Purbeck Gazette

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South West ambulance strike: ‘Think carefully before dialling 999’

AMBULANCE workers are on strike today – prompting a warning from NHS bosses for patients to ‘think carefully’ before…

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CCTV image released in Poole electric bikes theft probe

DO you recognise this person? Police are keen to trace them in connection with a commercial burglary in Poole town…

Some of the firm’s costumes in action and inset, founder Sue Simmerling

It’s panto all year round, oh yes it is!

WHILE most of us are busy trying not to think about Christmas until at least December, one Christchurch-based firm…

The campaign ran throughout December

Drink-driving campaign underway

DESIGNATED drivers can earn themselves free soft drinks this Christmas and new year. Dorset Police has launched its Lift Legend…

Opera singers from a raft of leading groups are set to perform in Poole Picture: Lighthouse Poole

Lighthouse set to host Gilbert & Sullivan special

GILBERT & Sullivan fans can unite in song during a show in Poole next month. On January 20, Tarantara Productions’…

Yule Log

Yule love this log for Christmas

By Lorraine Gibson. Need to whip up a quick festive dessert? My go-to option is my old-school yule log. There’s no…

Youngsters enjoying Punch and Judy in 1963. The emergence of Swanage as a holiday destination is covered in the book by author Jason Tomes

How Swanage shrugged off its industrial past to become a holiday destination…

By Sara Niven. SWANAGE’S place as an attractive seaside destination may seem obvious now. But for decades, the town’s industrial history…

Christmas at @sixtyone

At last it’s Christmas

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at @sixtyone. The shop is now ready for the festive season…

Herlooms Ring

Fancy a cocktail?

THE cocktail ring was originally designed during Prohibition in the 1920’s when women were becoming more independent, having been…

Making sure your greenhouse heating is working - and pruning where required are among the jobs to do Pictures: Pixabay

Is your garden winter ready?

THE weather has turned and Jack Frost is very much in town. So what should we be doing to make…