FARM workers in Dorset are being urged to make sure their first aid skills are up to date after a shocking report was published outlining the number of deaths accidents.
Dorset will be getting in the saddle for national Bike Week next week with a host of events promoting cycling as an easy, low-cost and low-carbon way of getting around.
Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton fire crews are looking for a special kind of individual, those who are interested in becoming retained firefighters. An open evening will be held next Tuesday (14th June) from 6pm at Shaftesbury fire station.
St John Ambulance is urging businesses in Dorset to ensure they have trained first aiders working over the summer holiday season or potentially face prosecution.
A BID to bring the Olympic torch to Shaftesbury's Gold Hill in July during its nationwide tour next year has been launched by business and tourism leaders in the town.
A GROUP of Shillingstone residents are planning an oarsome feat – to take part in the Dragonboat racing at Sherborne Castle country fair on May bank holiday Monday.
A NORTH Dorset job club has been declared the winner of a top regional award from Action for Market Towns, the body campaigning for small rural towns nationwide.
Post offices are at risk because of the Government’s refusal to allow a binding agreement with Royal Mail after it is sold off, Labour claimed last night.
Lord Fellowes has backed a campaign to keep the libraries open Communities have been invited to take over 20 under-threat libraries in Dorset to save them from closures.
With the launch last week of a happiness movement – plus an index for happiness – take our light-hearted quiz to quantify your contentment, says Nigel Farndale.
A POOLE vicar, facing a £4,000 repair bill following a copper raid at his church, says having the metal on the building is like putting £10 notes on your wall and shouting ‘come and steal me’.
SHERBORNE'S recycling centre is being swamped by people travelling across the border with Somerset to avoid new charges and dramatic reductions in opening hours.
VILLAGERS from Dorset’s rural communities continue to show “spirit and resilience” despite facing a growing list of threatened services, a hard-hitting report has revealed.
Councils are urging South West residents in the countryside to be their eyes and ears over the coming weekends to prevent travellers setting up camp illegally.
Neighbours Colin Lee, Jenny Lowe and Ann Brooks RESIDENTS have expressed their anger at Dorset County Council's decision to approve a new travellers' site outside their homes.
NORTH Dorset District Council will deliver its services in 2011/12 with 11.7 per cent less cash than last year but with no cuts in front line services.
Hundreds of families and businesses were celebrating last night after planners rejected an application to build four 120-metre wind turbines close to the Somerset-Dorset border.
