The Red Bladder cleans up West Dorset
Watch out all you ne’er-do-wells, footpads and villains! One word from The Red Bladder could earn you a hefty stretch of porridge.
Phantom crapper strikes around Dorset village. Who is the ‘turd man’? (UPDATED – AGAIN)
VILLAGERS in West Milton near Bridport are stepping carefully after a spate of mystery defecations.
The answer is £5.44…
… TO THE QUESTION that has seen me tossing and turning at nights over the years and has, no doubt, troubled most of you in a similar manner. It is such a relief to have, at long last, learned this figure. I am indebted to Mr Graham Burridge, Bridport’s affable postmaster, for finally putting my mind [...]
Police in manhunt across West Dorset countryside
Note added 10.45am Friday, February 5: Dorset Police reiterate their belief that firearms were not involved. They are still hunting for two or perhaps three men. The account in today’s Dorset Echo of what happened at Court Farm in Buckland Newton seems the most reliable published so far. An interview with farmer Martin Perrett backtracks on stories published in [...]
Car damaged in arson attack near Bridport
POLICE in Bridport are appealing for witnesses and information after an arson attack to a vehicle between Gore Cross and Melplash. A black Mitsubishi L200 pick-up truck was parked in a lay-by near Bingham’s Farm on the A3066 – the Bridport to Beaminster road – when it was set alight between 9.30pm and 10pm on Saturday, [...]
“A cruel twist”: Policeman urges drivers to slow down, then writes off police car
FROM PC Nigel Case’s column in the November edition of Eggardon & Colmer’s View. Note: Yellow Lane is one of the old Dorset hollow-ways, a drover’s track through steep banks of sandstone, strewn in the autumn with leaves, gravel and mud. “Watch the roads: last year I went to two crashes in Yellow Lane, Loders, caused in part by [...]
Trial of new “Crime Mapper” tool on Dorset Police website. Verdict: Crude
THE CRIME Mapper is meant to give you the chance to see how much crime there’s been where you live. Move over a map and zoom in and out, and it will tell you the total number of crimes per month per area, and how that number compares with the same period last year. You [...]