THINGS are moving on at a rapid pace down at Tannery Road in Bridport.

I haven’t heard a cuckoo yet but I have seen the next best thing. A man, a very brave man, canvassing for the Liberal Democrats.

SO, EVEN in these straitened times, Dorset County Council has still managed to bring us yet another edition of that little belter Your Dorset. A 16-page, full-colour publication that unashamedly assures us that the council is constantly striving to make our lot a better one and glorifying in its own spectacular achievements in a way [...]

“The decision to cut the hours of the Minor Injuries Unit at Bridport hospital, simply to save a bit of money, is nothing short of a disgrace.”

TOURISM in Bridport looks set to receive a massive boost with the building of a new 60-room hotel. Plans are well underway for the Travelodge group, owned by Dubai International Capital, to open a new, purpose-built operation on the site of the old Mountjoy School once it has closed in Flood Lane and moved to [...]

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 [...]

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?

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 [...]

DOWN HERE in deepest Dorset a new type of crime has baffled police and criminologists – shed rustling.

From the other side of the world may well come the future for West Dorset’s agricultural economy.