Dorset’s un-smart phone: the BT phone box, Leigh
West Dorset is the land of the un-smart phone, and nowhere is there an un-smarter phone than this.
Sir Anthony Jolliffe to retire as President of Society of Dorset Men
SIR ANTHONY JOLLIFFE GBE DL DSc has announced that he will retire, after 28 years as President of the Society of Dorset Men, at the annual meeting next April. The only Weymouth man to become Lord Mayor of London told 187 members of the society at the annual County Dinner, held at Sherborne School: “I’ve now [...]
West Dorset: Let’s at least try to get superfast broadband!
HAVE YOU heard from “Race to Infinity”? Sounds a bit Toy Story but is it child’s play? If you think your broadband connection is slower than what you’re actually paying for, read on because if Beaminster and Bridport’s votes are anything to go by, West Dorset is not even in the race. Yet. BT are conducting [...]
UPDATED: Western Gazette sales plunge in West Dorset
THERE’S been an extraordinary collapse in sales of the Western Gazette’s West Dorset and Sherborne editions. Sales of the West Dorset edition dropped to just 317 a week during the first half of this year, according to official circulation figures. The Sherborne edition fell to 445 a week. What were they before? Look at this. [...]
Rare Roman camp discovered in West Dorset
TRACES of a Roman camp have been discovered near Sherborne in West Dorset. Aerial photographs taken earlier this summer revealed three sides of a lightly built defensive enclosure in a barley field near Bradford Abbas. Marks showed up through the crop because the long hot days of June had parched the ground. English Heritage say [...]
General Election: ‘Philosopher King’ Oliver Letwin says West Dorset model for UK
SO FAR in this election campaign, Oliver Letwin has worn out two pairs of shoes. It’s amazing he hasn’t also worn out his tongue. After talking for an hour and a quarter in Loders Village Hall near Bridport - and no answer he gave was ever less than five minutes long, and several were nearly ten [...]
“It’s rubbish”: Western Gazette merges West Dorset edition
THE WESTERN Gazette has merged its West Dorset edition with its Sherborne edition. The move has been badly received by readers such as Bill Gray, 60, of Bridport, who said: “It’s rubbish, that paper.” In the 1990s, the Gazette was one of the biggest weekly newspapers in the country, with a dozen or so different editions. [...]