Dorset County, England News

A 10-year-old girl was airlifted to hospital suffering from "significant" burns after a chemical explosion at her school.

THE mother of tragic soldier Philip Allen said that he had always dreamed of joining the Army.

A BLAZE broke out in the top floor of a derelict hotel near Bournemoutha s town centre.

Weymouth and Portland Borough Council will be holding a by-election for the Wyke Regis Ward on Thursday, December 10, following the death of Coun Doug Hollings.

Bournemouth council taxpayers will fork out A 3.7m to subsidise the government's concessionary bus fare scheme this year.

THE life and loves of childrena s favourite Enid Blyton will be explored in a television drama.

PEOPLE who make a difference had their achievements recognised at a county-wide volunteer awards evening.

PRESSURE is mounting to bring back the white lines on the Weymouth to Bridport coast road after the fourth serious crash in three weeks.

STRONGER safety measures are being taken to slow down traffic through a Hampshire village where a schoolboy lost his life last year.

A Dorset woman has asked that her disabled nine-year-old son who is kept alive by a ventilator be allowed to die naturally.

A student has told how his father, from Bognor Regis, slipped through his fingertips as he tried to stop him falling off a hotel balcony.

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DORSET soldiers from the worst-hit British unit to serve in Afghanistan paraded in front of thousands of people in Liverpool on Saturday.

DORSET is the most unaffordable county in the country in which to buy a house. New figures reveal that buyers need to raise more than 14 times their income to get on the housing ladder.

An investigation is under way after a mental health patient died following detention by police in Bournemouth.

THE great and the good of Weymouth and Portland paid their final respects to Councillor Doug Hollings at a thanksgiving service for him in Wyke Regis.

FIREFIGHTERS are warning the public about the dangers of the cancer-causing material in old buildings after several arson attacks at the former Westhaven Junior School site.

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WEYMOUTHa S Victorian Shownight has been cancelled, reportedly due to a lack of interest from town centre businesses.

A WEYMOUTH man is to set off on an expedition to the South Pole to claim the record for the fastest time.