A local community has taken a significant step closer to having greater influence over planning decisions in their area.
A final version of the Portland Neighbourhood Plan has been submitted to Dorset Council for examination.
The plan has been drawn up by local people, and approved by the town council, who...
ESFA admits to redacting information about Aspirations Academy for fear of ‘damaging public confidence…’
Dorset Council are now voicing their own concerns.
Dorset Council’s second letter requesting that the Secretary of State agree to a delay in the forced academisation process of Budmouth College in Weymouth was made public this week.
Rt Hon...
Following Dorset Council’s declaration of a climate emergency, Cllr Ray Bryan has invited political group leaders to appoint representatives to sit on a Policy Development Panel to discuss how the council will set carbon reduction targets.
Initially, it is proposed that the panel is comprised of eight council members with...
Despite a huge surge for the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party the total votes cast still saw pro Brexit parties with a higher vote share. However, the share reflects a huge chasm that will not be mended anytime soon. Dorset appears to be as split as much of...
Unity council the best news for forty years .... yes 100% - we can start to breathe again.
Aligning services : "The other thing we have to do is bring the people with us. They have to believe and understand they are involved from top to bottom and we will ensure they are....
Counter demonstration against UKIP MEP SW candidate.
Weymouth will not tolerate ignorant racists is the clear message.
Rich Shrubb
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Carl Benjamin of UKIP is visiting Weymouth this Friday 17 May, using the EU elections as a platform to spread his racism and hatred. Stand Up to Racism says: “Benjamin is not welcome here”.
Benjamin is an out-and-out racist. He’s hostile to Muslims, Jews and Black people - so offensive that...
South Walks House in Dorchester was packed full today for the first meeting of the brand-new Dorset Council.
82 newly elected councillors, senior officers and a full public gallery filled
the committee suite at South Walks House to debate the business of the new council and vote in its new Leader...
Brexit-supporting voters have a clear but crucial choice at this month's European Parliament elections, Conservative MEPs' leader Ashley Fox said today.
They can support the Conservatives, who are committed to an orderly Brexit which safeguards jobs, businesses and our security. Or they can select between the Brexit Party, which wants...
Following appalling BBC mis-reporting at a national level,
in which a party that lost 82 seats is treated the same as a party that lost 1335 seats,
we find the BBC claiming the Conservatives 'won' Dorset Unitary Council.
In fact, the Conservatives barely held on in Dorset - losing Poole/Bournemouth/Christchurch to no...
