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Can you balance Dorset Council’s budget?

Dorset residents are being invited to try their hand at balancing the county’s books through a new online simulator launched by Dorset Council this...

Community climate action in focus at Dorset’s third COP

Dorset’s third community-led ‘conference of the parties’ – Dorset COP – was declared a great success, as more than 300 people gathered at The...

New space, new chapter – The Blandford School opens Sixth Form Centre

Once a jungle-themed youth centre and now a bright and welcoming Sixth Form hub – a tired old building at The Blandford School has...

£35,000 success secures future of William Barnes Archive

Work to preserve and open up the William Barnes Archive will begin this November, following a major fundraising success by the William Barnes Society....

Dorset army cadet wins the Westminster Award

Charlotte Bedford, a 17-year-old from Wimborne, has been named the nation’s top army cadet – recognised in Parliament for her kindness, grit and leadership The...

The Dorset GP crisis no one wants to talk about

With fewer doctors and shrinking budgets, Dorset GPs are seeing more patients – and behind those busy surgery desks the strain is showing From the...

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Pass wide and slow

Near misses and road rage are on the rise – North Dorset riders saddled up to raise awareness and urge drivers to slow down...

Family forger who faced the noose found in the ‘R’ box

It was a cardboard archive box in a London library that stopped Rachael Rowe in her tracks.‘I pulled out this packet of papers labelled...