Dorset County, England News

Lyme Regis pupils from St Michael's Primary School show their poster designs, with PSCO Luke White, front, and PC Kirsti Ball and PCSO John Burton.

ROAD repairs and resurfacing work is to be carried out on the A30 near Shaftesbury at the end of June into July.

The decision to enter into a 10-year lease with Mr Say's Community Interest Company was made at a special meeting of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council 's management committee tonight.

Lianne Dalziel's looming resignation to contest the Christchurch mayoralty has sparked speculation Labour will stand list MP Clayton Cosgrove in the byelection for the seat, opening the way for Northlander Kelvin Davis to return to Parliament.

A GRANDMOTHER who has volunteered in Ringwood's Oxfam shop for 36 years, despite battling Parkinson's Disease, has been awarded the British Empire Medal .

Connie O'Gormley last year raised more than A 2,000 for Cancer Research UK and was so thrilled with the show's success that she is now making it an annual event.

Bob and Carole Walker, pictured left, joined 200 other cyclists in the Pedal for Parkinson's event to raise funds for Parkinson's UK.

The project will run in the county town from September 16 to September 21 and will include a range of free evening and lunchtime activities before culminating in a final large event.

The Duchy of Cornwall has submitted plans for three new buildings at Queen Mother Square as well as the plinth where a statue will be installed.

RIDERS bearing a baguette paid a visit to Maiden Castle as they marked the launch of a new cross-Channel cycle route.

DORSET Police is set to lose a total of 468 police officers by 2018 due to cuts in central government funding.

THE A351 was closed from the Baker's Arms roundabout to Holton Heath after a two vehicle crash this afternoon.

When student woodworker Charlie Goodwin's mother sent him off to a Westcountry academy on a course, she thought he might come home with something ordinary like a table or a chair so imagine her shock when he turned up riding a wooden bicycle! Charlie designed and built the unique conveyance while on an eight-week woodworking skills course at Lyme ... (more)

Lianne Dalziel is good for Bob Parker, and vice versa. It seems an odd argument, but each needs the other to validate whatever comes of the Christchurch mayoral election.

PREPARE to embark on a gastronomic journey, as the countdown to Bournemouth's biggest food and drink festival gets underway.

A GROUP of friends will be riding 140 miles around Dorset in one day in memory of their friend and co-worker.

A A 5million redevelopment scheme for the Three Cups Hotel site at Lyme Regis has been given a big thumbs up after going on public view.

Robert Ian Finlay, 53, of Barnes Crescent, Bournemouth, faces 17 charges relating to making indecent photographs / pseudo-photographs of a child between January 1 2009 and April 4 this year.

A series of exhibitions will take place in the town over plans to "enhance sustainable transport" as part of the Three Towns Travel project for the A35 corridor through Christchurch, Bournemouth and Poole.

The Blood Makes Noise project has seen film producer Peter Snelling working at the Dorchester hospital as an artist in residence, visiting the renal dialysis unit on a weekly basis to create a film, blog and book.