Cheeky fan gets his favourite band to play in Bournemouth

Acid jazz and funk pioneers The Brand New Heavies are to play in Bournemouth – after a fan asked them to perform in memory of his mum. Steve Heald, from Ferndown, who is being assisted by AE Jolliffe & Son of Douch Family Funeral Directors, will donate all profits of the concert to UK Dementia Research Institute.

Trees of Remembrance blossom

Dorset’s Douch Family Funeral Directors are again inviting people to leave messages on Christmas trees in memory of lost loved ones. Trees of Remembrance are now standing at its branches Douch & Small in Wimborne, AE Jolliffe & Son in Ferndown, Lesley Shand in Corfe Mullen and Blandford, Ives and Shand in Parkstone and Albert Marsh in Wareham and Upton.