LODERS School near Bridport is about to test the truth of the old adage that two heads are better than one.
From September, Loders will be the first school in Dorset to have co-heads.
Mike Kite, pictured right, who has been Loders’ head since 1984, will be joined in a job share arrangement by Shirley Gibbs, who [...]

Some notes on the Earthscapes exhibition at Bridport Arts Centre, curated by Sherborne House Arts
Part 1: The Project straightforwardly Described
A SCALE MODEL of a sculpture to be sited either side of the new Dorchester to Weymouth Relief Road has gone on show for the first time.
It’s on display at Bridport Arts Centre as part of Sherborne House Arts’ [...]

EDDIE COLFOX has been flying for 17 years. Early on he used to compete nationally and was top of the league, when he broke his back. The earthbound days following left him with plenty of time to reflect, and he decided that exploration was more his scene.
He’s since spent many winters guiding expeditions abroad, most [...]

A FILM about the heights and frights of paragliding is to be shown at Bridport’s Electric Palace to raise funds for Dorset’s only indoor skate and cycle park.
The Trick Factory on St Michael’s Trading Estate in Bridport has seen countless risky moves tried out, but probably none that can really compare with chucking yourself off the [...]

SO, THIS MORNING, the Bridport News and the View From Bridport began their Wednesday wrestling bout.
In the blue corner, the BN – 40p, published by Newsquest (owned by the giant American corporation Gannett), 64 pages (including 10 of the crucial property pages),  physically smaller than the VF. �
In the red corner, the VF, published by Lyme Media [...]

WEST DORSET District Council is making a big effort to win support for plans for the revamp of Dorchester town centre, and below – word for word – are two press releases issued today. Why word for word? Because on big issues like this, hours and hours of effort goes into producing press releases, and if you regard them as rhetorical rhumbas or [...]

THE SEARCH has begun for a new use for a relic of Dorset’s social struggles.

Ten interested parties have been shown around the empty Institute in East Street, Bridport, by members of the Bridport Area Development Trust, which has got six months to find a modern purpose for the historic property.
“We’re still in the very early stages,” said Crystal Johnson of the Trust.
“We’re lucky [...]

THE Bridport News and the Lyme Regis News will appear in future on Wednesdays.
The move is announced on the papers’ website but not (that I can see) in the papers themselves.
The shift means the two Newsquest publications will come out on the same morning as the free newspapers View From Bridport, View From Beaminster and View [...]

AN HISTORIC buildings report on the former Three Cups Hotel in Lyme Regis says that the building frontage makes ‘a very important contribution towards the character and appearance of the Lyme Regis conservation area.’
The report, commissioned by Palmers Brewery from Forum Heritage Services, also says that the back of the building ‘is built upon an earlier [...]

FIRST planned as a simple West Dorset coffee morning, Hearts for Haiti ended up as a five-and-a-half hour extravaganza that raised about £4,000 for shelters for eathquake victims.
“Amazing, freezing, and very funny” was the concise and considered verdict on the day given by Jane Read, of Pinks Organics of Hermitage, who organised the event with Charlotte Dick Read, of Reads Coffee, which is based [...]