SIX half-tonne poetry stones have been hoisted into place atop cliffs lining the Purbeck coast. The stones, laid along a 600 metre stretch of pathway above Chapman’s Pool, near Worth Matravers, were ...

This beautiful, tucked-away corner of Dorset (not an island at all, but a headland) boasts nature reserves and stunning views galore. Gareth Huw Davies visits tea rooms, eccentric pubs, a restored ...

18:41, Sun, Feb 25, 2018 Updated: 18:47, Sun, Feb 25, 2018 On the Isle of Purbeck, Knoll House’s large family rooms, child-friendly gardens and structured dining times make it ideal for young families ...

A narrow strip of land has been acquired by the National Trust, completing its ownership of a stretch of the Dorset coast. The trust said the 26.3 ha (65 acres) strip was the "last piece of the jigsaw ...

Helicopter footage shows the extensive searches being carried out for missing teenager Gaia Pope. Miss Pope, 19, went missing from Swanage on 7 November. On Thursday, a member of the public found ...

You are in: Dorset > Nature > Dorset's Jurassic Coast > Dorset's Jurassic Coast - 360° Views > St. Aldhelm's Head St. Aldhelm's Head (also called St Alban's Head) is the site of one of the oldest ...

The search for two missing fishermen off the Dorset coast has been called off after rescue teams discovered their stricken vessel and its liferaft on the sea bed. Coastguards pulled David McFarlane’s ...

You may not realise it, but it’s been a good year for nudibranch. The curled octopus, the undulate ray and the short-snouted seahorse have also done well. The strangely-named creatures are among a ...

The Jurassic–Cretaceous (J/K) transition is an interval of important faunal turnover in Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, occasionally hypothesized to represent a poorly understood mass extinction ...