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Dorset gets in touch with its roots
The Dorset Family History Society is offering research advice at Poole Central Library from today until Thursday and at Hamworthy Library on Wednesday and Friday. The programme is part of the Poole's Local and Family History Week that begins today. Prasanth Aby Thomas went down there to see how Dorset was getting in touch with its roots.
Dorset campaign for better sea and food
Dorset Wildlife Trust has launched a Great Dorset Seafood campaign to encourage people to consume seafood in a more environmentally friendly way.
Bournemouth council refurbishes public toilets
As part of the council’s £1 million ‘Smart Streets’ programme, several of Bournemouth’s heavily used public toilets will…
‘Keep warm’ grant for elderly in Dorset
Last winter in Dorset 269 vulnerable people died from preventable cold weather related illnesses and a further 1,600 were hospitalized. This year the Dorset Community Foundation is awarding grants in order to prevent a similar occurrence.
Editors blog – 06/02/12
Welcome to todays edition of The Breaker!
We are leading with the potential merger of the Poole Hospital foundation trust and the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch hospitals foundation trusts. If this goes ahead, it could lead to better patient care and decreased waiting times. And councillor Rev Charles Meachin is hoping that he'll be able to get his knee operation completed sooner!
Serious assault in Upton
Police are urging a dog walker to come forward after a female was seriously assaulted in Upton on Friday February 3rd 2012.
The incident happened in Upton, near Poole on a footpath leading off Sandy Lane at 16.45.
West Howe gets improvement manager
Young people and troubled families in West Howe received a new manager who will help to improve their standard of living.
Paul Iggulden, has been assigned as West Howe regeneration project manager and will be highlighting major concerns to improve the lives of young people and troubled families in the area.
Bournemouth ‘a drunken mess’
A local town councillor has condemned Bournemouth town centre as 'a drunken mess'. Now the council is taking steps to improve the situation.
Mixed views on Poole rejuvenation
Customers and proprietors of the Dolphin Shopping Centre in Poole have mixed views concerning a planned modernisation project. Will it enable Poole to compete with Bournemouth as the shopping capital of Dorset?
