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Dorset Wildlife Trust and Natural England have purchased 335 hectares of chalk downland and farmland at Lyscombe, 10 miles from Dorchester.

A popular spot on the Hampshire Avon has been shortlisted to be considered as a newly designated inland bathing water site by DEFRA.

The community came together recently for the official opening of new play area on Eastwood Road in Verwood.

As it celebrates 50 years of volunteer work in the county, Dorset Countryside Volunteers is hoping to attract more people to continue its work.

An outline planning application has been made to Dorset Council to build 55 houses on green belt land in Wimborne.

Items discarded at recycling centres in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole are now being sold at the ‘new to you’ shop in Cabot Lane.

Julia’s House children’s hospice has raised £17,229 in donations from its record breaking Christmas tree collection.

More than £18,000 was raised in support of a vital local hospice charity by a Christmas tree collection service that recycled 1000 trees.

Such was the volume of rain last week that Dorset Council’s highway crews were called out 82 times in less than 24 hours.

A ‘treecycling’ initiative that benefits the environment and local charities will turn hundreds of Christmas trees into compost in the New Year.