Bridport: Help to keep award-winning community recycling project going
Editor’s Note: This is a copy of a letter being sent out by Mr Edwards of Bridport TLC to parish councils in the Bridport area. Will they be…
Read articlePlan for Bridport to link live by satellite to “mad scene” in New York
BRIDPORT 1/D/09/002009 & 1/D/09/002010 Conservation area and listed building. Satellite dish Electric Palace, South Street (From the latest list of planning applications issued by West Dorset…
Read articlePlaywright Ann Jellicoe to be guest of honour at fundraising literary luncheon
ONE OF Lyme’s best-known residents, the playwright Ann Jellicoe, will be guest of honour at a luncheon in aid of the town Museum on 4 February…
Read articleMusical premiere for West Bay melodrama
COMPOSER Rachel Leach has created a dramatic score to bring to life a silent film made in Bridport in the late 1930s. Dope Under Thorncombe, a…
Read articleBridport: South West Quadrant inquiry closed
(Teatime write-up) SO, AS looked increasingly likely all morning, the planning inquiry into Bridport’s biggest development scheme for 30 years was stopped before it ever got properly…
Read article“The deep country is no longer a secret”: West Dorset revealed from the Osismii to Johnnie Boden
Review of Wytherston: A History of a Dorset Settlement, by T.P. Connor (£10, from www.wytherston.com) WYTHERSTON is a hamlet about four miles north-east of Bridport. You…
Read article“Uneconomic” to re-convert Three Cups in Lyme Regis to hotel
Editor’s Note: I find myself in something of a quandary over this story, because my wife’s firm Watershed PR is working with Palmers Brewery on The Three…
Read article“Disturbing” report claims Dorset affected by aftermath of Baby P case
PRIVATE EYE this week claims that Dorset is among the counties being badly affected by the “meltdown” in the children and family courts advisory service Cafcass.…
Read articleA Dorset Tudor mystery: Did famous poet fake his own death for love?
SIR THOMAS WYATT competed with Henry VIII for the affections of Anne Boleyn. Even if you have never heard of Wyatt, a diplomat and a brilliant…
Read articlePeople power gets Post Office back
WHAT’S 40 minutes when you’ve waited more than two years? Broadwindsor’s new Post Office service opened for business at 10am prompt, but a technical hitch meant no…
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