Weather disruption
Winter weather is causing disruption to services in some parts of the county. Find out what services may be affected in your area.
Please note the newspapers are not indexed, so without a date a specific search is likely to be time consuming. The newspapers are a rich source of local interest and historical flavour in their own right.
Newspapers we hold include:
- Bridport News: June 1855 to July 2000
- (1898 and 1911 are missing)
- Dorset County Chronicle: 1824 to 1957
- Dorset Evening Echo: May 1921 to the present day
- Dorset Mail: 1928 to 1932
- East Dorset Herald: 1898 to 1918
- Poole and Dorset Herald: 1846 to 1939
- (The following years are missing: 1855-1860, 1904-1905, 1910-1911, 1918, 1930-1938)
- Sherborne Mercury/Western Flying Post: 1737-1867
- Southern Times: 1870 to 1940
- Swanage Times: 1919 to 1936
- Western Gazette: 1963 only, Jan 1988 to October 2003
If you are interested in other Dorset newspapers, please contact us: