In early June, a new cafe in the Montavilla neighborhood will start serving breakfast pastries and coffee in the mornings and ...

You may not realise, however, that they were all built using the same stone, which our recent research has highlighted has a controversial history. Portland stone is a creamy-white limestone quarried ...

Here are five circles you can visit in Dorset this weekend: The magical Order of Dorset Druids hold its opening ritual at Kingston Russell Stone Circle (Image: Supplied) The Kingston Russell Stone ...

Portland stone is exported the world over, and, as islanders protest against plans to quarry a new area of protected coastal land there, BBC Dorset looks at how Portland stone goes from the ground ...

"Portland Stone was formed at the end of the Jurassic period, around 145 million years ago when what is now Portland, was much closer to the equator than it is today. A chemical reaction in the warm, ...

Local artist Hannah Solfaer worked with Greenpeace on the Ocean Stone. Ms Solfaer, who also worked with Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust on the artwork, said the project was her way of giving ...

And if fundraising efforts fail, Eden will take the project elsewhere and the mine will be filled with waste stone. Eden co-founder Sir Tim Smit said Eden Portland would be "a hugely successful ...