News in Dorchester

Every week we will be sharing a circular walk in and around our local area with directions and photos. We use the OS Map app, which is very useful if you are out walking.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, you will be able to receive the walk first every Friday and be able to enjoy it over the weekend.

Staff and pupils have been celebrating after their school was recognised as part of a national campaign.

The Prince of Wales School in Dorchester was contacted by the 'Wave Of Thanks' campaign to say thank you for their hard work, especially over the pandemic.

Ice creams out and about, visits to Dorchester Market and Brewery Square, relaxing in the Borough Gardens - social life at Cheriton Care Home is booming and getting back to normal.

As well as making it out around the town, families can visit both indoors and outdoors and residents are joining in with a range of activities at the care home on Weymouth Avenue.

Joey's Doggie Day Care is growing and will soon be open five days a week, allowing the team to welcome even more four legged play pals to their ultimate happy place for dogs.

Sara Buxton will be joining her partner Tom at the day care full-time, which has been a dream of theirs for years!

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Here are some of the latest vacancies available in and around Dorchester.

To mark Armed Forces Week and to recognise all they do for the county, a special flag will be raised in Dorchester on Monday.

The annual armed forces flag raising ceremony is an opportunity to honour service men and women, past and present.

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A former flax factory in Dorchester is to be converted with a new house added to create nine homes.

The building, off St George's Road, has been used as a store area for travelling fairground equipment.

The Summer Solstice is on its way, taking place on what we call the longest day of the year.

The Summer Solstice occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun, so therefore it reaches its highest position in the sky and is the day with the longest period of daylight.

Dorchester Arts is welcoming back audiences and kicking off a summer of live outdoor shows with a performance of Hardy's classic Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Following on from a superb production of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd in 2017, Hotbuckle make a welcome return, bringing what is perhaps one of Hardy's finest works back to his home town.