THREE men have been arrested as part of a cross-border operation to retrieve stolen machinery.

The farmer called the fire service which responded by sending a fire engine and a water bowser from Danes Castle and a second fire engine from North Tawton at 4.21pm.

Animal rescue specialists and firefighters from Sturminster Newton, Poole and Blandford were called to Fiddleford Mill near Sturminster Newton yesterday morning (Tuesday, August 2) at 8.45am.

Four men have been sentenced after they shot at hares from a moving car in North Dorset fields.

About five hectares of a cornfield and around 50 hay bales caught fire in a village on the outskirts of Bournemouth this afternoon (Thursday).

A milking shed on a farm near Weymouth caught fire at lunchtime yesterday.

TWO people have been arrested after a Land Rover was stolen from a property in Alderholt.

A burnt-out car found in an area of Hampshire could be the same seen at the scene where 14 lambs and sheep were killed on a Dorset farm. A vehicle entered a field in the Tollard Royal area between 7pm on Sunday, July 17 and 6.15am on Monday, July 18.

A STUMP grinder and trailer which was stolen in Dorset has been found by officers from Ringwood Police.

Simon John Pryor-Lettley, aged 27 and of Alder Drive, Alderholt, denied a single charge of using a handheld mobile telephone.

A COUNCILLOR is urging people to take extra care after flames ripped through a park in Lymington.

Fuel and machinery have seen stolen from a set of farm buildings in Blackvale Vale.

A prominent Dorset huntsman has won his appeal against a conviction for encouraging illegal fox hunting in an online talk.

NEARLY half a million pounds’ worth of machinery which was stolen has been recovered by Dorset Police, resulting in three arrests.

The boy, from Verwood, was arrested, interviewed and released under investigation by Dorset Police Rural Crime.