Someone should tell the snowdrops that the worst may be yet to come. At Kingston Lacy, a National Trust property near Wimborne, one of the best snowdrop displays in Dorset stretches through the 40-acre garden for 1.5 miles and is at its best throughout early February....

Two shops were broken into in the early hours of Tuesday, January 15. Significant damage was caused to both premises and the police would like to hear from anyone who can help. At about 2.15am, a burglary was reported at the Nisa shop in Winterslow Road, Salisbury. A...

Julie Girling,  MEP for South West England and Gibraltar, has criticised MPs and blamed them for the Westminster chaos. In a statement she said: “The gap between what Brexit promised and what the Government can deliver is finally obvious to everyone. Westminster is in...

The a cold snap has brought a call for help to support local homeless charities running low on necessary items for rough sleepers. Sleeping bags are among the top needs, and woolly hats, gloves  scarves and thermos flasks, but not warm clothing or coats, as all...

Dorset’s touring arts charity Artsreach is backing a national campaign celebrating village halls to celebrate village halls and the people who work hard to sustain them. From Tuesday, January 22,. Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) and the ACRE Network,...

Walkers are being asked to step up and  join their local Walk for Parkinson’s event this year. Parkinson’s UK launched its annual Walk for Parkinson’s fundraiser, and is urging people of all ages and abilities UK to sign-up to step closer to a cure for Parkinson’s....

A man was threatened with a knife by another man in Amesbury on January 16 in the car park of a distribution centre in Meridian Way at 2am. Police say the 25-year-old was approached by another man who started shouting and swearing. He pulled out a knife out, making...

Salisbury man Robert Martin, 33, of Whatcombe Brow, Orcheston, was given a 30 month driving ban and a nine-month prison sentence suspended for 24 months, after pleading guilty to dangerous driving by Salisbury Crown Court on January 10. At 9pm on March 6, 2017, police...

Dorset’s fledgling grass-roots political independent movement, All for Dorset, is holding its first public meeting at the Colliton Club, Dorchester, on Thursday, January 24 at 7.30pm. The steering group want to gather support to field candidates in the town and...

Conservative-controlled Wiltshire Council has been given cross-party support for the decision to invest in more house-building in the county. But it was not their idea anyway, according to Labour members on the council. Labour group Leader Ricky Rogers said: “ I...

Someone should tell the snowdrops that the worst may be yet to come. At Kingston Lacy, a National Trust property near Wimborne, one of the best snowdrop displays in Dorset stretches through the 40-acre garden for 1.5 miles and is at its best throughout early February....

Two shops were broken into in the early hours of Tuesday, January 15. Significant damage was caused to both premises and the police would like to hear from anyone who can help. At about 2.15am, a burglary was reported at the Nisa shop in Winterslow Road, Salisbury. A...

Julie Girling,  MEP for South West England and Gibraltar, has criticised MPs and blamed them for the Westminster chaos. In a statement she said: “The gap between what Brexit promised and what the Government can deliver is finally obvious to everyone. Westminster is in...

The a cold snap has brought a call for help to support local homeless charities running low on necessary items for rough sleepers. Sleeping bags are among the top needs, and woolly hats, gloves  scarves and thermos flasks, but not warm clothing or coats, as all...