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The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, Dorset heading - with pictures of the congregation
at worship, enjoying a coffee and looking at the bookstall and at lunch

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Local News

Links to sites with news for Gillingham and the surrounding area

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This page ...

... is not about us at St. Mary's: if you are looking for our news click here.

Rather, this page provides links to other websites that provide news of events of particular interest to those living in or visiting the Gillingham area.


The Town Website

The main source of information about the town online can be found here.


Three Rivers

The Three Rivers Partnership is a community partnership which aims to bring the communities in and around Gillingham together to plan for the future and to make that plan happen. It does not replace local town or parish councils but lends strength to their work by co-operating closely with them and with district and county councils and other bodies. At present a lot of effort is going towards getting a new new community leisure centre for the town.


Other local sites

The North Dorset Net is "A North Dorset Living Guide". It aims to encourage local activity, with information about local festivals, classes, gardens open, shopping ...

The Slade Centre is a business and arts venue in Gillingham - their website shows what classes and other events are taking place there.


Gillingham Festival

Gillingham Festival takes place in roughly the first two weeks of July each year. Information can be found here.


The local authorities

Dorset County

The Dorset County Council website has sections on

as well as the more obvious council concerns - amongst which is the library section (which includes the facility for you to renew your library books). Gillingham library has its own page.

North Dorset

The North Dorset District Council website can be found here.


The weather

From the Metoffice,
or from the BBC: 24 hr or 5 day forecast or Dorset.

You can find warnings of flooding on the
National Environment Agency website.

(you can see a map of where flooding can occur in the town
here)


BBC webpages

Various information about Dorset can be found on the
Dorset section of the BBC website.


Papers

Other news can be found on the websites of the local papers, especially:

Do you know of another news site that you think we should have a link to? - please let the webmaster know.



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