WHAT HEARTENING news from Brisbane this morning. The way Strauss (110), Cook (235NO) and Trott (135NO) batted they are almost up to the standard of the team I used to play for in the Crosby Cup. Certainly each of them could earn a place in the Chideock Veterans XI any day of the week. Mind you, they [...]

Deliberating from the orgy of puddings is difficult, but I opt for bread and butter pudding

LOCAL HISTORIAN and Lyme Regis Museum trustee Ken Gollop has been honoured for his contributions to maritime history with an award from the South West Maritime History Society.

Drifts of daffodils follow the small streams that trickle from under Pilsdon

IT WAS Saturday evening so I decided to give the long-suffering Mrs Bladder a bit of a night out. I swanned her along to take a look at Bridport’s new Lidl; do I know how to show a girl a good time or what?

IN BRIDPORT’S Rural Lidl, there is apparently a police presence as the new store opens. Whether it is as a precaution against irate St Andrew’s Road residents or to control the crowds snapping up cut-price prawn rings, Panettone and chocolate Santas, I do not know. But it all sounds a little crazy. A day earlier and [...]

We are looking for personal stories about the Town Hall – maybe an event you attended, a remembered detail that’s been replaced, something that happened in the centre of town. Also we would love to see your old photographs or other related items. Unless we capture and collect this information now it will be lost forever.

RESIDENTS in the Marshwood Vale want Dorset Police and highways officials to stop the narrow lanes of the vale being rammed with traffic whenever the A35 is closed between Raymonds Hill near Axminster and Miles Cross near Bridport. When the A35 is closed, generally because of accidents, jams quickly build up and frustrated hordes of [...]

EMILY HICKS has begun work as the new curator of Bridport Museum Trust. Ms Hicks first ventured into the world of museums in her early teens when she used to dress up as a Victorian housemaid and cook Welsh cakes on an old range at an open air museum. She studied for a BA in English [...]

I WAS thinking about Bridport Town Council the other day, well, to be honest, I seldom think of anything else. Unless it’s beer. Anyway my mind strayed from that august body and homed in, like a guided missile, on David Cameron, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, as it would of course. The news, that in [...]