November 8, 2025
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New larger premises for Minuteman in Dorchester hot off the press

A couple who launched their print business a month before the first covid lockdown, but battled back to win a business award have

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Bob’s your uncle! Weymouth pensioner swims into the record books

Weymouth pensioner Bob Roberts has swum into the record books as part of the oldest team to swim the Channel – after an

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Dame Vanessa Redgrave makes ‘a large donation’ to Bibby fight

A legal fight to stop the Bibby Stockholm being used as migrant accommodation was being heard in London’s Royal Courts of Justice as

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Make Brewery Square your haunt for a spooky world record attempt

Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters? We suggest calling several hundred mates, and head for Dorchester’s Brewery Square donning a white sheet each –

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From humble beginnings to London’s Lord Lieutenant: Miranda Robertson traces the incredible career of Sir Kenneth Olisa

Growing up in absolute poverty in 1950s Nottingham, the black child of a single white mum, Sir Kenneth Olisa’s life chances were pretty

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High density plan for 141 houses at Newtons Cove comes under fire

Outline plans for up to 141 homes, a 60-bed care home and a gym, swimming pool and spa at a Weymouth beauty spot

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High-denisty plan for coast site criticised

Outline plans for up to 141 homes, a 60-bed care home and a gym, swimming pool and spa at a Weymouth beauty spot

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River action group secures improvement pledge from South West Water

Campaigners have secured a water boss’s pledge to improve Lyme Regis’s sewage system ‘without delay’ after concerns were raised about poor water quality

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North Quay set to be demolished after chairman settles split vote

It’s finally happening – the huge former Weymouth and Portland Borough Council building is to be razed to the ground, opening up a

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Not on the buses! Assessment and permits needed for mobility scooters on the bus

First Bus has apologised to a holidaymaker from Oxfordshire after he was turned away for having a mobility scooter. Christopher Smith from Didcot

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