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i t t a g u B c i n o c I l a iv t s e F ls e e h W h t u o m e n r u o joins B One of the most beautiful racing cars of all time, the iconic 1924 Lyons Grand Prix Type 35 Bugatti, is set to create a fantastic fanfare at the new Bournemouth Wheels Festival (24-26 May 2014) as it drives the demonstration course

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To have such an iconic vehicle at the first Wheels Festival is an amazing coup and I’m sure this racing car alone will be a big draw for Festival-goers

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ournemouth Tourism has teamed up with The National Motor Museum, Beaulieu to bring this rare piece of motoring history to the inaugural Wheels Festival, billed as the UK’s biggest FREE wheels-themed family festival.

And that’s not all, the National Motor Museum will also be running a daily People’s Choice competition from its marquee on the seafront in which Festivalgoers are encouraged to vote for their favourite vintage or pre-war car. They will also receive an exclusive Wheels Festival offer of discounted entry to the motor museum when they vote. The winning car owner will then get to drive down the Demonstration Straight in one of the fantastic cars and receive one of three unique trophies to mark their success in the Beaulieu People’s Choice Award.

The Type 35 Bugatti was the groundbreaking, superior racing car of its era, which achieved countless victories in the years 1924 to 1930 to make it one of the most successful 8-cylinder in-line engine racing cars of all time.

Jon Weaver, Bournemouth Wheels Festival Director, said: “To have such an iconic vehicle at the first Wheels Festival is an amazing coup and I’m sure this racing car alone will be a big draw for Festival-goers. It is brilliant to have The National Motor Museum, Beaulieu supporting the event and we can’t wait to see the Type 35 Bugatti join other pre-war cars, F1 cars, Le Mans cars, supercars and Moto GP bikes on the exciting Demonstration Straight.”

The National Motor Museum, Beaulieu will also bring two additional pre-war cars to the Festival, which can be seen in a marquee on the seafront close to Boscombe Beach (Undercliff Drive) during the three day event. These are the luxurious and stylish 1935 Auburn 851 and 1939 Rolls-Royce Alpine Eagle, a sporting version of the Silver Ghost, which was named because the Rolls-Royce team swept the board in the 1913 Austrian Alpine Trials.

Nik Wyness, Senior Marketing Manager at The National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, said: “Being home to one of the finest collections of historic automobiles in the world, it is appropriate for Beaulieu to support the inaugural Wheels Festival and the People’s Choice award. We hope the festival will fire new interest in motoring heritage among visitors; allowing them to appreciate the dedication of classic car owners and the work of the National Motor Museum in the conservation, preservation and display of historic machines.”

The Demonstration Straight will be the first time a UK coastal destination has created a specially-made course. This unmissable event highlight will see groups of cars tear along the circuit, in two 3-hour demonstration shows from 11am-6pm, Saturday and Sunday and 11am-5pm on Monday. Plus, there will be a supercar and pre-war vintage cavalcades!

Other prestigious cars joining the Type 35 Bugatti on the circuit include: ·

Michael Schumacher’s 1992 Bennetton

· 1989 Camel Lotus 101 · 1984 Toleman once driven by

Ayrton Senna · Ferrari Daytona Competition raced

by Maranello Concessionaires in the

1970s · Ferrari TRC 500 · Ford GT40 raced by Jochen Rindt

and Lotus Formula One driver Innes

Ireland · 2001 Orange Arrows A22 driven by

Jos Verstappen · 1987 Arrows A10 Megatron Turbo

driven by former British racing driver

Derek Warwick As well as all of this, the 1920s Bournemouth Pavilion will host a pre-war and vintage car display celebrating the early years of motoring, featuring more than 100 exceptional cars such as Bentley, Talbot, MG, Alvis, Riley, Frazer Nash and many more.

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Digging Deep to Make a Difference A team of 21 green fingered volunteers from Barclays House in Poole made a huge difference to charity run Langside School as part of a six month project to rejuvenate the area and provide a new sensory walk and wildlife garden for the children to enjoy

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angside is an independent, nonmaintained, special day school run by Diverse Abilities Plus, Dorset’s disability charity, and provides education to 28 children from the ages of two to 19 who have special educational needs and physical difficulties, often with complex medical conditions.

The volunteers spent a whole day at Langside School and started with the task of clearing plants, weeds and mounds of

undergrowth before moving onto digging up the garden, setting concrete borders and planting sensory plants and installing sensory items that the children can easily reach when they visit the garden.

Jon Seaward, School Principal, said: “The transformation of the sensory garden was nothing short of miraculous and we can’t wait to see the children benefiting from all the efforts made.”

Sarah Harrison, Volunteer Recruitment Manager, said: “We can’t thank the Barclays House volunteers enough for the fantastic work that was undertaken at Langside School. The area looks fabulous and we want to say a massive thank you to every single volunteer for their efforts and enthusiasm on the day.”

To complete the work in the garden, a smaller group of volunteers are due to return to install a sensory arch at the entrance to the area, donated by the Barclays team.

Diverse Abilities Plus is looking to recruit volunteers to work on various projects in the future. Please contact Sarah Harrison on 01202 718266 or email sarah.harrison@ diverseabilitiesplus.org.uk if you would like to get involved.

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Royal route planned for London to Brighton Veteran Car Run Entries opened on 2 April, with a special early bird offer, for the world’s oldest motoring event – the annual Veteran Car Run between London and Brighton

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Open to all cars manufactured before 1905 – making the youngest 109 years old –­ the event is a moving history show, with pioneering motoring names such as Mors, Panhard, Darracq and Daimler to the fore.

It’s an iconic route made famous by the Royal Family’s televised coach parades and this year is the first time in recent history it has been part of the Veteran Car Run.

Celebrating the original ‘capitalto-coast’ Emancipation Run held on 14 November 1896, the first Commemoration Run took place in 1897 with a re-enactment following the same route in 1927 and it has been held every year since, barring the war years and 1947 when petrol was rationed.

Organised by the Royal Automobile Club, the 2014 Bonhams Veteran Car Run takes place on Sunday 2 November and will attract as many as 500 automobiles from the dawn of motoring as well as hundreds of thousands of spectators en route.

It commemorates the Locomotives on the Highway Act, which raised the speed limit for ‘light locomotives’ from 4 to 14mph and abolished the need for these vehicles to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag.

ue to take place, as ever, on the first Sunday in November, participants in this year’s Run will leave Hyde Park and pass under Wellington Arch before driving past Buckingham Palace and down The Mall through St James’s Park at the start of the 60 mile trip to Brighton

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This year the route to Brighton will be a little easier as, participants will be allowed to make use of bus lanes all the way down to Coulsdon thanks to Transport for London and more bus lanes than ever south of the A27 entering Brighton thanks to Brighton Highways and the local bus companies.

Sponsored by auction house Bonhams, the Run is just one element in a long weekend of motoring nostalgia, most of which is free and open to the general public. Other events include the popular free to view Regent Street Motor Show, to be held on Saturday 1 November, which turns London’s premier shopping street into a motoring showcase that puts the spotlight on veterans and moderns alike.

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he weekend of motoring celebrations begins on the Thursday with a motoring seminar at the Royal Automobile Club. Bonhams will be holding its annual Veteran Car Auction on Friday 31 October. The Hattingley Valley Participants’ Reception is held on the Saturday night, an opportunity to give all taking part a chance to rub shoulders on the eve of the Run. There are also a number of lunches, dinners and other functions planned.

But few – if any – of the hardy participants will be partying long into the Saturday night as tradition dictates that the Run starts at daybreak on Sunday… a few minutes before 7am.

From then until shortly before 9am, the eclectic collection of veterans fill Hyde Park with the clatter of engines, puffs of exhaust and sometimes steam, and the ‘ooo-hah’ of klaxons as they start their epic journey to the seaside resort of Brighton.

Petrol-powered cars are joined by steam-powered machines and even by the occasional pioneering electric vehicle. There are three-wheelers and four-wheelers, some with steering wheels some with tillers and only a few with any kind of protection against the elements, which in the UK in November is more likely to be wet and windy than the dry and sunny conditions enjoyed last November. Whatever the weather, Bonhams again will be providing all those completing the route with the traditional bowl of chilli and glass of welcome mulled wine.

What makes the Run unique are the spectators that line the route many showcasing their own classic cars on the roadside. It is estimated that as many as half a million onlookers enjoy the spectacle many taking advantage of free access to the halfway stop to view the veteran cars which this year will be at the kindly vacated premises of the Honda Gatwick main dealership in Crawley.

Here participants can look forward to a spectacular interlude as iconic department store Harrods will open a luxury pop-up ‘pit-stop’ for drivers located within dealership. The prestigious store will be offering a taste of its exquisite Food Halls with much-needed hot drinks and pastries provided in a relaxed and comfortable environment. Harrods is poised to join in this year’s Run for the third time in its history. The first time the Knightsbridge establishment took part was in the inaugural Emancipation Run of 1896.

The official and ceremonial finishes, at Brighton’s Preston Park and Madeira Drive respectively, are also popular viewing posts. Once again there is also the opportunity to follow the event in an open top bus all the way from London to Brighton.

For more details of the event and access to entry forms visit www.veterancarrun.com. Participants entering between now and the end of May will be eligible for early bird savings on entry fees and other events.

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orset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is celebrating the return of the much loved barn owl webcam, where viewers from all over the country and abroad have been following ‘Bob and Brenda’ as they rear their young in front of a live webcam, which is streamed 24 hours a day.

2013 saw the worst breeding season for the barn owl for more than 30 years.

Once a common sight in our countryside, the barn owl has suffered from unusual weather patterns over the last four years, and there may now be fewer than 1,000 breeding pairs in England.

The webcam was first installed in 2010 by ‘Wildlife Windows’, and has since provided hours of entertainment into

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homes across the UK and the world from breeding pairs of barn owls, kestrels and tawny owls. This year, two barn owls have returned to the nest box and so far we have seen four chicks hatch, with another egg expected to hatch any day now.

For a chance to see the wonderful barn owls in flight, the nest box is located on DWT’s Lorton Meadows nature reserve in Weymouth. DWT Community Conservation Officer, Sam Dallimore said: “We are delighted to be once again following the progress of the Barn Owls as they look after their young. On a quiet evening, it is possible to see the barn owls soaring over the reserve in search of food such as voles, mice and other small prey to feed their chicks. There will be plenty of time to catch all the action on the webcam, as the

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local chicks won’t leave the nest until they have all their plumage and are at least 8 weeks old. The nest box is occupied for about 10 months of the year, as after the chicks have left, the male returns throughout the winter to roost, which will be shown live on-screen in the Lorton Meadows Conservation Centre.”

The webcam has had a fantastic response on DWT’s Twitter and Facebook pages, where followers nationally and internationally have been posting photos and discussing this fascinating wildlife spectacle. Jane Doggett from New Hampshire, USA posted onto Facebook: “My 10 year old granddaughter found your live webcam on the barn owl last night. She is researching the barn owl for a school project, so we were so excited to be inside the box with the mother, the father, one baby and four more eggs. We live in sunny Rumney, New Hampshire and we are live with the owls. So exciting!”

To stay up to date with the latest action from the barn owl nest box, ‘like’ the Bob and Brenda barn owl page on facebook at: http://wtru.st/fbowls.

To view the barn owl webcam and a live feed of the tern island on Brownsea Island Lagoon, also managed by Wildlife Windows, visit www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/webcam. The tern island webcam is a collaboration between DWT, The Birds of Poole Harbour and the National Trust.

For more information about Wildlife Windows, visit www.wildlifewindows.co.uk

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An Audience with

Zdenka Fantlova: The Tin Ring

The unique account of how a seventeen year old girl survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps comes to Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts on Saturday 7 June.

Now 92, Zdenka Fantlova is determined to tell her inspiring story of great love, and of what happened in the Holocaust, to as many people as possible. She has not only survived unspeakable horrors but has gone on to share her experiences in her book, The Tin Ring. Remarkably, this is not a tale of bitterness and blame but an inspiring love story, a unique account of how a young girl torn from a loving family in Czechoslovakia and thrown into the hell of the death camps summoned the willpower and endurance to survive.

Through the horrors of six concentration camps Zdenka never lost the will to live, or her optimism for a better future. She focused on a simple tin ring that had been made for her by her boyfriend Arno. He had told her: “That’s for our engagement. And to keep you safe. If we are both alive when the war ends I will find you”.

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Arno was sent East on a penal transport later that same day; she never saw him again, but Zdenka’s sense of love and hope lived on. She risked execution to keep her precious tin ring. In the last chaotic days of the war she found herself in the hell that was Belsen, close to death, just skin and bone, crippled by typhoid and unable to walk.

As the liberating forces took control she crawled to a Red Cross post where she was rescued by an unknown British soldier, to whom the book of The Tin Ring is dedicated.

A question and answer session with Zdenka forms part of the evening, and will be followed by a book signing. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear one of the last few remaining Holocaust survivors tell her inspiring and incredible story.

Theatre, Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts Saturday 7 June, 7.45pm Tickets £16 (Discount for Students, U18s, Seniors & Live For 5)

Tickets & information 0844 406 8666 www.lighthousepoole.co.uk

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All aboard for Diverse Abilities at this Year’s Dragon Boat Race With only three months to go until the Diverse Abilities annual Chinese Dragon Boat Race, the charity that supports children and adults with disabilities in Dorset is looking to recruit more teams to take part in this thrilling event across Poole Park’s lake on Sunday 20 July, between 10am and 3.30pm.

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he Dragon Boat Race will see teams go head-to-head in boats decorated with dragon figureheads and anyone can take part – be it companies, families or friends - and no experience is required as full coaching is provided.

Each team comprises of up to 17 enthusiastic members - 16 paddlers plus the drummer and a minimum of nine are required. An experienced helm will join the crew, to keep the boat pointing in the right direction towards the finish line.

The event, supported and sponsored by Spectrum Housing Group will be raising vital funds for the charity that supports over 600 children and adults with disabilities in the county and are entering four teams into the event after enjoying the experience so much in 2013.

Following last year’s event, Tina Partridge at Spectrum said: “The Dragon Boat Race is a fantastic opportunity to get involved in a fun activity, while raising money for a great local charity. We raced for the first time last year and had a great time - it was a terrific teambuilding opportunity for us, and enjoyed it so much that we have four teams taking part this year!”

Paul Bryan, Managing Director, at Spectrum is also taking part in the event and said: “We thoroughly enjoyed the 2013 Dragon Boat Race. It was a great occasion in the July sunshine with lots of fun for all ages and ability levels.

“This fun event has a very serious side as it generates a significant amount of the much needed funds that Diverse Abilities needs to raise each year to support the high dependency support requirements of its clients and their families. Our staff are delighted to have the opportunity to help with these funding needs

while also having plenty of fun. Spectrum is a proud sponsor of the 2014 Dragon Boat Race and we look forward to breaking records both on the lake and the amounts raised on the day.”

Sharon Wells, Events Fundraiser at Diverse Abilities Plus, said: “It’s looking set to be another successful event, with many companies, friends and family teams already entered from across the region. This is a very lively and enjoyable event to take part in, which is right on our community’s doorstep. Everyone that has taken part in previous years will be aware that all participants, plus the spectators, have a fantastic day out getting into the team spirit and cheering everybody on. Whether you are a complete novice, adrenaline addict or keen boat racer, you can look forward to a great day out with lots of laughs!”

Anyone over the age of eight can take part in the Dragon Boat Race, but they must be confident in deep water and wearing a buoyancy aid. An adult must accompany participants under 18 during the event.

The team entry fee for the Dragon Boat Race is £170, approximately £10 per person for a full team. A minimum of £750 per team (just £45 per person to fundraise) is also required as sponsorship for the event.

To view a snapshot of last year’s event or to find our more, visit www.diverseabilitiesplus.org.uk/events For more information, or to book your team, contact Sharon Wells at Diverse Abilities Plus on 01202 718266 or email sharon.wells@diverseabilitiesplus.org.uk

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