East Dorset News

BCP Council launches new strategy to make homelessness “rare, brief and unrepeated”

Councillor urges BCP to keep Solent Meads Golf Course open as petition passes 7,500 Signatures

Bournemouth ice rink to stay open despite cherry tree controversy

Organised crime gang sentenced for stealing more than £2m worth of vehicles

Detectives investigating fatal house fire in Weymouth give update

BCP residents asked to help shape council spending as financial pressures deepen

Poole MP says two-child benefit cap 'must go' to stop leaving 'kids behind'

Man arrested after reported racially aggravated incident in Dorchester

Wessex Water faces fresh calls for public ownership after regulator exposes failures

Police appeal after man assaulted during Boscombe robbery

Dorset school bans songs from KPop Demon Hunters as they go against 'Christian Ethos'

BCP Council welcomes new plans holding councillors accountable for misconduct

Weymouth stakes its future on £26m regeneration plan aiming to reverse decades of decline

‘Save Our Pubs’: Dorset landlords issue last-minute plea ahead of Chancellor’s budget

Failed asylum seeker appears in court charged with rape of woman in Bournemouth

Dorset Council delays rollout of recycling centre booking system until 2026

Arrest after reported rape in Bournemouth

Health Secretary apologises to Bournemouth woman harmed by banned pregnancy drug

Three teenagers taken to hospital after crash in Wareham

Wessex Water could have to pay £11m over wastewater failures

Rare fungus discovered in the New Forest for the first time

Police issue renewed appeal after taxi driver attacked

Wessex council leaders warn against scrapping Stonehenge Tunnel

Regulator says Wessex Water should pay £11m over wastewater failures

Routes of Remembrance: special trains from the South West travel to London

Dorset Council to dispose of 78 sites in £46.7m plan to unlock land for housing

Body of dead dog found dumped in Dorset

Police CCTV appeal after two men in their 20s assaulted in Wimborne

Man in his 80s hospitalised after Corfe Mullen crash

Letter donated to Tank Museum reveals bravery of WWI tank gunner

Body found in search for missing Poole man

Dorset Police adopt new protocol to assist searches for missing veterans

Two men arrested in Bournemouth on suspicion of people smuggling

Police investigating after reported rape in Bournemouth

Dorset man jailed for raping teenager in hotel

Appeal to find woman after suspected racial incident in Poole