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Saturday, February 8, 2025

Have You Seen Mark?

Officers searching for a missing Sussex man believed to be in the West Bay area are appealing for the public’s help to find him. Mark Purdy, who is 64 years old, left his home in Sussex at 9am this morning, Friday 23 February 2018. He told his family...
Detectives are appealing for information from the public after a man was found with a head injury in Lyme Regis. Shortly before 9am yesterday, Thursday 15 February 2018, Dorset Police received a report that a man had presented at Lyme Bay Medical Practice in Silver Street with a...
Officers investigating the theft of an elderly man’s bicycle in Bridport are pleased to say it has been reunited with its owner. The bike, belonging to an 83-year-old local man, was left against railings in South Street near to Bridport Town Hall at 3pm on Wednesday 24 January...
Officers are issuing a CCTV image of a woman they would like to identify following the theft of an elderly man’s bicycle in Bridport. The bike was left against some railings in South Street near to Bridport Town Hall at 3pm on Wednesday 24 January 2018 but was...
A drug driver who had drugs and almost £35,000 seized following a road traffic collision near Bridport has been jailed for four years. Laurie Pibworth, 28 and of Middle Street in Bridport, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday 26 January 2018 after pleading guilty to being...
Officers investigating a fatal fail-to-stop collision in Dorchester that claimed the life of a woman are issuing CCTV images of what is believed to be the vehicle involved. Police were called at 7.46pm on Wednesday 27 December 2017 to reports of a collision between a pedestrian and a...
The incident happened at around 6.15pm on Friday 24 November 2017 in Acland Road car park. The victim - a local woman aged in her 70s - walked along the footpath between South Walks House and the rear of Goulds department store, when she became aware of someone...
A man has been jailed for life after murdering a two-year-old boy in Broadmayne near Dorchester.Joseph Eke, 22 and of St Lawrence Road in Weymouth, was found guilty of murdering Harry House on Thursday 18 May 2017 following a trial at Winchester Crown Court. He was also found guilty...
Traffic officers from across Dorset, Devon and Cornwall came together as part of Operation Allied Wolf yesterday for a major crackdown on dangerous road users in Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester.   Officers targeted people suspected of being involved in the supply of drugs and various traffic offences as part of...
Detectives who launched a murder investigation following the death of a two-year-old boy from Broadmayne have today named the child.At 10.28am on Thursday 26 May 2016 officers were called by the ambulance service to an address in Broadmayne.Two-year-old Harry House was taken seriously ill and was conveyed to Dorset...