Portland is one of those places on the edge, an extremity of England dangling from the Dorset coast by the fine thread of Chesil beach. I notice a sign in a neighbour's window: "Keep Portland weird." ...

A century ago this year, the birth control pioneer Marie Stopes bought a decommissioned lighthouse on the Isle of Portland in Dorset. The author of the first modern sex manual Married Love lived ...

TRIBUTES were paid to a hero sailor at a ceremony to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the sinking of a Royal Navy ship in Portland Harbour.

Dorset Council is receiving £1.7m over the planned 18-month duration of the vessel's stay in the port - based on £3,500 per bed space, with a further £377,000 available to fund support and ...

The Bibby Stockholm is due to arrive soon in Portland, Dorset, where it will house 500 male asylum seekers.

A planning inspector is considering an appeal by Portland Powerfuel against Dorset Council's decision to refuse the £150m facility at Portland Port.

The ship was at the site for eight years, housing 400 prisoners to ease overcrowding at HMP Portland. Dorset Council is receiving £1.7m over the planned 18 month scheme - based on £3,500 per bed ...

Temperatures in Dorset will be heating up across the weekend as the Met Office says another heatwave is on the way ...

Earlier this year, protestors gathered in Brewery Square, Dorchester to share their ‘anger’ and ‘disgust’ at the government - calling for a stop to the cuts in disability benefits while also ...

Rebekah Cresswell-Jeal, 20, of Portland, Dorset, waived her right to anonymity to talk about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Andrew Moisan. Dorset Police praised her "bravery" in reliving the ...

Sightings of the bird on Portland have been posted on birdguides.com and on social media. Back in 2014 a hoopoe was spotted at a Dorset burial ground. It was seen at the Higher Ground Meadow ...

I, for one, never heard of Portland, England before this trip. Today we docked there. It is located on the south coast of Great Britain towards the middle. I was thinking of investing in a bus ...