South weekly quiz: How did Tamara run a half marathon?
Test your knowledge of news from Hampshire, Berkshire, Dorset, Oxfordshire and the Isle of Wight with our quiz. Source link
‘Smuggling people and drugs on yachts a real threat’
Alex BishSouth East investigations team'Smuggling using yachts is a real threat'"Within a few minutes it had grounded and a number of people were jumping into the shallow water and making…
Secret Dorset
A site in the middle of the Dorset countryside once sparked wild speculation. Source link
The Christchurch firm turning Wembley plastic into park benches
A Dorset based firm has said it has been "really fun" to be a part of a project which sees it transform waste plastic from the Wembley Stadium pitch and…
The Dorset garden centre that began a British obsession
Ros TappendenSouth of EnglandBBCThe Stewart family has been in the nursery business for nearly three centuriesIt has been 70 years since Edward Stewart, founder of Stewarts Garden Centres, opened a…
Garden Centres… Invented in Dorset
It's 70 years since the UK's first ever garden centre opened here in Dorset. Source link
Broadband restored in Beaminster four days after car crash outage
Ros TappendenSouth of EnglandCouncillor Craig MonksThe burnt-out car was removed by Dorset Council contractors on TuesdayBroadband has been restored to a town more than four days after a car crash…
Dorset Council refuses revised plans for solar farm at Maiden Newton
A council has rejected a revised plan for a solar farm despite changes to the design and local support.The application for the 43-acre (17.6 hectares) site at Cruxton, south of…
Ruthless £28m Sell My Timeshare fraud robbed elderly of savings
Nikki MitchellSouth of England home affairs correspondent, andStephen StaffordSouth of EnglandBBCDes said finding out he had been scammed was "like a kick in the guts"A man duped out of £14,000…
Dorset farmer asks, is it worth a 90-hour week?
Jack EmeryThe cows have been eating winter silage instead of grazing because of the dry summerA young dairy farmer says his industry is facing a double hit after a sudden…