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 …

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 …

Don’t miss the deadline to apply for school places for September 2020, urges Dorset Council, the education authority. With only eight days left to sign up, it says there are still over 600 …

Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service (DWFRS), Dorset Police and other LRF partner agencies,have reminded residents about the dangers of flooding as the Met Office forecasts more rain for Dorset in the …

The number of people sleeping rough in Dorset has halved – thanks to work by Dorset Council and other agencies, says the council. Latest figures show that there are currently 18 people rough …

Public Health Dorset is urging all healthcare workers to get their free flu jab and help avoid outbreaks this winter. Last year saw high numbers of flu outbreaks in care homes, and Public …

A repeat rural offender who admitted hunting animals with dogs has been given a suspended prison sentence and banned from land across three counties after breaching a community behaviour order. Scott Matthew Cochrane, …

Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service has reminded drivers to take care when driving on roads potentially affected by flooding. It says a number of calls have been received today, 22 November, …