Caring Swanage Railway volunteers organising their annual three-day Diesel Gala and Beer Festival (9-11 May) are helping to raise £200,000 towards a new lifeboat house – thanks to a special train from Salisbury, Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole to Corfe Castle and Swanage.
Officers in Gillingham are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after an assault in the town. The incident happened at some time between 3.40am and 3.50am on Sunday 27 April 2014 at the junction of New Road and Newbury in Gillingham. A 32-year-old man from Sherborne was driving along the road…
As part of the programme of events for Dorset Art Weeks, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has teamed-up with Dorset based outdoors activity company Jurassic Electric to invite visitors to the Kingcombe Centre and nature reserve to enjoy the local landscape and wildlife in west Dorset by electric bike.
An appeal has gone out from police after a woman was sexually assaulted in Bournemouth. The victim, a 44-year-old woman from Oxford, was sitting on a bench in the West Overcliff gardens area overlooking the beach on Thursday 17 April at approximately 1.30pm. A man approached her, sat close and inappropriately touched her. PC Daniel…
Dorset County Council’s cabinet has agreed to provide an extra £50,000 to increase the number of roadside verge cuts. Currently in towns, verges are cut six times a year between March and November and in rural areas they are cut twice, between April and October. However the wet and mild summers have encouraged more plant…
