Bridport by Night: An alternative tourism video by Stephen Banks
So, it has been over a week since I uploaded my ‘labour of love’, Bridport by Night, to YouTube. The video really took off in the first four days, accumulating some 8,000 views in that period alone. Hits from technology site Gizmodo and Anglotopia helped it along its way, but the majority of views were picked [...]
Art, science and mischief on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast
I’m looking forward to this very much indeed. How much mischief will Proboscis make at Burton Bradstock?
Billy Bragg: Are you ready for the revolution?
Billy Bragg and his guitar have been summoning us to the barricades for the past three decades, and today he’s more hopeful for real change than ever before
Dorset County Council cuts: Details & analysis
UP TO 500 JOBS will go next year at Dorset County Council and there will be “significant impacts on services to individuals and communities.” The council has to reduce spending by £45-50 million over the next three years – that’s £15 – 20 million more than first expected. And that £15-20 million extra has to be cut [...]
UPDATED: Critics savage Dorset County Council music video
A MUSIC video made for Dorset County Council has been scorned as “truly crackpot” by the Taxpayers’ Alliance. It shows the singing of a song called The Promise, written by the former Burton Bradstock School headteacher David Powell, now Dorset’s principal primary inspector. The Promise was made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the UNICEF Convention on the [...]
Photographs from Burton Bradstock’s Spring Tide Food Festival
MORE than 1000 people went to the National Trust’s first Spring Tide Food Festival at Hive Beach in Burton Bradstock. A farmers’ market sold produce grown, reared or made within 40 miles of the marquee, and there were craft stalls and free entertainment. If you weren’t there and you want to see it was like, [...]
D-Day Dorset: Bridport to honour US fighters
DORSET’s role in the run-up to D-Day will be remembered when members of the World War Two Living History Association encamp near Bridport at the end of May. It’s 66 years since the US 1st Infantry Division left Dorset to invade Europe and defeat Hitler. The event at The Hyde in Walditch has two aims: to honour [...]