COMPOSER Rachel Leach has created a dramatic score to bring to life a silent film made in Bridport in the late 1930s.
Dope Under Thorncombe, a melodrama based around West Bay, was made by local people under the direction of amateur filmmaker Frank Trevett.
His daughter, Vivienne Smith, pictured with the camera that captured the story, handed [...]

I’D BEEN wondering what headline-grabbing action Burton Bradstock’s most famous resident was going to take in the run-up to the General Election. And now we know.
In an article for The Guardian,  Billy Bragg explains that he’s withholding his taxes until the Chancellor of the Exchequer acts to curb bonus payments to investment bankers at the Royal Bank of Scotland [...]

SCIENTISTS have been using ground-penetrating radar to find out more about the history of Chesil Beach.
Tests near Abbotsbury, Langton Herring and Ferrybridge have provided fresh clues about the evolution and internal make-up of one of the greatest features of the Dorset landscape.
Results also hint at what might happen to the beach in future, particularly if global [...]

BEAMINSTER is recommended by chef Lesley Waters as a good base for “foodies” who want to explore West Dorset.
Ms Waters says that Mat Follas’s restaurant The Wild Garlic is one of the reasons why this “classic Wessex market town” is “fast becoming a food hot spot”.
It also has “a great butcher’s and greencocer’s”. That’s true, but it is a [...]