With temperatures set to soar to 18c in Dorset coming days, here are even more places you can visit before the crowds arrive ...

With temperatures set to soar to 18c in Dorset coming days, here are even more places you can visit before the crowds arrive for the summer season ...

Many across the county remain in use for book swops, seed swops, public noticeboards and even to house heart machines, often ‘adopted’ by parish councils or other community groups for a token payment.

Dorset Council's plans, which were approved in February, will see council tax doubled for the 6,000 second homes under its jurisdiction. The authority had initially estimated the policy would ...

But the teenager, from Stourpaine in Dorset, has come a long way since then and believes it is partly down to her positivity. Not only is Aliza now walking again - she is back riding horses.

Brownsea Castle, located on an island off the coast of Dorset, was built in 1547 during the reign of Henry VIII. Since the 1960s it has been exclusively used by John Lewis and Waitrose employees ...

Archaeologists have re-dated the Flagstones monument in Dorset back to 3200 BC - more than two centuries earlier than previously thought. According to new research from the University of Exeter ...

Beavers vanished from Britain because of hunting for their pelts, meat and glands The first ever wild beavers have been released in a Dorset nature reserve, more than 400 years after their ...