Doc Martin star Martin Clunes has attempted to lead a peaceful life away from the big screen on his picturesque 130-acre farm near Beaminster, Dorset. According to Rightmove, house prices in ...

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Roughly occupying an area that equates with modern Dorset, together with significant parts of southern Wiltshire and south eastern Somerset, the pottery, coinage, settlements and burial practices of ...

Beavers are back and thriving, with up to 600 now enjoying life along some of England’s rivers, latest figures reveal. Three centuries after the Eurasian rodent’s extinction as a wild native ...

PROSPECTIVE pub landlords are not short for good opportunities to buy a venue in Dorset and make it their own. PROFITABLE pub Duke of Wellington in East Street, Wareham, has been put on sale by ...

Much of Dorset Councils' transformation programme to improve services while saving money, will be based about a wider use of technology to allow the public to interact with the authority.

DORSET Council taxpayers face a maximum increase in their bills from April – with a likely loss of jobs at County Hall. The Lib Dem administration, which took control of the authority last year ...

During the afternoon a car collided with a gritter lorry on the road between Beaminster and Mosterton in Dorset. An amber weather warning is in place across much of the south west of England.

Sir Keir Starmer has defended his record of prosecuting child grooming gangs and said those “spreading misinformation are not interested in the victims”, as he remains locked in a row with ...

Weather enthusiast Dorset Snow, from Bournemouth ... the Lower and Middle Stour and Poole Harbour at Wareham. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the country further snow showers, ice and rain will hit ...