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Monday, May 20, 2024
The next section of the coast is not particularly accessible and unless you have a canoe or some other water craft you can’t access the beach until you get west of White Nothe. However it is well worth the walk either from Lulworth or from the National Trust car...
Poole and Bournemouth's biggest and best family live music weekend is back with a bang this summer having lined up its starriest bill to date headlined by chart toppers The Hoosiers, The Lightning Seeds and The Cheeky Girls. Thousands are expected for the three-day festival at Baiter Park from 28 to...
A colour scheme for a pathway on Weymouth harbour has divided opinion so much it has ended up as a story in the national newspapers and on 'Have I Got News For You'. At a time when we are told that we should move on from Partygate because there...
The information below has been developed by members of the Multi-Agency Forum Communications Subgroup which includes representation from the Home Office, Portland Port, Dorset Council, Dorset Police and NHS Dorset. Preparations are ongoing for the smooth arrival and operation of the Bibby Stockholm barge to accommodate asylum seekers at Portland...
This walk is best attempted when there is a low tide, especially a low spring tide (which occur around midday when there is a full moon and new moon).Slippery rocks also occur in places especially round the foot of Sandsfoot Castle so care should be taken. The coastal section is on the southern side of a geological...
A new assessment that forecasts future flood risk in Weymouth town centre has been undertaken and published by Dorset Council. The study assesses the levels of flooding that could occur over the next 114 years in extreme weather events. It considers sea, river, rainfall and groundwater.  The Environment Agency (EA) carried...
A little over four months on since the footage of pollution in Blue Planet II shocked the nation, the fight against plastic continues on Bournemouth and Poole beaches. Bass and Mackerel, as well as other local marine life are now two of the 600 marine species whose lives are directly...

Pip Hare sails in to Poole

After 95 days, 11 hours, 37 mins and 30 seconds of racing, Pip was the first British skipper to finish and only the eighth woman ever to complete the Vendée Globe. On her return Pip Hare said: "It feels incredible to be back home in Poole. It all started here two...
Rescue teams have carried out a search in the English Channel after a plane flying from the UK went missing. The P-28 plane, which was carrying two people, took off from Wellesbourne, in Warwickshire, on Saturday morning bound for Le Touquet in northern France.The French Coastguard said the aircraft is the...
Another good location to see Gad Cliff is from WorbarrowTout which is accessible from Tynham, the abandoned village between Kimmeridge and Lulworth. It lies within the Lulworth Army Firing Range and was evacuated during the Second World War for defence training purposes and has remained empty ever since. However, it is possible to visit when the...