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Bill Pipe's behaviour towards a female senior council officer is described as "offensive" by a panel.

A councillor who mimicked a senior council officer’s accent for years has been told to apologise to her and to have diversity training.

AN extra storey and extensions have been agreed to add six flats to a building in Library Road, Ferndown.

DORSET is now one of the leading authorities in the country for the development of Family Hubs – offering one-stop services for families.

PRIME Minister Liz Truss will be getting a letter warning of the perilous state of social care in Dorset.

PRIME Minister Liz Truss will be getting a letter warning of the perilous state of social care in Dorset.

DORSET is said to be ‘ahead of the curve’ with children’s social care reform and in a good position for the future.

A SPEED limit reduction is being proposed for two main roads in Dorset to enhance the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.

A DEVELOPERS attempts to remove a condition requiring flats on the site of a former police station to be occupied on an affordable housing basis…

COULD local housing associations help solve Dorset’s shortage of foster families? Councillors have been told that if more, suitable homes, were made available, keeping and recruiting foster families might improve. Dorset councillor Andrew Kerby says that 90 per cent of potential foster families he talks to claim the only thing holding them back is the lack of space – and yet the council has the ability to change the situation. The council’s corporate parenting panel has also been ...