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So who was brave enough to go swimming in Swanage Bay on Boxing Day 2024?! Plenty of people turned out for the traditional festive dip, with many making the effort to dress up for the occasion, although others appeared to be happy to wear very little at all, despite the low sea temperature! Perhaps encouraged by the mild but misty day there was a bumper number of onlookers too for the event org...

A person clinging to their capsized kayak near Swanage Bay in Dorset, was saved from the sea by the Swanage lifeboat crew, when they couldn’t get back in their boat. The UK coastguard alerted Swanage RNLI when a personal locator beacon (PLB) was detected near to Old Harry, around 11 am on Saturday 30th November 2024. As the crew assembled and prepared to launch, the coastguard received a 999 ca...

Lights bring festive colour to Swanage for Christmas In a switch from white to muti-coloured, the Christmas lights in Swanage, Dorset, have been given an update for the 2024 festive season. There was also a surprise for the crowds who gathered for the official turning on of the lights on Saturday 30th November 2024, as Christmas images were projected onto The Mowlem’s building in Shore Road.

Steam trains and sleigh bells are once more coming together on Swanage Railway as the hugely popular Polar Express experience steams back for a second year. After a wildly successful debut in 2023, a railway experience like no other has returned, taking excited passengers on a steam train adventure to find Santa at the North Pole (or should that be Norden Pole!), themed on the favourite festive...

To mark the end of World War One in 1918, a two minute silence was held in Swanage, Dorset, to remember all those who had died. The short Armistice Day service, led by the Swanage and Studland team rector Ian Bird, took place at the war memorial overlooking Swanage Bay on Monday 11th November 2024

The Remembrance Sunday parade, church service and laying of poppy wreaths took place on a mild November afternoon in Swanage, Dorset. As the newly elected member of parliament for South Dorset, it was the first time that Lloyd Hatton had participated in the annual remembrance event, which took place on Sunday 10th November 2024. Grateful that the early morning rain had dried up and that it wasn...

WATCH - The Remembrance Sunday parade took place on a mild November afternoon in Swanage, Dorset. It was the first time for new South Dorset MP Lloyd Hatton as he joined the procession on Sunday 10th November 2024 from The Mowlem in Shore Road, along Kings Road West, and up to St Mary’s Church in Church Hill

Emergency services issue statements on the death of three residents at Gainsborough Care Home in Swanage, Dorset. It’s now emerged that seven other residents have been taken to hospital as a precaution - four to Poole Hospital and three to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester. This follows a call to the South Western Ambulance Service at 5.20 am on Wednesday 23rd October 2024 when three residen...

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A lone piper on the sands of Swanage has been entertaining - and intriguing - evening visitors to the Dorset town on long summer evenings. Retired lecturer and Swanage resident Peter McCarthy took up playing the bagpipes as a personal challenge in April 2024 and almost fell at the first hurdle when he discovered that the instrument was like no other he had ever played.

The chance to see Swanage’s emergency vehicles close up, was too good an opportunity to miss for lots of young children and a few big kids too! Swanage Fire Station’s open day on Saturday 10th August 2024 proved a big hit, with the firefighters demonstrating the work they do, along with Swanage’s police, ambulance, and coastguard teams. It was Swanage Fire Station’s first open day in many years...

Swanage Carnival midweek fireworks on Wednesday 31st July 2024 looked spectacular from Prince Albert Gardens! Sponsored by Daniel and Dani Elm in memory of their daughter who they described as their very own firecracker. Darcy-May sadly died at the age of four but it was a joy to see the sky lit up for her - what a lovely tribute!

Swanage RNLI rescue during Fastnet race

Air ambulance lands at Knoll Beach

Swanage lifeboats rescue sinking boat filmed by Mark Eady

Swanage Carnival procession 2024

Swanage lifeboat crew go to aid of 15 year old boy who has fallen from top of Old Harry

South Dorset General Election 2024 hustings in Swanage

Royal Corps of Signals march through Swanage to commemorate D-Day 80 years on

D-Day 80th anniversary at Swanage war memorial

Cancare garden official opening in Swanage 2024

Northern Lights over Swanage - timelapse footage by JM Alcock

Swanage Railway Victorian weekend 2024

Swanage Information Centre wins gold in the Dorset Tourism Awards 2024

Custodian artwork by Robert J Marshall

Swanage Boxing Day Swim 2023

Formula 24 race car at The Swanage School

Christmas light switch on in Swanage 2023

Corfe Castle Christmas lights switch on 2023