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Sherborne Literary Festival takes place April 5 to 7 at the Powell Theatre.

Unmissable authors at the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival 2024

WORLD-famous authors will take to the stage at a Dorset book festival. The Sherborne Travel Writing Festival returns for the…

Stalbridge campaigners fight to save Bronze Age axe

By John Fieldhouse,
Stalbridge History Society CAMPAIGNERS are fighting to raise the money needed to keep Bronze Age treasures, unearthed in…

Dorset Museum, inset, was crowned the Winner of Winners. Pictures: Nick Williams

2023/24 Dorset Tourism Business Awards: Winners revealed – full list

THE best of Dorset tourism was celebrated at an awards night on Thursday (February 1). The 11th Dorset Tourism Awards…

Ryan Maloney played Toadfish in Neighbours for almost three decades

Neighbours’ Toadfish heading to Somerset for a special show

AFTER more than two decades on our screens a Neighbours legend will be on the stage in Yeovil this…

UPDATE: CCTV issued after theft from pub by people ‘disguised’ as drivers

POLICE are keen to trace these people in connection with a theft from outside a Dorset pub. The incident, at…

Robert Richards, 65, passed away in 2022

Young Somerset creatives urged to apply for digital commission

YOUNG creatives could receive a fee and access to materials to create a commissioned piece about life in Somerset. The…

Oil and frozen fish were stolen from outside the Red Lion Inn in Sturminster Marshall. Picture: Google

Thieves disguised as delivery drivers stole food from outside pub

THIEVES disguised as delivery drivers stole rapeseed oil and frozen fish from outside a Dorset pub. The heist took place…

Clive Betts MP, chair of the Levelling-Up, Housing and Communities Committee. Picture: House of Commons

MPs’ committee calls on government to fix “out-of-control financial crisis” at councils

THE Government “must fix” a £4 billion hole in local councils’ budgets amid an “out-of-control financial crisis”. That is the…

The Yeovil District Hospital team is pictured (left to right): Linda Howard - clinical research assistant practitioner, Dr Agnieszka Kubisz-Pudelko - consultant anaesthetist, Lucy Pippard - clinical nurse researcher

Yeovil doctors helping research into different anaesthetics

SOMERSET doctors and patients have been praised for efforts in research into the use of anaesthetic. The Volatile Vs Total…

Winners of the Emerging Talent Competition get a slot on a main stage at Glastonbury. Picture: Paul Jones

Your chance to play a main stage at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival

NOW is your chance to play the legendary Glastonbury Festival. The Somerset event, which runs from June 26 to 30…