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A pensioner has been fined £130 after he resorted to painting a zebra crossing over a busy road he and his disabled wife struggled to cross. Laurie Phillips was investigated by the police and summoned to an interview at the police station over allegations he had caused criminal damage. The 78-year-old had got fed up … Read more
Police and Border Force swoop as seven Albanian stowaways are found on board cargo ship off Dorset coast ‘Small number of unidentified individuals’ were found on board vessel yesterday Cargo ship is believed to have loaded at Rouen before arriving off Portland coast Border Force officials called in alongside local police to deal with the … Read more
A pensioner has been fined £130 after he resorted to painting a zebra crossing over a busy road he and his disabled wife struggled to cross. Laurie Phillips was investigated by the police and summoned to an interview at the police station over allegations he had caused criminal damage. The 78-year-old had got fed up … Read more
Three of Britain’s most expensive beach huts worth up to £300,000 each are torched at Dorset beauty spot Three beach huts in Hengistbury Head, Dorset, set alight on Saturday morning Thirty of the huts were broken into, it is not yet known if anything was taken Huts regularly go for up to £300,000, with impressive views … Read more
The PALER Horse: 320ft chalk rider carved into Dorset hillside 216 years ago is now barely visible after Covid stops gardeners from removing WEEDS The 216 year old landmark is has not been maintained as usual for more than one year ‘Realistically, there is nobody else who could do it’ according to local councillor ‘We need … Read more
A Dorset beach was last night battered by a brutal storm that breached sea defences and even carried cars away amid strong wings, heavy rainfall and terrifying 23ft waves. Sea and rain water poured into streets surrounding Chesil Beach on the Isle of Portland, with at least one person believed to have been left needing … Read more
Ruined Dorset castle popular with Instagrammers is urgently closed amid fears it is falling into the sea after cracks appeared in walls of fortress built by Henry VIII Weymouth Town Council said two vertical cracks were spotted in internal walls Another especially concerning crack is above the picture arch overlooking bay The entire clifftop site … Read more
Facebook has banned a Dorset-based historical re-enactment society for a second time after mistaking it for a far-right militia group. Five elderly members of the Wimborne Militia of Dorset were left bemused after their Facebook accounts were suspended last month. The social media giant had been taking down and restricting accounts of right-wing paramilitary groups … Read more
Villagers struggling to buy their first home in unaffordable a Dorset ‘ghost village’ filled with holiday homes have been thrown a lifeline after new houses were built for locals only. The nine homes have been built in Worth Matravers on the picturesque Isle of Purbeck, a peninsular in Dorset. Sixty per cent of the 180 … Read more
TALK OF THE TOWN: ‘Waves would hit the window of the house’: Actress Kate Winslet says she had to rough it in a storm-blasted cottage in Dorset By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:25 GMT, 20 December 2020 | Updated: 00:33 GMT, 20 December 2020 It’s a … Read more