Railway Ramblers explored Dorset’s historic clay mining tramways from Corfe Castle to Poole Harbour, including a tour of Purbeck Mining ...

Entries are now open for the 2026 National Fish & Chip Awards, now in their 38th year and organised by the National Federation of Fish Friers (NFFF). The competition is open to more than 10,000 fish ...

Four Weymouth students have earned national recognition for their creative writing talents. Skye Threadgold, Faith Barrett, Ellie May-Newton and Lois Fisher from All Saints Academy were honoured in ...

DORSET students are being given a unique opportunity to join a wildlife film-making workshop this summer for free. The Countryside Regeneration Trust (CRT), a charity championing nature-friendly ...

A NEW name sign is planned for the Weymouth branch of WH Smith in St Mary Street. Like other branches across the country the store is being taken over and will be re-branded as TG Jones. (picture ...

A Dorset MP has described the council’s U-turn on a county-wide pre-booking system as “a victory for common sense" ...

The Chickerell Steam and Vintage Show returns to its location of Moor Farm off the coast road in Knights in the Bottom, just outside Chickerell. Organised and run by volunteers, the family show caters ...

MORE than seven years since they started, two Dorset women have completed a personal challenge to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path ...

A historic museum on Portland founded by one Britain's first female doctors is in need of repairs as it nears 100 years since its opening ...

George Edward James Haldenby, 56, died at the Verne Prison on Portland on January 29, 2022. A pre-inquest review into the death of Mr Haldenby, formerly of Dorchester, was presided over by the Senior ...