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

Michel Hooper-Immins feels well restored after a good lunch of Lyme Bay fish and some well-kept real ale.

YOU KNOW the scenario – you’ve arrived in a place you don’t know well and you need to find a fine pint of real ale – and a good lunch. Here to help you around West Dorset is the new Campaign for Real Ale guide, listing all 273 pubs in the area roughly bounded by Lyme [...]

It’s good when it comes, but Michel Hooper-Immins has to wait for his beef and his beer.

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

SIR ANTHONY JOLLIFFE GBE DL DSc has announced that he will retire, after 28 years as President of the Society of Dorset Men, at the annual meeting next April. The only Weymouth man to become Lord Mayor of London told 187 members of the society at the annual County Dinner, held at Sherborne School: “I’ve now [...]