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The Bridgwater Tidal Barrier Scheme has received national recognition at the Flood & Coast Excellence Awards 2026, with design partner AtkinsRéalis winning the Digital Excellence category for its innovative work during the scheme’s detailed design phase.
More than 200 people attended the Annual Service of Remembrance at Bristol Memorial Woodlands with representatives from the armed services, emergency services, schools and veteran organisations laying wreaths.
The management of risk is at the top of the agenda for public bodies such as utility companies.
Thousands of trees and hedgerows planted on a former field in Blandford are already taking root, creating new habitats and supporting wildlife as work continues to construct a modern waste management facility for North Dorset.
Two informative booklets have been developed in partnership with North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT), Gentle Dusk and Bristol Memorial Woodland Trust to support individuals and families navigating end-of-life decisions and bereavement by offering clear, compassionate guidance at some of life’s most challenging moments.
In hospice care, experiences of time often shift. For patients and families facing dying and loss, time can feel slowed, suspended or suddenly accelerated. Seasonal change can therefore take on heightened meaning, acting as a marker of transition, uncertainty, and, for some, survival.
Communities across Dorset have come together for this year’s Great Dorset Beach Clean, delivering the most successful event to date. A total of 21 beach cleans took place across the county, demonstrating growing public support for protecting Dorset’s coastline.
Residents are being invited to have their say on whether open fires should be banned on Falmouth’s beaches.
A new report capturing the ideas and lived experience of local people on how Dorset can prepare for a changing climate has been published.
Durlston Country Park’s Fine Foundation Gallery presents ‘Wild Nature’, an exhibition by artist Lisa Parkyn celebrating the natural world through vibrant colour, expressive mark-making, and layered mixed media. The exhibition is now open and will run until Wednesday 8th April, 10.30am – 4.30pm and is free to enter.
Northern Ireland solar energy specialist Premier Electrical Group has today announced a significant milestone in its ambitious growth plans with the completion of a deal to acquire Natural Generation, a solar energy solutions provider in Cornwall, England.
Dorset residents and visitors are invited to roll up their sleeves and make a real difference this Easter as the Great Dorset Beach Clean returns from 1 – 12 April 2026.
Volunteers gathered at Wistman’s Wood National Nature Reserve last week to help plant a further 800 trees, as part of efforts to extend one of the South West’s last remaining fragments of temperate rainforest. This follows the planting of 450 saplings at the site in March 2025.
A new multi-million pound project will see thousands of on-street electric vehicle chargepoints installed right across Dorset.
Elderly residents at a dementia care home in Yeovil have been doing their bit for the environment by employing for their craft activities items which would otherwise have been recycled.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Oatly AB v Dairy UK marks “a decisive moment in UK food-labelling law” that will bolster the dairy industry, according to a leading lawyer.
A rescued Loggerhead Turtle was today flown into the safe hands of experts at SEA LIFE after being recovered from a beach in Jersey.
Ripple Effects takes place at Exeter’s Barnfield Theatre on Tuesday 10 February and is produced by artist and senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, Ellen Wiles, in partnership with the Northcott Theatre.
Water shortages could threaten new housing developments across the UK in the coming years unless urgent action is taken, according to a leading lawyer.
Family marks centenary by adopting a redwood that has stood for more than a century itself.
