(Editor's note: This column will be an occasional column on the history of East Dorset. If others would like to submit columns on their towns, contact editor Darren Marcy at ...

Langton Herring also holds a rare and poignant distinction, it is Dorset’s only ‘doubly thankful’ village, having welcomed home all of its servicemen from both the First and Second World Wars.

“I went by the Druid stone / That broods in the garden white and lone,” begins the poem “The Shadow on the Stone” by renowned British author Thomas Hardy (published 1917). The author of classics like ...

A solar-powered listening post where visitors can hear radio extracts about childhood during World War Two is set to be unveiled. Children from four Dorset schools have written and recorded an ...

A pair of Dorset sisters were reported dead after they fell 40ft down a Portland cliff - but survived the fall ...

The green and cream livery, and later red, of Hants & Dorset Motor Services was a familiar sight on the roads of the south coast for more than six decades. From its humble beginnings as a small ...