West Dorset District Council urges pumpkin recycling
WEST DORSET District Council is asking residents to compost pumpkins left over from Halloween. The council’s recycling trucks will be driving around the district until Friday 5 November with pumpkin stickers urging people to recycle pumpkins. If you don’t, well…
Read articleHistorian reveals how Dorset sailor died in Siberia
THE STORY of how a young West Dorset farm labourer came to be murdered in Siberia is uncovered in the November issue of the excellent parish…
Read articleThe Dorset company whose business was pleasure
AT LEAST 150 YEARS of Dorset history can be explored in fascinating detail through the archives of Cosens, once Weymouth’s largest employer. The spread of tourism,…
Read articleLush Places: Let’s do the timewalk again…
THE CLOCKS go back on Sunday. It happens every year. And every year it causes chaos in Lush Places.
Read articleWest Dorset: Let’s at least try to get superfast broadband!
HAVE YOU heard from “Race to Infinity”? Sounds a bit Toy Story but is it child’s play? If you think your broadband connection is slower than what…
Read articleDorset children’s fruit supplier goes into adminstration
Parents of children aged four to six are being asked to provide their own fruit & veg after half-term until new supplier can be found for Dorset schools.
Read articleWhatever happened to stolen Bridport shed?
DOWN HERE in deepest Dorset a new type of crime has baffled police and criminologists – shed rustling.
Read articlePalmers Brewery to auction Old Swan in Toller Porcorum (UPDATED)
The Old Swan in Toller Porcorum is for sale on a 999-year lease with a covenant that it should remain as a pub. The guide price is £175,000; Palmers’ property agents Chesterton Humberts will conduct the auction on December 16 at 3pm in Toller’s village hall. The pub’s been closed for 12 years, prompting a long campaign for its reopening by the Save Our Swan group.
Read articlePhilip Larkin’s verdict on Weymouth: “delicious”
IN JULY 1953 Philip Larkin stayed at the Royal Hotel on Weymouth seafront. He came on holiday with his mother Eva and was often mistaken for her…
Read articleSheep farmers of West Dorset, hang on
From the other side of the world may well come the future for West Dorset’s agricultural economy.
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