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A Household Cavalry soldier who plotted to sexually abuse two young children has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being convicted of attempting to arrange child sex offences.

Graham Jarvis, 38, was living at military barracks in Hyde Park when he began communicating online with a woman he believed was the mother of two young girls. In reality, he was commu...

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There should be no euphemisms for what happened in Portsmouth. A masked mob gathered outside a hotel because its occupants were believed to be foreign. They were wrong. The people inside were not asylum seekers. They were Pakistani teenagers who had come to Britain to play cricket.

That mistake is not merely “unfortunate”. It exposes something deeply poisonous about...

A serving Dorset Police officer who lied to his supervisor about taking time off for a dentist appointment and emailed sensitive information to his personal email has been determined to have committed gross misconduct.

A misconduct hearing was held at Dorset Police headquarters in Winfrith on Tuesday 8 September 2026, chaired by Assistant Chief Cons...

From choir rehearsal to wedding bells: Dorset couple find perfect harmony through choir for those living with and beyond cancer

Adrian joined Jacky at a Rising Voices choir rehearsal early in their relationship,
and seven years later, the same choir sang at their countryside wedding.

Dorset couple Jacky and Adrian Bennett fou...