January 2010

Bridport: Help to keep award-winning community recycling project going

Editor’s Note: This is a copy of a letter being sent out by Mr Edwards of Bridport TLC  to parish councils in the Bridport area. Will they be able and willing to provide support, or…

Plan for Bridport to link live by satellite to “mad scene” in New York

BRIDPORT 1/D/09/002009 & 1/D/09/002010 Conservation area and listed building. Satellite dish Electric Palace, South Street (From the latest list of planning applications issued by West Dorset District Council)  THIS is a cool idea….

Playwright Ann Jellicoe to be guest of honour at fundraising literary luncheon

ONE OF Lyme’s best-known residents, the playwright Ann Jellicoe, will be guest of honour at a luncheon in aid of the town Museum on 4 February at the Alexandra Hotel when she will…

Musical premiere for West Bay melodrama

COMPOSER Rachel Leach has created a dramatic score to bring to life a silent film made in Bridport in the late 1930s. Dope Under Thorncombe, a melodrama based around West Bay, was made…

Bridport: South West Quadrant inquiry closed

(Teatime write-up) SO, AS looked increasingly likely all morning, the planning inquiry into Bridport’s biggest development scheme for 30 years was stopped before it ever got properly going. Late on in the afternoon, planning…

“The deep country is no longer a secret”: West Dorset revealed from the Osismii to Johnnie Boden

Review of Wytherston: A History of a Dorset Settlement, by T.P. Connor (£10, from www.wytherston.com) WYTHERSTON is a hamlet about four miles north-east of Bridport. You can see what it means to most…

“Uneconomic” to re-convert Three Cups in Lyme Regis to hotel

Editor’s Note: I find myself in something of a quandary over this story, because my wife’s firm Watershed PR is working with Palmers Brewery on The Three Cups. Anything I write about The Three Cups…

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