Next year will be 60 years since the Tudor House on North Quay was demolished.
Weymouth Civic Society had fought a long battle to save the building. The WCS Secretary, the architect Ernest Wamsley Lewis, drew up plans for its restoration and money was raised for repair and conversion. Support...
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My aunt, Kate Geraghty, who has died aged 78, was an accomplished actor on stage and screen. Her stage name, Kate Lansbury, came from her great-grandfather George Lansbury, the Labour leader of the 1930s, whose socialist passions and ferocious energy she inherited as a lifelong political and environmental activist.
Born...
The project, which got the go-ahead following a £7,000 grant from Weymouth and Portland Borough Council, aims to improve the town’s underpasses by getting them thoroughly cleaned and painted.
More than 200 people have supported the project by sharing their views. Volunteers from a community group, East Boro Housing, and...
A design charrette process takes 2-3 months and builds community cohesion to engage fully in the process of regeneration. It involves members from all stakeholders, interested parties and experts and uses the physical, environmental, financial and social limitations to shape a creative and collective response.
We (the community as a...
In Asda at Tilbury
at Asda in Tilbury, Essex, England.
One steps through a dog end fag butted foot bath
by the electronic sliding doors into a vaped haze decompression chamber.
Here the multi~ national grocer must take note
in an on~time~food~chain~management kind of way
the difference between instrumentation and orchestration
how cauliflowers ploughed back into...
A planning application for the proposed new artistic lighting scheme for Weymouth’s promenade has now been submitted.
Following approval by Weymouth & Portland’s Borough Councils Management Committee in August, the proposed artistic lighting scheme has been further developed by design studio Tonkin Liu and Weymouth & Portland Borough Council Engineers....
25 Dorset young carers have been taken to see War Horse at Southampton’s Mayflower as a reward for their hard work and for some down time from their often demanding responsibilities.
There are currently 117 young carers in the county being supported by the Dorset Young Carers Service.
Over the past year, the...
Ollie Bray born and brought up in Weymouth has become the Global Director of Play at Lego. A pupil at Radipole Primary School and what is now the Wey Valley School Ollie went on to become headteacher of a school in the Scottish Highlands.
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Ollie's mum Sue takes up the...
Weymouth town centre is officially celebrating after receiving the news that we have been awarded the prestigious Purple Flag accreditation. We have been awarded this for our evening and night-time economy.
Blue, Green… and now Purple!
Similar to the Blue Flag award for beaches and the Green Flag award for gardens,...
