I had been hoping for a thin tome.. but I am on the reserve list

BRIDPORT’s iconic Café Royal has been sold at auction for £260,000 to Nicholas de Savary. UPDATED

TWO WIND turbines reaching as high into the sky as the biggest masts at Rampisham radio station could be erected on the summit of Toller Down in Dorset. Farmer Henry Lovegrove, of Comforts Orchard, Corscombe, wants to put a pair of turbines near the A356, up along from the Rampisham site. The machines could generate [...]

Imperial War Museum in London keen to work with Bridport singer following album featuring songs inspired by recent conflicts

THE SPYWAY INN at Askerswell near Bridport has been named as the Campaign for Real Ale’s West Dorset Pub of the Year. The free house has been owned for the last eight years by Kevin, Tim and Vivien Wilkes. It’s now reckoned by local real ale drinkers to be the best of West Dorset’s 263 pubs. [...]

Michel Hooper-Immins enjoys haddock topped by Welsh rarebit and a nice pint of Otter at The Sypway in Askerswell.

In all this talk of the Big Society, there’s something missing. Energy.