Day: March 13, 2013

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Still taking the plunge at 70!

When Alan Thompson first got into swimming after a back operation in the 1980s, he might not have known what he was getting himself into! He celebrated his seventieth birthday last month and is still working as a swimming instructor at Ferndown Leisure Centre, having started work there in November 1986. For Alan, it seems,…

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It’s no choke

The Marine Conservation Society (MCS), the UK’s leading marine charity, is hoping to encourage communities to think again before organising balloon and sky lantern releases. From charity releases to memorial events, letting hundreds, sometimes thousands of balloons and lanterns into the sky has become common practice up and down the country. But stunning as these…

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Revolutionising end-of-life care for pets

A campaign has been started in Dorset to revolutionise end-of-life veterinary care for pets. Anna Wood from Vets2You explains: “‘Once upon a time’ there was a dog called Douglas.  He was a ‘perfect’ boy in all ways (well, so his owner thought anyway) and as he was approaching his seventeenth birthday, Karen dearly wanted whatever…

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