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 estimated £2 million is needed to reverse the deterioration of the Grade II* Listed Building that  has occurred since 1997, when it stopped being a public library. Bridport Area Development [...]

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 built defensive enclosure in a barley field near Bradford Abbas. Marks showed up through the crop because the long hot days of June had parched the ground. English Heritage say [...]

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 are keen to appear next year.

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 rope and net making industry.

DORSET COUNTY Council is to press for Bridport’s Literary and Scientific Institute to be sold, says the Bridport Area Development Trust.

A FILM about Beaminster’s renowned furniture maker John Makepeace has been produced to celebrate his 50 years at the forefront of British design.

Critics of shake-up say changes are devastating for smaller practices, where specialists in family law are often found

I WAS thinking the other day about Colin Varndell, because I was trying to draw up a list in my head of excellent West Dorset people and organisations. By excellent, I mean almost gratuitously obsessed with quality, and with the means and the skill to produce superb results. The first individuals that came to mind [...]

A RESPECTED travel writer has protested to West Dorset District Council about planners’ refusal to allow the Downhouse Café at Eype to continue. Brian Jackman has travelled the world for 40 years and one of his favourite haunts is Nikki and Dean Exton’s café on National Trust farmland at Higher Eype. Mr Jackman said: “I find it [...]

A CACTUS enthusiast is hoping his plants will bring home the silverware from the Dorset County Show for the 17th year in a row. David Ennals, 56, of Toller Porcorum, has been exhibiting cacti and flowers at the event and accumulating accolades since 1994, when he first won the top prize in the cactus class. [...]