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DAME JUDI DENCH TO JUDGE DORSET TRADING STANDARDS
SCHOOLCHILDREN’S POETRY COMPETITION
Dorset Council Trading Standards Service check and approve
IN AID OF ENDANGERED BARN OWLS AT businesses so you don’t have to.
BERE MARSH FARM For more information visit www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk or
call 08454 040506.
To report or seek advice about problems you have
Hundreds of Dorset schoolchildren wanting to experienced when dealing with a trader call 08454 040506.
save the endangered Barn Owls at Bere Marsh
Farm have had a dramatic boost to their new
poetry and performance competition from
one of Britain’s most illustrious and decorated Selling fireworks safely
actresses, Dame Judi Dench. Guy Fawkes night is approaching,
and many businesses are taking
The Oscar and BAFTA awards winning star has
thrilled youngsters and teachers at schools delivery of fireworks ready to supply
throughout the Blandford and Sturminster their customers. Did you know the
Newton areas by agreeing to judge the ‘Icons Explosives Regulations 2014 require
in the Landscape’ competition in support of businesses storing fireworks and
the fund raising campaign to replace the roof other explosives to have a licence
on the beloved owls’ tumbledown home in and to store fireworks safely?
which they have nested and reared young for over 20 years. Trading Standards grant licences
‘It is no exaggeration to say excitement levels are through the roof,’ says Charlotte according to the amount and type
Weatherley, Assistant Head of Knighton House School and creator of the Icons of explosive a business wants to
competition which launches this week. store. Most fireworks sold to
consumers are classed as ‘hazard
‘We are absolutely delighted by Dame Judi’s wonderful gesture of support as she type 4’ and a licence from us allows
will be offering her expertise to our young writers and performers and casting an storage of up to 250kg of net explosive content. We also inspect business premises
expert gaze over their efforts. to ensure the proposed store is safe and compliant.
‘At Knighton House and, indeed, throughout all of Dorset, we take our learning The outer transport packaging that fireworks are delivered to shops in help to
very seriously. What we learn is as important as how we learn it. In the very varied keep fireworks safe. Ideally in shops fireworks should be kept in those same closed
roles she has played and her resilience under difficult circumstances, Dame Judi transport packages inside a locked storeroom that is used exclusively for the
Dench personifies the learner all pupils aspire to be.’ storage of fireworks. It sounds obvious but fireworks should be stored away from
combustible material such as cigarette lighters, but that includes other sources of
The competition, which has a junior section for youngsters in the 7-11 age group ignition such as electrical fuse boards.
and a senior category open to those aged between 12-14, requires entrants to
write, perform and record a poem inspired by the term, Icons in the Landscape. If a dedicated locked storeroom is not available then fireworks should be stored in
They can, if they wish, ask someone else to perform it or be joined by others in their their closed transport packaging away from the sales area in a fire-resistant
own performance. cabinet, container, or suitable cage. A lesser amount of fireworks can be
displayed in a suitable display case in the shop floor area for customers to see,
It is open to all the schools in the Blandford Schools Network, including Bryanston, but no fireworks should be on display for sale outside of any shop display case.
Knighton House, The Blandford School and eight local primary schools, as well as
five specially invited schools including Sturminster Newton High, William Barnes It is also right to remember that it is illegal to sell fireworks or sparklers to any person
Primary, St Nicholas Primary, Clayesmore School (Prep and Senior School) and under the age of 18 years old.

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