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A Changing Places facility. Picture: Changing Places

DCH gets £100,000 for specially-designed toilets for diabled people and carers

A DORSET hospital has been awarded £100,000 to install specially-designed toilet facilities for disabled people and their carers. Dorset County…

Expect lots of drama and action at this year's show Picture: Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show

Jousting knights and daredevil riders to wow crowds at Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show

MEDIEVAL knights will be battling it out for the very first time at this year’s Gillingham…

Work on the new Waste Management Centre in Blandford is continuing. Picture: Dorset Council

Traffic lights in Blandford coming down for Easter – before new ones get started

TEMPORARY traffic lights in Blandford are set to be removed over the Easter weekend in a bid to ease…

Benjamin Charles Foster, of Yeovil, has been jailed for four years. Picture: Dorset Police

Man jailed over crash near Sherborne which left three with serious injuries

YEOVIL man Benjamin Charles Foster has been jailed for four years after he admitted causing serious…

The crash happened in Bournemouth Road, near the junction with Chettell Way, Blandford. Picture: Google

Man suffers ‘serious leg injury’ after crash in Blandford

A MAN in his 20s suffered a “serious leg injury” after a crash in Blandford on Tuesday morning (April…

Police tracing elderly driver after crash which injured biker

THE elderly driver of a car involved in a crash with a motorcycle in Bridport took details from the…

The Forum Frier, in Blandford, makes the NFFF top 40 chip shops list. Pictures: NFFF/Google

Just one Dorset chip shop makes top 40 list ahead of Good Friday chippy tea!

A CHIPPY tea is a Friday night tradition across the UK. And to celebrate this Good Friday, the National Federation…

The man sadly died after falling from a bridge at the A303 Mere Bypass. Picture: Google

Man, 39, died after falling from bridge over the A303 at Mere

A MAN sadly died in an incident on the A303 at Mere last night (April 14), police have…

Police have released these images as reference Picture: Dorset Police

Falcons and eggs stolen in Shaftesbury aviary break in

THREE aviaries were broken into near Shaftesbury at the weekend, with two peregrine falcons and eggs reported as missing. The…

Sherborne Town will host Wincanton Town on Saturday afternoon

Sherborne v Wincanton derby set to provide thrilling end to football season

THE football season is drawing to a close – but as the Premier League giants battle it out in…