The novelist Jonathan Coe on Bridport’s forthcoming film festival From Page to Screen.

Beaminster-based PC Clive Chamberlain describes how pay cuts, job closures and pensions curbs are denting police morale

Dorset-born chef Ashley Palmer-Watts is to launch a new restaurant in London for Heston Blumenthal. Mr Palmer-Watts was originally a protege of Maiden Newton restaurant owners Geoff and Lin Chapman.

Billy Bragg and his guitar have been summoning us to the barricades for the past three decades, and today he’s more hopeful for real change than ever before

West Dorset MP Oliver Letwin gives his first interview to a national newspaper since the General Election

Downing Street regards Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office minister and MP for West Dorset, as a plausible figure to explain how the Conservative Party believes it is genuinely sharing power This article titled “Coalition is working, insists Oliver Letwin” was written by Nicholas Watt and Patrick Wintour, for The Guardian on Wednesday 22nd December 2010 22.00 [...]

The best thing about the new apartment above this Beaminster restaurant, owned by MasterChef winner Mat Follas, is that you only have to go downstairs for top grub

74.7% of ex-inmates at Dorchester prison are convicted again within a year

Her art encompassed a wide range from prints and painting to rugs, films and photography

Books on sale from his collection remind me, uncomfortably, of my own encounters with the irascible author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman