A visitor attraction that cares for hundreds of swans has closed for winter a week earlier than planned and cancelled its half term Halloween events amid fears of a bird flu outbreak. Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset had been due to welcome visitors to its Ghostly Games trail from Saturday 25 October to Sunday 2 November....

A military museum has hosted a training exercise to test the emergency services’ response to a chemical incident. Police, fire, ambulance, search and rescue teams and university paramedics took part in the exercise at the Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset. The fake scenario involved a forklift truck colliding with a chemical tanker carrying chlorine, resulting...

A nine-day rail closure affecting passengers in Surrey and southern England during school half-term has begun. Replacement buses are to run for services between Staines and Windsor, and between Guildford and Havant from Saturday until 2 November. The final phase of upgrades to the Portsmouth Direct line are to be completed between Guildford and Havant,...

Cedrick was one of the last people to leave the Bibby Stockholm. Source link...

Curtis LancasterSouth of England Jessica Levitt Jonathan Ross visited the Dorset based-club Talk show host and Celebrity Traitors star Jonathan Ross visited a girls’ football team and surprised them with a message from England Lioness Chloe Kelly. Ross spent two hours with the under-11s at Swanage Town and Herston Football Club in Dorset on Thursday...

Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola has been speaking to the media before Sunday’s Premier League game against Nottingham Forest at the Vitality Stadium (kick-off 14:00 GMT). Here are the key lines from his news conference: Iraola confirmed striker Evanilson is “definitely out” for Forest’s visit, adding: “He is not far, not ready for Sunday but I...