IT IS not that long ago that I was wondering, on these very pages, just how long the old Liberal Hall in Barrack Street would remain empty. Well blow me down now it has been flogged. The purchasers are a theatrical group who also plan to carry out workshop activities. So new are this bunch [...]

THIS week’s Bridport News gives extensive coverage to the jungle of advertising A-boards that seem to be breeding along East Street. So it should. These things are a positive menace to drunks tottering their way home after a session of innocent boozing. Only the other evening, the Saturday of the beer festival, those of us [...]

The sights you see around Bridport.

HAVE YOU ever tried walking from the corner of East Street and Barrack Street, in Bridport, to the kitchen shop in Barrack Street? Well let me put you straight. It’s a long haul and it is all uphill. So I usually have a little sit down and a drop of refreshment half way up the [...]

… TO THE QUESTION that has seen me tossing and turning at nights over the years and has, no doubt, troubled most of you in a similar manner. It is such a relief to have, at long last, learned this figure. I am indebted to Mr Graham Burridge, Bridport’s affable postmaster, for finally putting my mind [...]

THE PLIGHT of the villages of West Dorset is fast becoming dire. The shops, Post Offices and pubs are closing like the rat traps in Hamelin before the arrival of the Pied Piper. Yet that is only the tip of a very worrying iceberg. As well as these important ingredients of rural life an historical [...]

I SUPPOSE that Bridport Town Council will have to re-arrange their seating plan now that, nationally, the Liberal Democrats have become the Conservative 2nd XI. Instead of baiting those on the other side of the splendid chamber the poor old No hopers, jokers and rogues, as the Fisherman’s Friends might describe them, will have to [...]

JUST the other day I had the most bizarre and disorientating ride to Dorchester I have ever encountered. I was travelling backwards in the rear of an ambulance having a little lie down on a stretcher. The view through the tiny window was most strange; I really couldn’t work out where I was. The reason [...]

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 that there is a new local brewery? Nothing like on the scale of the mob [...]

HAVE OUR chums Big Ollie, Auntie Sue, Red Steve, Smiler and the Green cyclist all had ASBOs slapped on them? It’s the only explanation I can think of for their total absence from the highways and byways of the constituency during the hours of daylight over the past few weeks. If our judicial system has [...]