Job losses on the way across Dorset councils
The story so far: Council leaders in Dorset agreed to work more closely together in the name of efficiency. West Dorset’s leader Robert Gould blogged about this, and then his blog got taken down. I speculated that this must mean job losses; why, otherwise, the sensitivity? Now Dorset County Council’s Pathfinder Programme Manager Ali Henderson has this to say: [...]
Clare and Chevalier sell out in Bridport
Six weeks to go to the start of the Bridport Literary Festival and there’s no tickets left for events featuring authors Tracy Chevalier and Horatio Clare. I suppose Chevalier was always going to be popular; her new novel Remarkable Creatures is about the great Lyme Regis fossil hunter Mary Anning. But Clare’s a surprise, with his [...]
Has West Dorset District Council leader Robert Gould been indiscreet?
I only ask because yesterday he put up a post on his blog called Pathfinder Progress, which was more interesting than it sounds. Tagged “Efficiency”, it was about how the leaders and chief executive officers of all the district and borough councils in Dorset had agreed at a meeting on Thursday, September 24, to work more closely [...]
Call for old photos of the Three Cups Hotel
Campaigners in Lyme Regis want old photographs of people enjoying themselves at the Three Cups Hotel to strengthen their case for it being reopened. The town-centre hotel, owned by Palmers’ Brewery of Bridport, has been shut for 20 years. Protestors say that Palmers should re-establish the Cups as a hotel, or sell the property to someone else who will. Old pictures do [...]