February:
What: Superhero Week (Superheroes get to visit for free)
When: Half Term February 16th – 23rd, from 10am-4pm daily
More info: Calling all superheroes! Follow the trail to Shire Hall’s underground, secret lair, where you can design your own superhero badge! Afterwards, come up to Shire Hall Café for some heroic...
Two men have been arrested after officers executed a drugs warrant near Dorchester.
At around 8.55am today, Wednesday 9 January 2019, officers from the Neighbourhood Policing Team with support from other colleagues carried out the warrant at two properties in the Wardon Hill area.
Inside four lorry containers officers found what...
Linda Chappell, who has worked at the Trust for 19 years, travelled across the globe with the Kenya Orthopaedic Project (KOP).
Exploring Global Health Opportunities (EGHO) have been working with the charity Medical and Educational Aid to Kenya (MEAK) to deliver annual orthopaedic projects in Nanyuki, Mombasa, Kitale, Nyahururu and...
Officers in Dorchester are issuing CCTV images of a woman they would like to speak to following the theft of a purse and subsequent fraud.
The incident happened at around midday on Saturday 15 December 2018 on South Street.
The victim - a local woman aged in her 70s - was...
Fed up with your local community’s concerns not being addressed? Frustrated by
the services provided by Dorset County Council? Angry about the lack of social
mobility in the area?
Independent councillor, Dorchester’s renowned town crier Alistair Chisholm is keen
to hear from people who feel they could do better than the current administration.
Alistair...
A new support group for endometriosis, a condition that affects 1.5 million women in the UK, has launched in Poole. The group will be lead by Gemma Diaper, with the support of Endometriosis UK.
The first support group meeting will be held in the function room at The Grasshopper (139-141...
Researchers at public universities are developing new ways of shutting down our capacity for independent thought.
To what extent do we decide? We tell ourselves we choose our own life course, but is this ever true? If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions...
I’m English, which means I have European blood and believe that my country ‘belongs’ in Europe. And I’m interested in our history. It is a matter of record that for millennia Europeans have continually fought each other, culminating in two devastating world wars. There’s a lot wrong about the...
In January 2019, Dorset’s biggest conservation charity, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT), is offering half price membership* for supporters wanting to help wildlife in Dorset for the year ahead.
The wildlife charity needs to grow its 27,500 strong network of support even further in 2019 in order to continue carrying out...
On #FatCatFriday it's important to remember the basis of Britain's economic model and why we owe more per capita and are the most unequal country in Europe.
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Douglas James
