UPDATE from the police: Police officers say they are pleased to update that a missing teenage girl from Shaftesbury has been found safe and well. Natasha Gray, who is 14 years old, was …

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. …

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 …

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 …

A Shaftesbury farmer has been fined for illegally moving cattle to and from his farm while under a movement restriction and for falsifying records relating to the identity of calves. Identification of cattle and …

A driver who fled the scene of a road traffic collision that left a young man with life-threatening injuries has been jailed. Adam Christopher Whitticks, 21 and of Coppice Street in Shaftesbury, appeared …

The snow that arrived in Dorset on Thursday evening has led to the closures of schools in the area, as councils announced that school bus services would not run because of the weather. …

AT 3.15pm exactly on Thursday 10 January 2019 auctioneer Iain Soutar’s hammer came down at £1,445 on the sale of Colin Mitchell’s magnificent Angus steer to Sherborne farmer Mike Dibble, reports Richard Thomas …