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Student who asked lecturer how to get away with murder jailed for killing personal trainer on Bournemouth beach

An ‘extremely dangerous’ social misfit with a ‘grievance against women’, Nasen Saadi killed Amie Gray and seriously wounded Leanne Miles

The Independent UK

Amie Gray: Student to be sentenced for murder of woman on Bournemouth beach

Nasen Saadi was found guilty following a trial at Winchester Crown Court

Evening Standard

Formula 1’s (almost) all-American teams

For many years Formula 1 tried and failed to connect with the US audience, but all that has changed in the last decade. Burgeoning interest is now served by three grands prix on US soil and an American team on the grid – with another one about to join. Cadillac is…

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Ancient Dorset burial site raises questions over age of Stonehenge

Re-dating of Flagstones monument to about 3,200BC came after analysis by Exeter University and Historic England

The Guardian - UK

Ancient burial site found to be older than Stonehenge

New research shows Flagstones in Dorset dates to 3,200 years BC and sheds new light on the origins of monumental architecture.

Evening Standard

Stonehenge’s age called into question after revelation about ancient burial site

Findings could suggest that ‘our current dating of Stonehenge might need revision’

The Independent UK

Mother pleads guilty to causing death of son, nine, by dangerous driving

Zac Roe, from Andover in Hampshire, died at the scene of the crash in East Woodyates, north Dorset, in March last year.

Evening Standard

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PJ Harvey review – part folklore, part fever dream

In the British polymath’s first Australian show in eight years, she performs a haunting, theatrical tribute to Dorset, where she grew up

The Guardian - AU

‘I feel real hope’: historic beaver release marks conservation milestone in England

Four beavers were legally released at Purbeck Heath in Dorset in what experts say is a huge step for national nature recovery

The Guardian - UK

Far from the madding crowd: my personal pilgrimage on the quiet paths of Thomas Hardy’s Dorset

My mother wrote about the meandering trails from the novelist’s cottage, through countryside loaded with literary references – now I’m following in her footsteps

The Guardian - UK

British aid worker who lost limbs in Ukraine may have to fund his own prosthetics

Edward ‘Eddy’ Scott, from Dorset, said he has ‘fallen in love with Ukraine’ and wants to build a future there

The Independent UK

Tom Jones and Sugababes to headline Camp Bestival 2025

Sir Tom Jones and Sugababes will top the bill at Dorset's Camp Bestival this summer.

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Country estate fined £28,000 for taking too much water from rare chalk stream

The Environment Agency said the Ilchester Estates ‘deliberately flouted’ its licence for abstracting water from the Dorset Frome.

The Independent UK

Country diary: The first, early stages of awakening as the Earth tilts towards the south

Bridport, Dorset: Dormant buds formed at the end of last summer are responding to an alchemy of hormones, stored sugars and the gradual lightening of days

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Farmers team up with National Trust to create wood pasture for songbirds

A scheme in Purbeck, Dorset, is creating hundreds of acres for wildlife and livestock with funding from Government’s nature-friendly farming scheme.

Evening Standard

Mother faces court accused of causing death of her son by dangerous driving

Zac Roe, nine, from Andover in Hampshire, died at the scene of the crash in East Woodyates, north Dorset, last year.

The Guardian - UK

Bibby Stockholm barge towed away, 18 months after arriving in Dorset

Vessel commissioned by previous Conservative government to house asylum seekers was decommissioned in November

The Independent UK

Two fresh charges against sailor convicted of murdering wife in 1999

The remains of Debbie Griggs were found buried in a back garden in Dorset more than 20 years after she died.

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Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient DNA analysis and testing, a team led by Dr Lara Cassidy and Professor Daniel Bradley from Trinity College Dublin successfully demonstrated that iron age people who were buried in Dorset from 100BC…

Evening Standard

Family demand answers over woman’s ‘brutal’ killing at Travelodge

Spanish national Marta Elena Vento, 27, was working at a Travelodge in Bournemouth, Dorset, when she was killed on December 9 2020.

The Independent UK

Archaeologists shocked to discover first women-centric community in Europe

Scientists analysed DNA from a set of burial grounds in Dorset

The Independent UK

The Independent announces partnership with Camp Bestival

Family-friendly event takes place on the sweeping Jurassic Coast in Dorset

Evening Standard

The ultimate writers' retreat? Dorset house used by Tennyson and Hardy on sale for £2.75m

This historical home with a thatched roof is a literary fans’ dream

The Independent UK

Inquests open into deaths of elderly couple found in their Dorset home

Michael Newton died of hanging while a cause of death for his wife, Heather, has not been confirmed, the inquest heard.

Evening Standard

Forensic officers examine boat of elderly couple as police probe their deaths

The bodies of the couple, aged in their 70s, were found at their home in Poole, Dorset, on December 31.

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