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Record-breaking arts results for Leweston students

Leweston School has marked an exceptional summer in the performing arts, with pupils from Prep 3 through to Year 13 achieving record numbers of...

Crumbs! It’s 50 years since that Hovis advert | Then & Now

Exactly half a century after the iconic Hovis advert hit our TV screens, Roger Guttridge takes a stroll through the story of Dorset’s most...

The Dorset surgeon who rescued the Elephant Man and saved Edward VII

Sir Frederick Treves, who died a century ago this month, was one of Dorset’s most famous men – Rachael Rowe reports On 15 February 1853,...