Dorchester prison has country’s top reoffending rate for male prisoners – nearly 75%
74.7% of ex-inmates at Dorchester prison are convicted again within a year
Phantom crapper strikes around Dorset village. Who is the ‘turd man’? (UPDATED – AGAIN)
VILLAGERS in West Milton near Bridport are stepping carefully after a spate of mystery defecations.
Whatever happened to stolen Bridport shed?
DOWN HERE in deepest Dorset a new type of crime has baffled police and criminologists – shed rustling.
Sarah’s law roll-out begins after test run ‘saves 60 from abuse’
Authorities expand scheme that allows parents to check if someone with access to their children is a sex offender after successful pilot
Police in manhunt across West Dorset countryside
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 [...]
Thieves steal saddles but children ride on
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. [...]