Authorities expand scheme that allows parents to check if someone with access to their children is a sex offender after successful pilot

Note added 10.45am Friday, February 5: Dorset Police reiterate their belief that firearms were not involved. They are still hunting for two or perhaps three men. The account in today’s Dorset Echo of what happened at Court Farm in Buckland Newton seems the most  reliable published so far. An interview with farmer Martin Perrett backtracks on stories published in [...]

WHEN thieves struck at Elwell Farm on Friday night and stole four saddles and a bridle, children from across Bridport were nearly deprived of their weekend riding lessons. But riding instructor Veronica Leatherdale and her pupils were too resourceful to be beaten by such meanness. They all had their lessons – riding bareback without saddles. [...]