Here are some more Dorset places you can visit on a sunny day before the crowds arrive and the tourist season proper starts ...

Bomb experts rushed to Charmouth beach after reports of a bomb threat - but a mysterious item found on the shore was not all ...

A public art trail featuring individually designed elephant sculptures painted by different artists has been unveiled in Dorset ... display around Bridport, West Bay and Lyme Regis for eight ...

Lyme Regis and West Bay. The designs are yet to be unveiled but it has been revealed that Radio Solent's Dorset Breakfast host, Steve Harris, appears on an elephant by cartoonist Lyndon Wall.