Dorset Council's plans, which were approved in February, will see council tax doubled for the 6,000 second homes under its jurisdiction. The authority had initially estimated the policy would ...

University Hospitals Dorset estimates the new panels at Poole Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth Hospital will save the trust £177,000 in energy costs. The funding is part of the first load of ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A POPULAR annual Dorset festival has gone into liquidation and future events have been cancelled. Wilkswood Reggae Festival, which last ...

Brownsea Castle, located on an island off the coast of Dorset, was built in 1547 during the reign of Henry VIII. Since the 1960s it has been exclusively used by John Lewis and Waitrose employees ...

Archaeologists have re-dated the Flagstones monument in Dorset back to 3200 BC - more than two centuries earlier than previously thought. According to new research from the University of Exeter ...

Beavers vanished from Britain because of hunting for their pelts, meat and glands The first ever wild beavers have been released in a Dorset nature reserve, more than 400 years after their ...

Unison's Dorset Council rep Becky Brookman said she worried about the impact of job cuts Campaigners, union members and residents have gathered to protest against proposed cuts to welfare in Dorset.

Brownsea Castle, a 500-year-old former fort in Dorset, is run as a subsidised perk for John Lewis’s 70,000 partners. Now the retailer is preparing to lower the drawbridge to the general public ...

Archaeological research conducted on the prehistoric Dorset burial site known as Flagstones has revealed it to be the earliest known large circular enclosure in Britain. The monument, in ...

Wilkswood Reggae Festival, which last year hosted its seventh event at Wilkswood Farm in Langton Matravers, will not return for 2025. Bosses blamed the “current financial position” of the ...

How average house prices and rents are changing in Dorset. You have selected Dorset but you can choose a different local authority in Great Britain below. Local housing data are based on a smaller ...