PART of a Dorset road is closed for a telegraph pole to be replaced. A stretch of Drakes Lane in Cheselbourne is shut until Wednesday, January 28 while Openreach carries out the work.

Crews from Bridport Fire Station were called to a chimney fire at a property near Nettlecombe around 12.54pm. The tenants had extinguished the fire before crews got there before firefighters noted an ...

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Many Dorset sites identified for development are likely to be rejected because they contravene national policy or do not have the land owners' consent, according to one councillor. Former council ...

Dorset Council said that national planning policy required it to expand its scope for new housing sites Many Dorset sites identified for development are likely to be rejected because they contravene ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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Clara Novello, the opera singer, painted by her brother Edward in 1833 - incamerastock / Alamy At lunch yesterday in the lovely Tudor house of Nettlecombe Court, east of Exmoor, a four-part grace was ...

Check out the secret bays, abandoned villages and dramatic cliffs on the South Coast that appeared in an ITV drama I’VE lived in Dorset all my life, and these are the hidden gems that a lot of ...

A family were treated to an aquatic masterclass after a playful dolphin joined them on their morning swim. Lynda MacDonald, 50, and her partner, son and his girlfriend, set out for their 6am morning ...