Perinatal mental health problems carry a total economic and social long-term cost to society of about £8.1 billion for each one-year cohort of births in the UK, according to a new report ‘The costs of perinatal mental health problems’ released today by the London School of Economics and Centre...
Officers investigating a fatal road traffic collision in North Dorset are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.
At 12.22pm today, Friday 15 February 2019, Dorset Police received a report of a collision on the C13 by the junction with Mill Street near to Fontmell Magna. The...
Liz Myles, the new Principal of Weymouth College has announced that 20 A levels will be offered from September 2013 and 30 from September 2014. Following yet another successful year for student achievement (99% pass rate) the decision has been made to re introduce an aspect of student learning...
We welcome the establishment of the criminal investigation to run in tandem with the independent judicial public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire. There are bereaved people and survivors and residents of tower blocks around the country with serious questions about how and why this disaster happened and who...
On the Richter scale of idiocy; unpreparedness and incompetency this is political extinction time. Or it would be if arrogance did not ooze out of his every pore. Any time those misogynist racist deniers throw up Diane Abbott sink them with this. Many wont get past the skin colour...
Last week's announcement from Culture Secretary Matt Hancock, that a 2nd phase of The Leveson Inquiry would not be pursued and that some aspects of potential press regulation would be repealed, may not be a huge surprise but it still marks a disappointing "get-out-of-jail" card for the billionaire elite...
Chapter 15 Cuzn Booee, Treacle, Cuzn Luke and Moonshine Cuzn Booee roared with laughter as Treacle was sent sprawling face first into a muddy wallow by Banjo, a black, seven hundred and fifty pound Mulefoot hog. It was hot and Banjo was in a foul hog temper, so as...
Research published has found that hundreds of thousands of young people feel they have nothing to live for, with the long-term unemployed being particularly pessimistic about their prospects, a youth charity has warned. The warning is based on the findings of a YouGov poll for the Prince's Trust Macquarie...
I got sight of some of it this month, with a briefing in Bournemouth on the Navitus Bay offshore wind project off the South Coast, which aims to put in capacity for 1,100MW(enough to supply 790,000) homes using about 130 turbines, reaching to a maximum height of 200 metres,...
Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner Martyn Underhill has approved a precept increase for 2014/15 following a meeting of the Dorset Police and Crime Panel. The 1.96% proposed increase from the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner was approved following a meeting of the 16 strong Police and Crime Panel...
