Why Dorset villagers don’t go like the clappers on New Year’s Eve
Dorset tradition has it that the old year should go out like a lamb – and the new one come in like a lion. That’s why…
Read articleBridport by Night: An alternative tourism video by Stephen Banks
So, it has been over a week since I uploaded my ‘labour of love’, Bridport by Night, to YouTube. The video really took off in the…
Read articleRare food to return to Bridport for one day only
The good folk of Bridport will be offered the chance to enjoy, for one day only, a delicacy that most of them will not have seen or tasted in decades. It is one that the vast majority of them would give their eye teeth to enjoy again, I know I would, if I still had any.
Read articleExcitement 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.
Read articleDigital 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.…
Read articleDesolate in South Street, Bridport
Once – I am not a greedy man – just once I would love to see a single person actually working on the gas pipe holes at the bottom end of South Street in Bridport.
Read articleMy Frolic at Bridport Conservative Club
There’s a poking ceremony with a giant plastic Flintstones club – but only if you’re new.
Read articleBridport: Mini-supermarket plan for De Vinchies
The Red Bladder has learned of plans for another SPAR shop serving Bridport and West Bay
Read articleAnti-tank grenades found in Dorset loft
TWO anti-tank grenades and a rifle-launched grenade have been found in the loft of a farm in Uploders near Bridport.
Read articleBridport Town Hall’s golden weathervane restored
THE WEATHERVANE on top of Bridport Town Hall has been re-gilded – and very fine it looks too. Bridport artist Jemma Thompson applied sheet gold in her…
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