It has been a much debated topic for years - where does Weymouth end and Portland begin -the answer can be found in the tradition of an ...

More than £3.8m of government funding has been secured to open a new SEND school on Portland following years of campaigning ...

A new waste incinerator in Portland, Dorset has been given the go-ahead by the government. Dorset Council had refused the plan, voicing concerns over its visual impact, pollution and lorries.

Permission for the incinerator was rejected by Dorset Council in 2023 but the decision was overturned by the government in ...

Morwind says represents a transformational opportunity for Portland, Weymouth, and South Dorset. Channel Gateway would create over 1,000 direct jobs at the facility and over 5,000 positions in the ...

Asylum seekers who will be housed on a migrant barge in a south coast harbour will be 'free to come and go as they want', the Home Office has confirmed. A free bus service will be laid on daily to ...

A planning application has been submitted to the unitary authority of Dorset council for an energy from waste facility at Portland. An impression of the proposed EfW plant at Portland, Dorset Dorset ...

You are in: Dorset > Places > Countdown to 2012 in Dorset > Weymouth & Portland's Olympic venue Weymouth & Portland Sailing Academy By James Tiller The National Sailing Academy at Weymouth & Portland ...

A huge floating ship set to house hundreds of male asylum seekers is finally on the move - a month late. The Bibby Stockholm migrant barge set sail from Falmouth in Cornwall heading for its final ...

The landscape is full of natural and artistic surprises: we are in Tout Quarry on the "Island" of Portland, Dorset, the home of Portland stone. An attractive creamy-white, slow to weather and ...

A community group has released a list of people who have gone above and beyond to make their island a better place in 2023. Advent Angels is run by Island Community Action (ICA) and invites residents ...

Portland stone is exported the world over, and, as islanders protest against plans to quarry a new area of protected coastal land there, BBC Dorset looks at how Portland stone goes from the ground to ...