Dorset County Council staff “retrained” after 15-month parking ticket battle
THIS IS the story of Lester Cowling’s 15-month battle with Dorset County Council over a parking ticket. It raises some worrying questions
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 parking ticket battle: Ali Cameron’s story
How about a video to highlight Dorset County Council’s behaviour? I had worked as a professional TV camera man and I was up for it.
Dorset parking ticket battle: Dorset County Council’s view
Dorset County Council’s response to questions put by Lester Cowling and Ali Cameron about the saga of Mr Cowling’s parking ticket.
Photographs from Burton Bradstock’s Spring Tide Food Festival
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 to see it was like, [...]
Don’t miss Bridport Christmas Tree Festival
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE to capture in words or pictures what a delightful event Bridport Christmas Tree Festival is. Everything about it is appealing; the irridescence cast around the normally plain surroundings of the Methodist & United Reform Church in East Street; the excited chatter of children saying “Look, that’s the one that I did”; the sheer unexpectedness [...]
Respectable? No. Unfashionable? Yes. Interesting? Very
Review of The West Country: A Cultural History by John Payne, published by Signal Books, £12; part of a series called Landscapes of the Imagination THERE are two chapters in this book on Dorset and they get off to a cracking start: “Dorset has a northern fringe that scarcely seems to belong to it at [...]