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A new section of footpath will open later on the site of the former Somerset and Dorset railway line. The three-mile (5km) stretch of the North Dorset Trailway between Blandford Forum and Stourpaine opens almost 50 years after the railway line ...

The Duke of Kent has taken the salute from former members of the historic Devonshire and Dorset regiment. World War II veterans were among those who marched through Exeter to rededicate a chapel to both counties at the city's cathedral. The regiment ...

A Dorset island once off limits to the public and left to decay is celebrating 50 years as a nature conservation area which has become a haven for red squirrels. Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour famously hosted Lord Baden Powell's inaugural Scout ...

A 69-year-old man has died in a head-on crash in Dorset. Two cars, a Honda Jazz and MG F convertible, collided on Milton Road, west of Milborne St Andrew, at about 23:40 BST on Wednesday. The 66-year-old passenger in the Honda and the 49-year-old ...

Little Hawk Photography / Facebook Bobby Tufts, the 4-year-old honorary mayor of Dorset, Minn., was given an oak plaque symbolizing the key to the city. Little Hawk Photography / Facebo A Bobby Tufts campaign poster. In his official capacity as ...

Mayors of most cities are adults; however, according to several sources on May 16, a 4-year-old is the mayor of Dorset, Minnesota. How did a 4-year-old become mayor of a city? View slideshow: 4-year-old become mayor of a Minnesota town Actually, ...

A male swan at Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset has "adopted" the eggs of a female whose mate had died. Swanherds said it was "highly unusual" for a cob not to to kill young that are not his own. The first of hundreds of cygnets have begun hatching ...

Hundreds of fluffy cygnets are beginning to hatch at Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset after the first baby swan was born earlier today. The swannery is the only place in the world where visitors can walk through a colony of mute swans, see cygnets ...

Hundreds of locals visit the Dorset park that is used by the Army for firing practice. reports that a woman took a picture of the two men on her cell phone and notified authorities. I thought they were carrying rugs, but as they walked past, I saw ...