The Latest Breaking News from Dorset

Breathtaking clifftop views, dreamy cream teas and the best fish and chips in the world — oh, the actor does love to be beside the seaside in this Dorset town

Lost for over a century, discovery of wartime letter has rekindled interest in unlocking the secret of the world’s first prototype tank

Moth Winn was diagnosed with a terminal illness at the age of 53 and in the same week he and his wife, Raynor, lost their home. As the bailiffs arrived, the couple made a remarkable decision: to take a 630-mile year-long coastal walk from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and…

The Maiden Castle skeletons were first unearthed in 1936 with ‘skulls smashed to oblivion’

Crews from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to East Beach on Bournemouth seafront

Row breaks out in Marnhull, location used in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, over plans to build 120 homes

Officers say two residents at home in Swanage died of natural causes and third had serious kidney infection

Two men and a woman died at a care home in Swanage, Dorset, in October 2024.

After a relationship breakup, rambling 700 miles from the Highlands to Dorset with Martin helped restore my faith in people