Dorset’s Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum has won the prestigious Sandford Award for Heritage Education 2019.
The award, from the Heritage Education Trust and Bishop Grosseteste University, recognises excellence in heritage education programmes. Since it opened its doors in May 2018, thousands of school children and students have been through...
In the mid 1890’s shortly after becoming a member of the Society for Psychical Research, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best remembered as the creator of the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, became involved in his own real life mystery. The strange case of an unexplained haunting in the seaside...
Friday 28 – Sunday 30 June, St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth
Friday 5 – Sunday 7 July, Sherborne Abbey
Friday 12 – Sunday 14 July, Nothe Fort, Weymouth
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Over the last three weekends more than 41,000 people enjoyed Luke Jerram’s monumental Museum of the Moon installation in three stunning locations –...
The new unitary authorities of Dorset Council and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council have signed the Dorset Armed Forces covenant.
The covenant is a pledge to treat those who serve or who have served in the armed forces and their families with fairness and respect in their communities, economy and...
What induces a US President to keep the sins of his predecessors a secret?
'My Fellow Americans' is the story of William Cutter: a popular President who pays for the truth dearly. Before a tragedy that shocks the world, he leaves White House intern, Rose O’Carey vital information to incriminate...
Stephanie Wyatt, 19, from Dorset was crowned the new Miss Earth England on Saturday the 22nd June 2019 at the Arden Hotel in Birmingham who was sponsored by Millennium Balti in Leamington Spa. Stephanie not only walked away as the winner of Miss Earth England where she will later...
Volunteers are needed to help newly-arrived refugee families from Syria get used to life in Dorset.
Under the Syrian Resettlement Programme, 15 families and 35 children have so far begun new lives in Dorset. Volunteers are needed to help them settle in, perhaps by taking them shopping, playing with children...
Gail Aldwin’s novel, The String Games, gains an award as finalist in the Best Cover Design Category of the 2019 International Book Awards. The catalyst for the story is the abduction and murder of a young boy but the focus of events remains on his elder sister as she...
Transported to Australia or even executed – school children have been learning about crime, punishment and Victorian life at Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum.
Dorchester’s newest museum offers school sessions for those aged five up to A Level, exploring the life and times of Victorian children not dissimilar to themselves....
Dorset’s rich and varied landscape has been captured on canvas by a trio of artists who will exhibit their work this summer.
Caz Scott from Dorchester will be showing her paintings from June 17 to July 1, alongside fellow Dorset artists Rita Brown from Frampton and Pearl Gatehouse from Yetminster...
