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Dorset Council has looked at ways to double the number of affordable homes by measures including the use of council-owned land and buildings.

Working on environmental projects, residents at care homes in Broadstone and Ferndown met up with children from Parley and Broadstone.

Vikki Slade, MP for Mid Dorset & North Poole, asked Prime Minister Keir Starmer about the proposed Canford Magna waste incinerator during PMQs.

The Big Clean Up saw 29 volunteers remove 41 pieces of graffiti and 58 bags of rubbish during this annual event.

Additional energy saving solar panels are to be installed at both Poole Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

People living in the Dorset Council area have until 4 May to have their say on alterations to the street lighting policy.

Residents are asked to get involved with beach cleans taking place along Dorset’s coastline from 5 to 13 April.

Three designs have been shortlisted for the reusable Wimborne Cup and now local people have the chance to select the winner.

The number of Fixed Penalty Notices for fly-tipping in Dorset has increased by more than three quarters in the last year.

The council is considering implementing Public Space Protection Orders to ban the lighting of fires on heathland and camping on Studland beach.