LYME REGIS Philpot Museum’s Trustees have issued an unusual invitation: to subscribe to the first publication of The Lymiad, or Letters from Lyme to A Friend at Bath, written during the Autumn of 1818.
There’s a most interesting story behind it.
In 1978 the artist Laurence Whistler gave this bound manuscript of a poem, some 80 pages long, [...]

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 [...]

 An open letter to readers of Real West Dorset
OVER the last few days I’ve been stopped several times by people keen to tell me that they have discovered Real West Dorset – and they enjoy it. I have also had several emails from people saying they like reading it. I can’t quote from some of [...]

ONE OF Lyme’s best-known residents, the playwright Ann Jellicoe, will be guest of honour at a luncheon in aid of the town Museum on 4 February at the Alexandra Hotel when she will talk on “Trials and Triumphs: a Life in Theatre.”
A long time supporter of the Museum, and at one time co-curator with her [...]

Editor’s Note: I find myself in something of a quandary over this story, because my wife’s firm Watershed PR is working with Palmers Brewery on The Three Cups. Anything I write about The Three Cups is therefore likely to be viewed as compromised in some way. I have thought a lot about this and decided – in this [...]

THE NEW owners of Dorset’s View From series of local newspapers are Jerry and Rosemary Ramsdale, who also own the Mariners Hotel in Lyme Regis.
The couple have six children and a holiday home in Lyme.
They bought the 17 century Mariners hotel and restaurant in November 2007, and have since refurbished it.
Mr Ramsdale runs a magazine publishing and exhibitions [...]

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(Note added Tuesday evening, January 12: This article has been edited to reflect comments made by Toby Granville, editor of the Dorset Echo. For more details of Mr Granville’s concerns, please see below)
PHILIP EVANS founded the View From series of free weekly newspapers covering Lyme Regis, Bridport, Beaminster, Dorchester and Weymouth that have now – as he reveals [...]

AT LEAST three parties are known to have been interested in buying the View From series of free weekly newspapers which cover Lyme Regis, Bridport, Beaminster, Dorchester and Weymouth.
The company’s founder Philip Evans announced just before Christmas that he would have to put his Dorset titles into administration and see shut them down unless a buyer could be found.
View [...]

A snowy field near Bridport Wednesday, January 6

Afternoon snow update
AFTER significant snowfall late in the morning and early this afternoon, with further flurries still expected, Dorset County Council’s gritting fleet is continuing to salt and plough priority routes.
Much of the snow will begin to clear from the north by 5pm, when only patchy snow [...]