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Dorset Business Entrepreneur of the Year Award, has been awarded to Mark Cribb, owner of Boscombe’s Urban Beach Hotel & Bistro.

Urban Beach is a 12-bedroom boutique hotel, bar and bistro, located 500 metres from the beach and Boscombe pier.

Cribb, who purchased the run-down B&B in 2006, worked in excess of 100 hours per week for two years in order to raise the funds to transform Urban Beach into what it is today – a successful business which employs up to 30 local people and is on target to turn over £1.2M.

Mark Cribb (centre), with Lee Cooper from IoD (left) and BU's Professor Nick Petford (right) This dedicated work ethic, and the fair and ethical fashion in which the business is run, helped our independent judges as well as our judges from BU’s Centre for Research & Enterprise and the IoD, to select Cribb as the winner.

Accepting the award, Cribb said: “[The award] recognises the hard work and dedication that has been put into establishing Urban Beach and helps towards raising the profile of our establishment.”

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Sculpture Trail Designs

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Hannah Beech Photography

All of the images on the site are from original photographs shot by Hannah, some of which are more traditional photographs while others are contemporary digitally manipulated images. Hannah's work...

Strolling violinist

Are you a hotel owner, events organiser or restaurant manager? Need a round table fiddler? Jack also plays Klezmer and Gypsy music Ask for a free demonstration

Stromenti String Quartet

Every year, Stromenti perform a series of concerts at St Clements Church, St Clements Road, Boscombe, one of Bournemouth's finest grade 1 listed buildings. Immortalised in John...

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al Artist Keira Rathbone who recently exhibited in a shop in the Royal Arcade in Boscombe has produced the front cover of a book by the high profile playwright and critic Bonnie Greer.
Bonnie Greer was praised in the UK recently having challenged Nick griffin of the BNP on Question time
Quote from Bonnie:
" Keira Rathbone is one of the most important artists working today. It's rare that a writer can find and then work with a visual artist who "feels" a work, and can then translate it. Her design for my new book, "Obama Music" is more than an interpretation of the work inside. It extends it. Looking at her artwork during the finishing stages of the book, I gained an even clearer idea of what I was trying to do. That's the highest form of collaboration to me.. Working with Keira was like having someone finish my sentences before I could begin to know what to say. Keira Rathbone has a very special creativity."

Tricia Walker is a UK based author. (Living in Boscombe)
In August 2006 she released an 8 year old manuscript, Benedict's Brother, as a blog in monthly instalments.
In May 2007 Benedict's Brother was released as a paperback. It was the biggest debut launch of an unknown author in Borders UK bookstores.
It has now received, and continues to receive, reader and critical acclaim all over the world.
Benedict's Brother is a moving page turner. It is a contemporary story of love, death and Buddhism, Japanese POWs and Thailand.
Tricia Walker is currently completing her second book and working on a third.