The Gillingham branch of Pets at Home and other company stores have recalled a number of dry cat food products after they were found to have caused ‘sudden collapse, fitting, widespread twitching and …

Gillingham has secured £3.45m from the Government for roads infrastructure to support new homes and jobs. The money will help pay for improved roads and junctions that are needed for 1,800 planned new homes …

Gillingham News is a free monthly paper delivered to homes in Gillingham and Mere and available at many outlets in the area too, from Bourton and Zeals down to East Stour and Marnhull. …

Work on building 1,800 homes under Gillingham’s so-called ‘Southern Extension’ will not begin before the summer of next year at the earliest, councillors have been told. Planning officer Robert Lennis also revealed that …

The organiser of the popular Party at the Rec community event says he will try to revive it for 2018 after cancelling it this year. Michael Fox says a decision by Gillingham Town …

The supermarket chain ALDI has accused planners of holding up their plans for a new store on the outskirts of Gillingham. The company wants to build what it calls a ‘modest neighbourhood store’ …

Proposed changes in the way rural schools in North Dorset and elsewhere are funded will bring in more money but should not be seen as a ‘windfall’ solution, says a leading teaching union. …

Developers say they are pressing ahead with plans to build 130 homes on a greenfield site on Castle Street in Mere despite strong opposition from many local residents and councillors. At a sometimes …

Eagle-eyed readers of author and illustrator Raymond Briggs’ book about his parents’ life, Ethel & Ernest, would have spotted some familiar place names on page 37. In a letter that a young Raymond, …