for Bellway Wessex, said: “To be recognised by the NHBC is the biggest accolade you could achieve as a site manager, so we are all very proud of Dave, Steve and their teams on receiving a Quality Award in 2021. “In a year which has tested everybody in so many ways throughout the construction industry and beyond, Bellway’s commitment to building the highest standard of home remains paramount to our success. “Dave and Steve have demonstrated that consistently through this most challenging of periods. “The dedication of all our site managers and their teams is a vital part of Bellway retaining its fivestar status with the Home Builders Federation (HBF) for the last five years in succession. “We congratulate Dave and Steve and wish them the very best of luck for the Seal of Excellence stage of the awards later this year.” 53

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GILLINGHAM SCHOOL, DORSET Hardings Lane, Gillingham, Dorset, SP8 4QP https://www.gillingham-dorset.co.uk 11-19 Mixed Comprehensive – 1,760 on roll including 370 in the Sixth Form

CLERICAL OFFICER / ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 25 hours a week, term time only Required from September, a Clerical Officer/Administrative Assistant to join our busy team with main responsibilities providing administration support for exams and departments and working in the reprographics department. Gillingham is an ambitious, vibrant, happy school which offers excellent resources and outstanding facilities: we provide extensive support and training for all school staff. Gillingham is an ambitious and happy school which offers excellent resources, outstanding facilities and a special ethos both amongst students and staff. Closing date 6 August 2021. Please apply on line via the school web-site(https://www.gillingham-dorset.co.uk). We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and will require the disclosure of any criminal convictions. We look forward to receiving an application form from you. TAXI DRIVER REQUIRED Local company looking to employ a part-time flexible 8-seater taxi driver for school contracts & private hire work. DBS checks will be required. For the most suitable candidate all fees for the license will be paid for. Please contact Bryan or Lara at Vale Coaches initially on 01963 363000 option 1 or email your CV to office@valecoaches.com

JUST STRIMMING Looking for someone to help me with some strimming work with experience. Hours flexible. Please call 01747 828449

THE MITRE INN Sandford Orcas, Nr Sherborne, DT9 4RU We have vacancies for bar/waiting staff If you are looking to join a friendly team and enjoy meeting people, are numerate and have your own transport please give us a ring 01963-220271

Warehouse Operative Quill Productions - Pulham, Dorset.

A hardworking, friendly person required to join our busy warehouse team. Duties include receiving stock, assembling products, picking & dispatching customer orders. For further information please email tc@quillproductions.co.uk

GILLINGHAM SCHOOL, DORSET Hardings Lane, Gillingham, Dorset, SP8 4QP https://www.gillingham-dorset.co.uk 11-19 Mixed Comprehensive – 1,760 on roll including 370 in the Sixth Form

MINI BUS DRIVER Term time only Required from September 2021, Mini Bus Driver to join our School - required Wednesdays and Fridays. In addition, there are also regular opportunities to drive a minibus for sports fixtures. The successful candidate must hold a D1 with (101) restriction licence with a health and medical declaration as the mini bus will be driven under a Section 19 permit. Ideally, you will hold a PCV licence though training can be provided to an appropriate applicant. Closing date 9 August 2021. Please contact Mark Best, Site Manager on 07966552226 for further details or apply on line via the school web-site (https://www.gillingham-dorset.co.uk). We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and will require the disclosure of any criminal convictions. We look forward to receiving an application form from you. 54

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Recruitment

Water, Waste Water & Civil Engineers requires a Independent Co-educational Boarding and Day School

Independent andForm Day School NurseryBoarding Prep Senior Sixth IAPS/GSA/CISC for Pupils aged 4 -18 GSA/CISC

Early Years Practitioner

Driver Required

Full time and Bank positions available

360° Excavator Operator You will be based at the Company premises in Dinton.

LewestonPART School isTIME, seeking enthusiastic and committed Early Years TERM TIME ONLY Practitioners to join our thriving Nursery, which offers high quality childcare and education. We offer highly competitive rates of pay and generous holiday allocations, in addition to a package of benefits including delicious meals for staff, use of facilities including Leweston Leisure and discounts on childcare. Working within our friendly and professional team, this is an opportunity for a well-qualified practitioner to help create a nurturing and stimulating environment for children aged 0 - 4 years. The ideal candidates will have a good working knowledge of the EYFS, strong communication skills and a passion to be an exceptional Early Years Educator. We are committed to the professional development of our staff and there will be opportunities for progression. Applicants should be qualified to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent, experience of working in a similar role is desirable. The full-time role is 40 hours per week. The hours of work are between 7.30am and 6.15pm, Monday – Friday, in accordance with the duty shift rota, with 28 days holiday plus bank holidays from January 2022. The salary from 1st September 2021 will be £23,388 per annum / £11.24 per hour. For further information and to download an application pack, please visit our website: https://www.leweston.co.uk/information/work-with-us

Closing date for Applications: 13th August 2021 Leweston is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required. A Catholic Foundation which welcomes pupils of all Denominations Leweston School Trust is a registered charity number 295175

Farm/Butchery Apprentice We are looking for a young person/ apprentice to join our free range pig farm and on-farm butchery. The role will be split between the two aspects of our farm. We are a small team and as such are looking for a happy, hard working, reliable person to come and join our growing enterprise... Must like mud! Get in touch, please email jameshull777@gmail.com

CLASS 2 HGV TIPPER DRIVER full-time quarry work, based in Wincanton. 07850 429058 GARDENER, SELF-EMPLOYED required, Sherborne. 5-6 hours per month for general maintenance. Call 07732 194195

We are looking for an experienced 360° (13 tonne and below) excavatoroperator to work on our local projects installing drainage and water systems. Your previous experience will have covered the use of temporary works equipment including trench boxes and hydraulic bracing equipment. Our portfolio extends to design and installation of waste water treatment and pumped systems from domestic to commercial level so being able to work with levels is an advantage. You will be health & safety conscious and will work to company standards at all times, maintaining our reputation for quality. Applicants must hold a full driving licence. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual looking for a rewarding career with a well established yet dynamic company. Applications forms must be completed in full and returned with your CV by the 27th August 2021. Please contact us for an application pack: Jules Simmons M J ABBOTT LTD, Bratch Lane, Dinton, Salisbury SP3 5EB Email: jules.simmons@mjabbott.co.uk www.mjabbott.co.uk M J Abbott Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer

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Recruitment EASTBURY HOUSE RESIDENTIAL HOME in Sherborne is looking for honest, hard-working and kind individuals to join our team. We have vacancies for part-time care assistants, one night care assistant (2 nights/week), and a part-time handyman. Must like old people! Please call 01935 812132 or email admin@eastburyhouse.co.uk for more information.

EXPERIENCED HOUSEKEEPER/ CLEANER REQUIRED For remote cottage and outbuildings in Tisbury area. Applicant must be reliable, trustworthy, hard-working and demonstrate initiative. Duties include hoovering, dusting, mopping, polishing, windows, bathrooms, washing and ironing. 12 hours per week, 2/3 days per week (to include either Monday or Friday). References and a car are essential. Call 07836 727074

Experienced/Skilled Ground Workers Required We are looking for skilled and experienced Ground Workers. To work with our installation teams on our local Water, Drainage & Civil Engineering projects. Experienced in drainage installations including underground tanks and pipe laying, concreting, kerbing, etc You will be confident working from plan and understand levels. Customer facing, conscientious and hardworking. You will be familiar with the operation of small plant and will hold a full UK driving licence. You will work from the Company Head Office in Dinton. Excellent pay and conditions for this permanent position. Please contact for an application pack Closing date will be Friday 27th August 2021 Jules Simmons M J ABBOTT LTD, Bratch Lane, Dinton, Salisbury SP3 5EB Email: jules.simmons@mjabbott.co.uk www.mjabbott.co.uk M J Abbott Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer

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Recruitment SECRETARY/ BOOKKEEPER James Allied Engineering Ltd require a part time Secretary/ Book keeper, one morning weekly, Fordingbridge area, SAGE accountancy package. Contact James O’Sullivan 01725 518493

DOMESTIC HELP required for two mornings a week. 07511 894715

THREE FULL TIME POSITIONS for private household nr Wimborne St Giles: •Builder/Handyman/Maint enance Manager Gardener/Senior Groundsman Admin Assistant/Housekeeper Charming secluded cottage may be available. Ph. 0777 186 1110 DOMESTIC HELP REQUIRED for two mornings a week. 07511 894715

Midday Supervisor Required Mon – Fri 11.45am – 1.15pm Term time only £9.25 per hr

For an application form please email:

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PARTS PERSON - BLANDFORD DEPOT We are looking for a motivated and experienced Parts Person to join our Team at our Head Office. For full details and to apply please go to our website

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WAITRESS REQUIRED at Hays Park Retirement Apartments Shaftesbury. Alternate weekends and Monday & Tuesdays 12-2pm.

We also require a RELIEF ON-CALL WARDEN to cover sickness and holidays. Join our dedicated team to help support our lovely residents. For more details on roles, hours and pay, please contact Carolyn Eastlake on: 01747 830349 / 07845160119 or email: hays.park@googlemail.com

Sandroyd

Co-ed Boarding and Day Prep and Pre-Prep School

Overnight Matron

Required for September 2021 A caring and adaptable person is required to work as part of our medical and matron team to provide overnight care for our boarding children. No specialist quali昀cations required, but an ability to work independently is essential. The post is term time only. It involves evenings and overnights. Single accommodation provided. For further details and an application form, please contact: Chris Stewart, The Bursar, Sandroyd, Rushmore Park, Tollard Royal, Salisbury, Wilts SP5 5QD Tel: 01725 516329 bursar@sandroyd.com www.sandroyd.org Closing date 6th August 2021 Interviews the following week Sandroyd is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo the appropriate child protection screening before appointment.

LIVE IN CARER wanted for elderly lady. Accommodation provided, bills inc , wi-fi negotiable salary. Driving licence essential contact Liz 07808670295

Cleaner needed in Tisbury & Shaftesbury Friday only 10am-4pm or 10am-2.30pm Excellent rate of pay for the right person

Call 07960 102721 LIVE IN CARER WANTED for elderly lady. Accommodation provided, bills inc , wi-fi negotiable salary. Driving licence essential contact Liz 07808670295

PART TIME HELP in Wimborne: Small private care home, 01202 884908 or email helen@stoneleigh house.com. Small team, varied role, experience not essential but must be kind and willing

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SCHOOL MINIBUS DRIVERS Now recruiting for September

Do you enjoy driving? Could this be your ideal part-time job? Make a difference to people living in your community. DCT is a not-for-profit organisation providing minibus services throughout Dorset. Part-time, split-shift term-time vacancies as well as casual/relief shifts available. No previous experience required. Comprehensive training provided. Candidate should have D1 on license (check reverse of your photocard) or PSV driving entitlement.

Visit www.ectcharity.co.uk/jobs for more details and an application form. For queries call 01258 287 986

MILBORNE PORT SURGERY is seeking a flexible/ part time enthusiastic Practice Nurse to be responsible for helping to deliver a high quality nursing service to our patients. Present list size being 7,100 patients. You will be able to demonstrate safe, skilled clinical decisionmaking and work in partnership with the general practice team. 5

The role will involve general Treatment Room duties such as: Wound/ulcer care, routine immunisations, cervical screening, family planning, travel advice and vaccinations, Other IM injections, health promotion and willing to train in chronic disease management. Primary care experience is desirable but will also look forward to newly qualified applicants or new to general practice who are willing to train. Salary negotiable. Hours negotiable. Closing date 13th August 2021. Please send CV and covering letter to Patcauser@nhs.net

SKILLED GROUNDS MAINTENANCE/GARDENER REQUIRED Due to additional regular contracts Hanard Contract Services Ltd requires a grounds maintenance/gardener to join us for a variety of sites in the Dorset/Hampshire area. Applicants must be: t Competent in horticulture and have a good working knowledge of plants, shrubs and trees, or be prepared to learn. t Competent and preferably trained in, the use of garden machinery, strimmers, hedge cutters, lawn mowers, pole saws, and most importantly a brush! t PA1/PA6 trained in the safe use of pesticide/herbicide spraying. t Able to work alone, or, as part of a small team. t Versatile, punctual, polite and respectful. t Physically fit, as this role includes several thousand steps per day. t Be familiar with Health & Safety regulations and paperwork. t Able to participate in, or already have a CRB criminal record check. t Full clean UK Driving licence. t Available full or part time. This is a customer facing role so excellent communication skills are essential, both with customers and also bringing information back to the office. In return we offer a safe working environment, good rates of pay, and the opportunity to make a difference to our customers happiness and wellbeing. To apply please send your CV and covering letter telling us why you would like to work in this role, and a little bit about yourself, to:

Hannah Palmer at info@hanardcontractservicesltd.co.uk TRAINEE ENGINEERS Rubicon is recruiting for Trainee Engineering & Warehousing roles in Blandford and the surrounding areas. Current Trainee positions include: • Welders • Machinists • Assemblers You’ll have the opportunity to train towards an NVQ level 2 & 3 in Welding and CNC machining inc. To start this September give Harriet a call today on 01202 680311 for more details.

ST DENIS LODGE RESIDENTIAL HOME. Requires 2 part time care assistants. One of these to cover maternity leave. To include alternate weekends. Also required: Weekend laundry assistant. Experience preferred but not necessary. Please call 01747 854569.

A vacancy has arisen for a FULL TIME GENERAL ASSISTANT required to work as part of a team in a busy yard environment. please phone 01963 363174 or call in for more details, to Stalbridge Timber Supplies Ltd, The Sawmills, Station Road, Stalbridge, Dorset DT10 2RN

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Recruitment TV AERIAL AND SATELLITE INSTALLATION ENGINEER REQUIRED For domestic & commercial work. Some previous experience essential especially in aspects of reception, cable installation and termination. Phone or email for more information 01747 826714 info@tctv.co.uk

CLEANING HELP NEEDED. For busy, retired couple living between Fontmell Magna and Shaftesbury. 9-12 three mornings a week. Lovely house and fun people. Own transport essential. Good money and two weeks paid holiday pa. References required. Telephone: 07803 596 362

WANTED RELIEF MILKER, 1 day per week. 01963 440777 Sherborne area

The UK’s leading Golf & Sports Construction Company

Experienced Full Time Receptionist We are recruiting for an experienced full time Receptionist

Key Skills Required: t Excellent telephone manner and good communications skills. t Confident in dealing with company personnel, customers, consultants and suppliers. t Computer literate, Microsoft Office, experienced in Word and Excel and able to type. t Good organisational skills, conscientious with a willingness to meet deadlines. t Calm under pressure. t Smart appearance. t Full driving licence required. You will be based at our Company Head Office in Dinton. Hours: Monday to Friday 8am – 5pm Closing date for applications: 20th August 2021 For an application pack please contact Jules Simmons M J ABBOTT LTD, Bratch Lane, Dinton, Salisbury SP3 5EB Email: jules.simmons@mjabbott.co.uk www.mjabbott.co.uk M J Abbott Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer

GILLINGHAM SCHOOL, DORSET Hardings Lane, Gillingham, Dorset, SP8 4QP https://www.gillingham-dorset.co.uk 11-19 Mixed Comprehensive – 1,760 on roll including 370 in the Sixth Form

RECEPTIONIST 25 hours a week, term time only Required from September, a Receptionist to join our busy team in the main office. Gillingham is an ambitious, vibrant, happy school which offers excellent resources and outstanding facilities: we provide extensive support and training for all school staff. Gillingham is an ambitious and happy school which offers excellent resources, outstanding facilities and a special ethos both amongst students and staff. Closing date 6 August 2021. Please apply on line via the school web-site (https://www.gillingham-dorset.co.uk). We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and will require the disclosure of any criminal convictions. We look forward to receiving an application form from you. 59

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Sport

Businessmen tee off for Macmillan cancer support Four local businessmen are to take on the Longest Day Golf Challenge to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Team captain Ed Streader, sales director of kitchen manufacturer Neue ALNO is taking up the challenge after his wife Donna suffered from breast cancer five years ago. He said: “Macmillan Cancer Support helped Donna every step through a terrifying ordeal which thankfully she has come out of and is in remission.” The team also includes Mike Lammas, owner of audio and visual training company Train AV in Ferndown and Ashley Grit Senior Engineer at Pearce Compaction Systems in Verwood and George Webb of Casse Tete Marine. Mike wanted to take on the challenge in memory of his

father Steven, who died three years ago due to cancer. George Webb wanted to complete the challenge for several reasons, His daughter Donna fought cancer and his mother-in-law Margaret Peggy McColm died of the disease. Ferndown Forest Golf Course is allowing the players access to the 72 holes free of charge. The course will involve walking 26 miles – a huge challenge as one player has a heart condition and the other has a walking aid due to a brain injury. They hope to raise £1,000. The guys will be taking to the course on Thursday, August 26. Sponsorship opportunities on Tshirts and in publicity videos are available. Contact Mike at Train AV on 01202 862552 or email trainme@trainav.co.uk.

n Nine Wimborne Athletic Club athletes were selected for this year’s English Schools Athletics Championships held at Sports City in Manchester. This equalled the club’s success in terms of the number of athletes selected. Covid restrictions meant this was a much smaller event than usual and in some cases no finals were run. Success at the event remains the holy grail for young athletes. Two of the club’s more senior athletes won bronze medals. Emily Shaw (Bryanston) won her medal in the Senior Girls 1500 metres in a time of 4.27.63 and Kane Aubrey (Queen Elizabeth’s) won his in the Senior Boys Shot with a distance of 15m75. Ben Butcher (Poole Grammar) was 12th in the Senior Boys Triple Jump 13m16 and Abbie Lovering (Millfield)

Kane Aubrey

was third in her heat of the 400 hurdles 65.91. Lauren Hill (Corfe Hills) was sixth in the Intermediate Girls triple jump with 10m90, Harry Bunting (Poole Grammar) was third in his heat in the Junior Boys’ 300 metres in 38.17 and Jack Williams managed 1m59 in the Junior Boys’ high jump. Lola Sainsbury (Queen Elizabeth’s) and Harry Woods (Queen Elizabeth’s) were also included in the squad.

Property

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STURMINSTER MARSHALL | PRICE GUIDE: £600,000 Versatile 昀ve bedroom detached chalet bungalow • Good size plot • Large kitchen/breakfast room • Spacious sitting/dining room • Master bedroom with 昀tted furniture • 120’ rear garden

WIMBORNE | PRICE GUIDE: £500,000 - £525,000 Spacious three bedroom detached bungalow • Cul de sac location • Good size plot • Stunning kitchen/dining room • Sun conservatory

WIMBORNE | PRICE: £230,000 First 昀oor riverside apartment • NO FORWARD CHAIN • Two double bedrooms • Spacious kitchen/lifestyle room • Parking space

COLEHILL | PRICE: OIRO £310,000 Three bedroom end of terrace home • NO FORWARD CHAIN • Cul de sac location • Generous size sitting/dining room • Garage and parking space

WIMBORNE | PRICE: £350,000 Three bedroom mid terrace house • Popular location • Spacious accommodation • Landscaped garden • Off road parking for two cars

WIMBORNE | PRICE: £435,000 Three bedroom end of terrace home • NO FORWARD CHAIN • Town centre location • Off road parking and garage • Double glazing and gas heating

WIMBORNE | PRICE: £450,000 Three bedroom detached bungalow • NO FORWARD CHAIN • Sought after location • Well presented throughout • Sunny rear garden

COLEHILL | PRICE GUIDE: £465,000 Three bedroom detached bungalow • Cul de sac location • Generous size accommodation • Double glazing and gas heating • Garage with of road parking

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