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 the [...]

POLICE in Bridport are appealing for witnesses and information after an arson attack to a vehicle between Gore Cross and Melplash.
A black Mitsubishi L200 pick-up truck was parked in a lay-by near Bingham’s Farm on the A3066 – the Bridport to Beaminster road – when it was set alight between 9.30pm and 10pm on Saturday, 31 [...]

FROM PC Nigel Case’s column in the November edition of Eggardon & Colmer’s View. Note: Yellow Lane is one of the old Dorset hollow-ways, a drover’s track through steep banks of sandstone, strewn in the autumn with leaves, gravel and mud.
“Watch the roads: last year I went to two crashes in Yellow Lane, Loders, caused in part by drivers [...]

THE CRIME Mapper is meant to give you the chance to see how much crime there’s been where you live.
Move over a map and zoom in and out, and it will tell you the total number of crimes per month per area, and how that number compares with the same period last year. You can [...]

POLICE in Bridport are appealing for witnesses and information after a number of arson attacks to vehicles in the town centre. A total of five cars were damaged at around 9.30pm on Sunday, 18 October 2009.
Damaged vehicles included a green Land Rover and a blue Vauxhall Astra parked along Tamar Mews, a black Vauxhall Zafira [...]