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Saturday, May 18, 2024
Bridport held two events as part of this year’s “We Shall Overcome”. A midweek talk on the recent history of protest music was followed by a day of music at The Ropemakers pub on Saturday 8th October – all of which raised hundreds of pounds for the local Cupboard...
The work to bring Dorchester’s Shire Hall back to life has been recognised with a prestigious award nod. The building conservation work on the Grade-I listed historic courthouse, which re-opened as a new tourism attraction in May last year, has been shortlisted for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)...
Songs and stories of migration echoed around the Georgian courtroom of Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum on Wednesday night (June 13th), for Matthew Crampton and Jeff Warner’s touring show, ‘Human Cargo’. The two folk performers used the humour, poignancy and hard-hitting facts of true stories to tell the tales of...

Statement on the refugee crisis

Statement from Councillor Anthony Alford, Leader of West Dorset District Council: All of us will have been moved by the distressing images of human suffering in the wake of the refugee crisis. We will have heard the announcement yesterday that the United Kingdom will welcome a large number of refugees...
The District Council and Lyme Regis Town Council are delighted to be working together to support local projects in and around Lyme Regis. Cllr Daryl Turner, ward member for Lyme Regis and Charmouth, said: “We appreciate the effect that grants like these can have on local sport, cultural and community projects....
West Dorset District Council (WDDC) and London Dorchester Committee Trust (LDCT) secure Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) investment. The district council and LDCT have received a confirmed grant of £1.5m from the HLF for the Shire Hall project. The project will see the Grade I listed building transformed into a...
All fans of Broadchurch are being encourage to enter Visit Dorset’s competition to win an exclusive Broadchurch themed prize. To celebrate the release of the Broadchurch Original Soundtrack, Universal Music has teamed up with Visit Dorset, the award winning Lyme Bay RIB Charter and the Ships Galley Kiosk...
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