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Updated: Opera flies again at Bridport’s Electric Palace

EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS after it first opened the Electric Palace in Bridport is returning to its original purpose: OPERA. Yes, opera. “The building was originally erected...

West Dorset: Women challenged to survive where the wild things are

A WILD weekend in the woods of West Dorset is being offered to 25 Hardy Women. The exact location is a secret ...

Great US photos launch new Dorset art project

SO, WEST DORSET has a new artistic venue: Axen Farm outside Symondsbury. Probably just two miles from Bridport town centre, but it feels startlingly like another world, as you suddenly rock up towards...

News

Bridport gets 18 months to raise £2million for new Heritage Centre

BRIDPORT Area Development Trust has been given 18 months to secure a new future for the old Literary and Scientific Institute in East Street. An...

Rare Roman camp discovered in West Dorset

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...

Red Arrows offer to support Drimpton in 2011

Mike Saunders, chairman of Drimpton Fun Day Trust, reflects on this year's village event, sadly affected by bad weather, and reveals that the Red Arrows...

It’s “show us your money” time for Bridport Literary & Scientific Institute campaigners

DORSET COUNTY Council has insisted that Bridport's historic Literary & Scientific Institute could still house a new centre devoted to the history of West Dorset's...

Blogs

Lush Places: The village flower show

HERE IN Lush Places, it is the day of the village flower show....

Lush Places: all hail to the council’s King Rat

Once upon a time in Lush Places, the village had a problem...

Bridport

Exclusive: Theatre group buys Bridport’s old Liberal Hall

IT IS not that long ago that I was wondering, on these...

Food & Drink

Dorset pub to sell beer for Euros

THE Bridport Arms in West Bay is to start accepting payment in...

Books

“The deep country is no longer a secret”: West Dorset revealed from the Osismii to Johnnie Boden

Review of Wytherston: A History of a Dorset Settlement, by T.P. Connor (£10, from www.wytherston.com)...

Dorset potter Tim Hurn on “a romantic process”

THERE’S a superb photograph of the Bettiscombe potter Tim Hurn in a new book coming out next month. It shows Tim...

Editor's Choice

Beer, beer, glorious beer! From Lyme Regis to Bridport…

THE THINGS I do for others! Now, just to help those not in a position to judge for themselves, I have been drinking beer. Yes, I know, but that’s me – never a thought of self. Anyway, did you know...

“We made a grand stew in a washing bucket”: Lyme Regis soldier “my hero”

THERE’S a moving piece in The Guardian by the military historian Richard Holmes about his hero, Ernest Shephard from Lyme Regis, who served as a company sergeant major with the 1st Dorsets during World War One. Shephard was born in Lyme in...

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