A Dorset landowner has been prosecuted and fined after failing to rectify a serious breach of planning control within the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Robert George Coles of Broad Oak Farm, East Melbury, Shaftesbury, pleaded guilty at Weymouth Magistrates Court on 5 August 2019 to an offence...
A man found in possession of more than 600 indecent images of children has been jailed for two years.
Martin James Hunt, aged 38 and of Fairey Crescent in Gillingham, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday 26 July 2019 after admitting three offences of making indecent images of...
Officers investigating the theft of a wallet at a supermarket in Gillingham are issuing CCTV images of a suspect.
The incident occurred at around 11.50am on Friday 14 June 2019 at the Waitrose store at Chantry Fields in Gillingham.
It is believed two men watched the victim, a woman aged in...
Dorset authorities are asking residents to look out for signs of county lines and help protect young people from being exploited by criminals this summer.
Dorset Police, NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group, Public Health Dorset, the Youth Offending Service and Dorset Council are working together to tackle child exploitation, including...
Police urge the public to hand in unwanted guns and ammunition in support of national campaign
Dorset Police is appealing for people to hand in unwanted guns and ammunition during a two week national surrender period from 20 July to 4 August 2019.
The public are advised to check the opening...
Secure website allows public to upload video and photos of driving incidents
Dorset Police has announced the launch of Operation Snap, a secure online portal through which members of the public can upload dashcam or otherwise filmed video and digital photographs of road traffic incidents which they have witnessed.
The facility...
A Dorset sheep farmer has been prosecuted and fined after failing to adequately care for her animals and leaving dead sheep on her land.
On 15 July 2019, at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, Karen Harper (aged 51) of Charlton Marshall, near Blandford, Dorset, was today sentenced with a Community Order to...
At 5.11pm on Tuesday 21 May 2019 Dorset Police received a report of a serious assault at an address in Ridgeway.
Officers attended together with the ambulance service. The victim – named by detectives as 73-year-old Robert Hodgson – was taken to hospital by air ambulance, where sadly he later...
Detectives are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a sexual assault on a woman in North Dorset.
The incident occurred sometime during the mid-afternoon of Thursday 16 May 2019 in the Five Bridges layby on the A30 near to Henstridge. It was reported to police on Saturday 18 May...
Detectives have launched a murder investigation following an incident in Sherborne – with one man arrested.
At 5.11pm on Tuesday 21 May 2019 Dorset Police received a report of a serious assault at an address in Ridgeway.
Officers attended together with the ambulance service. The victim, a local man in his...
