Volunteers at a heritage museum have celebrated an "exceptional" year with a 50 per cent increase in visitors. The Purbeck Mining Museum, near Norden, has experienced this surge in numbers thanks to ...

A dog has been rescued by coastguard teams after falling 120ft (37m) off the edge of a cliff onto a rocky beach. Swanage ...

Heritage rail enthusiasts braved windy weather on New Year's Day to mark the start of a landmark anniversary year for ...

A man who drove diesel trains to Swanage in the dying years of the Purbeck branch line has had one more drive on a 53rd anniversary.

New Year’s Day will see dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers take part in a national ‘whistle off’ at the start of Railway 200 ...

Holdalls containing hundreds of kilos of powder were first discovered in the sea off the St Aldhelm's point and Durdle Door areas in Purbeck. A further quantity washed up on a beach on the Isle of ...

Our lepidosaur collection includes contains important type material of Early Cretaceous lizards from the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, UK, and Late Cretaceous mosasaurs from Europe, North America and New ...