BASED ON on a recent chance discovery of an 1820’s manuscript book of fiddle tunes from the Blackmore Vale, acclaimed local folk musicians Tim Laycock and Colin Thompson have put together a new musical show and are touring it around the Artsreach circuit. Tim and Colin’s show, Benjamin’s Book, named after the manuscript’s author Benjamin [...]
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…
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 magazine, the Eggardon & Colmer’s View. The fate of Harry Marsh has been researched, ahead of Remembrance Day, by the military historian Richard Connaughton, who lives in Nettlecombe. Harry [...]
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, the fortunes of the Navy, the grandeur of paddle steamers, the fragile life of piers, the differing economic merits of shipwrecks, chimpanzees and striptease, these are just some of [...]
THE CLOCKS go back on Sunday. It happens every year. And every year it causes chaos in Lush Places.
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 you’re actually paying for, read on because if Beaminster and Bridport’s votes are anything to go by, West Dorset is not even in the race. Yet. BT are conducting [...]
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.
STORIES and tales from behind the scenes of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow will be told by one of the programme’s experts Paul Atterbury
DOWN HERE in deepest Dorset a new type of crime has baffled police and criminologists – shed rustling.
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.
