Team Bath athlete Paul Blake, who's from Dorchester, is celebrating winning silver in the Men's T36 400m final. It's his first Paralympic games and he crossed the line behind Russian athlete, Evgenii Shvetcov who set a new world record.
The 22-year-old, who's the son of a Star Wars actor and a ballet dancer, ran a new personal best of 54.22 seconds. He said the roar of the crowd gave him an extra pair of legs.
If you're travelling through Dorchester in Dorset today, the monkey jump park and ride is free all today, because of the Olympic Games.
The A35 is closed in both directions due to flooding between A37 / B3150 (Monkeys Jump Roundabout, Dorchester) and Longland's Lane (Winterbourne Abbas).
It's also affecting A37 between A35 / B3150 (Monkeys Jump Roundabout) and B3147. The road is closed from Dorchester to Winterbourne Abbas.
The road to Martinstown also remains closed.
First Bus Route 31 is also not running today.
The Highways Agency advise that the road could stay closed until tomorrow.
Two dairy farmers from Dorchester are defying convention by milking their herd of 500 cows in the field in a mobile milking parlour. The cows and and parlour move around the 900 acres of rented pasture.
A 51 year-old man has been arrested in Dorchester on suspicion of murdering a woman. The body of Jacqueline Harrison, 47, was found at her flat in Worcester three days ago. Yesterday West Mercia Police put out an alert for William Cummins, saying he may have been in the Weymouth area
A company near Dorchester has been attracting attention with special writers' huts it is making for the Chelsea Flower Show. Best-selling novelist Tracy Chevalier has visited the firm, Plankbridge Shepherd's Huts, to view one of them.
A driver has died following a collision between a lorry and a car.
The accident happened on the A35 at the Monkeys Jump roundabout near Dorchester this afternoon.
Police have closed the road going westbound between Monkeys Jump roundabout and the B3159.
A spokeswoman said it would remain shut for a "considerable time".
A driver has died following a collision between a lorry and a car.
The accident happened on the A35 at the Monkeys Jump roundabout near Dorchester this afternoon.
Police have closed the road going westbound between Monkeys Jump roundabout and the B3159.
A spokeswoman said it would remain shut for a "considerable time".
