The privately-owned collection from a deceased estate in Horsham, West Sussex, will be sold at auction by Charterhouse Auctioneers, in Sherborne, Dorset, later this month. The collection ...

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly.

World Radio Day on February 13, 2025, is dedicated to “Radio and Climate Change” to support radio stations in their journalistic coverage of this issue. Despite the recent scarcity of ...

A diary entry on his 28th birthday, Feb. 22, 1760, reveals a busy day installing a fence around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon, his home in Virginia. As Alexis Coe, a presidential historian and ...

World Braille Day, celebrated since 2019, is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and ...

Today will see patchy cloud and bright interludes throughout the day. Remaining largely dry, settled and chilly. Tonight Tonight, thicker cloud will gradually move in from the west. It will remain ...

WHEN shades of red and gold abound in town, one knows that Chinese New Year is around the corner. Visit most shopping centres or hotels and you are bound to find dazzling decorations meant to ...

Now with the seemingly never ending month of January well and truly over, Valentines Day is hot on our heels and we want to hear all of your most romantic tales to tell us here at the Dorset Echo.

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People are being urged to host celebrations for the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day in what might be “our last chance to thank surviving veterans”. May 8 marks the date in 1945 ...