With emergency departments across Dorset experiencing unprecedented pressure over the past few weeks, local clinicians are appealing for people to seek the most appropriate care for them, especially during the Easter break. While most of those seen in emergency departments and minor injury units are in need of urgent...
This page is about finding peace and happiness in appreciation of the natural beauty that surrounds us. Each week we will explore some of Dorset's beautiful places in search of inspiration for those moments of gratitude for our lovely planet. If you would like to know more about...
Contrary to the regurgitated propaganda by the far right the Home Office has found no evidence that child sex abusers and grooming gangs are disproportionately from a non white background. In fact the data suggests that the dominant characteristics are white men under the age of 30. This flies...
The Labour party’s governing body – the National Executive Committee (NEC) – agreed on Friday (1st May) to appoint barrister Martin Forde to chair the investigation, aided by a panel of three experts.
They will include Baroness Wilcox, a former head of the Welsh local government association, former Labour general secretary Lord Larry...
This small clip encapsulates where we are with language and informed debate. Far from being a reflection of the enlightenment we are a being sucked in to a black hole of ignorance and dogma.
Whether intellectually, morally or both, language is being mutated to fill a void where understanding...
If you have not read the work of Steven Lukes start now. Read the 'third dimension of power'. Read how we are not so much controlled by the spin attached to what they do tell us (although that is very important) but by everything that they choose not to...
A fire has destroyed an historic railway hut on Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT’s) Powerstock Common nature reserve, near Maiden Newton in west Dorset. Arson is strongly suspected. The ‘old gangers’ hut was a registered bat roost for rare lesser horseshoe bats and other species of bats in the...
Pie blows a gasket at Boris lecturing parents on their moral duties.
Surely it is our moral duty to ignore this government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXdd8WzaK-Q
Officers investigating an assault in Blandford are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.
At around 5pm on Sunday 1 March 2020, a 14-year-old girl was walking along The Close near to the junction with Dorset Street with a friend when she was approached by a group...
Message from Assistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, who is leading the police response for COVID-19:
"I would like to reassure our Dorset communities that we have taken all necessary steps to ensure we can continue to protect you, prevent crime and uphold the service that keeps you safe day in,...
