Lush Places: a shaggy dog story
In Lush Places, the village square is full of tradesmen’s vans of varying hues. They park where they can, while the bus attempts to do a…
Read articleLush Places: a game of two halves
The bunting has disappeared from Lush Places, apart from the Union Jack above the shop and two hopeful-looking St George’s crosses either side of our bedroom…
Read articleNew Dorset cider company starts selling around Bridport and Beaminster
CIDER made by award-winning West Dorset cider maker Nick Poole is on sale for the first time in shops and pubs.
Unsurprisingly, it’s proving popular – a decade of hard and thoughtful work has gone into it.
Mr Poole set up West Milton Cider Club near Bridport 10 years ago – the video above shows the early days of the club – and he founded the now famous Powerstock Cider Festival.
Read articleWest Dorset bids to BLAST young people into work
A NEW training centre could be set up for young people in West Dorset if a bid for European funding is successful. The aim is to…
Read articleCouncil submits plans to move Mountjoy School
PLANS to rebuild Bridport’s Mountjoy School in Beaminster have been submitted by Dorset County Council. The county council wants to move the special school on to land…
Read articleA Bridport alternative to the World Cup
NOVELIST Ioana Morpurgo is to lead a discussion of Romanian literature at Wild and Homeless Books in Bridport. Ms Morpurgo will focus on the ‘period of…
Read articleThe wonder of a West Dorset chilli
THE CHILLI plant that my husband bought from Joy Michaud at the Melplash Show was the best thing we have bought at a food show, ever.…
Read articleNew Radical History School to show Dorset’s “hellish” past
THE YETTIES’ front man Bonny Sartin will look back to the days when towns like Beaminster had riots when he speaks – and sings – at…
Read articleTour of Denhay’s cheese house tickles nostrils
WE’VE LOST touch with nature. We have no idea where our food comes from. What does our farmer down the road get up to? As I…
Read articleLush Places: Play misty for me
IF YOU’RE a stranger to these parts, you will one day be astonished by what is known as ‘The Beaminster Tunnel Effect’. It’s when you approach the…
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