Dorset’s Police and Crime Commissioner David Sidwick is launching a survey to ask residents for their views on crime and policing in the county – including the Gillingham area. Members of the public …

Construction work on 55 extra care flats for the elderly on the site of the now-demolished St Martins House on Queen Street, Gillingham, could begin in August. The existing building on the site …

Dorset Police have confirmed they are increasing the number of ‘high-visibility’ patrols in the Hardings Park area of Gillingham and near the old football club after a series of complaints from residents about …

EU nationals living in Gillingham and other parts of North Dorset are being urged to regularise their residency status in the UK before the cut-off date of 30 June amid a warning that …

Staff at Westminster Memorial Hospital in Shaftesbury, have been joined by members of its League of Friends to mark 150 years since the building’s foundation stone was laid. They gathered in the hospital …

A husband and wife duo from Gillingham – who have volunteered for their local food bank throughout the pandemic – are being recognised for their incredible support, by anti-food poverty charity the Trussell …

Councillor Paul Harris has become the new mayor of Gillingham after a mayor-making ceremony this week and a formal vote by fellow councillors. Councillor Harris, a retired army officer who has been deputy …

Asda in Gillingham recently delivered 10 laptops to Gillingham Primary School as part of the supermarket’s initiative to provide more than 7,000 laptops to schools across the UK to help tackle digital exclusion. …

Plans by Waitrose to extend its café, create a new exit and put in covered trolley shelters have been hailed by local councillors as a vote of confidence in Gillingham. Councillor Mike Gould …