NOT ONE letter sent into the Planning Inspectorate supports the redevelopment of the South West Quadrant of Bridport. The proposed “regeneration” of the area, which includes St Michael’s Trading Estate, is going to be fought over at an appeal hearing in West Bay in January. If landowners Haywards get approval for their scheme, which was [...]

  You can see Harriet Laurie on You Tube by clicking on this link   GRAPHIC designer Harriet Laurie is one of the leaders of the fight to save Dorset’s only indoor skate park from destruction. The Trick Factory on St Michael’s Trading Estate in Bridport is in danger of being knocked down so that landowners Haywards [...]

From dorsetforyou.com’s What’s On listing By Category > Activities/Nature (sports, gardens, walks, trails, wildlife) <http://tinyurl.com/yl6du5u > Flight’s Country Music Club Top class country music banos – no lice dancing – Last Saturday in the month Happy Christmas! (And thank you for this to Trevor Bevins)

  A PILE of hessian sacks filled with raw coffee beans are stacked up on a wooden crate in the corner, while a traditional roasting machine churns its first load of coffee of the day, and the bitter-sweet aroma of freshly-roasted coffee fills the air.  I almost expect a rugged explorer to come climbing out [...]

TODAY is the big day to save the Trick Factory, the indoor skate park in Bridport that’s threatened with destruction by property developers. So says the human rights lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, who lives near Bridport and is now helping to organise the campaign against the park’s shut-down. It’s scheduled for demolition if landowners Haywards get the right [...]

A BIG London firm of lawyers has today volunteered to represent the young skateboarders and BMXers of Dorset as they battle to save The Trick Factory in Bridport from being shut down and demolished. The human rights lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, best known for his work with prisoners at Guantamano Bay, said: “I suspect that will [...]

BRIDPORT Arts Centre has just released its Spring theatre programme for 2010 and Trigger’s take on Harold Pinter is officially one of the highlights. Roger Lloyd Pack (aka Trigger) is going to be reading through Pinter’s 1995 play Ashes to Ashes. He’ll appear with Harriet Walter as part of A Pinter Celebration day on January [...]

TEN YEARS after the closure of The Old Swan pub in Toller Porcorum there are signs that it could possibly be reopened. Palmers Brewery has offered the village’s SOS campaign group five years rent-free tenancy to help make the venture more viable to begin with. SOS members have asked a consultant to prepare a business [...]

That rarest of things – a TV programme not to be missed – TONIGHT! THE late Gerard Morgan-Grenville lived at Milton Mill in West Milton near Bridport. He was a charming and fascinating man who had an enviably vivid career in many different areas; the military, kitchenware, French barge holidays, luxury train journeys, Saharan treks, [...]

RECENT STORMS and strong south-westerly winds have brought some unusual visitors to Dorset’s beaches. Tropical crabs, birds blown off course and rare barnacles are some of the wildlife reported by Dorset Wildlife Trust.   Six rare types of goose barnacle have washed up along the coast in recent weeks, including one, Conchoderma virgatum, which Dorset Wildlife Trust [...]