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Former General Manager of the Grove Hotel Brenden Howard was presented with a certificate in recognition of his great and valuable services to the community by George Streatfeild, the High Sheriff who represents the Queens interests in Dorset THE former manager of a Bournemouth hotel which hosted people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses has received an award from Dorset’s High Sheriff. Brenden Howard, who was general manager of the Grove Hotel on the East Cliff for over a decade, was recognised for his services to the community by George Streatfeild, the High Sheriff. “T...

It is with great sadness that the family of Mr Nigel Howe announces his passing from COVID-19, on January 19, at the age of 77. Nigel passed away peacefully in Royal Bournemouth Hospital and will be lovingly remembered by his son James and his stepchildren Sam and Simon. Nigel was born in Harrow-on-the-Hill in 1943 to William Weatherstone Howe, a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF, and Dora. He trained as a pub manager with Watney’s Brewery and managed the Leather Bottle in Edgeware and then worked in The Plough in Ruislip. In 1970 he moved to Bournemouth having begun a 22-year career wit...

Tim Farrer has launched the Macmillan Unit at Christchurch Hospital's Christmas appeal A SCHOOL headteacher has launched the Macmillan hospice's annual Christmas appeal after it gave him and his mother a "wonderful" last Christmas together. Tim Farrer from Verwood appeared in a moving video message describing how he and his brother Richard spent a final Christmas at the Christchurch palliative care unit with their mother Sally Farrer as she neared the end of her battle with pancreatic cancer. Their father Roland also passed away at the Macmillan Unit in 2007. Macmillan Caring Locally,...

AFTER A month of chilly morning sea swims, two palliative care nurses from Christchurch have raised £5,500 by swimming the equivalent distance from England to France. Clinical Nurse Specialist Rachel Easton (left) and Staff Nurse Holly Warren support people with life limiting illnesses at the Day Centre within the Macmillan Palliative Care Unit in Christchurch. The Day Centre is currently closed due to Covid-19 and many of its patients are shielding at home, with little outside contact. To raise the funds to keep their patients online and in touch, Rachel and Holly embarked on a grue...