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...
The head chef of a superyacht drowned after falling from a quayside in the south of France following a night out drinking, an inquest has heard. Flinn Sessions, of Wimborne, Dorset, was working on the Atlantico yacht, moored at La Ciotat, near Marseille, on 9 June 2023. An inquest at Bournemouth heard the 22-year-old visited...
The head chef of a superyacht drowned after falling from a quayside in the south of France following a night out drinking, an inquest has heard. Flinn Sessions, of Wimborne, Dorset, was working on the...
A couple whose newborn baby developed a potentially fatal infection have said they were alerted to the signs by an Instagram post. Matt and Laura Bradbury-Stewart from Frome, Somerset, said their son ...
Available for over a year Storm Benjamin has been named by Météo France and will bring wet and windy weather on Thursday. Cornwall is set to get wet and windy because of this and the Met Office has is...
Jonathan MorrisSouth West and Martyn OatesSouth West political reporter BBC A ban on smacking would bring England and Cornwall into line with Scotland, Wales, Ireland, South Korea and many other count...
Planning applications have been put forward to replace street payphones with three-metre-tall multi-media hubs. BT is bidding for four of the hubs in Torquay to provide free ultra-fast wifi, phone cal...
A wall is being reinstated at a crematorium to stop people using it as a shortcut after “significant disruption” was caused to funeral services. Part of the boundary at Weymouth Crematoriu...
Parking charges have been introduced to part of a car park after it was taken over. All of the car park at Devil’s Point in Plymouth was previously free for three hours but has been reconfigured...
Unique retro games arcade Boneyard is set to re-open in Sidwell Street by converting a former Brighthouse retail unit into a new venue twelve months after having to make way for a “co-living” block at...
John Askey says he is seeing improvement in his Truro City side after their 3-0 win over Brighton and Hove Albion Under-21s in the National League Cup. Seidou Sanogo, 25, gave the Tinners a 25th-minut...
A speedway team just one race from potentially securing three major titles have been forced to put their final back due to forecast wet weather. Poole Pirates were set to host the Redcar Bears in the ...