The author Bill Bryson was right. One morning in Dorset, England I opened the curtains at my hotel and took in the verdant landscape leading down to the coast. “For miles around, the Dorset hills ...

It was easy, for a brief delusional moment, to feel as if I were among the very few people on Earth to discover Mudeford Spit, a sandbank jutting off Dorset county in the south of England. Getting ...

South Devon and Dorset are the final stages of the South West Coast Path. On this section of the stunning coastal route, we visit Plymouth, the last European port of call for the Mayflower, and Poole, ...

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Dorset Museum looked after the archive until it moved to the Dorset History Centre in 2018. A project to unveil thousands of items from Thomas Hardy's archive is set to launch. Dorset History Centre ...

A Georgian mansion reopening as a new arts venue is among our most read stories this week in Dorset. A variety of local issues featured on the BBC News website, BBC Radio Solent and South Today. We ...

DORSET's top police chief has announced she will be retiring this summer after more than three decades of service to policing.

The 40 gold stater coins originate from France in the 2nd century BCE A museum is fundraising to acquire two "important and unusual" hoards of Bronze and Iron Age treasure that were found in Dorset.

From quaint coves to beautiful stretches of sand, here are some of the finest beaches that line the coast Natalie spent a decade working as an in-house journalist on the Telegraph Travel desk before ...

UK mobile network operator Virgin Media O2 has expanded its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network to cover several major towns across Dorset. The telco has switched on its 5G SA network in Bournemouth, Poole, ...