Last living resident of village that ‘died for England’ returns – at the age of 99
THE last person to have been born and raised in a now-deserted Purbeck village has made a final visit…
‘Is Swanage dull?’ The question that’s been asked for 100 years!
HAVE you ever wondered what Swanage was like 100 years ago? We’ve examined a copy of the Swanage Times &…
Open weekend at Dorset’s family history research centre
PEOPLE tracing their family history can get some help and advice at a special open day event next month. On…
Special event in Dorchester to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
HOLOCAUST Memorial Day (HMD) will be marked with a special event in Dorchester next week (January 26). On January 27,…
BBC pliosaur Philip Jacobs: The man behind the “Sea Monster”
THE man whose find featured in Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster talks about his journey with fossils,…
Dorset History Centre to close for two weeks
THE Dorset history Centre is closing for two weeks while “essential” work is carried out. Dorset Council said the venue,…
Merry Christmas! But have you been singing carols all wrong?
IT’S Christmas Day – and we’ve all spent recent weeks belting out our favourite carols… But did you know, you…
Sir David Attenborough BBC show features “momentous” pliosaur discovery in Dorset
SECRETS of the deep from 150 million years ago are being revealed on the Dorset coast as part of…
£20,000 for historic village church in danger of collapse
A DORSET church which closed as the roof could fall in, is set to re-open after being handed £20,000…
Jogger finds dinosaur footprint hidden for 100 million years
A DINOSAUR footprint – hidden for between 110 and 140 million years – has been found after a ranger…