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Monday, October 14, 2024
Over £25,000 has been given to community organisations and charities in the Dorchester and Bridport areas. The income from car boot sales in Fairfield Car Park in Dorchester and West Bay Road car park in West Bay is collected by us. It is then paid in to the car...
Speaking about the Police and Crime Commissioner’s comments to the Dorset Police and Crime Panel on 13 November, Chief Constable James Vaughan said: “The Police and Crime Commissioner Martyn Underhill has today outlined our shared concerns about the future financial picture for Dorset Police.  Whilst we remain committed to providing...
Staff, trustees and guests celebrated the refurbishment and first six months of the opening of Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum.   Dorchester’s newest museum opened its doors on May Day and since then, thousands of people have visited to learn about justice and injustice, crime and punishment. The attraction is now...
We are delighted to offer free parking in some of our council-owned car parks in the run up to Christmas this year. Car Parks taking part Blandford Forum All car parks free all day for small business Saturday 1 December All car parks free all day for Blandford Yuletide festival 12 December ...

Wake up white men!

Trump is only majority popular with white men. Over here, Corbyn is majority popular with everyone else but white men. I am a man. I cannot be more embarrassed and ashamed of my fellow white men for being Grade-A pricks. Get a grip white men!!! It's YOU stopping society changing for the...

“Say Cheese”

Thanks to Lell Gee If you have a pic that wasn't supposed to happen send them our way.
There were cheers and smiles all round as the Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum team won three prestigious awards in one night.   Dorchester’s newest museum, on High West Street, scooped a gold award and two silvers at the Dorset Tourism Awards last night. They won gold in the new Tourism...
Dorset Clinical Commissioners : DCCG resorting to wholesale propaganda ... I note Mr Goodson DCCG has wrapped the Poole Herald in a four page wrapper. Four pages of one sided propaganda. A whole catalogue of assertions - assertion after assertion all totally out of context and in that shockingly misleading. I expect...
Highly entertaining, satirical and slickly choreographed theatre featuring local girl Rachel Fullegar coming to Dorset In a year when #metoo, gender pay inequality and the feminist agenda has rarely been out of the headlines, 2018 is an especially appropriate time for Gracefool Collective to tour their powerfully satirical Edinburgh hit This Really Is...

Dog wardens win RSPCA award

Dog wardens in West Dorset, North Dorset and Weymouth and Portland have won recognition from the RSPCA for providing a ‘gold standard’ in animal welfare for their stray dog service. North Dorset District Council, West Dorset District Council and Weymouth & Portland Borough Councils’ dog wardens have achieved a 2018...