WHAT USED to be a pleasant and uplifting walk along St Andrew’s Road is rapidly being destroyed by the Philistines who are building the new builders’ merchants depot and grocer’s shop alongside the Co-op.
They are completely obliterating the wonderful view of the upper half of Jessop Avenue and all of Happy Island Way. No more will [...]

“FOR THOU knowest not…” was the title of a sermon preached by Evershot’s priest after a fire in 1865 nearly burned the whole village down.
More than 100 people were left homeless; up to 1,000 came from neighbouring villages to gawp at the devastation; and there was looting, yes looting, in Evershot. At the very least a butt [...]

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 [...]

Editor’s Note: This is a copy of a letter being sent out by Mr Edwards of Bridport TLC  to parish councils in the Bridport area. Will they be able and willing to provide support, or could it already be too late? This is the time of year when parish councils finalise their budgets and decide how much to [...]

BRIDPORT 1/D/09/002009 & 1/D/09/002010 Conservation area and listed building. Satellite dish Electric Palace, South Street (From the latest list of planning applications issued by West Dorset District Council)�
THIS is a cool idea. Honestly, it is. The 1.2m satellite dish proposed for the south wall of the Electric Palace is not just any old dish. It is bespoke.
It will [...]

WHAT’S 40 minutes when you’ve waited more than two years? Broadwindsor’s new Post Office service opened for business at 10am prompt, but a technical hitch meant no transactions could actually be carried out until 10.40am. However, delay merely heightened excitement in The Comrades Hall. At one point there were probably about 40 people there; this pictures [...]

Editor’s Note: Mr Harrap caught my eye on Twitter before Christmas, when he tweeted a question about Bridport not seeming very busy. He described himself as a “nomad in the cheese industry” and I thought, what’s going on here then? I was intrigued by the unusual combination of those two words “cheese” and “nomad” – [...]

SHOULD the inquiry into the biggest proposed development in Bridport for 30 years be allowed to go ahead?
That is the question that will – unexpectedly – be decided when landowners Haywards’ launch their appeal into the future of the South West Quadrant, at the Park Dean Holiday Park in West Bay on January 26.
Costly preparations for the appeal [...]

LESS than three weeks to go until the start of the appeal into the biggest development in Bridport for 30 years, and Dr Sue Farrant is backing the campaign against plans to redevelop St Michael’s Trading Estate.
Dr Farrant, the Liberal Democrats’ contender for West Dorset at the forthcoming General Election, says she is unhappy with the way that [...]

FOUND this on tumblr with the comment “Dorset knows lol”

What I can’t work out, from looking at the wall,  is where this mock sign is supposed to be. It looks tantalisingly like West Bay, but could it be Lyme Regis? A strange question, I know, but I am genuinely curious…