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A lorry load of waste has burst into flames after batteries were accidentally crushed in the vehicle's compactor. A Dorset Council bin collection crew saw smoke coming from the back of the truck ...
From 1860 to 1966, Blandford Forum was a stop on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, which ran from Bath to Bournemouth, though until the bridge was built over the river Stour, opening in 1863, [48] the Dorset Central section of the line terminated at the hamlet of Blandford St. Mary. [49] Blandford Forum railway station, along with the ...
Dorset (/ ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t / DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire / ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t. ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / DOR-sit-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England.It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south-east, the English Channel to the south, and Devon to the west.
The council was created on 1 April 2019, when Dorset County Council and five of its six district councils merged to form a unitary authority. A "shadow authority" was created in 2018 to oversee the transition, comprising all the existing district and county councillors representing the area of the new authority. [1]
Dorset Museum is on High West Street in Dorchester, Dorset. Built from Portland stone in approximately 1881, it was designed by architects G. R. Crickmay and Son from Weymouth. The building is two storeys high with a slate roof, it has two stringcourses on the gently sloped walls , with hood moulds over the windows and a crenellated parapet .
Poundbury has two tiers of local government: the Dorchester civil parish and above that the Dorset unitary authority. The Dorchester Poundbury ward elects one member to Dorset Council, [37] and four of the 20 members of Dorchester's town council. [38] For elections to the House of Commons, Poundbury is part of the West Dorset constituency.
The 2025 United Kingdom local elections will be held on 1 May 2025. [2] All seats on 14 county councils in England and eight unitary authorities in England will be up for election. They are expected to be the first local elections following the 2024 general election .
1731 – Blandford Forum, Dorset, England, a large majority of the town was destroyed on 4 June. The aftermath of this fire had an Act of Parliament passed stating that rebuilding work must be in brick and tile. 1731 – Tiverton fire, Devon, England, burned nearly 300 houses.