Dorset Council Trading Standards is helping the Office of Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) by sharing their message about checking if your gas hob needs work to make it safe.
As a result of an investigation by OPSS, it was found that 12 UK gas hob manufacturers may have a...
In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods, naked. She swam in a lake, naked. Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period. The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong. But everyone in Hollywood...
Dorset Council's Organisational Revenue Support Fund for Culture has awarded £486,000 to 28 organisations over the next three years.
A total of 41 applications were received from arts and heritage organisations and accredited museums. A total of £217,000 has been awarded to arts and heritage and £269,000 to accredited museums.
This...
Researchers have issued a warning that maternal deaths in the UK have surged to a nearly 20-year high. Recent data reveals an average of 13.41 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies from 2020 to 2022, with a rate of 11.54 deaths per 100,000 even when excluding COVID-related fatalities. This represents a...
News has come in that the X53 Jurassic Coaster bus is being once again slashed as economics come before providing an effective rural bus service. Already, residents of villages on the route between Bridport and Weymouth are doing their nuts, and more than one resident who doesn’t drive has...
A recent study uncovered a significant drop in traffic from Facebook to news sites, plunging by nearly 50% in 2023. The annual Trends and Predictions Report from the Reuters Institute, based on input from 134 media leaders across 56 countries, sheds light on this concerning trend. Data from Chartbeat...
Dorset’s Richard Burnett will be honoured at the Palace of Westminster with the prestigious British Citizen Award (BCA) in recognition of his extraordinary endeavours.
Richard will receive the award on 18 January for Services to Volunteering and Charitable Giving, having raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for good causes. He...
Expect more snow and freezing temperatures as an Arctic cold front moves through the UK. The Met Office alerts of wintry hazards in the coming days, with snow likely next week. The country woke up to frosty conditions, with temperatures as low as -2C in the south of England.
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Leonard Farruku, a young Albanian discovered deceased aboard the Bibby Stockholm ship in Great Britain, is reported to have taken his life approximately 12 hours before being found, according to his roommate interviewed by The Guardian.
The asylum seeker was found in a shower cubicle on...
Retired postman Rodney Holbrook, 75, captured footage of a mouse tidying up his workbench after dark. Over a couple of months, he noticed that the things he used during the day were being mysteriously put away at night, so he set up a night-vision camera in his shed in...
