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 ...

1 From the car park, walk back along the entry lane. Don’t take the ‘Hardy’s Cottage’ signed path into right trees, or ‘Visitor Centre’ path. Continue to the T-junction with fields opposite. Turn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plans to renovate and demolish part of a listed building in Bridport has been supported. Owners of 98 West Bay Road, near to the Crown Roundabout have been granted permission to alter the Grade II ...

A TEENAGER playing for Dorset Cricket women's team has been selected for Hampshire Cricket's Vipers Academy. All-rounder Poppy White, 17, has impressed selectors and got the call after impressing with ...