News in Dorchester

Music By The Lake will return in the summer of 2022, it has been confirmed.

The live music event, organised by Weldmar Hospicecare and Kingston Maurward in Dorchester, attracted thousands of visitors when it was first held in July 2019, who enjoyed performances by some of the UK's leading tribute bands and artists.

Dorchester ballet and dance school may re-locate to a new home at the town's Sandringham Sports Centre.

Town councillors have backed the idea of allowing the school to build in a corner of its car park alongside the sports centre, which is home to the town's bowls club.

Visitors to Hardy's Birthplace and Thorncombe Woods are urged not to feed the ponies.

A spokesman said: "They are bred to deal with a low nutrient diet, so even apples and carrots are not OK and neither are polos or things from packets.

A man has been arrested in connection with a series of reported burglaries on Dorchester and Weymouth.

The first incident happened at around 5.40am on Sunday, October 25, 2020, at Broadwey Village Stores on Dorchester Road in Weymouth. The offenders allegedly gained entry by smashing a glass panel. Nothing was reported as stolen.

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Dorchester Prison is likely to be used for war games – until the market picks up and it can be converted to housing.

Owners, City & Country, has asked for permission to continue using the former jail for Airsoft games, which it has been used for, on an occasional basis since May 2019.

Town councillors in Dorchester are hoping to keep their share of the council tax increase below one per cent from April – compared to the five per cent Dorset Council is likely to impose.

But some fees and charges may have to rise in the county town, although these will also be largely kept to between two and five per cent.

This incredible picture, from scaffolder Shane Webb, shows for the first time the extent of the maze of poles and planks needed to carry out essential repairs on Dorchester's Municipal Buildings roofs.

The complex job, which also features a framework inside the building, is taking local firm South Western Scaffolding almost three weeks to complete.

Wildflower work in one of Dorchester's cemeteries has been recognised by the Dorset Wildlife Trust.

It has designated the town council Fordington Cemetery as a Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI).

Tree surgeons have carved a 'throne' out of the stump of a tree which had to be felled in Salisbury Field.

The creation has been so successful that it has since appeared in various social media photographs as people pause to pose.