Archive for ‘November, 2011’

Dutch theme park proposed as Dorset tourist attraction

Put an artificial skating rink in the Square, glue a few rooks up in trees and invest in a couple of tons of artificial snow and tourists will flock to Bruegeland in Dorset

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Hunt for Thomas Hardy’s lost Dorset cider apple

My plan is to start a small cider orchard. It would be wonderful to find Thomas Hardy’s Bockhampton Sweet and even more wonderful if it happened to be growing locally in Dorset.

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Excitement at prospect of new Bridport Mayor

AS THE LEAVES of our calendars turn remorselessly onwards, the evenings lengthen, and the sound of Cliff Richard singing some nausea-inducing seasonal ditty drives us all out of shops around Bridport, excitement at the prospect of a new Mayor grips us all.

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Lush Places: the parish plan

WELL, the Lush Places parish plan questionnaires are being collected. An army of village elves is out and about, picking up our forms to find out…

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Artist promises unCommonly entertaining look at Powerstock

Passengers are promised “a special intervention” by Ms Dean to entertain them on the way from Bridport to Powerstock Hut

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Art, science and mischief on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast

I’m looking forward to this very much indeed. How much mischief will Proboscis make at Burton Bradstock?

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New website for top Dorset parish magazine

The new Eggardon & Colmer’s View website includes a tremendous picture of Colmer’s Hill by Higher Eype photographer Andy White, one of the best images of this famous West Dorset landmark I’ve ever seen.

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Digital first for Dorset at new Bridport festival

A NEW digital edition of The Waste Land, by the UK’s favourite poet TS Eliot, is to be shown in public for the first time in Bridport.…

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Lush Places: up in the air and down

FOR a little while, the Lush Places village square has been deathly quiet. The corner shop closed at the end of August and the pub called…

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