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A Cheltenham couple whose very first round of IVF produced just one embryo suitable for implantation are thanking their lucky stars they have the baby they hoped for anyway.
An encounter with a Siberian Eagle Owl who was making a special visit to St Benedict’s Nursing Home in Glastonbury has brought about an unexpected change of heart from one of the residents who live there.
Two Government announcements have provided a welcome boost to the growing innovation and defence ecosystem in Dorset.
Spring lambs were among the strokable visitors putting smiles on the faces of residents at a Wellington dementia care home when a local petting farm came to visit recently.
The University of Exeter and the Eden Project have extended their long-standing partnership with a new strategic agreement focused on tackling the planetary emergency.
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.
A Bristol fertility clinic, BCRM, proved a magnet for same-sex couple Emma and Laura Poulliquen, even though their home is in Jersey.
From being a presenter on CBBC to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro as an expedition doctor, Dr Daniel Olaiya has had a varied career since graduating in Medicine from the University of Exeter.
Global fertility leaders have launched a new campaign highlighting the need for urgent action to support employees’ fertility well-being and future generations.
An international collaboration led by the University of Exeter has been awarded £4.5 million to help improve understanding of fungal diseases that kill 2.5 million people each year.
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.
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.
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery will host a landmark celebration of World Heritage Day, marking not only this important global observance but also the 25th anniversary of the Jurassic Coast being inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2001.
Amid falling global fertility rates, school sex education should be expanded to cover both contraception and ways to safeguard reproductive health, it is claimed.
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 pathway for patients receiving fertility treatment has been launched at Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM), providing an innovative single point of access to make their experience as seamless as possible.
A rescued Loggerhead Turtle was today flown into the safe hands of experts at SEA LIFE after being recovered from a beach in Jersey.
Thanks to the Winter in Dorset programme, hundreds of children and families enjoyed fun, enriching activities and healthy meals throughout the winter holidays.
Dorset residents now have a new way to tune into life on the land, as a brand-new podcast launches exploring how our county’s farmers, communities and organisations are working together to restore nature and produce local food.
