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NEWS College welcomes Royal visitor 7 Plans for fast food outlets near Bere Regis 9 Landmark store in Wareham closes 10 ‘Spook-tacular’ family fun day for Halloween 11 Plans for five new homes on edge of Bere Regis 13 Purbeck Film Festival preview 15 Dark stories from Corfe Castle’s history 17 Rape case police officer jailed 18 Renowned sculptor’s work at Dorset Musem 19 Bikers’ charity ride coins in the cash 22

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Melinda enters panto spirit

TV presenter Melinda Messenger is the latest star to join the cast of an upcoming panto in Poole.

Currently starring in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, Melinda will trade fatigues for fun when she stars as the Spirit of the Ring in Aladdin, at the Lighthouse, in December.

And she said Poole was a place she knows well.

“I’m really looking forward to coming to Poole,” she said. “I used to come down quite frequently with my friends in my late teens/early 20s when we first learned to drive. The Harbour and Sandbanks beach – that used to be our favourite place to go.”

Swindon native Melinda, who shot to fame after appearing in a series of ads for a window firm, will be working alongside the Genie of the Lamp to bring the magic alive for audiences this Christmas.

“She is there to help balance the Genie out and give him a bit of guidance in the right direction,” the former Cowboy Builders presenter said.

She was offered the part after speaking to writer-director Chris Jarvis at the suggestion of

now works as an integrative psychotherapist and dreams guide, providing talking therapies to her clients.

However, she said she is looking forward to returning to the stage.

“It is a total change of pace, but I like to keep a balance in life and this is very different to my other work,” she went on.

“I hear there’s a really good atmosphere in Poole for panto, which is so important. If the cast and crew are having a good time that energy translates to the audience and they pick it up.”

Tim Colegate, head of programming at Lighthouse, said: “We are so happy that Melinda is coming to spend Christmas with us in Poole this year.

“She’ll certainly bring glamour and fun in equal TV presenter Melinda Messenger will play Spirit of the Ring in Aladdin measure, and I know that as our magical Spirit of the Ring she Ionica Adriana, who is playing about it all and described how Compiled by Compiledwill by make sure our audiences Princess Jasmine. things work at Lighthouse and National Coastwatch Institution, Swanage Coastwatch have theSwanage best possible time at “It was so lovely the way it how the show isNational constructed and Institution, by show.” all came together. Ionica is the ethos and the values of Compiledthe National Coastwatch Institution, Swanage Aladdin opens on Thursday, awesome and she and I have panto, it sounds really lovely.

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Sculpture park’s ’quake fundraiser FUNDS to support the return to education for students left homeless after the devastating earthquake in Morocco are being raised by a sculpture park in Dorset this week.

Sculpture by the Lakes, near Dorchester, hosts a fundraiser on Thursday, October 19, which will see 100% of ticket sales donated to Education for All’s earthquake crisis appeal.

Owners Simon and Monique Gudgeon will also be donating 10% of proceeds for

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all Moroccan items sold at their store, which includes crockery items and rugs, to support the school’s pupils, many of whom are now orphans following the natural disaster. The day includes live cooking demonstrations and a Moroccan-inspired menu available from The Kitchen.

Trifle Bazaar owner Victoria Letten will also exhibit at the event, donating a percentage of sales to the cause. To book visit www. sculpturebythelakes.co.uk

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Police station re-opens to provide faster response

BOSCOMBE police station has re-opened amid efforts to improve response times to emergency calls in East Bournemouth and Christchurch.

Response officers, who are the first on hand when a 999 call is made, will use the station in Gloucester Road as a base for their operations.

Previously, they would have had to come from central Bournemouth and even though the distances are quite short, the built-up nature of the area inevitably meant delays as officers made their way through traffic, Dorset Police said.

Local Policing Area Commander, T/Chief Superintendent Heather Dixey, said: “The additional officers we’ve recruited in the last few years means we now have the

capacity needed to re-open Boscombe.

“We’re always looking to improve our service, and people in the area will see an increased policing presence, tackling crime and keeping everyone safe.”

The refurbished station will host five squads of patrol officers, she said, alongside the Victim Support charity supporting victims of crime, which has been based at the station for several years.

Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), David Sidwick, added: “Boscombe will once again be used as an operational base to improve response times to incidents to the east of the county and I know that the people of East Bournemouth, Southbourne,

Cutting the ribbon at the refurbished Boscombe Police Station

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Christchurch and Highcliffe will be pleased to have five squads of officers based closer to where they live and work.

“I have and will continue to keep my pledge to the people of

Dorset to improve the service, put officers back into communities, and make Dorset Police more engaged and more connected to the people they serve.”

“On a personal level, I feel it is now the right time for me to move on and hand over the reins to my successor to lead the organisation through the next chapter of its development.

“I would like to thank every member of the Trust and our incredible volunteers who continue to perform brilliantly.

My thanks to all of our partners across emergency services and the health and care systems in the South West who contribute to a system approach that is critical to the services we provide to our patients and communities.

“I would also like to thank regional colleagues who helped me to make the transition from a different part of the public sector to the NHS.” Stephen Otter, chair of SWASFT, said: “On behalf of

the Board I would like to thank Will for his contribution to the Trust during the most challenging time for the NHS and ambulance services in particular.

“Will has dedicated his career to public service and his unwavering commitment in the South West has been respected and welcomed by staff, patients and partners alike.

“This approach has led and enabled any of the improvements we have seen in the most adverse circumstances and pressure following the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I would like to thank Will for his dedication to public service, the ambulance service and to our local communities across the South West and I wish him well in his next chapter.”

Ambulance chief calls time on role

THE chief executive of the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is leaving the organisation.

Will Warrender CBE, a former Rear Admiral who served 32 years in the Royal Navy, was appointed to the role at the height of the pandemic and has led the organisation for more than three years.

He is also the national lead for employee wellbeing and suicide prevention at the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE).

He said it had been an ‘immense privilege to lead the organisation over the past three years’.

“The journey we have been on in this time is extraordinary and I am proud of the way we have handled the impact and

Will Warrender is leaving SWASFT

aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with other pressures facing urgent and emergency care in the South West,” he added.

“We have a new, five-year strategy and a robust plan in place which is starting to deliver palpable improvements in the care we provide to patients across the region.

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Lottery winner Jackie Shanahan with staff nurse Hannah Quick

25,000 reasons to be cheerful!

LUCKY Jackie Shanahan couldn’t believe her good fortune when she was told she’d won £25,000 in Lewis-Manning Hospice Care’s weekly hospice draw.

The hospice helps people with life-limiting illnesses and their families across East Dorset.

Jackie signed up to the hospice lottery back in September 2022 and has been playing two numbers each week.

She said: “I joined the lottery as I wanted to give something back to the hospice following the amazing support and care that the Lymphoedema Clinic gave my sister before she died.

“They were brilliant and for that I’m so grateful.

“I never thought I would win anything when I signed up – I’m slightly in shock but extremely happy with my win!”

Tom Goodinge, director of fundraising at the Poole-based hospice, said: “We really appreciate the support that Jackie gives us and are so

happy that one of our patient’s family members has won the rollover.

“The lottery offers weekly prizes totalling £5,200, as well as three Super Draws of £10,000 each year, and a rollover up to £25,000.

“The lottery is a fantastic way to support the charity, giving players the opportunity to win great prizes, for just £5 a month.

“This support ensures that the hospice has a sustainable source of income to plan into the future and to enable us to continue to provide outstanding end-of-life care to patients and their loved ones facing lifelimiting illnesses across East Dorset, Bournemouth, Christchurch, Purbeck and West Hampshire.”

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Andy Munn (right) ready for take off in the Spitfire and (left) once he got up in the air

MND diagnosis prompts Andy to take to the skies for bucketlist Spitfire flight

A DEVASTATING diagnosis has prompted Airfix models, so flying in a Spitfire was one Swanage man to pursue his dream of “an absolute dream come true”. taking to the skies.

“I’d have climbed up the ladder with my In January, Andy Munn went to the teeth if I had to,” he said. doctor after experiencing a ‘frozen Wife Julia was also part of the ride, shoulder’. flying alongside the Spitfire in a Harvard Weeks of tests followed, before in March T6, snapping photos of Andy’s special he received news he feared - he has motor moments. neurone disease (MND).

They both even took over controls Doctors said his life expectancy was between six months and two years.

But rather than wallow in self pity, or mourn his condition, intrepid Andy has taken life by the scruff of the neck, and pursued his own ‘bucket list’ of experiences.

“The consultant told me I was going on a journey; I took that to heart,” the 59-year-old said.

“I’m on a train that I can’t get off.

It will stop at stations but there’s nothing I can do, so I might as well sit back, look out the window, and enjoy the journey.”

Recently, he was at Compton Abbas Airfield to fulfill one of his dream experiences - flying in a Spitfire.

Andy’s father was a WW2 Fire Spotter, and his mother served in the Land Army, prompting an interest in aircraft from an early age.

His childhood bedroom didn’t Andy with wife, Julia, who he describes as his ‘rock’ have a ceiling, but a sky full of

during the flight, tipping the planes from left to right.

Sadly, Andy can no longer make models, and has also had to recently give up work.

But he said being put in touch with someone else going through the same thing by a nurse, had helped.

“It’s nice to talk to someone who can relate,” he said. “Every day is different.”

Andy described how one day he can empty the dishwasher and put the cups away without issue, but the next he cannot even open the cupboard door.

And he praised Julia for her unfailing support.

“We are incredibly close,” he said.

“She has struggled, but has been my rock.”

Julia has looked into anticipatory grief, and said she is accepting the loss, bit by bit.

“I cry at least once a day,” she said.

For her birthday in August, Julia raised £1,065 to help those with MND. The couple encourage donations to the MND Association, who contributed to their flight experience.

And next for Andy? A ride in an Aston Martin.

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College welcomes Royal visitor LIVABILITY Millie College in Holton Lee, Poole, welcomed a Royal visitor as it celebrated its first anniversary and set out its vision for the future.

HRH the Princess Royal is patron of the college which supports students aged 16 to 25-plus with barriers to learning, disabilities and complex needs.

She joined 200 guests, including dignitaries, staff, students and their families, and supporters, on Monday, October 9, to learn about the college and its achievements to date.

The college, on a 350-acre countryside site, helps students build confidence and independence with its learning programmes, and supports them on their way to further education, training, volunteering or paid employment.

Students take part in activities in four core areas – horticulture, animal care and

welfare, nature conservation, and catering and retail, and the Princess Royal saw sessions involving animals, horticulture, conservation and creative arts.

Staff also showcased plans, including a new sensory aquarium, increased classroom space and plans to develop equine therapy at the college.

In the college gardens, the Princess Royal was updated on work to establish a plant nursery, kitchen garden and food forest.

She also planted a Millie rose, to signify the college’s The Princess Royal at Livability Millie College new beginnings, and at a reception spoke about the college has been on an growth is ambitious. We want to college’s progress. extraordinary journey, fuelled expand our provision to meet After unveiling a plaque by the passion and dedication of local demand and provide commemorating the visit, the staff team. students with first-class student James Oswald presented “The event showcased some facilities and enriching the Princess Royal with a posy of the achievements of that first experiences. of flowers. academic year and demonstrated “By working together, with Livability chief executive the opportunities created for the our partners, stakeholders and Sally Chivers said: “Since it young people we support. community, we can realise these opened in September 2022, the “The vision for the future ambitions.”

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Care home’s memory walk

UPTON Bay care home in Hamworthy took part in a memory walk open to residents, their families and the local community.

Those taking part walked around the circumference of Hamworthy Park and afterwards enjoyed refreshments in the cafe.

Activities lead Karen Grant A’Court organised the event and also completed the official Bournemouth Alzheimer’s memory walk, a 7.5km

memory walk from Bournemouth to Canford Cliffs, a few days later.

Upton Bay care home general manager Mevin Sohorye said: “At our home we care for a lot of people living with dementia and provide support for them and their families.

“We have a Memory Lane Community, an environment purposely designed to help those with dementia live active and meaningful lives.”

Shorter opening hours at Swanage MIU to stay until at least March THE minor injuries unit (MIU) at Swanage Hospital will continue to run with reduced opening hours while staffing issues are addressed.

In the summer the opening hours at the MIU, run by Dorset HealthCare, were reduced on a temporary basis from 8am to 8pm to 9am to 6pm.

Staffing shortages impacted the NHS trust’s ability to run the unit for longer hours.

Although the unit was planned to revert to 8am-8pm in September, a review of staffing has led to a decision to maintain the current arrangements through to the end of March 2024.

Jane Elson, service director for Integrated Community Services, said: “We really value

this service and know how important it is to the community – we value their support and fully understand their concern about this change.

“We reluctantly took this decision to ensure our hardworking staff are supported to run the unit safely and effectively. We aim to extend the hours again when it is safe to do so.”

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McDonald’s drive-thru in restaurants scheme PLANS for three drive-thrus and another restaurant – which could house McDonald's, Popeyes and Starbucks – on the A35 near Bere Regis are being considered.

The scheme, by Godwin Developments on behalf of landowners Peter Stephen Dove and Elizabeth Brierly, would see a 1.95-hectare site at Woodbury Park, North Street, developed.

The proposals say the development would include three drive-thru restaurants, as well as a drive-to restaurant, car parking and EV charging points.

It is understood tenants could include McDonald’s, Starbucks and Popeyes.

“The individual units are designed with the operators’ branding and recognisable design language which will be

McDonald’s, Starbucks and Popeyes outlets could be built on a site at Woodbury Park if Dorset Council approves plans

familiar and bring immediate commerce to the area upon opening,” the application said.

Excavation work would have to take place on the site, due to a large slope, the plan says, although existing perimeter trees and shrubs would be maintained.

“The existing site has been allocated as a site suitable for commercial development within the Neighbourhood Plan and is currently vacant grazing land,” the application went on.

“McDonald's sits at the northern edge of the site, located nearest to the Townsend

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roundabout, providing instant recognition and attractive signposting for the site,” it adds.

Walking around the site would be ‘well served’, the plan details, with “safe pedestrian crossing points between operators”.

Access to the site would be from North Street, “near to the A35/A31 roundabout”.

“A valuable opportunity to the site location is the immediate access to the A35/ A31 roundabout which provides connection to Dorchester and Southampton respectively,” the plan outlines.

“Alongside this, an adjacent petrol station and nearby industrial units all contribute to encouraging a high volume of existing passing traffic.”

The scheme is being considered by Dorset Council planners.

For more details, log on to www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk and search for planning application reference P/FUL/2022/ 04027.

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Wareham mayor Carole Turner presented Elizabeth and Graham with Champagne, an orchid and a special certificate. PHOTO: Sue Wheatley

Landmark store closes after 49 years

The Horseys giftware shop in Wareham

A LANDMARK Wareham store has closed after almost five decades serving shoppers.

Horseys giftware shop, in North Street, shut for the final time on Saturday, September 23, after 49 years in the town.

Owners Elizabeth and Graham are retiring.

Wareham Mayor Carole Turner

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and Deputy Mayor Marian Cotton dropped by to thank the pair for their efforts over so many years, presented them with a bottle of Champagne and an orchid, as well as a special certificate.

“It was a very sad day to see one of our oldest shops closing,” said Wareham town councillor Sue Wheatley.

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Taking a step back in time

VISITORS to an open day at Allendale House would have been forgiven for thinking they had stepped back in time, as Regency dancers and hobby horse bicycles traversed the Wimborne landmark.

The house is 200 years old this year and

to mark the occasion and capture the elegance of its Georgian era, the Hampshire Regency Dancers and promenaders, together with the Dandy Chargers on their bicycles, entertained in authentic fashion.

Built in 1823 for the Castleman Family, Allendale was one of many venues taking part in Heritage Open Days for East Dorset PHOTO: Tom Scrase Heritage Trust.

Hospital friends open new shop

THE Friends of Wimborne Hospital have opened their new charity shop.

The newly modernised shop at 69 High Street, Wimborne, is larger and more streamlined than the previous shop, making for a pleasant shopping experience.

The Friends, supported by volunteers, are looking forward to welcoming regular and new customers.

Money raised helps Wimborne Hospital provide excellent care.

Town crier Chris Brown

announced the opening on Minster Green and among those pictured is June Tripp, previous manager of Wimborne Hospital and ex-chair of the Friends, who did so much to develop the original charity shop for the Friends.

Also shown are Louisa Way, head of Nursing, Therapies and Quality for Dorset HealthCare Trust, Friends president Dr David Pope, Friends chair Anne Salter, Mayor of Wimborne Diann March, shop manager Sarah Arnold, treasurer Pete Cadogan and Chris Brown

To find out more about how the Friends of Victoria Hospital, Wimborne, supports the local

hospital visit their website, www.friendswimbornehospital. org.uk

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Spooky fun for all the family

CITIZENS Advice in East Dorset & Purbeck is holding a ‘spooktacular’ family fun day to raise funds for the service, while creating awareness of how it helps the local community.

The Halloween-themed event is on Sunday, October 29, 10am-2pm at the Quaterjack Hall, at the Allendale Centre, Wimborne.

Children’s games, activities and crafts will be on offer at the free-to-enter event.

They include a design a poster competition, with the winning poster used to display at the Wimborne office, a raffle with prizes from local businesses and children’s games (50p charge).

There will also be a free Halloween fancy dress up box, free crafts, tombola, cake stall and refreshments for a small donation.

The raffle prizes include Farmer Palmer’s – family ticket; RockReef Bournemouth Pier – family ticket; Guildhall Tavern – three-course meal for two; Hall & Woodhouse – £20 voucher; Nusara Thai Wimborne – £30 voucher; Piccolo Mondo Wimborne – £15 voucher; Gullivers Bookshop Wimborne –£15 voucher; East Street Deli – £10 voucher; Salamander Cook Shop – £10 voucher; Tivoli Theatre – two cinema tickets; Haskins Ferndown – children’s puzzle hamper.

Katrina Ford, business development manager at Citizens Advice in East Dorset & Purbeck, said: “We wanted to

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hold a local event where families can come along for an hour or so and have some fun.

“At the same time, we also want to create awareness of what we do and the help that we can provide.”

She added: “We are an independent charity and rely on grants and donations to fund our service.

“As we enter into the winter months, unfortunately, more people will come to us for help and we want to be able to continue to provide that support.

All donations, small or large are very welcome.”

Raffle tickets are £1 or £5 for a book of tickets. Tickets can be bought at the event or in advance by emailing katrina.

ford@edpcitizensadvice.org.uk Citizens Advice in East Dorset & Purbeck can offer free advice and support on a range of issues including, debt, benefits, energy, employment and housing.

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Last call to visit legendary soldier’s home

THIS month is the last chance for 2023 to visit the Dorset house of legendary soldier TE Lawrence – better known as Lawrence of Arabia.

Clouds Hill, near Bovington, was home to the famous fighter from 1923, and is one of the smallest houses owned by the National Trust.

Each year, at the end of October, Clouds Hill gets ‘put to bed’ for the winter season by the National Trust team.

All of the original TE Lawrence collection pieces are carefully dusted, cleaned, covered and wrapped to keep them safe, and the house is

slowly and carefully deep cleaned.

“This means that now is your last chance to visit this remarkable house before the special conservation cleaning begins,” a spokesperson said.

“2023 is also a special year to visit due to it being the 100-year anniversary of TE Lawrence finding and moving into Clouds Hill.”

Clouds Hill is near the Tank Museum at Bovington, home to a ‘superb’ collection of original TE Lawrence items including books and pictures, they added.

“Clouds Hill was originally built as a forester’s cottage in

Clouds Hill is near the Tank Museum at Bovington

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the early 19th century,” the spokesperson said.

Dilapidated and uncomfortable, TE Lawrence began renting Clouds Hill in 1923, when he was stationed nearby at Bovington Camp with the Tanks Corps.

Elizabeth Flight, partnership and programming officer, said: “Now is the perfect opportunity to pay a visit to Clouds Hill.

“This is such an atmospheric house and although small you get a true sense of who TE Lawrence really was. The tours which are delivered outside the house paint a wonderful picture

of this incredible man.”

Open Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday throughout October, people can visit between 10am and 3pm.

Booking is recommended and can be done by calling 0344 249 1895, or by searching for Clouds Hill on the National Trust website. National Trust members can visit free of charge.

After October, the house will re-open in Easter 2024.

For more information and to book a visit, log on to www. nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/dorset/ clouds-hill.

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The Tiger 131 and A34 Comet in action at The Tank Museum

Tiger Day pulls a crowd

THOUSANDS of visitors turned out to see the world’s only running Tiger I tank in action at The Tank Museum at Bovington.

More than 4,500 people saw Tiger 131 on Tiger Day, which is held twice a year and attracts visitors from all over the world.

Highlights of the event included a battle re-enactment and Second World War tank display, including Sherman

‘Fury’ and a replica Panzer I, in a demonstration of historic tanks in action.

The Tiger tank was a formidable weapon for the German army during the Second World War and the capture of 131 allowed the Allies to understand exactly what had been unleashed.

Tiger 131 was captured in Tunisia in April 1943 and was passed to The Tank Museum in 1951.

Museum curator David Willey said: “To have the Tiger 131 still thrilling crowds 80 years after its capture is a testament to the skill and dedication of our staff.”

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New homes plan for edge-of-village site

PLANS for five new homes on the edge of Bere Regis have been submitted.

The scheme would see Tower House, on Tower Hill, demolished and replaced by five homes on the 0.3-hectare site.

It comes after several previous applications for homes on the site were refused, including due to the impact proposals could have on the Bere Regis Conservation Area.

The new scheme features homes pushed further back from Tower Hill.

“The key starting point for the revised layout concept was the desire to push the development well back from Tower Hill and thus retain its current character,” the

application said.

“If no houses are addressing Tower Hill directly then it makes logical sense to orientate the dwellings in line with the

Tower House would be demolished as part of the plan.

PHOTO: Google Inset – A computer-generated image of how the scheme could look. PHOTO: Watts Holt/Dorset Council

shape of the site itself – resulting in comfortable side-by-side relationships and

also creating a more spacious back-to-back arrangement with the Butts Lane properties.

“In particular, the proposal would result in build form moved much further from listed building 67 Butts Lane than either existing or previously proposed.”

The existing access point would be retained, with a shared driveway along the eastern side of the site.

“Each dwelling would have a simple side driveway which would keep the amount of hardstanding for parking to a minimum and would also avoid cars visually dominating the site,” the application went on.

“Each house would have a private rear garden which would be at least commensurate with the surrounding properties with the two end houses benefiting from more generous garden spaces.”

For more details, and to comment on the plans, log on to www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk and search for application reference P/FUL/2023/04403.

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Work starts after long battle for footpath A HISTORIC former military railway route has finally been recognised as a public right of way – and is being cleared for walkers.

The old Cordite Factory railway route, at Holton Heath, was used for many years by the people of Sandford to glimpse the harbour, fish, walk and cycle.

In 2003, the route was highlighted by campaigners as a potential key connection between Holton Heath and Hamworthy.

But it was obstructed in 2010, leading to a 13-year effort to have it recognised as a public right of way.

Now, work is finally under way on clearing the Cordite Way footpath between the

Volunteers clear the way on the old Cordite Factroy railway route

Holton Heath Trading Estate and Rockley Jetty.

The first volunteer working party was led by Dorset councillor Beryl Ezzard (Lib Dem, Wareham), with Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole councillor Andy Hadley (Ind, Poole Town) and others, under the supervision of Dorset Council ranger Katie Black.

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years of undergrowth from the route of the former military line that connected the Royal Naval Cordite Factory to the pier at Rockley Jetty, opposite Rockley Sands.

Cllr Ezzard said: “The Cordite works is part of the heritage of Sandford which we should celebrate, and the track gives locals their only means to glimpse the harbour. This is a great step forward.”

Members of the Friends of the Cordite Way Clearance Group hope to complete the first section of the footpath to the viewpoint overlooking Poole Harbour and Arne peninsular by summer 2024.

“There was an Admiralty bridge over the main line, demolished months before the Footpath Appeal was won, which will need to be replaced

to reach a second viewpoint on the harbour’s edge opposite Rockley Sands,” the group said.

Land on which the route lies is owned by the Lees Estate and leased by Jade-Aden Services, both of whom have supported the scheme.

The path will, with the generous support and help from the landowners, become a permissive path for cycling giving access to green spaces for walkers and cyclists.

Cllr Hadley, chair of the Poole Harbour Trails group, added: “Encouraging sustainable travel and tourism needs good quality routes.

“Reaching our future aims, the Cordite Way avoids busy roads and gives fantastic views onto the upper reaches of the harbour. It will provide a great link between communities.”

Morris dancers look for new recruits

MORRIS dancing across Purbeck raised vital funds for a good cause this summer – but faces a bleak future if more dancers cannot be found.

The Dorset Button Morris confirmed its summer programme raised £900 for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance charity.

“Thanks to everyone who came out and cheered us on and helped us collect this,” a spokesperson said.

And they said to keep up the knees – and the good work – the group was aiming to recruit more dancers.

“Dorset Button Morris have

Morris dancing is fun and good exercise. PHOTO: Pixabay

been dancing in Purbeck and the local areas for over 35 years,” they added.

“We are now getting so low of dancers that this type of dancing may not last locally.”

In a bid to boost numbers, the group is set to hold Morris dancing workshops.

The ladies dance, North West Morris, was planning to hold workshops at the URC Church

Hall, Wareham, earlier this month.

Meanwhile, male Rapper – flexible sword – dancing will host events at Sandford Scout Hall on Sundays, October 15 and 29.

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“Morris dancing is fun, good exercise and a good way to make new friends,” the spokesperson added. “It is not as difficult as it looks.”

For more details on the ladies dance, contact squire Mo by email to maureenday4@icloud. com.

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80-plus screenings in 28th film festival FUN, drama and comedy are all set to hit the screen during the Purbeck Film Festival.

Organisers of the event have revealed a programme they promise offers something for everyone.

Now in its 28th year, the Purbeck Film Festival features films old and new, with more than 80 screenings planned at 30-plus venues from October 20 to November 4.

Venues vary from the Mowlem in Swanage to Wareham’s magnificent Rex, as well as village and church halls, Durlston Castle – and a tennis and croquet club.

There are four Q&As with directors and film industry guests, two French evenings, a Spanish and New Zealand evening, one pre-view

The Purbeck Film Festival will screen Luna: A Yak in the Classroom

documentary, and nostalgic English films, including Tony Hancock’s Punch and Judy Man, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary.

The event will launch on Friday (October 20), with three films in Swanage, Bridport and Poole – French-made One Fine Morning, Emmanuelle Nicot’s

debut Love According to Dalva, and Luna: A Yak in the Classroom.

Over the following weeks, the mood swings from well known classic movies such as 84 Charing Cross Road, Don’t Look Now and Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove, to some of this year’s best films

including The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, to Ken Loach’s The Old Oak. Film fans can also watch How to Blow Up a Pipeline, discover Where the Crawdads Sing or reminisce about Once Upon a Time in the West.

Meanwhile, Hancock’s Punch and Judy Man, which saw him move away from his famous character of East Cheam, will be introduced at the Mowlem by Tom Dommett, of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society.

The patrons of this year’s festival are Bafta-nominated screenwriter Olivia Hetreed, producer Andy Paterson, and gifted actor and playwright Sir Mark Rylance.

“Their support gives a boost to the small group of volunteers who organise the festival,” a spokesperson said.

“But just as important will be the sight of, hopefully, packed audiences enjoying the films, with or without a Purbeck ice-cream.”

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Walk with alpacas Jean’s birthday dream come true CARE home residents from Poole took a walk on the wild side when they met alpacas on an excursion – and celebrated a 70th birthday in style.

A trip from Dorset House, a Care South home in Poole, saw a group visit the Alpaca Adventure, in Shaftesbury.

Residents and staff enjoyed an up-close and personal experience with the animals as Wendy, who works at Alpaca Adventure, introduced each of the alpacas.

“She explained that while there are more adult alpacas at the site, there were even a few adorable crias – baby alpacas – for the residents to say hello to,” a spokesperson said.

“Once the introductions were made, Wendy and the residents took a leisurely walk with the

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I looked at my options – there’s no collection point in Swanage, although some time ago you could pick one up from the desk at the town hall.

The nearest collection point to Swanage is Wareham Library and, coincidentally, as I was going to Wareham the next day, I thought that I’d do that.

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alpacas around the beautiful Shaftesbury countryside.”

For Dorset House resident Jean, the visit was a dream come true.

She had booked the activity for her 70th birthday and walked with alpaca, Buddy, and told him all about her life as they walked around the farm.

“It’s an experience that I have been dreaming about for a long time, and I am so grateful that I have finally been able to do it,” she said.

“Alpacas are my favourite animal, and it was so special to have this opportunity to interact with them, as they’re not something you’d see every day.”

Jean was not the only resident impressed by the day, as fellow residents, Dorothy,

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Alpaca Adventure hosted visitors from Dorset House care home

Geoff and Irene enjoyed an extra walk with the alpacas in their field.

As the day drew to a close, Jean and her fellow residents visited the gift shop to pick up souvenirs from the fantastic day.

Sam Baker, activities lead at Dorset House, said: “It was such a fantastic experience, and such a wonderful way to ensure that

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Sketches of the characters by Bournemouth Arts University Performance Design and Film Costume graduate Claire Thomas

STORIES from the at-times gruesome past of a Dorset landmark are being told in a new exhibition.

The National Trust at Corfe Castle has collaborated with Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) BA (Hons) Performance Design and Film Costume graduate Claire Thomas to bring human tales to life in The Stories of the Spirits.

With 1,000 years of history, Corfe Castle was once home to royalty and nobility but behind its grandness lurk stories of a gruesome past.

The new display will bring to life the stories of five important people from its history.

King Edward the Martyr, who was stabbed in the back at the castle in 975; Matilda de Briouse, who was starved to death; King Edward II, who was imprisoned; Christopher Hatton, who renovated the castle back to splendour; and Mary Bankes, who fought to keep the

castle from the parliamentarians during the civil war.

There will be a family quest within the castle until November 12 and visitors can learn about the spirits, their connection to the castle and collect stamps for a prize at the end.

A free exhibition is also being held at the Welcome Centre, featuring the haunting costumes and Claire’s sketch book.

Sophie Trenchard, visitor experience officer at Corfe Castle, said: “Visitors of all ages will be intrigued and enlightened by the real stories of those who lived and died at Corfe Castle.

“Claire’s obvious talent and enthusiasm has been inspirational and instrumental in bringing their stories to life.”

Claire said: “Corfe Castle is a beautiful location with such a rich history. Bringing the ‘spirits’ to life and getting a little window into the past was such a fun

Christopher Hatton renovated the castle back to splendour.

King Edward II was imprisoned at the castle.

experience and I would’ve loved to have experienced this type of history lesson when I was a kid.”

Dan Cox, head of AUB Open Campus, added: “Here at AUB we’re incredibly proud of what Claire has achieved with this project, and we’re thrilled to have been involved in bringing Corfe Castle’s history to life in such a creative and imaginative way.

“We’re excited for the public to not only see the work from one of our talented graduates, but to also experience first-hand the joy and intrigue that the creative arts can bring to our Dorset community.”

The Stories of the Spirits Quest at Corfe Castle runs until November 12. Normal admission applies, members free.

The exhibition is at Castle View Visitor Centre until November 5, from 10am to 3.30pm. Entry is free.

For more details, log on to nationaltrust. org.uk/corfe-castle.

Mary Bankes fought to keep the castle from the parliamentarians. PHOTOS: Bella Swatman

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Rape case ex-police officer gets 16 years jail

A FORMER Dorset Police officer has been sentenced to 16 and half years in prison after being convicted of eight sexual offences, including two counts of rape.

Ravi Canhye, from Poole, was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Thursday, October 5, after being convicted of two counts of rape, one attempted rape, three assaults by penetration against one woman and one assault by touching against a second woman.

Both women were known to him.

All eight offences Canhye was found guilty of happened during a weekend in April 2022, while he was off duty.

Mr Canhye has also resigned as a Dorset Police officer.

Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Farrell, of Dorset Police, said: “I want to start by paying testament to the victims and thank them for having the courage to come

forward and report what happened to them, supporting our investigation and showing real strength throughout the court process. They are truly remarkable women.

“Every police officer is entrusted by the public with a unique position in upholding the law and protecting vulnerable people. This position must come with the highest expectations of behaviour and conduct.

“The offences for which Ravi Canhye has been convicted and sentenced are truly abhorrent.

Whilst these offences were not committed when he was on duty, I fully appreciate the fact he was a serving police officer will shock and concern our communities.”

She said Canhye “does not represent the many thousands of police officers in Dorset and elsewhere” working in the community.

“As soon as the victims made their report to police, Ravi

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Ravi Canhye, from Poole

Canhye was suspended from duty and he has remained suspended since,” she went on.

“I hope the investigation and sentence helps give assurance to victims of sexual abuse that we will do all we can to investigate offences, support victims and work with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to ensure offenders are brought to justice – no matter who the perpetrator is.

“Dorset Police has trained detectives with additional qualifications and skills as investigators of rape and serious sexual abuse.

“We also have a team of specially-trained officers who work alongside victims by supporting them through the entire investigation and court process. We have been part of the national Op Soteria programme, which aims to enhance the way the police, CPS and other criminal justice partners work together to

support victims of rape and gather and present, intelligence and evidence in respect of perpetrators.

“I want to recognise the entire investigation team including the police officers, CPS lawyers and prosecutors and the specialist support services for their dedicated hard work on this case.

“The investigation was robust and fearless in enabling the CPS to present a strong case to the court and enable the jury to reach their verdict.

“I know the victims are grateful for the support they have received from the team.

“There is no place in our police service for officers or staff who commit offences of violence towards women and girls and we will simply not tolerate violent, misogynistic or sexualised behaviour. We are determined to root out those who do not uphold the highest standards and adhere to our values.

“Dorset Police has developed channels to enable our staff and officers to report issues in a safe, confidential and supportive environment, and be confident their concerns are quickly and robustly investigated.

“We would also urge any victims of serious sexual assault to contact us and reassure them of the seriousness of how we will approach their reports and the support they will be given.”

Canhye will also be placed on the sex offenders’ register.

Folk Harvest raises £500 for Allison Campbell charity

The Muddlecombe Men at Wareham Folk Harvest

THE Wareham Folk Harvest at the Kings Arms attracted performers from across the south of England and coined in £500 for local charity the Allison Campbell Trust (ACT).

ACT supports people in the Purbeck area who are terminally ill and the Kings Arms has supported it since the charity’s inception, raising more than £4,000.

To tie in with the harvest theme, the raffle prizes were based around local produce and provided by local businesses The Quay Inn, Curtis’s the Butcher, The Purbeck Cider Company, Chococo, Moore’s Biscuits and Dorset

Tea. Helen Casey, for the charity, said: “Thank you to Tim and Jono for hosting the event and to all those who donated their time and raffle prizes, and those who put their hands in their pockets so generously to make this event such a success for ACT.” To find out more about ACT, visit www.allisoncampbelltrust.org. If you know someone in the Purbeck area who would benefit from ACT’s support, ask them to speak to their local district nurse who will contact ACT about how it can help.

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Museum to showcase work of renowned sculptor

AN exhibition showcasing works produced by renowned sculptor Elisabeth Frink in Dorset will be held in Dorchester.

Dorset Museum will host the display – entitled A View from Within – from December 1, featuring more than 80 sculptures, drawings and prints, including working plasters that informed the final bronze sculptures that have never been on public display before.

One of the most celebrated sculpturers of recent times, Dame Elisabeth became the first female sculptor to be elected as a Royal Academician, in 1973, producing more than 400 sculptures during her illustrious career – many of which were produced at her Woolland studio, in Dorset, between 1976 and 1993.

As part of the exhibition, her Dorset studio will be recreated, featuring her tools and the working plasters that formed the basis of some of her most well-known bronze sculptures.

As well as understanding her artistic process, visitors will get a chance to explore the influence of her private Dorset life, with a selection of personal possessions on display, including letters and photographs.

The dying wishes of her son, Lin Jammet, were that the entire

Frink Estate and Archive be given to the nation, ensuring her vision of sharing her art in the public sphere was achieved.

This generosity resulted in a significant cultural gift to 12 public museums across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with Dorset Museum receiving more than 300 works in 2020, making it one of the largest public collections of Frink’s work.

The Frink Estate gifted 31 bronze sculptures, more than 100 prints and drawings along with several original plaster sculptures, studio tools and equipment.

Works displayed in A View from Within will be drawn from this collection, as well as from the Frink Archive at the Dorset History Centre, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art. Frink shared her Dorset home with husband, Alex Csáky, and they populated the space with paintings and sculpture.

Now in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Seated Man (1986) will return to Dorset, where it once used to be on display by her swimming pool.

The extensive grounds of Woolland helped Frink work in natural light, across all seasons, and was also a place where she

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Elisabeth Frink produced dozens of pieces in Dorset.

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could frame both her individual and group sculptures.

One of the last sculptures she ever completed, Standing Horse (1993), was finished at Woolland just weeks before her death from cancer and will be included in the exhibition.

Elizabeth Selby, director of collections and public engagement at Dorset Museum, said: “Elisabeth Frink was an extraordinary artist who explored what it meant to be human through her work.

“This exhibition will portray Frink in a more intimate light, revealing her inner world and the major themes she explored in her sculpture, prints and drawings.

“We are thrilled to be able to display more of the works we acquired from the Elisabeth Frink Estate in 2020, and explore Frink’s connections with Dorset, where she lived and worked from 1976 until her death in 1993.”

Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within is curated by Lucy Johnston, exhibition manager at Dorset Museum, and Annette Ratuszniak, former curator of

the Elisabeth Frink Estate.

Research assistance has been provided by Pippa Davies.

Executive director Claire Dixon, who joined the museum this summer, said: “The museum was transformed by a multi-million-pound extension, but we now need to engage with enough visitors to ensure its survival, as the museum has struggled to recover from the impact of the pandemic and more recent cost-of-living crisis.

“Exhibitions like this form a crucial part of my vision for a sustainable future for the museum, encouraging repeat visits and providing access to exceptional collections and stories that relate to Dorset but also have wider connections that make them relevant to all.”

The exhibition is sponsored

by Duke’s Fine Art Auctioneers and supported by the Arts Council England NPO scheme through the Wessex Museums Partnership.

Other funders include JP Marland Trust, the Henry Moore Foundation, the Finnis Scott Foundation and the Fine Family Foundation.

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Personal tragedy and a gas message IT has recently been Gas Safety Week, which is to raise awareness of the dangers of poorly maintained gas appliances, which can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.

This is a subject which is very close to my heart, as almost 18 years ago my younger brother Edward was killed by CO gas poisoning. He went to sleep, and never woke up. There was a faulty gas heater in his room which was leaking carbon monoxide. You can’t smell it, see it or taste it, so he didn’t know it was there. He just breathed it in, and he died.

I have been raising awareness of this to make sure this tragedy doesn’t happen to other families – which is why Gas Safety Week is so important.

It’s really important that you don’t attempt DIY on gas

appliances, and get them website, www. regularly serviced. CO can also michaeltomlinson.org.uk/ come from poorly maintained gas-safety-week, A CO detector wood burners and fireplaces, as will sound an alarm to let you well as any boilers that burn know if CO is in your home gas, LPG or oil.

– and it could save your life.

Make sure you get your To keep you and your family chimney swept regularly, and safe, follow Gas Safe Register’s have your annual service done top tips: by a registered engineer. n Know the symptoms of I gave an interview to a carbon monoxide (CO) national newspaper poisoning – about my brother and headaches, nausea, how he died, and I breathlessness, have teamed up with dizziness, collapse British Gas to help and loss of ensure this doesn’t consciousness. happen to you. I have n Look out for a dedicated section of warning signs your my website, where you appliance may be can read about carbon Michael Tomlinson unsafe, such as a lazy monoxide poisoning yellow flame instead and how to prevent it. of a crisp blue flame, error British Gas gave me 50 messages or unexpected noises carbon monoxide detectors to from your boiler or dark and give away – I still have some sooty stains around your gas left, so if you would like one, appliance. please complete the form on my n Make sure you leave vents

unblocked as these are there to help your appliance work safely and efficiently. n If you smell gas or think there might be a gas leak, call the free 24-hour national gas emergency number immediately on 0800 111 999. n Never attempt to work on a gas appliance yourself, always seek the help of a qualified Gas Safe registered engineer. n If you’re having your annual safety check, only employ a suitably qualified Gas Safe registered engineer to carry it out. n Always ask to see your engineer’s Gas Safe ID card.

Make sure you check the back of the card, which will state which gas appliances they are qualified to work on.

• Get your chimneys swept regularly.

MICHAEL TOMLINSON Conservative MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole

THOSE showing their common humanity with refugees at the Isle of Portland Unity Demonstration last month vastly outnumbered the supporters of far-right Patriotic Alternative and Britain First who also gathered in Fortuneswell, not far from Portland Port where the Bibby Stockholm barge is moored.

I was proud to march not only behind Stand Up to Racism banners, but also behind banners held up by members of Unite The Union, the National Education Union, Unison, and the Public and Commercial Service Union.

The Secretary of the South West Region of the TUC, Ines lage, was one of the speakers, as was Carralyn Parkes, Labour Mayor of Portland and Labour councillor for Underhill – the ward where the barge is berthed.

Carralyn spoke of her legal challenge to end the use of the Bibby Stockholm to warehouse hundreds of traumatised

refugees fleeing war and Yet Suella Braverman is still torture. determined to warehouse A judge will decide at a traumatised refugees on a vessel hearing in the Royal Courts of described by the Fire Brigades Justice whether to allow a Union as a ‘potential floating Judicial Review to take place Grenfell’. She has told Nick which will hold the Home Ferrari on his LBC Breakfast Office to account.

Show that the barge is safe – Later, we listened despite the Legionella to music and danced and fire scares – and on the beach to the that the refugees will songs of Kurdish be re-embarked ‘as singer Mustafa soon as possible’.

Mamu. The Choir, And Portland – Dorset Red, sang and, to a lesser songs of welcome. degree, Weymouth One of the refugees, – still remains marred supported by the by fear and prejudice.

Chris Bradey Portland Global The Home Friendship Group, is reported as Secretary’s words to the saying “thank you for today and American Enterprise Institute in for your hospitality, which made Washington DC recently will do us forget the bitter memories of nothing to calm these fears – living in the barge”. rather, surely, the very opposite.

Perhaps Labour Portland Suella Braverman spoke of town councillor Giovanna ‘uncontrolled and illegal Lewis summed up best the migration’ – words reminding mood of welcome and me of the banners put up in compassion – “there’s a lot of Portland at the first news of the love in people’s hearts”.

Bibby Portland arriving, which

warned of an ‘invasion’ by ‘illegals’.

She spoke of migration being an ‘existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the west’. She said the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights were ‘no longer fit for purpose’.

The Times headline the day after was short and sweet – ‘Immigration is threat to the West, says Braverman’. Turning Point UK, which describes itself as a right-wing conservative activist and political organisation, was also straight to the point – migration and multi-culturalism have all been a ‘toxic’ cocktail.

I remain, though, heartened

by Giovanna’s words. The spirit she praised that Saturday is far stronger than the ruthless desire of an ambitious politician to seize the headlines.

CHRIS BRADEY Chair, Swanage & Rural Purbeck Labour Party

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Lib Dems’ pledge on social housing

AS I write this, the party conference season is in full swing and many promises will be made, most of which will be either devoid of real detail or simply be unachievable.

All political parties agree that more new housing is needed and pretty much every government for decades has had housing targets, but none have ever been met.

So why have a target at all?

One consequence of the housing target is that this gets trickled down to local authorities who then have to demonstrate a rolling five-year housing supply. The failure to meet that diminishes the power of Local Plans and can lead to ‘undesirable’ development as building firms take advantage. But councils can’t force builders to complete houses – planning permission is granted but the land is ‘banked’, with the bare minimum of work started just to comply with planning permission.

In the end, house builders want to

sell their properties for as much as The term also includes social they can, so they restrict housing – about 50% market rates availability and remove ‘affordable – and both rental and owned homes’ from the schemes on the properties. The average private basis of viability. With the current rent for a three-bed house in cost-of-living crisis and mortgage Dorset is £1,200 a month while rates higher than seen for decades, social rent is about £600; the Local builders are deliberately slowing Housing Allowance for Dorset is down completions and restricting about £750 a month. supply.

Dorset Council averages Having safe, between 4,000 to 5,000 secure housing households on the housing which you can afford register; these families need is the bedrock of social rented homes but well-being, leading very few are being built to better outcomes each year. The conclusion is for both families and that most ‘affordable’ homes individuals are generally unavailable to financially, socially those that really need them.

Nick Ireland and in health.

The only way this will change is if But we don’t have enough government and/or local ‘affordable’ housing. authorities give greater incentives Unfortunately, the government to housing associations or definition of ‘affordable’ includes alternatively build their own affordable rental housing, starter social-rent housing. homes, discounted market What we desperately need are housing, shared ownership and targets for social-rented new other forms of subsidised housing. builds, in locations which have

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good transport links and infrastructure. 50% of the need on Dorset’s housing register is for one-bedroom properties yet few are built and often those that are, are in out-of-town greenfield developments; residents of one-bedroom social rental homes are likely to rely on public transport and to have abovenormal reliance on health facilities.

The Liberal Democrats have pledged to build 150,000 socialrent properties a year and remove the ability of builders to sit on land for which they have planning permission.

A Lib Dem led Dorset Council will work with housing associations to significantly increase their new build numbers and we will exami ne how best to build our own social-rent properties. Dorset homes that Dorset residents can afford.

NICK IRELAND South Dorset Lib Dems

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Bikers’ charity ride raises £10,000-plus for DocBike

A CHARITY motorcycle ride has raised more than £10,000 for a life-saving charity.

DocBike, which provides motorcycle paramedics working alongside air ambulance teams, held its annual ride out in Dorset with participants taking on 30-, 35-, or 40-mile routes from Bridport, Alderholt and Bridgwater, finishing at Henstridge Airfield.

Despite challenging weather, more than 600 bikers turned out.

Dorset riders Dr Ian Mew and critical care paramedic Mark Williams led separate convoys through country roads, while Sussex regional lead John Allsopp, led Bridgwater’s convoy through Somerset.

After completing their chosen route, the riders received a warm welcome at the airfield, where they were able to enjoy a display of exhibitors,

scrumptious food and music from DJ Paul Brady, along with a grand raffle.

The event also gave DocBike and Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance the chance to engage with motorcyclists to raise awareness of their lifesaving work – and how bikers can upskill their ride, along with sharing how to keep injured riders alive until the emergency services arrive by attending a free BikerDown course.

Speaking of the success of this year’s event, Dr Ian Mew, co-founder and trustee of DocBike, said: “We’re blown away by the support received at this year’s ride out.

“The DocBike charity receives no funding from the Government and relies on the generosity of the public to continue our life-saving work, so we’re thrilled to have raised

such a fantastic amount which will help towards our evergrowing operational costs.

“While this event helps to raise much-needed funds for the charity, the support we receive from the motorcycling community for our work to reduce motorcycle collisions and providing life-saving critical care to anyone who needs it – not just motorcyclists – means so much more.

“We’re incredibly grateful to every person and organisation for their continued support.

“We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part, to our wonderful team of volunteers and marshals, exhibitors and caterers, businesses and individuals who

donated incredible raffle prizes, the High Sheriff of Somerset and High Sheriff of Dorset, Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, Dorset Freemasons, West Bay Snack Shack and Will Badman Photography for helping to make the day such a success.

“Finally, special thanks go to Henstridge Airfield clubhouse and owner Geoff Jarvis, The Churchill Arms in Alderholt, Bridgwater Community Hospital, West Bay Harbour Master, Bridport Town Council and Dorset Council, for hosting the start and finish points of the event.”

For more information on DocBike, log on to www.

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Telling It Like It Is

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Town council and Lidl store

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ONSIDERABLE controversy in Wareham at present surrounding proposals to build a new Lidl supermarket on the piece of waste ground at ‘Pottery Lines’ in Sandford.

I would have thought that everyone apart from shopkeepers in Wareham would have welcomed it with open arms.

Right now, if shoppers want to avoid the prices charged by local branches of the ‘main’ supermarkets they have to waste time and money, and add to pollution, driving to Poole.

So what I don’t understand is why Wareham Town Council appears to reject these plans.

Sure, it’s a piece of scruffy ‘green belt’ which is generally only used for a funfair or circus. I can’t imagine that’s much ‘fun’ for the people living in the immediate vicinity.

It’s one of those town-to-town affairs that stick their posters up a couple of weeks before the event and then leave them to become bedraggled in the autumn and winter weather – I’ve never seen the posters being removed.

I feel Lidl has sufficient support for Wareham Town Council to stop, take another look and bow to public opinion.

Not that it matters anyway because Dorset Planning seldom takes any notice of town or parish council suggestions – it just seems to follow its planning department’s recommendations and rubber-stamp them.

Who was it that defined a parish council as a body of people who can do nothing, who gather together once a month to decide that nothing can be done?

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EEMS that, at last, the Highways Department might be listening to the protestations we have been making over the years and making a wide footway next to the current road bridge so that residents of North Wareham can push their prams and wheelchairs into South Wareham, and

By David Hollister vice-versa, without getting killed on the road.

I’m guessing the only way it can release the funds is to call it a cycleway – that, for the uninitiated, is a piece of pavement with cycle markings on it, that no self-respecting cyclist wants to use. But cycleway is a ‘buzz word’ and if that’s what it takes to release the funding, then so be it.

In the short term, it has erected several-way traffic lights while the engineers do their research work.

No digging or excavations yet, just ‘research’, which presumably will tell them what needs to be done to erect the appropriate width footway.

Today, I queued from Holton Heath to Wareham for 40 minutes and as I drove past, actually spotted no ‘research’ work taking place. Maybe it was their lunch break.

Never really famous for my patience, I was surprised I kept my cool. But I won’t be going that way for a while.

Maybe I can use of some of my £40 plastic ferry ticket I bought in April last year in a fit of patriotic support for the Ferry Company and which is probably non-transferable.

J

UST out and about in Swanage trying to get cash out of the machine, but then discovered that someone had thought it would be fun to shove a burger in the cash dispenser area.

Not funny. But the way things are going, cash will soon be a thing of the past. I went to my favourite quayside restaurant on the way home to have a wellearned pint and a bite of lunch as a reward for not losing my temper at the roadworks only to find a notice saying ‘we are a card-only venue and we don’t accept cash’.

Astonishing! I asked the waitress what the problem was and apparently it’s ‘orders from

the management’, who in this case are Hall & Woodhouse.

Just who do these people think they are to order their staff not to accept PERFECTLY LEGAL TENDER! It’s this sort of management bullying that will herald the end of cash transactions as we know them. Will the tooth fairy carry a card machine? And how about buskers and beggars? And what happens when the internet is down or there’s a power cut?

Cash is King. Use it or lose it. For ever.

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EVEN species of bee were put on the endangered list last year – and if bees disappear then so will a lot of our foods, including strawberries, avocados, even coffee.

Our ‘food manufacturers’, who are in reality just profitdriven, will make bees extinct due to their continuing use of chemicals.

A local bee-keeper said: “I received a message from a homeowner to say they had a swarm of bees in their hedge, but they were worried about them because children had been throwing water at them.

“By the time my fellow beekeeper and I arrived, what had been a beautiful prime swarm was reduced to a few hundred drenched bees, huddling limply around their queen.

“We gently placed the bees that had survived into a collection box, and hopefully when they've had chance to dry out and settle, we'll check on them and if necessary feed them – they'll be

exhausted and possibly – understandably – defensive.

They've been through a lot.”

He goes on to say: “Please, help me to educate your children, your grandchildren, your nieces and nephews, your neighbours, your colleagues and your friends that a swarm of bees isn't dangerous – they're amazing creatures that are just looking for a new home.

“Please don't let anyone harm them. Just call a beekeeper who will gladly re-home them.”

Not a lot more I can say. If we don’t educate our children to protect and cherish wildlife, in time that wildlife will disappear, and they will wonder why.

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GNORANCE and stupidity is what’s driving this so-called civilisation towards the edge of the precipice.

Which ignorant and stupid politicians decided to make capital out of legalising vapes as a replacement for tobacco?

And allowing children not only to buy them but to take them into schools where a significant number of them are rapidly becoming addicted, possibly to the detriment of their long-term health.

And to ‘balance’ this argument, someone tell my why it is good for our kids to fill their healthy little lungs with this poison?

I guarantee that in 50 years’ time, long after the guilty politicians have shuffled off this mortal coil, people will be looking round for someone to blame and someone to sue.

Your kids – your choice.

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Birthday boy out in front WHILE most young people turning 17 might mark the occasion by having a driving lesson, one Dorset speedster was celebrating a landmark achievement at Brands Hatch.

Reza Seewooruthun, from Poole, spent his birthday weekend becoming the first driver to complete the ‘clean sweep’ and lead every lap of the weekend at the Ginetta Junior Championship.

The teen stunned crowds at Brands Hatch by leading every lap of each of the three races.

The ‘R Racing’ speedster also secured two poles and the fastest lap over the weekend.

Reza, a former English Kart Champion, is in his first year of car racing and will be completing his first full season at the final round in Donnington Park at the end of October.

His efforts at Brands Hatch

mean he has a strong chance of finishing in the top three of the drivers’ championship – alongside teammates Freddie Slater and Mikey Porter.

They are hoping for an R Racing 1-2-3 finish in the championship, to accompany their team’s win for the season.

In the 10 years since the formation of the championship, no driver has won all three races over a weekend, achieving the ‘clean sweep’ and led every lap of every race.

Until now.

“It was a dream birthday weekend. I had been clocking fast times in qualifying and the car was good – but I never thought I’d top the podium after all three races,” Reza said.

“I was under huge pressure

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Racing driver Reza Seewooruthun at Brands Hatch

from other drivers but managed to stay ahead. The team and the tactics were superb.

“To achieve the fastest lap and take the two poles available really made it a weekend to remember.

“I am now focusing on the last races at Donnington Park and want to build on what I achieved at Brands Hatch.

“With R Racing already having won the team title I want to help make it a one-two-three for the team as well.”

The championship comprises 21 races over seven meetings at

all the major circuits in the country.

Reza is backed by a number of local businesses including Wyatt Homes, Charles Trent, Anders Roberts Cheer Architecture, Luxury Care, Abbey Estates, DWP Housing Partnership and SC&W Law. Next season, the teenager moves into Formula 4 and is aiming to follow in the footsteps of Formula 1 driver Lando Norris, who went to school in Street, Somerset, who also started in the Ginetta Junior Championships.

Swans show their grit on away day SWANS produced a gritty performance to earn three valuable points against Westland Sports in The Jewson Dorset Premier League.

Swans had to defend well as a team and were always dangerous with the pace of Reeks and Moore.

Swans went ahead on 28 minutes courtesy of Jack Hughes with a good finish following a cross from Ocean Smith.

Both sides had chances in the second half and Cody Moore nearly doubled the lead following a mazy run through the Westland defence.

Swans keeper Taylor Hibbs saved his side when he denied a

Westland forward with a fine save when clean through.

Swans had striker Dan Reeks sent off for retaliation with ten minutes remaining.

The resolute Swans held on for three points to take back to the Isle of Purbeck.

Swans star man: Elliott Steele Special mention: Charlie Dyke Team: T Hibbs, Olly Smith, B Smith, J Towers, J Streams, C Dyke, E Steele (C Magnier 80), J Hughes , Ocean Smith (A Cope 75), D Reeks, C Moore.

Subs: C Magnier, A Cope, B Hughes, L O'Connell.

Swans Reserves 2 Handley Sports 5 SWANS suffered consecutive home defeats at Day’s Park in Dorset League Division 2 Swans went close when Roy Lock just missed the target with

Jack Hughes in action.

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a header, before the visitors responded when they took the lead with a glancing header from Jack Mills.

Swans levelled through Dan Cavendish with a deflected shot following good work from Zack Arp. The hosts took the lead just before the interval courtesy of Spencer Grygiel following good work from Matt Dunster.

Handley looked dangerous in the second half and created more chances than the hosts and equalised through Tom Brown.

Apart from a couple of near misses from Spencer Grygiel, Handley were in the ascendency and with goals from Tom Brown and a brace from Ben Edwards secured the three points.

Swans Star Man: Jordan Crosland Team: K Jaques, S Pryor, R Lock, J Crosland, R Moss, M Dunster, C Furmage, S Page, S Grygiel, Z Arp, D Cavendish Subs: J Bassett, A Burgess, L Sullivan, T Johnson

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Flying start to the season for Swans HOCKEY

goal differences, with the 1s scoring 10 so far, and the 2s, 11.

Swans Ladies teams remain unbeaten in their leagues. The Ladies 2s have scored eight in their opening two fixtures, and the Ladies 1s 15 goals in three games.

The Ladies 1s sit top of their league, thanks to a huge goalscoring boost from Emily Ottaway, who has scored six in three games. Ottaway grabbed herself a hat-trick during a resounding 9-1 victory against Bournemouth.

Swans Junior section has also grown considerably this season, with youngsters from ages six-13 enjoying hockey sessions on Wednesday evenings. The coaches welcome new faces along, regardless of experience.

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SWANAGE and Wareham Hockey Club have started their 2023/24 season in emphatic style.

The beginning of the new hockey season has proved to come at the perfect time for Swanage and Wareham’s four senior teams.

They managed to secure 13 points from a possible 15 in some eagerly anticipated opening fixtures.

Both Men’s teams won in impressive style, with 8-0 victories. Another win came for the Ladies 1s who beat local rivals Wimborne 4-0 at home.

The Ladies 2s drew 3-3 at Purbeck against a strong Bournemouth side.

The Men’s 1s and 2s both sit third in their respective league tables, with two wins and a loss each. They have impressive

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Callum Dicks with the juniors and coaches of DDAS Juniors

England ace’s lesson JUNIORS in Dorchester & District Angling Society learned from a top angler when Callum Dicks led a coaching day at Whitemoor Lakes, near Wimborne.

The former world junior champion and senior England international took a session on Chester’s Lake, a small well-stocked lake perfect for the nine juniors to learn on.

Callum talked about the different baits he would use

ANGLING and how important it was to use them correctly.

He spoke in detail about his rigs, his equipment and how to set it all up efficiently.

The juniors received expert advice while they put it all into practice and it was clear they learned lots from the experience.

For more information about DDAS Juniors email juniors.sec@d-das.com.

Girls get kitted out

WIMBORNE Town Football Club U13s girls team has a new home and away kit sponsored by Poole-based developer Wyatt Homes.

In the 2022/23 season, the team were league champions after winning all games except one draw.

They also clinched the County Cup and League Cup titles.

Team manager Daniel McKrill said: “The support from Wyatt Homes has not only given us new kits but has also bolstered the spirits of our budding talents on the field.”

Swanage & Wareham blown away in windy conditions

By Ron Butler Sherborne 29 Swanage & Wareham 9 SWANAGE & Wareham suffered their first defeat of the season when they travelled to their near neighbours with the hosts playing the windy conditions far better than Swans.

In the first minute Sherborne kicked the ball into the Swans’ five-metre line and after a couple of line-outs Sherborne, with a catch/drive move, scored a try in the corner.

Swans had a couple of phases

RUGBY in the host’s territory but a penalty to Sherborne after 12 minutes increased their lead to eight points.

Another penalty to Sherborne after 20 minutes took the score to 11-0.

However, Swans came back with a penalty by Steve Woolley after 25 minutes to put Swans on the scoreboard.

Five minutes later Woolley added a second penalty to take the score to 11-6.

Sherborne were not finished

and after 35 minutes scored a try under the posts to make the half-time score Sherborne 18 Swans 6.

With the wind in the second half, Swans continued to try and play rugby, but made several mistakes which the hosts capitalised on.

After 48 minutes Sherborne added another penalty and five minutes later another penalty to make the score 24-6.

Woolley made it nine points to Swans with a penalty after 54 minutes but on the hour mark a bad kick by Swans had the

host’s winger catching the ball, passing to his centre, receiving the ball back and scoring a try under the posts.

In the last 15 minutes Swans had a series of penalties in the Sherborne 22, and twice the ball was held up over the host’s line, but Swans could not score.

Swans: G Crouch, R Ferguson, M Spencer, L Esera, S Bowen, S Woolley, C Moag, S Waterman, C Peters, A Crouch, K Salina, M Seaton, K Jones, M Roberts, J Casey (captain), Z Wyburgh, G Climie, J Blackmore

n Other score: Swanage & Wareham 2nd XV 55 Salisbury 3rd 0

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Acers for autumn colour

By Sally Gregson THE brilliant reds, purples and yellows of late summer – the hardy salvias, pelargoniums, fuchsias – are beginning to give way to the smoky clouds of Michaelmas Daisies, soft pink and white Japanese Anemones, and the rusty bronzes of the hardy chrysanths.

Everywhere the deep green summer foliage is changing into orange and gold. The metamorphosis of summer into autumn has begun.

And there is no doubt that now is the very best time to choose a new shrub or tree with especially good autumn colour as the leaves start to turn.

Japanese acers are especially tempting. But don’t get caught out. First check the plant label for a proper name, rather than buy a much cheaper seed-raised plant.

Acers that have been chosen

for size, shape and leaf-colour are given names, and their progeny will have been grafted onto a strong root stock.

Their seedlings, however, could grow to any height, even into a tree, and their leaves may not be such a good colour in spring.

Acer japonica comes originally from central Honshu, the main island of Japan. It’s a region that is mountainous, wooded and moist.

Shade is the ideal environment for these beautiful little acers, where they do not experience high winds.

So, when looking for the ideal position in the garden, choose somewhere out of the sun and wind, where the soil does not dry out.

In the wild they grow alongside Hydrangea serrata, that flowers a month earlier than its large-headed relative,

By Sally Gregson AS summer flees from our gardens and breezy autumn starts to make its presence felt, our gardening thoughts turn to preparing the borders for winter.

It’s often difficult to decide whether to bring in beautiful flowering plants like dahlias to the shelter and protection of the greenhouse, or leave them to fend for themselves for a few more weeks.

Recently gardeners have become more confident about leaving them outside to take their chances, which are increasingly in favour of mild, wet winters.

But the emphasis should, perhaps, be on the ‘wet’. Dahlia crowns are particularly susceptible to slugs and damp mould.

If the first frosts of winter have felled the top growth it can be an easy decision to cut back

the old stalks and mulch the crowns.

But if, as seems to be happening increasingly, those dahlias are still going strong, it can seem better to let them flower on through the autumn.

But the late months can be cruel, and wise old gardeners would shake their heads woefully.

If, on the other hand, the decision is to secure a particularly pleasing form, autumn is the time to lift the whole crown, tubers and all, shake off the soil and sit the whole thing in an old seed tray, lined with newspaper.

Label each crown with its name, and place the trays under the benching in the greenhouse, or in a cold, but frost-free, shed.

The tubers will not need watering through the winter, except for the occasional sprinkling of water if they seem to be desiccated. They should

Acers like a shady spot out of the wind

H. macrophylla, and prefers shade.

Together with native grasses such as Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’ with a terrible name, but beautifully variegated gold and green leaves that arch over like a foot-high (30cm) fountain, they all thrive in the woodland shade.

So, take a tip from the natural world and try planting the acer, the Hydrangea serrata and the Hakonechloa together under the shade of a small tree.

They would make a delicate combination that could be underplanted with hardy cyclamen and blue scillas for the spring.

How to overwinter dahlias

It can be difficult to decide whether to bring in flowering plants like dahlias to the protected environment of the greenhouse or leave them to fend for themselves for a few more weeks

be kept just on the moist side of bone dry.

Next spring pull them out and put them in a light, frostfree place covered with old potting compost. Water the crowns thoroughly and watch the shoots appear from the

tubers.

If more of a particular variety is needed, cuttings can be taken from these shoots, rooted and planted out later in early summer.

The garden will once again be full of your favourite dahlias.

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Gardens group coins in the cash

A DECADE of caring for Oakdale Library Gardens saw the group hold a fundraiser for town causes.

The group celebrated its 10th anniversary with a community event that raised more than £500 for charities and groups, including the Cherry Tree Nursery and Poole Men’s Shed.

Altogether WI provided refreshments, while there was a raffle with donations from Knoll Gardens, Tesco and Compton Acres, among others.

A children’s fancy dress parade was also held, with the winner chosen to receive a Farmer Palmers Day pass, while every youngster also went away with a prize.

Poole Ukelele Pluckers and Strummers provided music.

Win on Waste, Dorset Wildlife Trust, and Skills and Learning were also on hand

offering information and advice to visitors.

Meanwhile, a new entrance sign was unveiled by Jan Ayrton, who started the project in 2013, alongside Rob Kingman from Poole Men’s Shed, whose group provided the skills to make the wooden framework.

Ray Alderton, volunteer lead for Oakdale Library Gardens, in Wimborne Road, Poole, said: “Oakdale Library Gardens are entirely volunteer-led and self-funded, and were established thanks to funding from Creekmoor with Oakdale WI. “The main garden, The Bookerie, was opened in 2013.

Many wildlife-friendly features have been added to this garden making it a garden for all.

“There is also a Commemorative Garden, herb

Members of the Altogether WI provided refreshments on the day

garden, coastal garden and a children’s adventure trail.

“It was a delight to see the local community come and help

us celebrate our 10th anniversary and in turn support local charities and community groups.”

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Meditations in nature: Autumn on the heathlands

By Susanna Curtin SEPTEMBER has drawn to a close. By the time you read this, the swallows and house martins will have left our shores for their return journey to Africa.

But for now, the remaining adults are gathering on the telegraph wires.

I can tell they are restless.

They have a six-week journey and 6,000 miles ahead of them, and some of them will not make it. Flying low, they will cross Western France and Eastern Spain to Morocco, then over the Sahara Desert, above the rainforests of the Congo, and down into Namibia and South Africa.

Seeing them gather makes me feel restless too, for their departure signifies that winter is nigh, the days are shortening and the cold winds are coming.

However, the sun is out today and there is some warmth in its rays. I am walking in the Dorset heathlands, at Arne, in the hopes of seeing an osprey, as they also fly south from their northern breeding grounds on their journey to West Africa.

Unlike the swallows and martins, they travel alone and take their time stopping to feed and rest along the way, and Arne can be a good place to see them.

Even at this time of year, the heathland habitat feels wild and slightly Mediterranean. Perhaps

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it is that unique combination of Scots pine and silver birch trees, the sandy trails, and the gorse and heather that is home to smooth snakes, sand lizards and wasp spiders, that remind me of warmer climes.

As I follow the path towards the coastline, I can hear punctuated, high-pitched calls. I look up to see, not an osprey, but a whole family of peregrine falcons, the adults still accompanying their young.

Swirling above me, I can clearly make out their distinctive black hoods, yellow beaks and cheeky moustaches. I watch them as they glide effortlessly out of sight.

Walking through a beautiful silver birch forest, still adorned with fine, yellowing leaves, I reach an inky red heathland pool festooned with common chasers. I linger here for a while in search of the velvety-brown backs of raft spiders.

Sadly, these are not showing today, but on the grassy margins of the pool, I spot a small wasp spider. She is probably, by now, the last of her tribe still on show.

Leaving her in peace I make for the beach to find my own sandy perch from where I can watch the common birds of Poole Harbour – curlews, oyster catchers, godwits and a flock of noisy terns.

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Once a very rare visitor from the Mediterranean, little egrets are now a common sight around the coasts of southern England

afternoon sun on my back, I become fascinated by the two little egrets feeding in the shallows right in front of me.

These graceful birds can be found in Australia, Asia, Africa and Europe, and were once only a very scarce migrant to Britain, but now they can be seen throughout England and Wales, and increasingly in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Little egrets are small, pure white herons with long black legs and big yellow feet. During the breeding season, they develop exotic plumes on their heads, wings and necks. These are so beautiful that in the 19th century the bird was hunted almost to extinction for their plumes that, at the time, were more valuable than gold.

Little egrets first appeared in

the UK in significant numbers in 1989 and first bred in Dorset in 1996. Since then, their population has been growing and moving north. Now they live alongside our grey herons, cormorants and spoonbills, and are gradually being accompanied by cattle and great egrets which have also started to arrive in the UK. My autumn heathland walk has been enriched with all sorts of wildlife despite the illusive osprey, and I have had time and space to contemplate the comings and goings of birds to our island shores. Perhaps the swallows’ departure is not so sad after all.

They will leave but others will arrive for the winter. n Dr Susie Curtin (email curtin.susanna@gmail.com)

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Being the best version of yourself

By Alice Johnsen NOT feeling the best version of you at the moment? It happens to us all, but it needn’t be the norm.

I was speaking to a client last week about how they wanted to be the best version of themselves, particularly when they got home after a long day at work.

Their job is high pressure and, because they are currently working abroad, all consuming in a short-term way.

We looked at the overall structure of their day and as we did so opportunities for small changes through the day presented themselves, so the final product was a way of life that was more supportive. More realistic. More enjoyable.

The cumulative effect of several small changes will, for this client, result in better sleep at night, more energy and better stress management strategies in place to keep things under control.

It’s easy when we’re caught up in the living thing to not realise what is happening until the living thing swamps us and the wheels fall off. By then it’s not always too late but it does feel overwhelming and harder to regain a realistic perspective.

Our judgement is clouded by emotion.

So here are a few tools to keep us being the best version of ourselves. You may recognise some from previous articles.

That’s fine. If something works, we don’t need to invent something else.

3Ds. As in Delay, Delete, Delegate. Can I put this thing off until I have a bit more time?

Do I actually have to do it?

Could someone else do it?

Get outside, if you can, every single day. Whatever the weather. One of the small changes my overseas client is making is a 20-minute walk outside somewhere in the middle of their working day, without their phone. It’ll

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promote productivity in the afternoon and a clearer head in the evening.

Go to bed smart. No, I don’t mean wearing your finest silk pyjamas. I mean make it a planned part of your day during which you wind down properly, allowing mind and body to switch off ready to process and restore overnight. So not rushing to bed because it’s suddenly nearly midnight and not taking your phone to the bedroom. Get an alarm clock.

Ask yourself, what do I want to remember about this phase of

my life in five years’ time? Can that help you redefine your priorities?

One last thought. What is the best version of yourself? Are you aiming for what you truly believe to be the best you or are you being distracted and pressured by peers, colleagues, family or media?

Which leads us neatly onto Imposter Syndrome, so maybe I’ll write about that again next time. n Alice Johnsen is a life coach (phone 07961 080513; visit alicejohnsen.co.uk)

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Wild yam cure for many ailments

By Fiona Chapman THE changing of the seasons is, I think, a bit discombobulating to the body. One minute hot, the next cold and damp. It is impossible to wear the right clothes. I look even more like a witch with my hair like an enormous scouring pad and sadly my joints start to creak a bit in the damp.

I am also ravenously hungry and want to be in bed, tucked up and asleep by 9pm. What an exciting life I lead! If we were left to nature, it would be a time when we are thinking of storing fat and preparing to hibernate during the cold winter months.

I am now thinking of warm soups and comforting food, log fires and herbs that will help me to keep moving! Dioscorea villosa, is the first herb I ever bought as a tincture. Mainly because my lecturer told me it was as specific for hips.

Otherwise known as wild yam, it seemed to me to be a herb that was beneficial for many ailments, most of which I seemed to be suffering from!

It is good for muscular spasms and rheumatism while also aiding indigestion and bloating. Being a root, it is full of nutritional goodness and is rejuvenating and balancing. It is also particularly good for the hormones and not only helps with menopausal symptoms, it is also good for nursing mothers, increasing their milk supply.

Not leaving men out, it helps with erectile dysfunction and low sperm count.

It nourishes the adrenal gland and is good for the nerves, tiredness and exhaustion, mood swings and depression. It is unsurprising it was the first herb in my dispensary and I personally use it a lot.

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Wild yam is good for muscular spasms and rheumatism while also aiding the relief of indigestion and bloating

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the root herbs such as Burdock or Arctium Lappa, another of my favourite herbs. Again, it is extremely nutritious and in some rather more specialist shops you can find it to buy.

Add it to stews and soups to make a slightly sweet and healthy meal.

Burdock is particularly good for the liver, helping with detoxification. It also has an affinity with the skin and if

anyone comes to me with problems such as eczema, psoriasis or rashes, it would definitely be one of the first herbs I would consider. It too is good for arthritis, so I swig back both herbs at this time of year to keep me trudging up Hambledon and Shillingstone Hill. n Fiona Chapman is a naturopathic herbalist; email Pellyfiona@gmail.com

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This tourmaline pendant is a perfect example of Edwardian jewellery

Tourmaline – a rare beauty

By Amy Brenan, Director of Heirlooms Jewellers, 21 South Street, Wareham WHEN people think of the birthstone for October, they usually think of the pearl, but tourmaline is also recognised to celebrate this month.

It also represents an eighth anniversary!

It is understood to have been first discovered in Italy in the late 1600s by Dutch traders and is said to attract money and friendship.

It is believed to have strong healing powers ranging from helping with digestion to dealing with panic attacks, together with many spiritual connotations.

Tourmaline is a semiprecious gemstone which comes in an amazing spectrum of colours, with pink tourmaline being the most rare.

They are often mistaken for rubies but are actually more rare than rubies.

In fact, the stones featured in the Russian Crown jewels were long believed to have been

rubies but are now thought to be tourmalines.

As a guide, the tourmaline is more valuable according to the depth and saturation of the colour.

Because the tourmaline is not a very hard stone, it lends itself well to being carved and shaped, which makes it perfect for jewellery design.

At Heirlooms, we regularly see Victorian and Edwardian pieces featuring this gorgeous gemstone, most recently the beautiful drop pendant (pictured) which is a perfect example of original Edwardian jewellery.

As you can see, the two round-cut vibrant green peridots are softened with seed pearls and pale pink tourmaline accents creating a wreath design, all in a warm yellow gold.

This pendant design is also very typical of the era.

Whether you choose antique or modern, the tourmaline makes a stunning addition to any jewellery collection.

DUKE’S is on view from Saturday, October 14, for its back-to-back October auctions – the Art & Design Post-1880 Auction and the Autumn Auction.

The Autumn Auction on Wednesday, October 18, boasts a trove of wonders from the Napoleonic wars, including rare and illustrious paraphernalia of Admiral Lord Nelson.

Historical relics include three pieces of a French ensign taken from the French gunship Genereux at the Battle of Trafalgar, expected to make between £5,000-£8,000.

An eight-volume naval chronicle containing the signature of Nelson is also for sale.

Tomes of such heritage and renown are estimated to sell for £5,000-£7,000.

The ever-popular Art & Design Post-1880 Auction follows on Thursday, October 19.

It aims to offer exquisite

An oil of the snowy banks of the river at Villeneuve-sur-Yonne is to be auctioned on Thursday, October 19 by Duke’s.

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Motoring

Dacia chalks up sales landmark DACIA has sold its eight millionth vehicle globally, underlining the brand’s rise from the national manufacturer of Romania to a major household name well known throughout Europe.

The brand came into being back in 2004, promoting a pragmatic vision for vehicles and redefining what matters by focusing on value for money.

In the 19 years since, which has seen Dacia first expand into Eastern Europe and later into many more countries across the

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This year has also been a memorable one for Dacia in this country celebrating 10 years in the UK car market and selling its 250,000th car.

That followed the brand more than doubling its sales in 2022 compared to 2021.

Dacia has achieved a record market share of 7.6% in the European retail market –

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For the sixth consecutive year – since 2017 – the Dacia Sandero was the most sold car in the European retail market.

The Duster ranked second in 2022 and has also been the best-selling SUV to retail customers since 2018.

These two best-selling models have played a major role in Dacia reaching the eight million sales milestone. Broken down by model, the figure consists of 2.78 million Sanderos, 2.26 million Dusters, 1.97 million Logans, 630,000 Dokkers, 346,000 Lodgys, 93,000 Springs, 80,000 Joggers, 107,000 others, including Solenzas.

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Business

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Harry takes the helm as new harbour master By dorsetbiznews.co.uk POOLE Harbour Commissioners (PHC) has appointed Harry Gregory as its new harbour master.

Harry, who takes over the role from Captain Brian Murphy, previously worked as harbour master at Littlehampton as part of a five-year tenure which ultimately saw him taking the role as chief executive before his move to Poole.

Harry said: “Size is probably the biggest change, both geographically and in terms of the team.

“I’d say Littlehampton has all of the same challenges, as well as all of the same user groups, as Poole, but on every imaginable metric Poole is bigger.

“With that though, the size of the team grows, too.”

Harry first discovered a love for the sea aged six when, on holiday in Cornwall with his family, he took part in a dinghy sailing taster session.

“It felt like it was in the middle of a storm, but in hindsight it was probably quite benign,” he said.

“A lot of my family got into sailing as a result of that, and I gradually progressed from dinghies to yachts, then

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eventually to ships.”

In that time, Poole has been a regular setting for his seafaring adventures.

Along with his parents moving there when he was in his teens, Harry, who spent time working in project management for the Royal Navy and the Ministry of Defence, did much of his training in Poole.

“I’ve always been attracted to Poole, and I always hoped to come back here one day.”

His new role will see him ensuring the harbour’s Marine Services team and pilots are all operating effectively.

“If all is going well, regrettably I won’t need to do much more than attend meetings and sit at my computer, but I intend to get afloat with the team as much as I can.

“My team will be bringing in and out several large vessels each day, we’ll have the patrol vessels afloat making sure everyone’s using the harbour safely and behaving themselves, and we’ll have other teams out there monitoring the depths and working out what dredging needs to be done to keep the harbour open.

“I’ll generally tend to flit to whichever area needs attention at any given time, but at least for the next few months I’m

going to be keeping my eyes and ears open and getting to know the team and the patch.

“In the first instance my aim is to fill Brian’s enormous shoes, then I’ll work out what might need to be done after that.

“If I can continue to do what we’re doing at the moment, while making some small improvements and responding to whatever challenges will inevitably come around the corner next week, then that’s great.”

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Farming

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Grant will help disabled learn about farming A SCHEME helping disabled people explore and understand farming in Dorset has been boosted by a £100,000 grant.

The Stepping into Nature team, led by the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership (AONB), has received a grant of £101,286, approved by the independent Dorset Farming in Protected Landscapes Programme panel.

As well as helping disabled people learn more about farming, the money will train and support farmers to safely run farm events, opening up the countryside to a wider range of people.

The 18-month project, starting in Autumn 2023, will see Stepping into Nature facilitate visits to farms in the Dorset AONB for existing community groups of people living with health conditions

and additional needs.

Farmers will be supported to host these visits and will be provided with fully funded training, through the widely recognised CEVAS course, to ensure the visit is high quality and suited to the groups attending.

They will also receive additional one-to-one support to ensure they are ready to begin welcoming people onto their working farms.

Pia Lindstrom, Farming in Protected Landscapes Project support officer, said: “Spending time in nature and taking part in farm-related activities may have the potential to improve mental health and wellbeing.

“Being outdoors can provide a calming environment, away from pressure of everyday life, and can relieve stress and anxiety, giving people space to

MORE than 300 species have been added to a list of occupants at a Dorset site – two years after the start of a rewilding project.

Since the Wild Woodbury rewilding scheme – led by the Dorset Wildlife Trust – got under way, it has restored the headwaters of the River Sherford to allow it to take its natural course across the site.

The land, at Bere Regis, had been drained with a deep ditch and field drain system and the river itself could no longer be seen.

By strategically filling in ditches to push water out onto the land, blocking up field drains and creating leaky dams, a once dry and cracked landscape is now a heterogeneous mixture of large flows, ephemeral pools and delta-like areas, the trust said.

“This makes the land much

more resilient to drought, filters excess nutrients out of the water, helps to alleviate flash flooding downstream, and will provide habitats and space for biodiversity and bio abundance to increase,” a spokesperson went on.

“Just a few weeks after the restoration had finished, surveys showed a total of 90 lapwing, 20 golden plover and 30 common snipe, all feeding in the newly wetted areas.”

They said Wild Woodbury has seen a ‘huge increase in both biodiversity and bioabundance’, with the site list now boasting more than 1,600 species, an increase of 300 from the previous year.

“Several Red-listed and Red-data Book species, including marsh tit and greenfinch, are using the site to breed, helping smaller

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be themselves.”

In a recent survey, people living with a long-term illness or disability said they had not visited a natural space in the previous month.

Steph Aburrow, Stepping into Nature project officer, added: “This project will also bring partners together to build the foundations of our ambition to create a Nature Buddy Network across Dorset.

“This network will be made up of volunteers who can support people to access nature

on a one-to-one basis.

“These people may be living with anxiety, low confidence or are feeling lonely. The volunteer can help motivate and support them to go for a walk to the local park, sit in the garden or have a conversation about the wildlife out of the window.

We are busy working behind the scenes, along with a partnership of organisations in Dorset, to make this offer enjoyable, safe and well resourced.”

populations build resilience, as well as increasing numbers of more common species.

“The upward trend in ground nesting bird numbers continues from year one, with skylark now at around 50 pairs compared to 18 in 2022, tree pipit increasing from one to seven pairs, and nightjar holding new territories.

“Reptiles are moving back in, with adder now confirmed to be breeding, and an uplift of grass snake, slow worm and common lizard populations on site.

“Invertebrate numbers continue to grow, with butterflies showing around a 25% increase in abundance, including the colonisation and breeding of silver-studded blues, a butterfly usually associated with wet heath habitats.”

Meanwhile, planting of a food forest has been taking

place, with about 200 mixed fruit trees and bushes being planted by staff and volunteers.

“Not only will this food forest help provide local and sustainable food for the nearby residents, but it will add to the diversity of habitats on site, supporting different species with shelter and a food source,” the spokesperson added.

“The work will continue over the coming year as natural processes are allowed to lead the way at Wild Woodbury, including the introduction of free roaming cattle, horses and pigs.

“These livestock will browse, graze and rootle, leading a dynamic system of competition between scrub growth and grazing, which will create an ever-changing mosaic of habitats to support biodiversity and bio-abundance.”

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Food & Drink

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Halloween treats to trick young ghouls into healthier eating WATERCRESS is incredibly nutrient-dense, with a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants in every bite.

Here it’s used in some healthy Halloween recipes for children.

Spooky Salad Platter Makes 1 large sharing salad Prep time: 20mins Cook time: 20 mins Ingredients • 40g Watercress • ½ small Pumpkin, sliced • 2 Apples, peeled, cored & sliced • 100g Blackberries, halved • 100g red cabbage, shredded Method 1 – If you have Halloween cookie cutters, now might be the time to dust them off! If not, cut the pumpkin slices into pumpkin shapes with a sharp knife. If you have a small enough tip, you can cut faces in to the pumpkin, but it will work just as well without!

2 – Repeat this step for the apples, cutting ghosts and ghouls from the slices.

3 – Bake the pumpkin in a preheated oven at 180° for around 20 minutes 4 – Layer all the ingredients together on a platter – you’re now party ready!

Top tip: A set of small Halloween cookie cutters will save you time when making the pumpkin and ghost shapes.

Watercress Pesto Mummies Makes 8 Pies Prep time: 10mins Cook time: 30mins Ingredients 2 sheets Puff Pastry For watercress pesto: • 80g watercress • 1 clove garlic • 1tbsp chopped nuts • 50-75ml olive oil • 50g grated parmesan cheese • Salt Handful black olives to garnish

Spooky salad platter – a healthy treat for halloween

Method 1 – Preheat the oven to 180°.

2 – Divide one sheet of pastry into 8 rectangles.

3– Make the pesto by blitzing all ingredients together, adding more/less oil so that the pesto isn’t too runny.

4 – Divide the pesto mixture between the pastry triangles, keeping a 1cm clear border around the edge. Then, cut 1cm thick strips from your second sheet of pastry – these will form your mummy bandages! Zigzag a strip over the top of the pesto, making sure the bandage is touching the clear edge of the pastry underneath so that they will stick together. Repeat for all Mummies!

5 – Slice your black olives into rounds to make two eyes on each Mummy and bake for around 20-30 minutes.

Roasted Cauliflower Brain with Green Slime Hummus and Dead Man’s Finger Sandwiches Prep time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 1.5 hours Ingredients • 1 whole cauliflower • 2 tbsp olive oil • 150ml white wine • Salt and pepper • 3 tbsp tomato ketchup For the green slime • 50g watercress, roughly chopped • 2 tins chickpeas in water • 2 cloves garlic

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• 1 tbsp tahini • Juice of one lemon • 1 tsp ground coriander • 6 tbsp olive oil • Salt For the dead man’s fingers • 1/2 a loaf of thin-sliced white bread, crusts removed • Soft butter or margarine • 150g cream cheese • 50g whole almonds Method 1 Preheat oven to 150°C. Trim the leaves from the cauliflower and cut its base flat so that it sits upright. Rub all over with olive oil. Place the cauliflower into an ovenproof casserole dish and pour over the white wine. Cover tightly with foil and bake for 1.5 hours. Check after 1 hour and brush on more oil if cauliflower seems dry. After the time is up, remove from the oven and insert a long knife into the centre of the cauliflower, ensuring that it is cooked all the way through.

Leave to cool.

2 – While the cauliflower is in the oven, make the hummus.

Drain and rinse the chickpeas

and place into a blender with the watercress, garlic, tahini, lemon juice, ground coriander and a pinch of salt. Blend until smooth, gradually adding olive oil. Taste and adjust seasoning and lemon juice if necessary.

3 – To make the finger sandwiches, gently flatten the slices of bread with a rolling pin to make them more pliable.

Spread each slice with a little butter or margarine and some cream cheese. Roll up the sandwiches, then use a blunt knife to make indentations to form the knuckles. Trim one end of each roll into a V shape and use a little cream cheese to stick on an almond fingernail.

4 – Once the cauliflower has cooled, use a sharp knife to carefully cut a hollow, creating a bowl in the top. Fill this with the green hummus, then mix the ketchup with a little warm water and drizzles over the sides of the cauliflower to look like blood.

5 – Serve the cauliflower brain with the dead man’s fingers on the side for dipping.

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Slippery slime, spooky trail and creepy crafts

The cells at Shire Hall Museum

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SPOOKY family-friendly fun is on offer in the run up to Halloween at the Shire Hall Museum in Dorchester.

The museum aims to bring over 200 years of justice and injustice to life with interactive galleries, immersive cells and an impressive courtroom.

Now from Monday to Saturday, October 23-28, children will be able make slippery slime from 10am-3pm each day.

And around the museum,

families can enjoy a spooky trail and creepy crafts.

Halloween-themed treats and autumnal drinks will be available in the cafe.

Shire Hall is also hosting Spells in the Cells, an evening of cocktail making in the cells on Friday, October 22.

Children dressed up for Halloween – three for every paying adult – get free entry to the museum. For more information, visit shirehalldorset.org/whatson

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Gertie in her own words

THE 1930s star of musical comedy, Gertrude Lawrence, is heading to Dorset this autumn to tell her own story, from her perspective and in her own words.

Lucy Stevens’ theatre cabaret show A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, is presented by Arstreach, the county’s touring arts charity.

A feisty, strong woman from Clapham, Gertrude Lawrence – Gertie – transcended the class ceiling, forging her stage and screen career well into her 50s.

Bursting with songs and hits

by Noel Coward, Kurt Weill, Rodgers & Hammerstein and more, the show celebrates Gertie’s brilliance on and off stage, with pacy dialogue which

is both funny and revealing.

Performer Lucy Stevens, who is accompanied by pianist Elizabeth Marcus, has crafted a script using Gertrude Lawrence’s own words from her autobiography A Star Danced.

Lucy’s performance embodies the spirit of Gertie, transporting the audience through songs and storytelling from her childhood in Clapham to London’s swanky nightclubs and the bright lights of Broadway.

The show is at Langton Matravers village hall – phone 01929 423834 – on Thursday, October 19.

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Mozart back in time

MAGICAL Mozart by Candlelight is coming to the Regent in Christchurch on Friday, November 17, courtesy of the producers of the Viennese Strauss Gala.

The live performance, with period costumes, lighting and candles, will transport the audience to the time when masterpieces including the Magic Flute and the Marriage of Figaro were heard for the first time. For more information and to book tickets visit theregent.co.uk/event/79919

Lucy Stevens is playing 1930s star Gertrude Lawrence

Twinners’ community show THE Wimborne-Valognes Twinning Association is presenting Hello, Bonjour, a community entertainment evening, on Wednesday, October 18, at 7.30pm at the Allendale Centre.

The programme is a variety show with performances, singers and choirs, dancers and musicians, children and adults, from local schools and community groups.

Tickets are just £5, available from the Allendale.

For more information visit wvta.org.uk.

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Classic black comedy

FARCICAL black comedy doesn’t get much darker than the American classic Arsenic and Old Lace, but Dorchester Drama’s adaptation of the play is a dead cert to brighten up a dismal November evening.

The play, written by Joseph Kesselring, and best known for the screwball 1944 film starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane and Peter Lorre, tells the story of spinsters Abby and Martha, their nephews Teddy and Mortimer, and the latter’s love for the aunts’ neighbour Elaine.

But behind this sweet facade, all is not as it seems. The aunts have an unusual way of ‘helping’ the neighbourhood’s elderly gentlemen, Teddy is trying to dig the Panama Canal in the cellar and the arrival of the third manic nephew, Jonathan, throws everything into disarray.

The play, written in 1939, is set in Brooklyn and is littered

classic family dramas and disputes we are all too familiar with.”

He added: “Black comedy, slapstick, horror and humour, the play has it all.

“The character of Jonathan is very much a silhouette of the famously imposing Boris Karloff, and his aunts – while

appearing as sweet old ladies – definitely have dubious morals and are a wonderfully dark play on the saccharine image of American apple-pie grandmas.

“We have a terrific cast, made up of local talent taken from existing Dorchester Drama members as well as performers who appeared in Dorchester’s community play Spinning The Moon, staged earlier this year.

“There is also a terrific team behind the scenes who are working hard to create a fabulous set with atmospheric lighting and sounds to complete the production.”

Arsenic and Old Lace is at Dorchester Arts, Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, on Friday, November 24, at 7.30pm, and on Saturday, November 25, at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets are £12 from the box office on 01305 266926 or online at dorchesterarts.org.uk.

be inspired by the idea of mindfulness and may be posted, framed or simply stuck on the fridge.

One special feature is a painting of a bird of prey left unfinished when a local artist sadly passed away.

The artist’s partner contacted the society asking what might be done, resulting in the painting being finished by a member and it is now exhibited by kind permission.

This was an emotional undertaking for the owner and a challenge for the artist.

Following the exhibition an online auction will be held in aid of Dorset Mind in which bids may be made and paintings secured for a good price – all donated by members of the society.

Simon Merry, from Broadstone Art Society, said: “In our 70th year we are still looking for new ways to interpret subjects alongside familiar representations.

“There will be something to interest everyone, and we hope to support Dorset Mind in the process.”

A preview of this show can be found on the society’s website at https://www. broadstoneartsociety.com/ exhibitions-1/project-one-d8c7ljp8rb-g7e44-smn6f and is supported by posts on Facebook and Instagram.

The exhibition is open between 10am and 4pm daily between Saturday, October 21, and Saturday, October 28, and until noon on Sunday, October 29.

Barbara Proctor and Colin Elphic will be bringing darkness to Arsenic and Old Lace being staged in Dorchester

with references to the archetypal ‘cutesy’ American lifestyle promoted at the time.

Director Ollie Hickey said: “It is certainly a play of its time, which is why I think it will be such an interesting experience for today’s audiences.

“There are the 40s-style anachronisms but also the

Artists showing summer scenes

AFTER a summer of painting, Broadstone Artists will exhibit new and original work at their second exhibition of the year in what is Broadstone Art Society’s 70th year.

The autumn exhibition is at the Youth Centre in Tudor Road, Broadstone, and many of the artworks will have been completed on location in Dorset over the summer when artists venture out with easels and materials to capture views, no matter what the weather brings.

A sub-theme for this exhibition is semi-abstract landscape for those viewers that enjoy an alternative way of seeing things.

In addition, the exhibition will feature a wide selection of paintings, prints, 3D work and greetings cards to view and to

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buy.

The most affordable art available will be original art postcards for a £5 donation to Dorset Mind, the mental health charity the art society is supporting this year.

‘Thoughts on a Postcard’ will

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Jake set to get hall bouncing

BRITISH singer, songwriter and musician Jake Bugg is set to perform at Lighthouse Poole on a run of UK dates.

His fifth album, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, arguably his most complete and coherent record to date, combines a love of ABBA, the Beach Boys, Supertramp and the Bee Gees with a contemporary pop sound.

It also spawned his most ubiquitous song in years with euphoric lead single All I Need.

“I knew what I was looking for this time around,” Jake, 27, said. “And I feel like I accomplished it.”

It’s almost 10 years since Jake Bugg burst onto the scene with his eponymous debut, one that topped the UK album charts and saw the then 18-year-old from Nottingham fêted as the next Bob Dylan.

The Brit Award winning singer-songwriter’s show is the first standing gig for five years in the concert hall.

Head of programming Tim Colegate said: “We’re excited to welcome Jake Bugg to Lighthouse and introduce a new generation of live music fans to the famous bouncing floor in

our concert hall.

“This show from one of Britain’s brightest young talents is the first of what we hope will again become a regular feature of standing concerts at Lighthouse.”

In recent years Lighthouse has hosted concerts from major stars including Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Wilko Johnson, Simple Minds, kd lang, Gregory Porter and Bryan Ferry, which have all been seated shows.

Since opening in 1978 as Poole Arts Centre, artists such as U2, The Who, The Jacksons, The Clash, Eric Clapton, Megadeth, Kings of Leon and Oasis have played standing concerts.

A feature of the venue’s unique sprung flat floor is that the movement of a big crowd produces a bouncing effect – a memory commemorated in song

by The Lockdown Band commissioned by Lighthouse during the first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.

Jake Bugg plus support is at Lighthouse Poole on Monday, December 11, at 7.30pm. For tickets and information phone 01202 280000 or visit www. lighthousepoole.co.uk

• An Evening of Entertainment - Swanage Drama Company are pleased to be back with this concert featuring songs, sketches, fun and laughter, in aid of charity. Featuring a host of local talent and some special guests.

Saturday 11th November 7:30pm • Budapest Cafe Orchestra - Evoking vivid images of Tzigane fiddle maestros, Budapest café life and gypsy campfires, The Budapest Cafe Orchestra play a blistering barrage of traditional folk and gypsy-flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia. Thursday 16th November 7:30pm • Andy Parsons Bafflingly Optimistic A series regular on Mock The Week as well as numerous spots on Live At The Apollo (BBC 1), QI (BBC2), The Politics Show (BBC1), Newsnight (BBC2). Saturday 18th November 8pm • Decatonics Show - A powerful 8 piece skaband from Dorset whose vibrant live show has built up a great reputation for its high energy party atmosphere. The Decatonics will be supported by Stacey Lou performing 'Amy', a tribute inspired by the one and only Amy Winehouse. Saturday 25th November 7:30pm

Purbeck Film Festival 2023:

Please see purbeckfilm.com for full details of the festival – tickets for the films showing at The Mowlem can be booked at themowlem.com • Polite Society (12): Wednesday, 1st November at 7.30pm • Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition (PG): Thursday, 2nd November at 7.30pm • Close (12A): Friday, 3rd November at 7.30pm • Purbeck Shorts Competition: Saturday, 4th November at 6.30pm

Movies:

• The Miracle Club - There's just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. With a little benevolent interference from their local priest, a group of close friends get their ticket of a lifetime. Starring Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, Kathy Bates and directed

by Thaddeus O'Sullivan. 6th November 2:30pm & 7:30pm - 7th & 8th November 7:30pm • The Great Escaper - In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy. Starring Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, John Standing and directed by Oliver Parker.

13th November 2:30pm & 7:30pm - 14th & 15th November 7:30pm • Killers of the The Flower Moon - In the 1920s, members of the Osage Native American tribe of Osage County, Oklahoma, are murdered after oil is found on their land, and the FBI decides to investigate. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Lily Gladstone and directed by Martin Scorsese. 17th November 2:00pm & 7:00pm - 21st & 22nd November 7:00pm

In the Showbar:

Events in The Showbar, upstairs at The Mowlem:

• Friday 10th November - Hyper - 8pm: The band formerly known as The Hyper Vypers return! Live music from 8pm.

• Wednesday 22nd November – Oscar’s Quiz Night - 8pm: £1 per person, up to 6 people per team, prizes to be won! Doors open 5.30pm, quiz starts at 8pm.

• Friday 24th November – It’s Vinyly Friday! - 9pm: Jazz, Funk, Afro & Latin all-vinyl all-dancing from 9pm with DJ Paul Angel.

The Showbar is open Friday & Saturday 5.30pm-10pm & Sunday-Thursday 5.30pm-9pm and later for events.

Mowlem Visual Arts Exhibitions

• ‘New Worlds’ - Lewis Peake is a Swanage based Artist and Illustrator working primarily with new media forms to construct futuristic narratives. Lewis has worked as a concept artist on many major productions of international stature such as His Dark Materials (BBC), Bridgerton (Netflix), Dracula (BBC) and most recently House of the Dragon (HBO).

The exhibition runs to 20th October to 12th December whenever the theatre or Showbar are open.

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By Lorraine Gibson THE Christmas season promises plenty of fun for all the family at local venues – and it’s dance, drag and drama all the way at the Regent, Christchurch.

Along with its nowlegendary annual costume-tastic Christmas Spectacular – this year called In the St Nick of Time – Saturday, December 16 to Sunday, December 24 – the venue is dishing up festive Irish dancing and a classic yuletide ballet.

The National Dance Company of Ireland, following a sell-out last year, is staging Rhythm of the Dance Christmas Special – Sunday, November 5 – featuring feet-stomping, skirt-twirling, leg-blurring Irish dance and a liberal sprinkle of sparkle.

Dance of an equally traditional kind is on offer as the ultimate cultural Christmas treat, The Nutcracker, pirouettes on screen – Tuesday, December 12, and Monday, December 18.

Nothing says Christmas quite like Tchaikovsky’s score weaving its magical way through the captivating balletic tale of Christmas Eve with Clara and her soldier as they fight the Mouse King, meet the Sugar Plum Fairy and visit the glittering Kingdom of Sweets.

That it’s Peter Wright’s much-loved production with The Royal Ballet, is the brandy butter on top of this particular festive cake.

For tickets for any of the shows, visit www.theregent. co.uk Expect mayhem and madness at the Bournemouth Pavilion panto as the unstoppable Su Pollard channels her Wicked Queen for this year’s production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

The bespectacled baddie says: “Panto is a wonderful experience for everyone, a joy to watch and a privilege to be part of. I’m looking forward to being back in Bournemouth and playing a character everyone will love to hate!”

She is joined by Noel Brodie, back for a ninth season, this time as joshing jester Muddles, and Jamie Steen in slapped-up splendour as Dame Dilly Donut.

It’s in front of you from Saturday, December 2, to Sunday, December 31.

Tickets are available at www. bournemouthpavilion.co.uk Y’all can have yerselves a jolly Dolly Christmas at the Tivoli Wimborne where the cast of the Tennessee Country Christmas – Wednesday, November 29 – promise a tonne of smoky mountain fun.

Snow White is being performed at Bournemouth Pavilion

The performers from the popular Country Superstars return with festive cheer, holiday classics and a corn jug full of top country tunes.

Hosting is number one, bar none, Dolly Parton tribute artist Sarah Jayne – possibly in a coat of many colours.

Join her, tributes to Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Garth Brooks and a few surprise performers for this festive family treat.

Panto-wise, Cinderella – including a couple of adultsonly versions – arrives at the ball – well, on stage – on Friday, December 15, with an endless supply of innuendo, thigh slapping and mickeytaking.

This feelgood show is already almost sold out, so call for your magic carriage before it

turns into a pumpkin and grab those tickets now.

And why just watch a classic Christmas film when you can see the show, too?

Ballet Theatre UK follows the yellow brick road to discover the wonders of Oz on Wednesday, November 29.

Travel with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tinman and Lion – and yes, Toto, too – in search of the Wonderful Wizard and find that there’s no place like home!

The two-act, full-length, ballet adaptation is L Frank Baum’s iconic tale told through the magic of dance.

With a classical score, it’s a family friendly production, so good for introducing children to classical ballet.

For tickets visit www. tivoliwimborne.co.uk.

Playwright looks to uncover a killer

WIMBORNE Drama Productions is set to present the classic thriller Rehearsal for Murder at the Tivoli Theatre in the town.

Playwright Alex Dennison is left heartbroken when his fiancée and leading lady Monica Welles is found dead from an apparent suicide after the

opening night of her stage debut.

On the anniversary of that ill-fated night, Alex assembles the same cast and crew in the same theatre, for a reading of his new play.

But as the reading begins, it becomes clear that Alex believes that Monica was

murdered and he intends to uncover her killer.

The thriller is adapted for the stage by D D Brooke from the television play written by the award-winning writing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, whose work includes Murder, She Wrote and Columbo. Tracey Nicholls is the

director.

Rehearsal for Murder is being staged from Thursday to Saturday, October 19-21, with evening performances at 7.30pm and a Saturday Matinee at 2.30pm.

For tickets, phone 01202 885566 or visit www. tivoliwimborne.co.uk

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TheLOW Waste Group expands with the aim COST SECURE to recycle 100% of your waste SELF STORAGE

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The Waste Group are pleased to announced the acquisition of Ideal Skip Hire (Southern) Ltd as of Monday 10th July.

Based in Wareham, The Waste Group is a local family run skip hire business that has branched out into aggregates, asbestos disposal and grab hire.

Trade customers can tip all types of aggregates and waste at their existing recycling centre on the Puddletown Road in Wareham.

Ideal Skip Hire (Southern) Ltd is based in Swanage and has a long tradition of providing skips and aggregates to the local Swanage and Purbeck area. Their existing recycling facility on the Victoria Avenue Industrial Estate will still be open and running as usual.

The Waste Group’s aim is to strengthen customer service through great relationships whilst implementing an improved fleet and new technology. A full range of aggregates are available to purchase from the recycling facility on the Victoria Avenue Industrial Estate.

For further information about The Waste Group, please visit www.thewastegroup.co.uk or contact us on 01202 247716

Rent from £27.50 per week CCTV, Palisade Fencing & 24/7 access Conveniently located on the Puddletown Road just outside of Wareham & Victoria Avenue Ind Est in Swanage

Call us on 01929 401585 to discuss your requirements

WE ARE DEDICATED TO REDUCING LANDFILL. Working with waste doesn’t have to be wasteful. We currently recycle at least 98% of all our waste through our dedicated waste recycling & processing facility, helping to protect the environment.

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YOUR LOCAL

SKIP HIRE PROFESSIONALS Helping to keep

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green & pleasant Call today and speak to one of our professional team.

Or visit our squeaky new website for quotes and to find out lots more.

Call: 01202 247716 www.thewastegroup.co.uk