After appearing on the Dorset Echo's Facebook nostalgia group We Grew Up in Weymouth and Portland, the picture has proved immensely popular with nostalgia lovers sharing it 108 times and it attracting ...

Campaigners say they 'won't give up' fighting against plans for a waste incinerator on Portland ahead of a public meeting on the issue ...

The Deputy PM has also given six authorities permission to raise bills even further and without holding a local referendum ...

Read about a decision by NHS commissioners in Dorset to withdraw a contract for a Marie Curie end-of-life care nursing ...

Organisers of a monthly artisan market say the event has attracted thousands of people to Dorset's county town. The market, ...

Wessex Cancer Support provided 19,000 individual support sessions across its four centres in Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight, compared to 16,560 in 2023. There was also a 48 per cent increase ...

British actor Edward Fox, 87, has taken aim at Network Rail who want to build a modern ramped bridge onto the Grade II listed ...

A west Dorset author’s dream of having his debut novel published has come true – after 40 years. Joe Hackett, of Bothenhampton, has recently released Coming to the Surface , which he first wrote as a ...

The regional force has received up to £191.8million from the Home Office as part of the government's aim to restore neighbourhood policing.

The Bibby Stockholm asylum barge has left the seaside town where it docked in July 2023 - prompting relief from locals who ...

The latest tranche of criminals includes a man who committed “an attack of monstrous evil with the worst possible ...

The Bibby Stockholm first arrived in Dorset in July 2023. Its departure means the contract between the Home Office and ...