Dorchester town centre plans submitted. Waitrose to anchor £60 million scheme
A PLANNING application has just been submitted for the controversial £60 million redevelopment of the Charles Street site in Dorchester. Waitrose has agreed terms to relocate…
Read articleWest Dorset General Election: Not 1, not 2, but 3 doctors
THE VOTERS of West Dorset will be faced with a positive cornucopia of erudition when they make their final choice next Thursday. Three out of the…
Read articleWest Dorset General Election: Will that be all, Sir?
NO SOONER do I post a piece mentioning the shortage of literature from Big Ollie’s lot than one turns up on the doormat. A pretty rum…
Read articleFour out of every ten West Dorset workers are public sector. So who faces the chop?
WEST DORSET has a higher percentage of people working in the public sector than anywhere else in the South West, according to the Office for National…
Read articleGeneral Election 2010: Goodnight Dorset
AS FAR as West Dorset voters seem to be concerned just a couple more notches on the excitement scale and they could work themselves up into…
Read articleWest Dorset: Vandals damage village cricket and football pitches
VILLAGERS near Bridport are looking out for vandals who have churned up a cricket pitch used by schoolchildren. Eight times over the last 18 months, at…
Read articleWelcome to Tate Cattistock
IT’S A good question: which village in West Dorset has the highest concentration of artists? I would have guessed Nettlecombe, or perhaps Symondsbury, or even Chideock;…
Read articleDorchester voters reject plan for new district council HQ
RESULTS of a town poll in Dorchester show the overwhelming majority of those who voted are against West Dorset District Council’s plan to spend £10.7 million…
Read articleBridport: Children’s gigs to brighten beach
FIFTY ONE cardboard gigs have been painted by children at Symondsbury School near Bridport, and they’ll all be displayed at West Bay this Sunday (April 25). Bridport’s…
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