IT'S been a beautiful couple of days in Dorset with the sun shining and promises of a warm weekend weather-wise.

We've been sent some beautiful pictures of sunrises, sunsets and sunny scenes we wanted to share with you.

Here's a few of our favourites.

You can also check out our weather forecast for the weekend below

This was sent to us by Katherine Barnes of sunrise at Sandbanks on Friday morning

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And Jim Martin took this at Boscombe Pier

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We love this picture by Sam Lowe of some playful dogs at Lake Pier in Hamworthy

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This picture of a surfer at Boscombe beach was sent by Nadia Behbahani

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And this beauty is by Andy Lyons, of the view from Swanage looking towards Corfe Castle

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Simon Helliwell sent this picture from a boat, coming back into Christchurch Harbour

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This was uploaded to our Flickr group by Dawn Verdaguer from Sandbanks looking towards Old Harry Rocks. Click here for more Flickr photos

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Have a look at more of our recent weather pictures in our gallery here

You can also send your pictures to us digital@bournemouthecho.co.uk or tweet us @bournemouthecho