A fossil discovered in Dorset has been identified as a “sword dragon” marine reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs.

(Editor's note: This column will be an occasional column on the history of East Dorset. If others would like to submit columns on their towns, contact editor Darren Marcy at ...

THERE'S a chance to fit in some history during your lunch break with a free informative session at the Dorset History Centre (DHC). On the last Wednesday of each month, at 12.30pm, staff at the DHC in ...

A near-complete skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as a new ... said study co-author Dr Erin Maxwell from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart. "The skull appears ...

“I went by the Druid stone / That broods in the garden white and lone,” begins the poem “The Shadow on the Stone” by renowned British author Thomas Hardy (published 1917). The author of classics like ...

A solar-powered listening post where visitors can hear radio extracts about childhood during World War Two is set to be unveiled. Children from four Dorset schools have written and recorded an ...

The green and cream livery, and later red, of Hants & Dorset Motor Services was a familiar sight on the roads of the south coast for more than six decades. From its humble beginnings as a small ...