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Dorchester

A view of Dorchester High Street, with a grey brick church and church tower, a traffic light to the left and shops along a street to the right. There are cars driving along the road.

Pedestrian signals upgrade work planned for town

Signals in High East Street junction in Dorchester "reached end of their maintainable life".

A computer-generated image shows how the new modern-looking buildings would look against the existing scene of the shopping street. Next door is an ornate Victorian building with a green Poundland shop front at ground level. The new buildings have grey stone lower floors with large windows. The upper floors are brick with grey stone window surrounds.

Premier Inn approved for town centre M&S site

Whitbread bought the Dorchester town centre site, which was previously a Marks and Spencer store.

The back of an unidentifiable police officer, wearing a high-visibility jacket saying 'police' on the back.

Two 14-year-old boys arrested over rape of girl, 12

Two boys from Weymouth were arrested following the incident near a school in Dorchester.

Tree lined road with island also with a line of trees down the centre. A brown sign showing a roundabout stands on the left and a Town Centre sign on the central island.

Cyclist dies in hospital after collision with car

Police want to hear from anyone who witnessed the crash, or has relevant dashcam footage.

NHS staff protest against subsidiary jobs transfer

Estates and facilities staff at three NHS trusts protest against being transferred to a subsidiary.

Max Gate is a large stately dark brown brick manor house, with a grey tiled roof. It is surrounded by greenery, with trees, hedging and grass framing the property and a safety pathway has been installed to lead people to two different entrances. The pathway is lined with yellow and black paint.

Green light given for 100 homes on Duchy-owned land

35 percent of the development will be affordable homes but built near to a National Trust property.

A bent gold torc photographed from three angles against a white background.

Museum fundraises for 3,000-year-old gold hoard

Dorset Museum is raising £9,000 to acquire the 3,000-year-old Crichel Hoard of gold ornaments.

A Google Street View of Dorchester Learning Centre, a single-storey yellow brick building. In the distance is a historic looking house.

SEN 'inclusion hub' approved for learning centre

The hub will be based at the Monkton Park site on the southern edge of Dorchester.

A large bullet-shaped piece of rusty metal with a ridge around its wide end

Tip shut after ordnance found at scrapyard

Dorchester's tip and sewage works were evacuated after a suspected WW2 tank round was discovered.