Officers searching for missing Dorset teenager Gaia Pope are renewing their appeal for information, with an updated description of what she was wearing when she was last seen. Gaia, 19, who lives in …

A Dorset man has been ordered to pay £12,000 to Dorset County Council after a court found he falsely claimed he was injured by tripping in a pothole. Kevin Richer, a self-employed bathroom …

As of Friday, 1 September, Dorset residents can apply for school places in 2018, whether their children are starting school for the first time or progressing through the education system. For children who …

Two brothers, one from Mere, have been jailed after committing a series of thefts from motor vehicles across Dorset and Wiltshire. Lenny Wells, 30 and of Eyres Way in Salisbury and Edward Wells, …

Dorset and other parts of the South West have seen an increase in rural crime in the last year, according to a new report. NFU Mutual’s annual Rural Crime Report, published on Monday …

  REGULAR EVENTS GILLINGHAM COUNTRY MARKET Every Friday from 8.30am-11am at the Methodist Church Hall (next to Lloyds Bank), High Street Gillingham. Gillingham Country Market offers a truly local shopping experience and a …

Voters in the Gillingham area have been urged to check their poll cards to make sure they go to the correct polling station for the local elections on Thursday 4 May. For reasons …

Gillingham Town 5 v 0 Swanage Town This Dorset Senior Cup semi-final on Tuesday was a potential banana skin for the Gills as they were playing a team from a League two levels …