When should you take your Christmas decorations down?
Christmas decorations are typically put up on Advent Sunday (Image: Getty Images) According to Wedgewood, the putting up of Christmas decorations traditionally starts on Advent Sunday, the fourth ...
How should £30k be spent on Ferndown's culture?
The town has been shortlisted to be the 2026 Town of Culture alongside Swanage, Sherborne and Wimborne. And if it wins, it will receive £30,000 from the Arts Development Company and Dorset Council.
At least 62 people dead as plane catches fire after crash on landing
A plane veered off the runway, hit a fence and caught fire at an airport in southern South Korea, killing at least 62 people, emergency officials said. The National Fire Agency said the fire was ...
What the papers say – December 29
Sunday’s newspaper front pages carry a wide range of political and entertainment stories. The Sunday Express says the UK has pledged £4.5 million to help prosecutors track down Russian soldiers ...
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New fare changes for Morebus passengers from January
MOREBUS is assuring residents that there are still affordable tickets available once the £2 price cap ends on December 31. From January 1, the new price cap for single bus fares will rise to £3 - but ...
Inspectors tell African restaurant 'major work' needed
A NUMBER of cafés, pubs, restaurants and takeaways across Dorset and the New Forest have been handed new food hygiene ratings recently.
Bournemouth hotel in administration with near £2million debt
A BOURNEMOUTH hotel owed almost £2million to creditors when it fell into administration earlier this year. The Orchid Hotel in Gervis Road, East Cliff, remains open while administrators tackle the ...
Wine-tasting runner and air conditioning unit costume 2024’s best viral moments
The viral moments from 2024 demonstrated the “power of social media” from rescuing a bee to reuniting with old friends and ...
Parliament has come ‘quite some way’ on behaviour, says Lucy Powell
Cabinet minister Lucy Powell told the PA news agency that Westminster “definitely had a perception” of a poor working culture but a new cohort of MPs presents an “opportunity to establish better ...
Trimble told by Blair to ‘get lost’ over timing of border poll, records show
The records from the National Archives in Dublin show that the SDLP and the Irish government were heavily against the idea.
US attorney general wanted to stop Gerry Adams fundraising trip
Papers contained in the annual release of documents from the National Archives in Dublin show that Janet Reno, the attorney general at the time, wanted to stop Mr Adams from fundraising because of a ...
Netanyahu visited Ireland in bid to establish now-closing embassy
The absence of an Israeli embassy in Dublin was a source of concern for Ireland’s small Jewish population at the time.