On 20th November at Weymouth Lifeboat Station representatives from Open 4 Business Dorset and Lloyds TSB presented a cheque for £1681.00 to the Weymouth Lifeboat Station / RNLI. Open 4 Business Dorset has raised over £5000 for local charities over the past 3 years at the annual Awards Ceremony...
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...
Returning from Bacon Hole to Lulworth Cove there are steps down to the famous Fossil Forest section. Unfortunately, no trees are still preserved there but you can see where the trees have been. The rocks exposed are the top of the Portland Limestone and the lowest part of the...
This weekend filming for the video to Selina's song began. Waiting for a weather window was a problem, however, despite this, the Weymouth College film crew and Selina braved the freezing tempratures around Portland and Weymouth to commence the process. We expect to have finished location filming within two...
For whom the bell tolls: £20m 'Memo' project takes shape on Dorset's Jurassic coast
Working west from Osmington Mills access to the beach from Osmington via a minor road is either down the steep path from the Smugglers’ Inn car park or from the coast path and steps just to the east of the pub. As with the previous section from Bran Point to Osmington Mills, a low tide is necessary to...
Hello anger my old friendIt's time to sit on you againScreaming souls are calling out to meTortured faces I hate to seeand the visions that I see on my TVenrage meSo I keep my silence Peregrin
Mike Hanlon, author and science journalist who died suddenly, aged 51, on February 9, was a good friend of the Society - although sadly, not a Fellow. I had the honour of knowing him since 1999, when he first burst upon the Media Suite of a British Association meeting,...
Access to this section is via the footpath from Osmington village past the PGL outdoor activity centre and the steps to the beach. Jurassic Corallian rocks can be seen immediately reaching the beach and these dip to the east as they are part of an anticlinal fold (dome shape) which...
The Jurassic Coast Word Heritage Status has been placed under threat by another company that wishes to drill for oil and gas by Durlston National Park in Swanage. Last year, Infrastrata walked away from plans to drill having been met with fierce opposition from local people and campaigners that...
