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Archaeology students from Bournemouth University have discovered a Bronze Age burial site during an excavation of a prehistoric settlement in Dorset.
It is the first time Bronze Age bones have been discovered on the site in Winterborne Kingston, where the university’s Department of Archaeology and Anthropology has been excavating settlements...
Southwest England and South Wales are under a yellow weather warning for rain, effective from 11 am to 11.59 pm on Thursday. The Met Office predicts widespread rainfall of up to 2cm, with hilly regions expecting up to 4cm. This may lead to delays in bus and train services,...
Having read Gillian Tett’s article (“How the Kit Kat went global”, Magazine, FT Weekend, March 20) I find it odd such a lengthy piece did not arouse any interest in the origin of the name.
Our family believed, in Tett’s words, that “Kit Kat” was the product of the...
The far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, fascist-right and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics.
Many of these parties stem from either the legacy of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, or the political views held by either John...
Nesting in the eaves of our buildings and other small gaps in our homes, Swifts make the return journey from sub-Saharan Africa each year to breed in Dorset and the wider UK.
Greg Lambe, Vice Chairman of Christchurch Harbour Ornithological Group (CHOG), tells us that these “enigmatic birds which are the...
A challenge by Dr. Rupert Read to the UK Government: take responsibility for having got us into this public health disaster, and don’t try to put the blame for lockdowns on us.
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Douglas James
Slavery justice: ‘It’s time, Mr Drax.’
In a unique initiative, this week Dorset is linked direct to the Caribbean as campaigners challenge Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, about his ownership of the Drax Hall estate in Barbados.
Barbadian MP Trevor Prescod will address a rally on Saturday 17 July outside Drax’s Charborough Park estate in Dorset....
A man has been jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of committing sexual offences involving two boys aged under 16.
Michael Kellard, aged 64 and of Dunkeswell in Devon, was found guilty of three counts of rape, three counts of sexual activity with a child, four counts of...
Canford, in Dorset, dates back to Saxon times and covers thousands of acres of heatherlands of birch, pine, broom, furze, ferns and blackberry bramble from Wimborne to Poole Quay. A haven for wildlife of deer, fox, rabbit, lizards, adders and home to the Dartford Warbler. A Charter of 1248,...
