Police appeal for public help as 91-year-old fails to come home after bus trip
Police are calling for the public’s help this morning to find a 91-year-old Swanage man who has gone missing after a trip on the bus.
View ArticleGo wild: theme is revealed for Purbeck Literary Festival 2017
THE dates are set for the fourth Purbeck Literary Festival - and this year's event has a 'wild' theme.
View ArticleWW2 bomb detonated on Knoll Beach
An unexploded WW2 ordnace was detonated on Studland this afternoon.
View ArticleArtificial tennis courts available for the first time in Swanage
ARTIFICIAL grass tennis courts are available to play on for the first time in Swanage.
View ArticleWork starts on demolishing former school to make way for care home
A SPECIAL ceremony has taken place at the former Sandford St Martin School campus, where a new care home is being built.
View Article'Please stay at home and we may come through this'
Having seen yet another report of people breaching Covid regulations (in London, 400 strong wedding party broken up whilst in Dorset, there are frequent visitors to beauty spots, and a police officer...
View ArticleWessex Internet's donation to Lulworth and Winfrith School
Pupils from a rural primary school are being given a helping hand with home schooling thanks to a local internet provider.
View ArticleJosh Lacey's Zoom session with Bovington Academy students
Children at a Wareham primary enjoyed their first ever virtual author visit and learnt about the power of hope and the power of one person to help change the world to make it a better place.
View ArticlePCC candidate's plan for tackling anti-social behaviour
The people of Dorset love their beach huts and their sheds.
View ArticleBournemouth Air Festival scheduled for September
HOPES Bournemouth’s summer could be busy and action-packed are alive as BCP Council said it hoped to deliver a programme of events similar to 2019.
View Article'National Park would mean revision of new homes in Dorset'
Your letter pages have shown the concerns many people have about the proposal by Dorset Council in their draft Local Plan to supply over 39,000 new houses to comply with central housing targets, which...
View ArticleStudents at Bovington Academy's British Science Week studies
Students at a Wareham primary school have found out how easily germs such as coronavirus spread if not caught in a tissue or one's elbow.
View ArticleOld pictures showing Lulworth Cove in Dorset
These old photographs show Lulworth Cove over the years.
View Article'Stop closing Dorset banks - think of the learning disabled'
Given all the banks and building societies deciding that a number of branches will close, have they considered that in some areas – like here in Dorset – those with learning disabilities are unable to...
View ArticleRemembering life in ghost village Tyneham
These pictures show what 'ghost village' Tyneham would have been like when it was a vibrant community.
View ArticleBovington Academy's Good Diabetes Care award nomination
Staff at Bovington Academy are supporting 10-year-old pupil, Emily Gauntlett, who has Type 1 diabetes.
View Article'Treat climate change as a top priority'
It's hardly surprising that according to an Echo article of March 31, many Dorset residents don’t believe we should be treating the climate as a top priority.
View ArticleNow and then nostalgia pictures of north Dorset
This collection of pictures show how Dorset has changed over the years.
View ArticleDorset filming of Mike Leigh's Play for Today Nuts in May
Famous director Mike Leigh chose Dorset as the location for his 1975 episode for the BBC's Play For Today, Nuts in May.
View Article'Why I pick litter in the Lulworth area'
‘You’d never catch me litter picking’ my friend remarked as I was getting ready to go out on another evening litter pick or ‘bimble’ as my litter picking friend calls it.
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