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Lightning off Portland

8.42am Saturday 24th July 2021

Drone video 10 minutes before the lightning storm hit Portland, by Martin Harvey/Harvey M Photography

Elsa at Staffie and Stray's rehoming event

CCTV of van theft in Alderholt

Lightning over Dorset

Cyclist's bad experience on Bournemouth and Poole roads

Talia Pope's calls to Dorset Police to get details on niece Gaia's scheduled meeting with an officer

Talia Pope calling Dorset Police to say her niece Gaia had run off and later reporting her missing

Gaia Pope's telephone call to police days before she went missing

Operation Heathland has been launched to ensure the safety of Dorset’s heaths and forests.

A man has been fined for filming two cockerel fights

A man has been fined for not intervening when his black lurcher dog was attacking a fox

Slades farm dirt bikes

Sandbanks fire

Maypole returns to Burton

Crash on Portland

Car fire on A31

Bottlenose dolphins

Gaia Pope pen portrait video

Dolphins off Bournemouth beach

Canford Heath fire captured on CCTV

Aftermath of huge heath fire at Canford Heath

Canford Heath fire drone video

Canford Heath fire video

Canford Heath fire

Police release shocking video of crash which injured motorcyclist

Police raid as part of Operation Viper

Christmas tree lights

'Meteorite' spotted in Avalanche Road on Portland, at around 9.40pm last night (April 16)

Why you shouldn't feed chocolate to dogs

Large cliff fall in west Dorset

Bournemouth Foodbank's new community café design

Reduce your energy bills

Save money on your weekly shop

Princess Anne visits New Milton

Truck full of donations arrives at Ukrainian border

Julia’s House new office in Wimborne - Animation

Residents travel to Ukraine with lorry-load of donations from Dorset

Hoburne Naish bomb

Yellow Buses fire

RNLI inshore lifeboat called to missing person

Police week of action against drug crime across the south west

Moped driver runs red light on Christchurch road

Why Just Stop Oil supporter tied himself to goal during Everton vs Newcastle United football game

Car catches fire at garage in Weymouth

Charlie Grim is one of the UK's largest collectors of spiders

Car fire on the A354 near Dorchester (Haydn Banham)

Police cordon at Horseshoe Common in Bournemouth

Police investigation following fatal stabbing in Bournemouth town centre

Owen Anthony Miller threatened an enforcement officer with a knife

Human chain for Ukraine

Work on Rigler Road complete

Julia thanks Prince of Wales School in Dorchester

Crash on Weston Road

BrewDog in BH2

Moment tree falls on man during Storm Eunice

UHD Trial

Person spotted on Chesil beach by the shoreline during Storm Eunice

Poole lifeboat launches in Storm Eunice

Shore Road in Poole flooded during Storm Eunice

Shore Road

Operation Decker

Tom Daley cycles through Alderholt

Judge said that it was a miracle nobody was killed when a car driven dangerously for 12 miles through the Cotswolds by a Dorset man ended up on its roof after narrowly avoiding a collision with a teenage learner driver.

Scalextric track

Farmer shares anger following another livestock attack

Town Crier competition

Ferry Bridge Pub demolition in Weymouth

Cliff fall at Burton Bradstock

Alternative plans for the Beach House Cafe site at Mudeford Sandbank

Whitelegg Way cycle lane video

Westbourne dog Paddington reunited with owner

Thirteen ambulances at Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Police dashcam of pursuit of Joseph Nabil

Happiest stories of 2021

Rescue dogs in Highcliffe

Tesla cameras catch woman keying vehicle in Poole car park

Car fire in Alington Road, Charminster

Murmuration of starlings at Radipole Lake in Weymouth (Laura Pringle)

Thomas Schreiber guilty of murder and attempted murder

Large fire in Poole Road

Flat fire in Poole Road, Bournemouth

Westbourne fire

Westbourne fire

Westbourne building fire

Three articulated trailers on fire in Ling Road, Poole. Video by UK Explorer

Residents forced to leave homes amid 'traumatising' blaze in Grove Road, Portland

William Thorne, 24, entered Broadwey Village Stores in Dorchester Road, Weymouth armed with a kitchen knife in a bid to rob the store at around 1pm on Saturday, July 24.

Prince Charles visits Poundbury - video by Chantelle Lewis

Body-worn camera footage of Thomas Schreiber being arrested

Police helicopter footage of officer pursuing Thomas Schreiber

Shock as pair allegedly videoed spray painting graffiti on rocks at Durdle Door

Die Hard original trailer

Footage showing the huge heath fire in Studland by @MDunsterJourno

Shed fire in Bournemouth

Snow falls in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Video by @Lucie_Fur99

Wimborne house fire

Video shows rescue from River Axe. Credit: HM Coastguard

Somerford 'arson'

Remembrance Day 2021

SoboFish plans

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