West Dorset traders are facing ‘unprecedented pressures’ as business rates go ‘through the roof’ - with one pub saying their bill has trebled. It is warned businesses will close as they struggle with ...

Timed to coincide with the Easter half term, the Great Dorset Beach Clean is a free and family-friendly initiative open to ...

A BUNGALOW at the Golden Cap Holiday Park, Seatown could be converted into a hot food takeaway. The site owners, West Dorset Leisure Holidays, have applied to Dorset Council to make changes to the ...

Here are some more Dorset places you can visit on a sunny day before the crowds arrive and the tourist season proper starts ...

Standout destinations we recommend include an under-the-radar Portuguese district, the spellbinding Slovenian lakes and a ...

A spokesperson told Dorset Echo: “We have plans for a new ... months and rougher seas and reopened on Saturday 15 March. Seatown is part of the well-known Golden Cap coastline so it has ...

THE beautiful wildlife reserve that looks like it belongs in an Enid Blyton novel is open for the summer again. Brownsea Island, found off Poole Harbour in Dorset, has been closed since November ...

At the end of a country lane is a small coastal hamlet home to a very popular seaside inn. The Anchor Inn has been a landmark of Seatown for many years and is this week's Pub of the Week. The 200-year ...

Archaeologists have re-dated the Flagstones monument in Dorset back to 3200 BC - more than two centuries earlier than previously thought. According to new research from the University of Exeter ...

Archaeological research by the University of Exeter and Historic England has shed new light on the origins of the prehistoric Flagstones monument located near Dorchester, Dorset, during the ...