The UK retail sector's recruitment in January 2025 focuses on hybrid roles, sustainability expertise, e-commerce skills, flexible work models, AI-driven hiring, retention strategies, and diversity initiatives to adapt to evolving industry demands.

Ex-professional ballet dancer, Pippa Myres, had to re-think her career after a major ankle injury stopped her from being able to continue dancing. She is now training to become a podiatrist on the MSc Podiatry course at Health Sciences University, Bournemouth.

Marking the centenary of the landmark stage production*, Blackeyed Theatre is touring a new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic gothic thriller, Dracula, adapted by Nick Lane, which plays Lighthouse Poole on Thursday 13, Friday 14 and Saturday 15 March.

Talbot Village Trust, a grant-giving charity committed to enhancing community wellbeing, has awarded over £487,455 to 36 charitable organisations across Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Purbeck, and East Dorset. This funding, part of the Trust’s second grant cycle of the year, will help support a wide variety of local initiatives aimed at making a positive difference.