EVENTS CALENDAR

Meet celebrities in Christchurch

07/01/2009 22:12 by Seb

Hi guys,

First of all, Happy New Year! Our friends from the Best Western in Christchurch sent us an e-mail about an event we'd like to share with you all:

For one night only at the Best Western Waterford Lodge Hotel in Christchurch we are hosting a celebrity audience with ex London Gangster Dave Courtney obe, he will be joined by Jason Mariner (Chelsea Head-hunter) Carlton Leach (Rise of the Foot soldier) and other special guests.

The night will be great fun and you will also have a chance to meet them and have your picture taken. There will also be signed books, DVDS and photos on sale.

Advance Tickets are only £10.00. The event starts at 8:00pm and is on SUNDAY 18TH JAN 2009.

What a great way to start the New Year. Please contact the hotel direct on 01425 282101 for tickets and more information.

Have a fantastic 2009!
Waterford Lodge Hotel.

Back to normality!

02/09/2008 08:42 by Seb

With all the celebrations of the Bournemouth Air over, it's time to return to our working and studying lives. Oh the grim face of reality is setting in! Even the weather has found its way back to Spain and left us with rain and wind.

I hope you enjoyed the festival as much as we did. Saturday was one of my personal highlights with a quality show and lucious sunshine. My compliments go out to those ladies dangling off those pre historic stunt planes and who can forget those Barclays blue airplanes sponsored by Barclays bank using Barclays trained pilots. Did I mention these airplanes were kindly sponsored by Barclays bank? Haha!

I think events like this is exactly what Bournemouth needs to give the tourism and night time economy a boost. The council has always been reactive but I think they hit the nail on the head with this one. Hopefully they can keep it up like this.

So what's in store for us? Well we are still putting through new developments and new people are joining the website each day. We're planning a little party for when we reach a 1000 members so if you read this, why not join Bournemouth By Night, upload your photo and comment on some of the venues that you've been to.

I'll add some Air Festival photos later but feel free to send us yours. You can do this by sending an email to bournemouthairfestival@bournemouthbynight.com.

And lastly, just wanted to leave you with this video of the Bournemouth Air Festival, courtesy of PlanesTV:

Website improvements

29/07/2008 23:37 by Seb

We've been quite busy lately making significant improvements to the website. One of the main features that is now completely working and up and running (fingers crossed, knock on wood, pray to Jesus/Allah, etc.) is our photo upload funtionality.

If all is well, you should be able to upload multiple photos to your profile at once. We'll also be sending a mailing about this next week, when more features have been added to the website.

We've also splurged out on a new server with the money we won off some old lady in a poker game. So goodbye inheritance, hello faster loading times!

At the moment, the server gerbils are working overtime to get the forum up and running and to get alot of new features in, such as:

- Groups (join, create groups)
- Improve search, browsing for others
- Games (to waste some more of your time :p)
- More interaction and visual stuff
- A heap more events of course
- & much much more…

We'll let you know where, when and how things are progressing, but for now, feel free to log in and upload your photos.

UPDATE 30/07/08: Fixed birthdate bug in the edit your profile page. Please make sure your birthdate is correctly set.

New investment to make Bournemouth safer

13/05/2008 16:24 by Seb

Even though it's pretty such out here in sunny Bournemouth, Bournemouth Borough Council has invested £1.9 million pounds in CCTV monitoring equipment in the last 3 years. Yes, big brother is watching you!

But the high definition CCTV cameras have helped local police significantly with arresting those that like to ruin it for the rest of us. The CCTV cameras are placed all over town centre and near the sea front and are monitored 24 hours a day, something to consider next time you are taking a sanitary break against your favourite tree.

Martyn Webster, Dorset Police's CCTV Liaison Officer, said: "In the past month, (April), Dorset Police has successfully been able to use CCTV evidence to arrest, charge and process 62 people for offences ranging from assault and criminal damage to indecent exposure and assault on police. 28 of those arrests were sparked by calls made by CCTV staff to the police. These figures are testament to the efficiency of the system and I hope are proving to be a deterrent to potential offenders."

So there you go, if Mr. Webster is happy than I guess it's a good thing we're being watched 24/7. There are also other initiatives in Bournemouth aimed at improving the quality of nightlife and enhancing street safety. The Bournemouth Town Watch committee for example, exists of member from the local authorities and council as well as night time venue owners. They have improved door staff and safety on the streets at night, making Bournemouth a nicer place for all of us. More about the Town Watch is to follow.

Refer your friends to Bournemouth By Night

16/04/2008 15:24 by Seb

Yesterday night we had our first Bournemouth By Night themed night in 176. Thanks all for coming! Hope you liked it!

We plan to run a nice contest in May 2008 for those who refer the most people to this website. We've already got a nice pack of prizes and it's expanding every time. So make sure you stay tuned for more info.

A few quick updates

The BIC (Bournemouth International Centre) has now been added to the website including all their events for this year in both the main building and the Pavilion. You can easily search through them using the search function.

We've made some improvements to the website and are still working hard to get the forums up and running as well as improving the photo uploads. More soon to come!

Bournemouth Night Time Bus

10/04/2008 15:14 by Seb

In June this year, Wilts & Dorset buses will start a night time bus service to take you from the square to Poole, Charminster and Boscombe.

The buses will run every half-hour on Fridays and Saturdays between June and December initially.

Bournemouth Borough Council wants to review the bus times after this period with Wilts & Dorset to see if it has been successful.

Some taxi drivers are likely to be less happy with the plans for a night time bus, as this will affect their business undoubtly.

We'll keep you up-to-date on the situation. Whichever form of transport you choose, be it a taxi, bus or a lift from friends, make sure you don't drink and drive.

Thank you very much for a great night!

01/04/2008 12:26 by Seb

Yesterday, we celebrated the re-launch of our website in Klute, Bournemouth. We kicked the evening off with a champagne reception and around 9:15 followed a quick presentation. Klute was very kind to let us host the event in their venue and made sure that everybody had plenty of sushi to eat and champagne to sip.

A special thanks goes out to Carribean Connexion who played an excellent live set with Salsa, Merenque en Reggea music for more than 1.5 hours. Whenever there is a party in town where they perform, I'd highly recommend you see them.

Website improvements

We are aware that some things might not work optimally yet. We've only just launched this website and with anything it comes with some minor bugs. We are working every day to sort these out and will make improvements in the search system, the photos and the forum very soon.

Thanks guys

We would like to send a thanks out to everybody who came to our party yesterday and to our DJs who flew in from France just to play for us. Stay tuned for the first Bournemouth By Night event held in April! More info soon!