Icon or eyesore? Bridport’s Cafe Royal to be auctioned (UPDATED)
BRIDPORT’S acclaimed Café Royal is to be auctioned next month, as West Dorset District Council embarks on a plan to raise £1.5 million. The Café Royal is opposite Bridport bus station. Its big-windowed American diner…
A walk on Eype beach
Let’s walk. Underfoot the scrunchy pea gravel scrapes and squeaks. Sudden patches of sand give relief to legs already wearied by trudging on banked and sliding stones. Look closer underfoot – individual pebbles lucent with seawater
Bridport’s Trick Factory “loses a lot of money”
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.”
Liberal Democrats should speak up for Bridport’s Minor Injuries Unit
“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.”
Bridport, New Year’s Eve: “Are you The Red Bladder?”
“Are you,” he demanded “The Red Bladder?” When a stranger asks you that it takes your breath away.
Is this a UFO near Bridport – or just the moon?
DOWNLOADING photographs taken around Bridport over Christmas, I suddenly found myself looking twice at this one, and wondering - what is that in the sky? Could it really be a UFO? Here’s a closer look. I have to say, I…
New plans for Bridport’s South West Quadrant
NEW plans for the redevelopment of Bridport’s historic South West Quadrant are to go on show on Friday, December 10. People are invited to view landowners Haywards’ latest proposals for the St Michael’s Trading Estate area in the Red Brick Café between about 11am and 2pm. Haywards’ last scheme – for a mix of 175 new homes and commercial “regeneration” opportunities – was intensely controversial.
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