A council is encouraging schools to ban phones during the day as part of their behaviour policies. Dorset Council has ...

DORSET COUNCIL has issued new guidance encouraging schools to ban mobile phones and parents not to provide smartphones to under-14s, calling them ...

A council is to reconsider its approval for a new Aldi supermarket after a challenge by retail rival Lidl. The £7m store at ...

NEW planning proposals have been lodged with Dorset Council, covering a range of residential extensions and property alterations in ...

Storm Goretti has officially arrived in Dorset bringing heavy rain and strong winds of up to 70mph in some places. Staff will be on-hand to carry out gritting of the roads, deal with any severe ...

A former authority has been blamed for years of neglect at more than 5,000 acres of council-owned farms. Many sites in the Dorset Council region are said to be in a poor state and in need of ...

The sight of a hot tub dumped at the side of a main road near a village by fly-tippers has "stunned" the chairman of a parish ...

Plans for a new Aldi supermarket in Dorset are to be reconsidered by a council after its decision to approve the scheme was challenged by discount rival Lidl.

Beach hut owners say they are looking into the legal basis of plans to reclassify their huts as second homes for the purposes ...

Spring 2019 has been notable for news of hard-up councils facing fundamental restructures, leading to the dissolution of familiar local government entities. Last week the long-awaited division into ...