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External view of M&S in St Mary's Street with a mobility scooter parked outside

M&S store evacuated after carbon dioxide leak

Firefighters were called to deal with a gas incident at a town-centre store in Weymouth.

Shane Flowers came 7th in the World's Strongest Man contest in California. Here he is at the contest deadlifting a bar with a large amount of weight on. crowds watch on.

From ruptured bicep to World's Strongest Man

Shane Flowers says he is "proud" after a top 10 finish at the World's Strongest Man 2025.

The curved stone pier at Lyme Regis.

Calls to speed up repairs to iconic breakwater

A new hole has been found at the base of the seaward wall of the Cobb, which needs urgent repairs.

Friary House is a detached, three-storey, brick building behind a low wooden fence.

'Unsafe' care home placed in special measures

A care home that is praised by residents and health workers is rated "inadequate" by inspectors.

Exterior or School Street Plaza - a two-storey brick building in a row of terraced houses. The frontage takes up the space of about three or four terraced houses. There are double doors in the centre and two units either side with their own entrances on to the street. The whole building is abandoned with posters and newspaper stuck over the windows.

Disused indoor market could make way for hotel

The empty shopping arcade in Weymouth could be demolished to make way for a 70-room budget hotel.

A close-up of a spiny seahorse on a sandy seabed amongst the seagrass. Its tail is wrapped around a blade of grass. It is mostly brown and green in colour and has lots of spines over the top of its head and the top of its back.

Breeding seahorses delay harbour wall repairs

The protected seahorses breed and raise their young in seagrass near Weymouth's peninsula.

Seven Hindu marble statues wearing gold, green and pink robes under a white dome.

Hindu statues could be submerged on Jurassic Coast

If approved, the event would take place in September along with a Hindu ceremony.

A man wearing a white hat, a light green t-shirt and blue cargo shorts, standing on a beach, smiling and giving a double thumbs up. He's standing in a pair of giant crocs that have been carved out of the sand.

Sand art 'puts a little joy into the world'

The giant pair of crocs on Weymouth Beach are sand artist Mark Lewis' latest creation.

A woman smiles into the camera close up. She has long dark blonde hair under a light blue woolly hat. She is wearing headphones on top of the hat. Behind her are trees, a telegraph pole and blue sky.

'I said I'll stay three months - I'm still here'

The BBC has been finding out what people love about Dorset, as the county marks a special day.