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A flood alert has been issued for parts of Dorset tonight due to the heavy rain

A flood alert has been issued by the Environment Agency for rivers across west Dorset

Coastguards are called out to two people stuck in mud, one at a beach and another near a river.

A week-long clean on a west Dorset beach helped remove over 1.2million tiny plastic beads from the beach and the banks of the River Char.

Two fossil hunters on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset had to be rescued after getting stuck in deep mud days after a huge cliff collapse.

Specialist teams were called out to nearby Charmouth Bay, Dorset, at around 1.45pm on Saturday after receiving reports that someone was trapped in mud.

Coastguards were forced to rescue fossil hunters who got stuck in sinking mud on the Jurassic Coast where walkers took to the beach despite a recent huge collapse.

Coastguard teams responded to two incidents of people being stuck

A week-long clean on a west Dorset beach helped remove over 1.2million tiny plastic beads from the beach and the banks of the River Char.

A week-long effort will see nurdles and other microplastics which litter the coast at Charmouth and mouth of the River Char get hoovered up by…