CONTROVERSIAL new parking charges in Dorset Council-owned car parks will be rolled out from next week.

A LITTER picking challenge is set to make a return this year and organisers are calling on residents to take part in the month-long campaign to clean up Dorset's streets.

PERMANENT exclusions from Dorset schools have fallen – with only 14 pupils currently kept out of the classroom for an indefinite period.

RESIDENTS across Dorset planning to go on holiday are being warned to use a secure safe for their valuables when they're away.

TWO men are reported to have attempted to burgle a church in west Dorset yesterday evening.

POLICE in west Dorset were called to reports of young people lighting a fire with aerosol cans.

A BRIDPORT supermarket is seeking permission to sell alcohol at its petrol station.

DORSET fire crews were rushed to a shed fire in Beaminster yesterday afternoon.

DON'T forget - the clocks go forward this weekend marking the start of British summer giving us even more daylight.

An annual celebration of page-to-screen adaptations will be returning in-person this year.

A FORMER Government minister is to lead a new education taskforce for Dorset.

Today's picture of the day is from Sue Corner and she calls it 'rural symmetry'.

Author Andy Charman, who has just written a novel set in Victorian Dorset, suggests that we all love a little Dorset dialect

A SPECIAL support group has been set up for those living in Dorset with what is described as 'hoarding behaviour'.

THOUSANDS are expected to descend on Dorset this summer for the return of Tankfest, in an event being billed as "almost normal".

Michael Bublé performed on Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway tonight (March 26) and closed the show singing with Ant & Dec and an audience member also on the stage.

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway continues tonight (March 26) but where is the Sofawatch sofa?

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway returned this week and saw Anna Maxwell Martin become the Star Guest Announcer.

Cooking various different dinners is equivalent to driving a certain number of miles in a car, new research has found.

Here's what you can expect on tonight's episode of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway on ITV.

Harpreet Kaur was being interviewed about her win on The Apprentice when the fire alarm sounded.

Take a peek at some luxury accommodation fit for a Duke or Duchess courtesy of Vrbo to celebrate Bridgerton's highly anticipated return.

EMERGENCY services were called to a property near the town centre this morning.

A MEETING is to be held in one last desperate attempt to raise a new committee and save a community's Royal British Legion branch from closure.

THE number of patients in hospital with Covid across Dorset has risen by more than a third in a week, according to latest data.

A man has been sentenced for being drunk and disorderly in a public place in Bridport.

A PAIR of green-fingered lovebirds from Beaminster have received a congratulations from the Queen to mark a momentous milestone as they celebrate 65 years as a married couple.

Recently I paid a visit to Bridport and West Bay.

BRIDPORT will welcome some of the best up and coming names in comedy tonight as The Comedy Store takes over The Electric Palace.

PUBLIC spaces in Bridport are to be brightened up with daffodils thanks to a giveaway.

From a ham cutter to a double bed- here are the strangest things found in taxis.

New stricter laws for using a mobile phone while driving come into force today – find out what the changes are and what they mean for you.

House prices dropped slightly, by 0.2%, in Dorset in January, new figures show.

BRIDPORT have announced Edgar Marcu as the Bees' new first-team manager.

Fewer than a third of Dorset's councillors were female in 2021, figures show, as equality campaigners urge more women to stand for election ahead of International Women's Day on March 8.

HAY fever sufferers across Dorset are being warned to watch out for high pollen counts this week brought in by the warmer weather.

SMALL vessel owners across Dorset are being reminded to register their documentation on boats under 24 metres.

HERE are today's tide times for Portland, West Bay and Lyme Regis.

Four different blood tests can now be offered to pregnant women suspected of having a condition which can cause serious complications.

“There were already some pressures building, but since the Ukraine crisis that’s just increased exponentially, particularly things like fertiliser," the boss said.

A new study has found a concerning fact about microplastics in the human body.

A West Dorset GP practice group covering Bridport and Beaminster has the most patients per doctor in the county.

Drivers are being warned that a section of the A35 in west Dorset is closed both ways as a result of a crash.

HIGHLANDS End Holiday Park at Eype has been refused permission for more than 300 ground-mounted solar panels.

A MAN has been sentenced after he admitted to breaking another person's phone and assaulting them in a town centre.

A RECEPTIONIST working at a hotel in Bridport has been shortlisted for a prestigious accolade.

THE Chancellor's Spring Statement 'won't have gone far enough for some businesses in Dorset', Dorset Chamber says.

THE NUMBER of Lidl items that have washed up along the Dorset coastline after a cargo ship lost containers has more than tripled in recent days – this comes as the supermarket giant pledges to assist with the clean-up whilst an investigation gets u...

Warmer weather has stayed around the UK and Dorset this week, and is set to continue into the weekend

BRIDPORT caretaker boss Shaun Annetts has had his say on improvements the Bees must make to take the club forward.