As Storm Benjamin approaches, we’ve got the forecast for the South Coast. Source link...
A woman has died in a two-car crash in Dorset. A black Kia Niro and a grey Peugeot 107 collided on the A37 near Maiden Newton, north of Dorchester, at 17:30 BST on Wednesday. The driver of the Peugeot, a 49-year-old woman from Weymouth, died at the scene. The road was closed to allow emergency...
Archaeologists are to investigate the site of a former bowling alley thought to hold evidence of a town’s medieval origins. The former MFA Bowl building in Weymouth occupied one of the earliest parts of Melcombe Regis which was founded in the late 13th Century. Preliminary investigations in 2022 revealed at least one medieval property in...
Organisers of a popular seafood festival say it will return to its original venue in 2026 and will be free to attend. Dorset Seafood Festival has been running in Weymouth for 17 years but was cancelled in 2025 due to repairs to the peninsula sea wall. The 2026 festival will take place on a “smaller...
Thieves who toured the country to break into cash machines to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds have been jailed. Luke McCarthy, 40, and Harry Thomas, 29, both from Bristol, played leading roles as groups took power tools to machines 16 times, mostly on petrol station forecourts and in supermarkets at night. Prosecutors said the...
Work has begun on the next stage of a two-year coastal defence project. Photos have been released showing how engineers are replacing two existing timber groynes at the beach below East Cliff in Bournemouth. This phase of work is expected to take until December. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council warned the public to keep...
ON OUR RADAR Halloween spoken-word special featuring Jo Eades and Samuel L. Cohen with a £100 cash prize poetry slam. Leigh Curtis Spork! presents a spoken-word Halloween special at Exeter Phoe...
The driver has been describing how the water was up to his top lip. Source link...
Exeter City Council has dismissed concerns that too much student accommodation is having an adverse impact on community balance in approving plans for a new purpose-built block on the site of the form...
Wildlife volunteers are celebrating the successful reintroduction of smooth snakes. Source link...
Bournemouth midfielder Alex Scott says being called up by England is his “ultimate goal” as he reflects on a “whirlwind” 2025. The 22-year-old helped England win the European U...
Kelly: What was it like growing up? Talk to me about your family. Andoni: Since I was 10 or 11 years old, I always used to go to school on the train alone to San Sebastian. After school, I took a bus ...
Exeter Phoenix is screening Nature’s Resources, a programme of six short animated films about the relationship between humans and non-humans, as part of the Fashion in Film Festival on Saturday 18 Oct...
Theatre Alibi is hosting an interactive tactile exhibition suitable for all ages from Saturday 4 October to Sunday 2 November at Emmanuel Hall. Play Interact Explore was developed by artists Leap Then...
Exeter College and Petroc are holding a public consultation on a proposed merger of the two institutions which they say would create the largest college group in the South West with more than 16,000 s...
Developer Zinc Real Estate has applied to Exeter City Council for planning permission to replace Clarendon House, overlooking the Paris Street roundabout, with a 297-bed student accommodation complex ...