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…
UP TO 500 JOBS will go next year at Dorset County Council and there will be “significant impacts on services to individuals and communities.” The council has to reduce spending by £45-50 million over the next three years – that’s £15 – 20 million more than first expected. And that £15-20 million…
A MUSIC video made for Dorset County Council has been scorned as “truly crackpot” by the Taxpayers’ Alliance. It shows the singing of a song called The Promise, written by the former Burton Bradstock School headteacher David Powell, now Dorset’s principal primary inspector. The Promise was made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the UNICEF Convention on the [...]
MORE than 1000 people went to the National Trust’s first Spring Tide Food Festival at Hive Beach in Burton Bradstock. A farmers’ market sold produce grown, reared or made within 40 miles of the marquee, and there were craft stalls and free entertainment. If you weren’t there and you want…
DORSET’s role in the run-up to D-Day will be remembered when members of the World War Two Living History Association encamp near Bridport at the end of May. It’s 66 years since the US 1st Infantry Division left Dorset to invade Europe and defeat Hitler. The event at The Hyde in Walditch has two aims: to honour [...]
Dope Under Thorncombe is a feature film about drug smuggling in West Dorset. It was shot in the late 1930s, mostly at West Bay and along the coast, though some scenes were filmed inland, such as the gunfight at Eggardon Hill. The producer was Bridport man Frank Trevett, who inspired…
COMPOSER Rachel Leach has created a dramatic score to bring to life a silent film made in Bridport in the late 1930s. Dope Under Thorncombe, a melodrama based around West Bay, was made by local people under the direction of amateur filmmaker Frank Trevett. His daughter, Vivienne Smith, pictured with…
