A 12-month programme to stabilise the slopes of Dinah’s Hollow on a stretch of the C13 road between Blandford and Shaftesbury will begin on Monday 5 January 2026. Several landslips over the years have posed …

Beleaguered Melbury Abbas & Cann villagers have turned to crowdfunding in an attempt to stop Dorset County Council implementing what they claim is ‘the slow destruction’ of its village, reports Richard Thomas. The …