A farmer has been prosecuted for causing unnecessary suffering to a cow left on the ramp of a Dorset slaughterhouse and for breaching TB disease control restrictions by illegally moving livestock.
A major project to upgrade and improve the coastal defences and promenade at Avon Beach has reached completion in time for the summer.
A fire has destroyed an historic railway hut on Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT’s) Powerstock Common nature reserve, near Maiden Newton in west Dorset.
Bournemouth In Bloom officially unveiled the town’s Britain In Bloom banner at their Annual General Meeting held at the Miramar Hotel.
Conservationists and volunteers at Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) were delighted to find the first evidence of harvest mice at the Upton Heath Nature Reserve in Corfe Mullen, the first official recording for the 191-hectare reserve.
Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) Martyn Underhill joined Dorset Police’s Rural Crime Team on patrol on 16 March.
As one of the first garden centres in the UK, Stewarts Garden Centre in Christchurch has received numerous awards, but the most recent recognises it as being top for Environment and Community in the country.
Over the next century a different approach is needed to protect the country from flooding, the Environment Agency’s chief executive said in a keynote speech at the annual Flood and Coast Conference on 20 March.
The South West’s 20 protected landscapes, including Cranborne Chase, have been rewarded at the South West Tourism Excellence Awards.
Closed in March 2017 due to safety concerns, the Highcliffe Castle zig-zag path could be reopen by Easter 2019 after members of Christchurch Borough Council have reviewed their original decision not to rebuild it.
