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Poole
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Funds for Boscombe and West Howe
Areas of West Howe and Boscombe are to receive £35,000 to help address deprivation, a Bournemouth Cabinet meeting heard yesterday.
Poole RNLI: Busy 2011
Poole RNLI Lifeboat volunteers carried out around 140 call-outs in 2011, making it one of the busiest lifeboat stations in the South West.
Over 2000 people were saved by lifeboat crews and lifeguards across the area in 2011.
Nick Barratt at family history day in Poole
Trace your roots this Family History Day as popular researcher Nick Barratt delivers a talk in Poole.
Local performers shine at Poole’s puppet festival
“Anything can be made into a puppet as long as it is moving like it’s alive.”
Debesh Banerjee reports from the Lighthouse Puppet festival.
‘Cooperation not integration’ says Poole
The council is not yet persuaded that Health secretary Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms which call for integration between health and adult social care would be “efficient or helpful.”
Police choir helps Sudan charity
A choral concert featuring the talents of the Dorset Police Male Voice Choir raised almost £1000 for a hospital in South Sudan over the weekend.
Dorset gets in touch with its roots
The Dorset Family History Society is offering research advice at Poole Central Library from today until Thursday and at Hamworthy Library on Wednesday and Friday. The programme is part of the Poole's Local and Family History Week that begins today. Prasanth Aby Thomas went down there to see how Dorset was getting in touch with its roots.
‘We make music by passing things back and forwards – we are correspondents’
The Correspondents are a two-piece band from Wandsworth, London. Their live show is a unique, incendiary blend of costumes, beats, jazz and a treadmill(!) Mark Wilson went to feast his senses on the duo when they played at Mr Kyps in Poole, where Mr Bruce and Chucks answered a few questions.
Sunny Poole on a winter day
A photo essay created by Andria Archontides reflecting the sunny area of Poole on a winter's day.