Firefighters have issued advice to motorists on driving during heavy rain and floods. With Storm Claudia recently hitting parts of Dorset and with long periods of heavy rain forecast by the Met Office ...

Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens will be lit up from November 21 to December 31 on select dates. Illuminate 2025 - Winter Lights at the Gardens has been described by admirers on social media as 'so ...

This beautiful old Weymouth photo from 1937 shows fairy lights and forgotten buildings including the Pier Toll House ...

Dorchester’s independent bookshop Teasel & Skylark has launched a Children’s Christmas Poetry Competition 2025. The winner’s poem will be read aloud by Anthony Harrison, Dorchester’s town crier ...

A road will close for urgent pothole repairs later this month. Barrowland Lane near the village of Toller Porcorum will be closed between its junction with High Street and its junction with Shatcombe ...

When quizzed if a return to frontline politics may be on the cards, the former deputy Labour leader said she had not ‘gone away’.

Here are just a few instances of small jails and village lock ups from Dorset, with a few still visible today. The lock up in Lyme Regis is found at a still used site in the town- under its Guildhall ...

A Portland couple are fighting to open the doors of a long-forgotten underground hospital to the public. Dawn and Kelvin Nicholson have lived on Portland for 48 years, but what they didn’t realise ...

The Danes saw a one-goal lead over Belarus turned on its head in three second-half minutes and the Tartan Army celebrated a 2-2 draw in Copenhagen after an agonising wait of several minutes following ...

Every household in the UK is legally required to have a TV licence in order to watch or record live TV, regardless of what channel it is on ...

A POPULAR bar has launched a new eating challenge and customers are already loving it. Knight Life Brewing and The Knight Life Taphouse located at Ashley Cross has introduced a new eating challenge ...