Shaftesbury, England News

CARNIVAL club representatives in North Dorset meet MP Bob Walter tomorrow to discuss the ban by Dorset Police on moving floats after dark in the county.

HELP must be given to mitigate the disruption set to erupt when the A303 is closed for repair work next year, warn North Dorset leaders.

FIRE crews were kept busy by a number of incidents around the area earlier today: FIREFIGHTERS dealt with a small heath fire near Rossmore Community College, Poole, today, using beaters and two hoses to extinguish the flames after being called at 4.06pm. FIREFIGHTERS were called to smoke coming from a washing machine at a Laundrette in Charminster ...

Saturday: Party in the Park, celebrating Child Okeford's centenary of its village hall: gates open 5.30pm, al fresco concert from 6.30pm by the Ambassadors' 22 piece Big Band and the New Orleans Jazz Five: tickets in advance from the Cross Stores or the Post Office or on the gate.

A RECORD 255 runners took part in this year's Blandford Bridges Run on Sunday. A new course record was set by Nathan Shrubb, who ran under the colours of Morpeth Harriers in Northumberland with the Bryanston School team.

The Living Archive Exhibition was unveiled at the London Palladium on 18th June 2009, Celebrating 200 years of Black theatre history Guests including actor Simon Callow , dancer Steve Clark, and actors and theatre lovers from around the world - including Jules Walter from Antigua's Robert Coates Theatre - yesterday crowded into the London ...

THE father of two young children was killed when his motorcycle was involved in a collision on the A30 at East Stour on Thursday.

FRANCE and England are linking up to lay siege to Carrick tomorrow evening. Shaftesbury Park is base for the visitors whose ranks will be swelled by Italian and Irish comrades.

A 21-year-old man was struck by an RTA bus at 6:48 p.m., Friday, June 5, police said.

A 44-YEAR-OLD motorcyclist has died in a head-on collision with a car in north Dorset.

CRITICAL times lie ahead for a museum in Shaftesbury. Trustees of the Gold Hill Museum will hear on Tuesday whether a revised application to extend its Grade II listed premises is accepted by district councillors.

A motorcyclist who died in hospital after a collision with a van was a financial adviser from Dorset.

AN a oeACCIDENT is waiting to happena on a Shaftesbury road that home owners claim is being used as a rat run.

A MOTORCYCLIST died last night after a crash involving a Ford Transit Connect towing a caravan.

A motorcyclist has died in hospital from his injuries after colliding with a Ford Transit van pulling a caravan in Dorset.

This is an easy circle with only gentle hills in Wiltshire's picturesque Cranborne Chase through park-like countryside, visiting an old and a "new" castle, a thatched-roofed village and pub.

CONTRACTS have been signed for the redevelopment of Gillingham's leisure centre.

A PATCH of scrubland in Shandon would be turned into allotments under plans to tackle a city-wide shortage of the green spaces.

Breach Common would appear to be a most unlikely battle-ground. Clinging to a steep hillside below the Dorset market town of Shaftesbury, the common is a hidden wilderness of willow herb and hazel thickets, with views across the Blackmore Vale that have scarcely altered since the days of Thomas Hardy.

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