West Dorset News

Poole Morrisons convenience store to close

Planning application in for new Weymouth Primark store

South West's 'Best Place to Live' announced for 2025

Bournemouth Town Centre BID joins campaign to tackle business crime

Have your say on a proposed 20mph Neighbourhood in Winton and surrounding areas

Dorset Police officer pleads guilty to non-fatal strangulation of man outside Weymouth bar

Dorset PCC criticises no extra funding to police summer influx of tourists

National Grid providing jobs boost in West Dorset

£15.5K worth of illegal cigarettes, rolling tobacco and vapes seized in Dorset

Sheep injured during dog attacks in West Dorset

Campaigners win fight to keep ground level crossing at Wareham

Man seriously injured following assault in Wimborne

Poole’s role in D-Day honoured

Weymouth Nursing Home told new extension inappropriate in design and scale

Women in South West using newspaper instead of "unaffordable" period products

Funding to help communities tackle anti-social behaviour in Dorset

Canon ball sparks closure of Weymouth Household Recycling Centre

Man jailed for violent assault on woman in Poole

Police appeal to trace woman driver after teenage girl hit by car in Weymouth

North Dorset solar farm given extended operating licence

Report suggests Dorset's street lights should be changed

Copper piping and scrap metal stolen from Bournemouth home

Four drug warrants carried out by police in Sherborne

Trains through Dorset affected by Heart of Wessex line works

Dorset aristocrat returns to Old Bailey for manslaughter retrial

£24 million in 'regeneration' planned for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

New parking charges from Dorset Council next month

Date set for opening of new Bournemouth maternity unit

Dorset Council set to help shape local economic strategy

A35 Christchurch Bypass CLOSED this weekend

Woman sexually assaulted while walking dog at West Moors

Dorset aristocrat and partner absent from court as retrial continues

Woman seriously injured in three car crash on Puddletown bypass

Registration removed from Bridport care agency rated inadequate

Appeal for information into A35 Upton crash

30 vehicles stopped in one day during Purbeck operation