A funeral director is due to enter pleas to 63 charges spanning more than 10 years after a major investigation into human remains found at his premises. Robert Bush, 47, faces 30 counts of preventing ...

TV presenter Jay Blades is due to appear in court charged with rape. West Mercia Police previously said the 55-year-old, who fronted primetime BBC show The Repair Shop, will face a first hearing at ...

Calling families, artists and beachgoers alike - a sandcastle competition is to be held on Weymouth beach. SandWorld’s Sandcastle Competition will take place on the golden sands on Saturday, August 23 ...

James Hadfield created the artwork and an epitaph to the animal while a patient at Bethlem psychiatric hospital.

Rare species from water voles to adders across England have been helped with cash from the Species Recovery Programme’s capital grants scheme.

ANOTHER attempt is being made to redevelop a former builders’ merchant site in Dorchester – giving the area ‘the gateway’ it ...

Donate-a-phone schemes and computer workshops will receive Government backing worth £9.5 million, as part of a plan to help older people and low-income households access an “essential for modern life” ...

A DESPERATE last minute search for a crown was making the news 50 years ago. The Dorset Evening Echo reported on Wednesday, August 13 how Weymouth Carnival Committee was mounting a last-minute search ...

Live facial recognition will be expanded across the country as part of a Government overhaul of neighbourhood policing. The technology will be deployed to catch “high-harm” offenders, with new rules ...

A total of 13,109 British drivers were convicted of the offence in 2024, official data obtained by the RAC revealed.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency said motorists are often ‘first on the scene’ when someone suffers a cardiac arrest.

The project, led by Heriot-Watt University and involving researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Napier University and the University of Stirling, aims to help people with h ...