The Latest Breaking News from Dorset

Dorset Police has issued a photograph of a man and woman restraining a dog moments after it allegedly bit a boy in the head as he played in a pub garden in Swanage

Police commissioner and council leader say Home Office has failed to address questions about plan to house 506 people on vessel

The Dorset port welcomed the first cruise ship to its £26m redevelopment project

David McEvoy owns the land where the dying tree stands in Poole Harbour, Dorset, after buying the site in 1999 to stop any development there

Ocean Marine Systems will increase Hundested Propeller's range of marine equipment

Charity cites erosion fears but Middle Beach Cafe supporters say it was at no imminent risk

Richard Drax - who said opponents are considering legal action against the Home Office plans - claims he wasn't consulted before Home Secretary Suella Braverman told him of the plan to house more than 500 asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset

A report into HMP Guys Marsh prison in Dorset claims the unnamed inmate's death may have been due to a super-strength batch of illegal hooch, which is frequently brewed by jail inmates using fruit and even hand sanitiser

A couple’s identity as Travellers, and thus their right to live on a plot near his farm, has been questioned by the actor’s lawyers