An Israeli strike on the central Gaza Strip has killed a family of eight, Palestinian medical officials said. The strike came ...

Rural crime officers are investigating the theft of a tractor and hedge trimmer. It was reported that between Thursday, October 10, and 10am on Saturday, October 12, a green Claas 640 tractor was ...

The UK is among 40 nations “strongly” condemning attacks on United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon. Earlier this week, Israeli troops fired on UN headquarters in southern Lebanon, injuring two ...

"Section 59 of the Police Reform Act 2002 provides officers with the power to issue to riders or drivers warnings in relation to the manner/use of a motor vehicle, where it is believed it is causing ...

It's perhaps a little known fact that singer Dusty Springfield spent a lot of time in Dorset before she hit the big time ...

Have a go at this walk which takes in Dorset’s highest village of Ashmore - at 700ft above sea level.

Here's more photographs of life in Dorset in the 1950s, 60s and 70s taken by former Dorset Evening Echo photographer Harry Green. The pictures perfectly capture life in Dorset in the 1950s, 60s and ...

LIVE animals will no longer be legally be offered as prizes on Dorset Council owned land. A motion from Verwood councillor Toni Coombs was approved almost unanimously after she made the plea at the ...

SHERBORNE area planning decision by Dorset Council include the approval of solar panels on a roof at the Sherborne Museum in Church Lane.

The annual counting and tagging of juvenile wild Atlantic salmon on the River Frome has yielded the lowest number of fish in more than 20 years ...

A Weymouth woman admitted to assaulting her ex-partner in Weymouth town centre. Shanay Amelia Hastings, of St Leonards Road in Weymouth, pleaded guilty to assault by beating. The charge states that on ...

From falling out with former allies at the SNP to forming his own political party, Alex Salmond’s personality loomed large.