'Austerity for normal people and tax breaks for rich. So London areas such as Westminster undertake social cleansing , closing social housing and selling land for appartments to foreign money launderers. Weymouth and towns like it with cheap housing take from the capital in terms of vulnerable people. At...
A new ‘Guide to Services’ will be delivered to parts of Weymouth next week. The leaflet is a pilot produced by the Melcombe Regis Board. It aims to help residents find out about essential services that are available to them. The leaflet will be delivered to Melcombe Regis and...
'Every year, we distribute millions of pounds of the National Lottery's good cause money to community groups and charitable projects around the UK' is the narrative at the top of the National Lottery web page. And then 50 Tories come along and: 'These are the 50 Tory MPs that...
Time and time again the lovelies are gatecrashed by a Mr or Ms Charming. The one who should understand irony and keep his/her thoughts to themselves or a Nazi rally. Today it's a certain person under the avatar Ben Cfc Pamphfflon. For your pleasure here are just some of...
Just so you know. Some are suggesting that people find a way to keep at least some of it common land to be enjoyed by us all. https://m.dorsetforyou.gov.uk/land-disposal-notification Are you concerned? Let us know at https://dorseteye.com/contact
The roll out of Universal Credit will be introduced on 6 December 2017 at Weymouth and Bridport Job Centres. From this point onwards, most working age customers making a new claim for benefits will be required to claim Universal Credit instead. Some Residents, such as those who are single...
Weymouth & Portland, with their multi-millionaire Tory MP, Tory-led Borough Council, and Tory-led County Council, is third from bottom in the latest national social mobility index. That means kids from the most deprived parts of the town have the third poorest life chances in the country. Simon Bowkett
According to research by Cardiff University and the University of Sussex it has been found that business leaders are 19 times more likely to interviewed by the BBC than trade union representatives, even though the latter is the largest democratic body in the country with six million members. The...
We are told that the Verne detention centre will be closed at the end of 2017. But is it really closing in the minds of those who were detained there? ‘Juan’ from Freed Voices responds to this news with this poem. The Verne is closing but for those of...
A man who had collapsed was helped by environmental enforcement officers. The incident happened near Weymouth Pavilion last week (2/11), when the man who was suffering from a Hypoglycaemic event (a potentially life threating diabetic episode), was discovered by Roger Anthony , who was on duty as a 3GS...
