Dorset parking ticket battle: Lester Cowling’s story
WHEN I returned my car to find I was being giving a parking ticket I felt as if I was being mugged
Dorset cuts to cost local newspapers £45,000 a year
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?
“It’s rubbish”: Western Gazette merges West Dorset edition
THE WESTERN Gazette has merged its West Dorset edition with its Sherborne edition. The move has been badly received by readers such as Bill Gray, 60, of Bridport, who said: “It’s rubbish, that paper.” In the 1990s, the Gazette was one of the biggest weekly newspapers in the country, with a dozen or so different editions. [...]
Dorset Echo sales up, Bridport & Lyme Regis News down
CONGRATULATIONS to the Dorset Echo! Its circulation in the second half of 2009 went up by 2.1 per cent to 18,396. According to The Guardian, the Echo is the only regional daily in the country to increase its circulation; according to the Echo itself, it’s “just one of two titles in the industry to grow [...]