Purbeck Gazette

Matt Renaut, managing director of Dacombes in Wimborne, presents the new fridge freezer to Elizabeth Barge, volunteer cook at Wimborne Community Food Supply

Dacombes gives a helping hand

By dorsetbiznews.co.uk An independent retailer has been thanked for its generosity after donating a new, top-of-the-range Liebherr fridge-freezer to a…

Michael Tomlinson

Visits to Belfast and on home turf

AS always, I am writing this several weeks before publication – and today the American President is visiting Northern…

Nick Ireland

Tories can’t get policing basics right

AS the son of a police officer who served for 30 years from the early 1960s and having an…

Chris Bradey

Refugees: Reality and the rhetoric

THE Isle of Portland is a magical place, the most southerly point of the Jurassic Coast. Its scenery makes…

CROWN FOR A KING The Imperial State Crown that will be used for the Coronation of Charles III features 2,868 diamonds, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds and 269 pearls

A celebration of Coronation jewellery

By Amy Brenan, director of Heirlooms Jewellers, 21 South Street, Wareham The pomp and splendour of the Coronation of King…

GIRLS football team Dexter FC’s Luna Wolves FC U12s had a first birthday present when they received new strips.

Luna Wolves girls get kitted out

GIRLS football team Dexter FC’s Luna Wolves FC U12s had a first birthday present when they received new strips. Tops…

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White ball ace raises hopes

THE men’s and women’s Dorset county cricket teams have started their T20 campaigns. The men are playing in the National…

Hanging baskets need watering at least once a day, says Sue Butterworth of Goulds Garden Centre

Get creative with hanging baskets and planters

WITH the warm weather starting to appear, now’s the perfect time to start thinking about planting your summer hanging…

A Dorset Community Transport driver and new passenger by the 2RN shuttle bus PHOTO: Pam Bowyer-Davis

Ticket to ride to nature reserve

A SHUTTLE bus taking rail passengers from Wareham to the RSPB Arne Nature Reserve will run again this year. The…

One of the Laser boats – the sports car of the dinghy world – on passage to Swanage PHOTO: Sam Whaley

A bit ‘chewy’ but elite young sailors shine

EVERY now and then you have a watch where everything seems to come together and the messages we send…