Dorchester town centre plans submitted. Waitrose to anchor £60 million scheme
A PLANNING application has just been submitted for the controversial £60 million redevelopment of the Charles Street site in Dorchester. Waitrose has agreed terms to relocate from its current store in Tudor Arcade and is now in detailed discussions with the project’s developer Simons. The full application includes a range of new shops comprising over [...]
West Dorset General Election: Not 1, not 2, but 3 doctors
THE VOTERS of West Dorset will be faced with a positive cornucopia of erudition when they make their final choice next Thursday. Three out of the five, a massive 60%, of the candidates have the title Doctor before their name. Can any other constituency in the land boast of such an educated bunch set before [...]
West Dorset General Election: Will that be all, Sir?
NO SOONER do I post a piece mentioning the shortage of literature from Big Ollie’s lot than one turns up on the doormat. A pretty rum offering it is too. On the front there are no less than five photographs of Little Dave Cameron. Stuck on the back is a single shot our very own [...]
Four out of every ten West Dorset workers are public sector. So who faces the chop?
WEST DORSET has a higher percentage of people working in the public sector than anywhere else in the South West, according to the Office for National Statistics. 18,100 people are employed by bodies such as Dorset County Council, West Dorset District Council, Dorset Police and the NHS. That’s 40 per cent of the district’s working population [...]
A reason for leaving West Dorset, if only for a day
THERE aren’t many better places to be at this time of year than glorious West Dorset, with Spring erupting all over the place, laying waste memories of that long, dreary winter. Nor is Holmbush car park in Lyme Regis the most romantic spot to be at 9.30 on a Spring morning, but it is from [...]
General Election 2010: Goodnight Dorset
AS FAR as West Dorset voters seem to be concerned just a couple more notches on the excitement scale and they could work themselves up into a state of apathy. The candidates all seem to have all adopted profiles so low that they really should take to bandaging themselves from head to toe. That way [...]