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Thursday, May 9, 2024
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is launching a campaign over the Easter holidays to encourage local people and visitors to enjoy crabbing, the eco-way. Using hooks, mistreating crabs and littering whilst crabbing is a serious problem but could be avoided with DWT’s 5 key guidelines. The guidelines are: 1.  Use bait...
On Saturday 8th and 15th September two members of the Dorset Eye team will be in Dorchester at the Shire Hall Courthouse Museum between 10am and 4pm. Come and meet us and have a chat. With the rapid growth in Dorset Eye over the last year or so we aim to...

Squeaky Clean Jeremy

These disgusting Tories, every single one of them, never stop taking the piss do they? Here is Mr. Hunt  (spell it which way you like) with his his new luxury bathroom paid for by YOU, the taxpayers. With a bit of luck, he'll flush himself down the pan and...
Apsana Begum has said she refuses to be silenced by her party after accusing the Labour leadership of abandoning her amid a “chilling” campaign of abuse. The Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse, who is Britain’s first hijabi-wearing parliamentarian, has recently returned to work after signing off sick in June...
A man has admitted stealing cash from the home of a vulnerable woman in Sherborne. Dale David Bool, aged 31 and of Hillcrest Road, Templecombe, Somerset, appeared at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court on Friday 21 February 2020 where he admitted an offence of theft. He will return to court to be...

We’re Not Broke!

Dorset Eye has been in conversation with Karin Hayes the director of the Sundance award winning film 'We're Not Broke!' It is a documentary of how everyday people have exposed the lies that we are being told and that trillions of dollars that have been hidden to avoid taxation. This will be a must see film that reveals...
The world’s oceans could face severe and irreversible harm unless tighter environmental safeguards are in place that protect them from the ravages of deep sea mining, warns a new international report, In Deep Water, released today by Greenpeace. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the environmental risks posed...

Rebelling Against Extinction

When governments abandon us, we must step up. It is hard to believe today, but the prevailing ethos among the educated elite was once public service. As the historian Tony Judt documented in Ill Fares the Land, the foremost ambition among graduates in the 1950s and 1960s was, through government or...
It is the Summer Solstice, its time to cast a spell, Time to watch the sun rise, as Druids dwell upon the Stonehenge hill Its time for summer wishes, of dreams that may come true, Time of fruit and flowers of everything that love can bring, Time for me and you The hassles of...
Following the recent severe storms that have engulfed Chesil Beach, over a hundred birds have been found washed up this weekend – the majority of which have been found dead or in distress.  Birds such as Razorbills, Guillemots and two Kittiwake’s have been found. Five dead puffins, which are species...