A perfect example of all the different disciplines – air and ground ambulance teams, paramedic and your local First Responders working together for one person’s benefit. Makes you feel good, doesn’t it?

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 [...]

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. [...]

There are few, if any, other places in Britain that have been shaped for so long by one industry as Bridport has been by rope, net and twine. The trade probably dates back to the ninth century. Read Mr Sims detailed book and you’ll never look at Bridport and its surrounding villages in quite the same way ever again.

EYPE BEACH near Bridport – part of Dorset’s world-famous Jurassic Coast – is to be sold by West Dorset District Council.

The beach’s value is reckoned by the council to be £1.

“Anticipated proceeds” from the sale of Eype Beach are also officially recorded as £1.

So could you or I buy it for £1?

DORSET County Council hopes to save about £45,000 a year by reducing the size of its adverts about roadworks in local newspapers.
Is this a dodgy assault on the public’s democratic right to information?
Or a sensible move to safeguard front-line services?

The Trick Factory in Bridport “no longer gets close to breaking even… the number of local users in recent times doesn’t even amount to double figures, much to the dismay of myself and the disbelief of those that travel to use The Trick Factory.”

Wildlife programme maker Simon King: “I urge the people of Dorset to rise to the £50 Challenge and help protect the nature of this wonderful, extraordinarily diverse part of England.”

DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL is planning to save £4,000 a year by giving up its membership of the Assembly of European Regions (AER).

The move is part of the council’s efforts to save £48.6 million over the next three years. Dorset is one of only three UK local authorities to belong to AER

DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL appears to be the only local authority in the country getting an increased government grant. Dorset can look forward to an increase of 0.25 per cent for 2011/12. So does this mean that Dorset will not have to make cuts? That proposals to slash 500 jobs will be abandoned?  The answer would seem to [...]