Environment

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

Why you should raise £50 for Dorset Wildlife Trust in 2011

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.”

West Dorset District Council urges pumpkin recycling

WEST DORSET District Council is asking residents to compost pumpkins left over from Halloween. The council’s recycling trucks will be driving around the district until Friday 5 November with pumpkin stickers urging people to recycle pumpkins. If you don’t, well…

Sheep farmers of West Dorset, hang on

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

Legacy funds Dorset’s unique woodland college

THE ARCHITECTURAL Association’s biggest ever legacy will help to fund new buildings and a new MA course at Hooke Park College near Beaminster.

Colin Varndell donates images for new Dorset Wildlife Trust calendar

I WAS thinking the other day about Colin Varndell, because I was trying to draw up a list in my head of excellent West Dorset people and organisations. By excellent, I mean almost…

Wading birds find West Dorset haven

A PAIR of ringed plovers have bred in the far west of Dorset for the first time. The wading birds have raised four chicks at Chard Junction Quarry. Site owners Bardon Aggregates and…

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