By Mark Perry I join in with a group of party-goers taking a taxi into Bournemouth. On discovering our driver is from Afghanistan I ask if his family back home are okay?. He replies with a grimace. I don’t press the question any further, after-all it`s the beginning of a night out in Bournemouth! On [...]
By Lee Williams A national team that hunts down loan sharks and offers support to their victims is making its presence felt in Bournemouth. The Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT), set up by Trading Standards, gave a presentation at Bournemouth Town Hall on Monday to raise awareness about loan sharks and their victims in the [...]
You may have heard in the media (although there was a deafening hush in Bournemouth) that Amnesty International is 50 years old. The actual birthday was back in May, but Amnesty feel we deserve a whole year of celebrations! Ironically, most of us involved with Amnesty International over the years have hoped it wouldn’t get [...]
Lisa Northover Of course in Bournemouth they are usually flats.. RIBA the Royal Institute of British Architects, has reported that new build houses are now 8% smaller than they were in the 80s when rues on living space were lifted. Planning regulations encourage use of brown field sites, which are smaller than the rolling hills [...]
By Lisa Northover As the police and politicians seek the authority to shut down twitter in times of public disorder, I wonder if it is just an urban myth that it was used to organise riots? The power of using any social network to organize direct action is that you can recruit people from outside [...]
Creativity and Addiction
New logo for the Navitus Bay Wind Park created by local student
New partnership to hold rights to Navitus Bay offshore wind project
Health and vitality in juicy Boscombe
The BCCA – What do the The Boscombe Arts Collective say?
Fighting the cold – bedsits in Boscombe
