News

Come on a voyage of discovery through Dorset's countryside to find some of the county's most beautiful churches - and find out why they could be under threat. Three Dorset photographers - John ...
St Martin's Church in Wareham is a 1,000 years old and famous for housing a priceless effigy of Lawrence of Arabia. BBC Dorset's Jo Babbage went along to discover more about the church's ...
Inside Christ Church, in Melplash, south-west Dorset, the fast-paced sport of badminton has been played for the last 50 years. The court came about in the 1970s, when the large Church of England ...
Dorset Chamber Choir has announced the details of its upcoming summer concert. The Choir has revealed its Shillingstone Summer Serenade concert will be held at the Holy Rood Church in Shillingstone, ...
The roof at St Nicholas of Myra Church will undergo ‘urgent repairs’ to make it secure and watertight again. At present, the stone roof tiles are in poor condition and are held in place with ...
A CHURCH in Dorset has said that it will consider removing an “unacceptable” plaque that commemorates an 18th-century slave-owner.The monument on the north wall of St Peter’s, Dorchester, pays tribute ...
A Dorset church has turned to a flock of sheep to help fight their out of control graveyard weeds – and save money to help repair the religious building.
A “repugnant” memorial to a slave owner which praises him for quelling a rebellion has been removed from a Dorset church to a museum in the first relocation of its kind.. The plaque in St ...