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Brewery Square continues Christmas festivities throughout December

Brewery Square is continuing its Christmas celebrations throughout December, with music, film screenings, a silent disco and more

After kicking off festivities with Christmas lights illuminations and Skating in the Square on November 27, the events continue throughout December with a band performance, silent disco, craft activities and film screenings.

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More than £5,000 has been raised for the appeal to bring Hardy objects on display

A Crowdfunder appeal to raise £5,000 to bring rare Hardy treasures on show has been a success.

Dorset Museum along with Poole Museum, The Salisbury Museum and Wiltshire Museum launched the appeal to conserve the objects. These include Hardy's landscape first sketch 'from nature', 'The Trumpet-Major' notebook full of Hardy's research from his Napoleonic era, his grandmother's kettle, the tombstone design for Hardy's dog, an extract from his wife, Emma's, memoirs, a portrait of Hardy and his mother and many more.

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