WE opened an online book of condolence for readers to leave their tributes to Her Majesty the Queen.

STURMINSTER Newton Cheese Festival has announced that they will be going ahead with the event in celebration of the Queen's life.

A NUMBER of events due to take place this weekend have been cancelled or postponed following the Queen’s death.

YOUTHS aged around 12 to 13 years old vandalised two buses in Poole on Wednesday, in the latest attack.

TOUCHING tributes to the Queen – from a vase decorated with corgis to rosemary for remembrance – featured in the King’s historic address to the nation.

King Charles III will be formally proclaimed monarch during an Accession Council ceremony televised for the first time

THE COUNCIL has announced that from next year they intend to tender beachfront restaurants for a five year period to ‘improve the quality of operations.’

BOURNEMOUTH paid tribute to Her Majesty the Queen following the announcement of her death on Thursday evening.

THIS weekend's Tour of Britain cycling stage in Dorset has been cancelled following the death of Her Majesty the Queen.

THE first official rendition of God Save The King has been sung at St Paul’s Cathedral at the end of a memorial service for the Queen.

Here is how you can watch the historic ceremony where King Charles III official becomes King.

A TRADITIONAL English pub adored by locals- The Porterhouse is Pub of the Week.

“EVEN in a thousand years’ time people will look back at the second Elizabethan area as an exceptional period.”

KING Charles III told Liz Truss that the death of his mother was “the moment I have been dreading”.

A CAFÉ and bar’s outdoor seating enclosure in the middle of Ringwood’s shopping centre has been removed in line with a council order.

A RECREATION ground in Mudeford has been slammed for its “extremely poor condition”.

Asda, Tesco and Lidl are among the supermarkets to issue recalls for a range of reasons

A TOWN’S flower festival has been hailed as a great success with floral decorations helping raise around £10,000.

HM Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has passed at the age of ninety-six.

The much missed Poole Pottery on Poole Quay pictured here with this wonderful aerial taken in the late 1970s.

King Charles III will formally be declared King on Saturday morning at the Accession Council but what will happen next?

King Charles III will formally be declared King in the first televised Accession Council on Saturday.

The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have confirmed their weekend schedules as the nation pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and welcomes a new king.

The tragic news was confirmed on Thursday evening sparking a period of national mourning.

King Charles III gave his first address to the nation following the death of Queen Elizabeth II

A SOMBRE mood was felt in Poole on Friday as the town came to terms with the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

RNLI volunteers have fondly recalled Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II opening the college in Poole.

It is reported the government shared an update with headteachers in an email on Thursday night.

THE head teacher of QE School in Wimborne has paid tribute to Her Majesty the Queen and remembered her visit to the school in 2008.

The guidance from the Cabinet Office was published Friday morning

BOURNEMOUTH Crown Court observed a two-minute silence on Friday to mark the death of Her Majesty the Queen aged 96.

A BAKER from Poole, who baked the Queen’s official Platinum Jubilee cake earlier this year, has paid tribute to an “inspiration to the nation”, after the Queen died yesterday afternoon aged 96.

King Charles III will address the nation in his first televised statement as King.

Charles has automatically become King after the death of his mother, but an Accession Council is usually convened at St James’s Palace in London within 24 hours.

BOOKS of condolence will be opened by the council in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole to allow residents to pay their respects to Her Majesty the Queen.

THE Arts by the Sea event scheduled for Christchurch this weekend has been postponed as the nation mourns Her Majesty the Queen.

POLICE were called after a tree fell onto a vehicle in Poole this morning.

POLICE are on the scene of a crash on the A338 Wessex Way this morning.

ITV News Royal Editor highlighted a monumental change in the UK following the Queen's death.

The nation’s new King has described the death of the Queen, who he called his “beloved Mother”, as the “greatest sadness” for his family.

Books of condolence will open across BCP today to mark the Queen's passing. Follow latest updates.

NEWS of the Queen’s death was given to one Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole committee meeting by the council’s chief executive.

A RAILWAY company has apologised after three fires broke out  alongside the tracks, but reassured residents they were contained and did not go beyond the railway land.

DENTAL services in Dorset are still feeling the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures which show activity is yet to recover to pre-crisis levels.

FOLLOWING intervention from the Government on BCP Council’s financial position, a motion has been submitted by the BCP Liberal Democrat Group to ‘clean up governance’ at BCP Council.

“PERHAPS each one of us should try to be a little bit more like Her Late Majesty the Queen.”

PLANNED strikes by rail and postal workers have been called off as a result of the Queen’s death.

THE MAYOR of Christchurch has described Her Majesty the Queen as “respected, loved and adored” following her passing at the age of 96.

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A MAN has visited 51 pubs across Dorset- but it wasn’t a typical pub crawl.