The Latest Breaking News from Dorset

The world nettle eating competition has returned to the Bottle Inn Pub in Marshwood, Dorset, after a hiatus.

Rich British aristocratic families with a legacy of owning colonial slave plantations are often accused by campaigners that their wealth solely originates from these plantations. One frequent target of this criticism has been the Drax family of Dorset, which is headed by Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, who was the Conservative MP…

Former constable Lorne Castle was dismissed by Dorset Police for using ‘unreasonable force’ on 15-year-old.

Pc Lorne Castle was dismissed after a disciplinary hearing held by Dorset Police following the incident in Bournemouth town centre last year.

Adventurous Amber spotted by two men in a boat in Poole Harbour after travelling across Hampshire and Dorset

Visitors lament ‘tremendous shame’ as notice withdrawing public access appears after £30m sale of Bridehead Estate

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