Christchurch

CHRISTCHURCH Food Festival will have a Queen’s jubilee-themed line-up this year and run for four days over the bank holiday weekend in June.

CLAIMS that BCP Council has let Christchurch recreation facilities go to “rack and ruin” prompted a pledge to fulfil a handover promise.

TWO teenagers were arrested after a man was hospitalised following an attack at Christchurch railway station.

THUNDER could be on its way back to the New Forest and Christchurch this evening (Wednesday) with the Met Office issuing another yellow warning.

THREE Christchurch beaches have been given prestigious quality awards for the first time.

A DRIVER had to be cut free by firefighters after a high-performance sports car careered off the A35 Christchurch bypass into a ditch.

A PILOT scheme contracting out flytipping investigation and enforcement could be extended until November.

A NINE-MONTH-OLD baby drowned in the bath in a "tragic accident" after her mother passed out at their Christchurch home, an inquest heard.

KNOWN both to his customers and family as ‘Mr Fix-it’ there was little that former ironmonger Tony Puzey could not repair.

A CHRISTCHURCH inn has been given permission to install a bar in its garden despite claims by objectors it was already an "open-air party pub".

BCP Conservative council leader Drew Mellor has comfortably survived a no-confidence vote brought by the Christchurch Independents group.

SOCIAL worker recruitment in the Christchurch, Bournemouth and Poole area is thought to be in the worst position it has ever been.

TENS of thousands of pounds of illegal drugs have been taken out of circulation, police have said, as part of a new crackdown on county lines dealing.

Christchurch food bank+ has received a huge boost in the form of a £1,500 grant to fund two "impressive" initiatives aimed at helping families.

MORE than 1,400 families in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area have offered to host families fleeing from the war in Ukraine.

PROBLEMS with customers fighting, swearing and vomiting should stop a Christchurch "party pub" being allowed to erect an outside bar, say neighbours.

A CHRISTCHURCH burglar was ordered by a judge to wear an alcohol monitor for 120 days in an attempt to stop him offending.

PARTS of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole will grind to a halt unless more can be persuaded away from their cars, a transport chief has warned.

DAMAGING a victim’s car twice and sending racist messages resulted in a Christchurch woman being banned from contacting them for a year.

BCP Council’s planning chair has defended his leadership and the committee against further complaints about Christchurch decisions.