People are being urged to back a crowdfunder for a Dorchester statue of the pioneering novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner, which has already got off ...

It has been reported that a bottle was used in the attack which happened inside the Co-op in Trinity Street. There were no injuries reported during the fight and Dorset Police has just released an ...

A woman has been raped in a town centre alleyway. The victim, in her 30s, was attacked in Dorchester, Dorset, at about 22:30 BST on Friday. Cordons were put in place outside the Royal Oak ...

But Dorset Council refused on the grounds that it was too remote – despite being ten minutes from Dorchester town centre - and whoever lived there would be ‘reliant on a car’. The decision ...

The two trees at the junction of South Street and Trinity Street were found to be decaying Two "landmark" trees in a town centre have been ... and Trinity Street in Dorchester, Dorset, were ...

A Costa branch in Dorchester is set to close its doors for nearly two weeks for a refurbishment. The branch on Cornhill will shut its doors on November 20 for ten days for a "modern uplift".

Sylvia Townsend Warner lived in Dorset with her partner, poet Valentine Ackland, at a time when same-sex relationships defied ...

page which covers Dorchester town centre and the surrounding rural areas. The force responsible for policing and crime prevention in this area is Dorset Police.

But in the 1940s and ’50s, the US used two of the far-flung atolls, Bikini and Enewetak, to test out 67 nuclear bombs – one ...

These pictures show some hardy men fishing at Portland Bill in the bitterly cold winter of 1963. Just looking at the images, ...

A new Greggs has opened on one of Dorset's busiest routes. Situated right next to the petrol station on the A35 in Winterbourne Abbas, the popular bakery chain - famous for its bakes, sausage rolls ...

A cordon was put in place in Weymouth town centre as firefighters tackled a blaze inside a fast-food chain. The fire broke ...