Dorset

Dorset Police say spiking is an 'abhorrent' crime that has a 'traumatic' impact

40 firefighters tackle blaze at takeaway restaurant in Bridport

UPDATED: Portland waste incinerator given the go ahead

Sam Mendes launching film festival in Dorset

GPs across Dorset see 11% rise in number of patients signing up

Bournemouth man jailed for assaulting police officer at protest

Plans for waste incinerator for Dorset that will burn 260,000 tonnes of rubbish a year

Dorset's greenest homes being opened to the public

Dorset Nightstop makes urgent appeal to help homeless young people

Pedestrian suffers potential serious injuries in Blandford collision

Poole road picked out as Postcode Lottery Millionaire Street

Durdle Door named UK's most 'Instagrammable' beach

Three lambs killed near Sturminster Newton

'Significant' rise in people convicted of sexual assault in Dorset this year

Police force's former head of professional standards admits drink-driving

Government notice for BCP Council to improve is lifted

First ever affordable housing scheme in construction on Portland

Wessex Water asks us to 'continue saving resources where we can'

Indecent exposure reported in Lyme Regis

Man denies murdering Amie Gray on Bournemouth beach

CCTV released after Bournemouth attempted burglary

Police appeal for help identifying man after attempted robbery

Dorset Police and BCP Council hosting Facebook event on public safety

Dorset man due in court for handling stolen good charges

Christmas Market planned for Dorchester's Brewery Square

Laptops stolen in Bournemouth shop burglary

Car crashes into bollard in Wimborne in fail-to-stop collision

Bournemouth beach safety scheme helped 120 people this summer

Dorset woman donates £100,000 to RNLI in her will

First time buyers homes under construction in Verwood

A fifth of South West parents struggling to feed children

Thieves try to steal watch from elderly man's wrist in Bournemouth

New homes planned for site near Puddletown

Man attacked in Bournemouth churchyard

Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance hoping to boost community defibrillators

First-of-its-kind community legal action over sewage spills - as campaigners head to Downing Street