The Home Secretary has today announced that the contract for the Bibby Stockholm barge will not be renewed at Portland Port and therefore the vessel will no longer be in operation from the end of this contract in January 2025.
We have just issued the following statement:
Cllr Nick Ireland, Leader...
TRIBUTES have been paid to Dorset’s longest-serving councillor - who has been celebrating fifty years of continuous service.
Cllr Stella Jones was elected to West Dorset District Council in 1973 at the age of 27 where she continued to serve until 2019. She subsequently joined Dorset Council in April 2019,...
We were tagged by
@jolly_angelina who listed her fantasy Opposition. We then started to discuss the idea of inviting people to construct their fantasy government front bench and their manifesto for change.
If we could put in place specific people to liberate this country from the establishment chokehold who would...
Weymouth residents will be asked their views on cemeteries and plans to revamp Littlemoor Skatepark following a meeting of the Environment and Services Committee on Wednesday 10th July.
Like many other councils, Weymouth Town Council has a Living Cemeteries policy. This means there are designated areas in each of the...
An update on the position of Cllr Vikki Slade, Leader of BCP Council, following her election as Member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and North Poole.
Vikki Slade, BCP Council Leader, said:
“I am delighted and humbled to have been elected as Member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and North Poole.
“My...
Fourteen years after his election as MP to South Dorset, Richard Grosvenor PLUNKETT-ERNLE-ERLE-DRAX has been defeated (see video). A victim of Nigel Farage's far right insurgency into the minds of some of the public, has seen a Labour MP now in the seat.
A politician who mostly benefited from over...
Apart from North Dorset and Christchurch the Tories have gone from Dorset. Blue has turned to red and orange. Although Simon Hoare and Christopher Chope have retained some blue the following reveals an ambition to rid ourselves of the plague of ineptitude, corruption, lies and greed.
Dorset is now:
Labour...
Green Party Candidate for Poole, Sarah Ward, Condemns Abuse Against Opponents
Sarah Ward, the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Poole, has strongly condemned the recent spate of abuse and hate crimes directed towards her political opponent and his supporters.
"I am utterly appalled to hear of the abuse that the Labour...
OVER 25,000 HAVE NOW BACKED THE CHARTIY’S CAMPAIGN ASKING THE NEXT GOVERNMENT TO SIGN THE VETERANS PLEDGE
The veterans’ charity Help for Heroes is concerned that party manifestos do not go far enough in their commitment to support veterans, and in the last seven days before the General Election is...
Dickie Drax is an aristo
Who wears a posh top hat
He’s from a family of slavers
But we shouldn’t talk about that!
He lords it over South Dorset
Because cap tippers voted him in
Yet doesn’t give a shit for his constituents
Unless they’re blue rinsed and...
