LAST year the world famous RAF aerobatic team, which has appeared in the skies across the world, was due to fill the sky over Drimpton, west Dorset, on the village’s annual FUN DAY. But low cloud got in the way! Well, fingers crossed for sunshine on SATURDAY August 20th this…
Watch out all you ne’er-do-wells, footpads and villains! One word from The Red Bladder could earn you a hefty stretch of porridge. …
In all this talk of the Big Society, there's something missing. Energy.…
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THERE’S been an extraordinary collapse in sales of the Western Gazette’s West Dorset and Sherborne editions. Sales of the West Dorset edition dropped to just 317 a week during the first half of this year, according to official circulation figures. The Sherborne edition fell to 445 a week. What were…
TRACES of a Roman camp have been discovered near Sherborne in West Dorset. Aerial photographs taken earlier this summer revealed three sides of a lightly built defensive enclosure in a barley field near Bradford Abbas. Marks showed up through the crop because the long hot days of June had parched…
I THINK of the sunken lanes of West Dorset as bonsai cliffs, the country cousins of their far more famous coastal counterparts. Walk through these holloways and look closely and slowly your senses glow golden like the sandstone. There are Babylonian descents of ivy from the branches that curve overhead,…
