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Sunday, July 7, 2024
Beach House Cafe sits in an enviable location on the sandspit at Mudeford Sandbank. It has been a popular refreshment facility serving visitors to the area all year round. Unfortunately, the timber clad building was extensively fire damaged on 2 November 2018. A temporary food offer ran on the site...
Work to repair and stabilise the cliffs at Canford Cliffs following a cliff slip in 2017, is due to commence on Monday 21 September.The work, which is expected to last up to nine months, will address the landslip below Cliff Drive. In 2017 a section of cliff eroded and slid...
As we go out and about we come across some of the most beautiful coastline in the country and some hidden cultural treasures that many may have not visited. Each one will be a little taster to possibly wet the appetite to visit and find out more. Where are we? https://www.youtube.com/embed/NUUwr6DIu94 Click on...
As the one-year anniversary of the oil spill at Poole Harbour approaches, two reports have been published that look at the incident, the clean-up operation, and the local impacts of the spill. A report into the incident, undertaken by consultants Hatch, and commissioned by Dorset Council and BCP Council on...
Some lockdown rules look inconsistent, a government minister has admitted amid scenes of packed beaches and large parties broken up by police yesterday. Environment Secretary George Eustice implored people to follow social distancing rules, after overcrowding on Bournemouth seafront sparked a major incident warning and illegal raves were broken up...
BCP Tourism has officially signalled the launch of the summer season with our ‘We Are Tourism’ campaign. Across social media channels, in conjunction with local businesses, the destination hails the new dawn for visitors after the disruption triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. This new campaign emphasises the measures implemented by accommodation providers, restaurants and dining facilities and...
Anyone found sleeping overnight on Bournemouth beach risks prosecution, a £1,000 fine and an "uncomfortable night's sleep" at the hands of council wardens, the local authority has warned. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council has employed an additional 75 staff to help manage 15 miles (24km) of beach, which last summer...
EUROPE’S first innovative beach check app developed to help beach-goers check busy beaches following a surge in visitors last summer is set to go national after being backed by central government. Launched in July last year by BCP Council to help beach-goers comply with social distancing after visitors flocked to the coast in their thousands, the BCPBeachCheck app has now become Beach Check...
The public are being urged to Respect The Water as latest statistics show accidental drowning deaths increased again last year, with more dying at inland water than around the coast.  There were 277 deaths in the UK from accidental drownings in 2021 across inland and coastal locations. This is an increase of 23...
The next section of the coast is not particularly accessible and unless you have a canoe or some other water craft you can’t access the beach until you get west of White Nothe. However it is well worth the walk either from Lulworth or from the National Trust car...