A controversial housing development on the edge of Shaftesbury by the Shaftesbury to Gillingham road was dramatically turned down today by Dorset Council’s northern area planning committee meeting for the first time. Meeting …

TWO schoolgirls from Gillingham were among some 20 people who joined Extinction Rebellion (XR) Shaftesbury’s peaceful demonstration outside Shaftesbury town hall in support of XR’s international students Global Strike day on 24 May. …

Police officers searching for a woman who went missing with her young son in Gillingham say they have both now been located. Augustina Elliot-Smith, 35, was reported missing after leaving her home some …

Gillingham and Shaftesbury have elected their mayors for the coming years. As a special mayor-making ceremony in the town hall on Wednesday 15 May, Councillor Barry Von Clemens was unanimously voted in as …

Police officers investigating a fail-to-stop collision in Gillingham have issued a photo of the vehicle involved. At around 11.30am on Friday 12 April 2019 a woman was driving her silver Kia Sportage near …

It was a tale of two towns in yesterday’s first Dorset Council elections for Gillingham and Shaftesbury. In Gillingham all three Conservative candidates were elected to the town’s three seats on the new …

This Thursday voters in Gillingham, Shaftesbury and elsewhere in Dorset go to the pools new elect the first councillors to represent them on the newly -formed Dorset Council, which last month replaced Dorset …

Lidl UK has today announced its public consultation day on its plans for a new supermarket at the former cattle market on Christy’s Lane in Shaftesbury will take place on 11 April.Coincidentally, Shaftesbury …

Gillingham School is today, Friday 29 March, putting on memorial match in memory of English teacher Ian Murray who sadly passed away last November. The match, hosted by Gillingham Town FC at their …