A conference and networking event that will bring together anyone who is passionate about their community from across Dorset is being held in Corfe Mullen. The ‘Growing Hope in Our Communities’ event at …

A woman who sustained life-threatening injuries during a collision in Sixpenny Handley has died, Dorset Police have said. The collision happened at around 6pm on Saturday 1 February 2020 on the B3081 about …

Dorset Council has launched a 12-week public consultation on rules about dogs in public spaces. It says this will help with the development of the new Dorset-wide dog-related Public Spaces Protection Order. The …

Dorset Council is looking for the relatives of the WWII Ferndown Auxiliary Unit. This group of specially-trained volunteers were members of the Home Guard and practised their drills at their secret Operations Base …

The Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty team have been awarded more than £380,000 to expand their health and wellbeing project, ‘Stepping into Nature’. Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund, the project …

Discount supermarket Lidl say they are hoping for a decision soon on their application to build a new store on the site of the old cattle market in Christy’s Lane, Shaftesbury. It is …

A powerful coalition of South West businesses, education leaders and local authorities has pledged to work in partnership with Government to make the Great South West – including Dorset – the latest growth …

An organised crime group has been sentenced to a total of more than 60 years in prison for their roles in running a ‘county line’ known as the ‘Scouse Porky Line’, which supplied …

Detectives investigating an armed robbery in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward. Dorset Police was called at 2.22pm on Wednesday 18 December 2019 to a report of …