All news by author: Mike Taylor

Reform UK candidate Garry Sutherland was found guilty of kicking a dog and banned from owning the animal as a pet following a trial at Weymouth Magistrates' Court in 2023

Sue and Murray Stewart made it to Bristol Airport in plenty of time for their easyJet flight to Croatia, but a series of delays and "total chaos" meant they missed their flight

John Standing used the comparison site Just Park Me to book a service to take his car from Bristol Airport and bring it back a week later - except his car wasn't there when he returned

Tommy Marshall, who is living at Pontins Brean Sands in Somerset while working on the Hinkley Point C project, has told how his kids love visiting him at the resort

Pontins Brean Sands, in Somerset, closed to the public earlier this year to make room for 900 workers on the Hinkley Point C project as EDF builds two new nuclear reactors in the area

Christine Woodey, from Bristol, died alone in February 2021 at Southmead Hospital and she had no known next of kin nor made a will - with an investigation identifying Sandra Vanstone in Canada

The child family has described the incident as 'traumatic' and at one point the little girl had to be put in an induced coma as a judge slammed the hotel's safety standards

An inquest into the deaths of Sunnah Khan, 12, and Joe Abbess, 17, off Bournemouth beach in May reopened at Dorset Coroner's Court after months of 'complex' investigations

Kerry Edwards, from Walsall, said she had ordered a VR headset as a surprise birthday present for her son Robbie but when it arrived she was horrified to find it was box of cornflakes

Dorset Police said 500 cars had been left parked in a field in Wytch Farm as residents awoke in the early hours to the thumping bass and pounding rhythms of the loud music

Lee Craig McConnell had been involved in a row over parking with a neighbour when he gestured to his wife to come over to the bollard and had sex with her, the court heard