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• Residents rally for Charminster library

  Hundreds of people have joined a rally calling for Charminster Library to reopen. Staff, families, library users and residents aged from two to ninety four gathered on Friday the twelfth of June after the building closed last December. BCP Council has said work to remove asbestos will begin at the end of June, but further funding for the remaining repairs has not been committed. People at the rally said the library has been a safe community space, supporting families, children, friendships and early learning. The Friends of Charminster Group says it will keep pressing until funding is in place.

• Muscliff food festival licence approved

  A Caribbean food and drink festival has been given licensing approval for Muscliff Park this weekend. The Taste of the Caribbean Food and Drink Festival was approved by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council’s Licensing Committee recently. The licence allows live and recorded music and alcohol sales at the event, with up to four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine people allowed on site. Residents had raised concerns about noise, anti-social behaviour and parking, but the committee was satisfied with the event manager’s response. The first event is planned for Saturday the twentieth of June, with future events expected later this year.

• Bournemouth Pier remains free to access

  The toll to access Bournemouth Pier is remaining free as part of the Government’s Great British Summer Savings initiative.

• Teen sought after Southbourne beach fight

  Police are trying to identify a teenage girl following an assault at Southbourne beach. Around seventy young people gathered at Fisherman’s Walk on Friday evening, where council CCTV captured a group of girls attacking another female believed to be about sixteen years old. Officers attended the area in significant numbers, but the victim left on foot before police arrived and enquiries are continuing to check on her welfare and offer support. One female suspect was detained and identified, while investigations continue to identify others involved in the incident, which also saw reports of nitrous oxide, cannabis and alcohol use. Anyone who knows the girl involved is being asked to contact Dorset Police.

• Local figures named in honours list

  Several people with Bournemouth and Dorset connections have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List. Dorset Police Chief Constable Amanda Pearson receives the King’s Police Medal, while former Bournemouth councillor Philip Broadhead has been awarded an OBE. MBEs go to LoveLove Films founder Georgina Hurcombe and Bournemouth University professor Jian Jun Zhang. Wimborne residents Paul Kitching and firefighter Keith Prince have both received British Empire Medals.