This summer, we’re once again encouraging residents and visitors to celebrate Dorset’s roadside verges as havens for biodiversity and wildlife with the ‘Love Your Verge’ campaign.Love Your Verge is a collaboration between our Coast and Greenspace Service and Litter Free Dorset to raise awareness about the biodiversity in verges.By...
If you think giant pandas had it bad, spare a thought for the tiny parasitic mites that live in the pores of the skin on our faces which may be destined for an evolutionary dead-end, according to a new analysis of their DNA.
More than 90% of us host the...
East Dorset Friends of the Earth (EDFOE) is marking the 50th anniversary of the Stockholm Declaration of June 16th 1972 with a plea to local politicians and MPs to redouble their efforts to tackle environmental imperatives.
EDFOE spokesman Dr. Martin Price says: “It is now 50 years since the world...
If you are planning a new build, an extension or conversion of your home, then the changes to the building regulations are important.
Building regulations make sure that any work done on a property is up to a certain standard.
From 15 June changes to the nation-wide regulations aim to improve...
The coast between Freshwater and West Bay Harbour is similar to that at Burton Bradstock with near vertical cliffs of Bridport Sand but lacking the Inferior Oolite and Fullers Earth / Frome Clay capping. Again rock falls are a common hazard and care should be taken and when walking along...
Caroline Dennett, from Weymouth, Dorset spent more than a decade as a safety consultant working with frontline employees at oil company Shell.
What prompted her to make a very public resignation from working with the company and urging others to follow suit?
The resignation email:
Following this very public resignation the...
This walk starts at the village of Poxwell just to the east of the turning to Ringsteadoff the A353 at GR SY742835 (nearest postcode is DT2 8ND). There is limited parking at this site and in winter the ground can be very muddy! To follow this walk it is recommended you...
The next section of this coastal traverse starts on the east side of Lyme Regis and can be accessed via the car park on Charmouth Road (A3052). From the car park it is possible to reach the beach via steps that have been recently put in place taking you down...
Purbeck has had a successful stone industry for centuries and continues today with a number of active quarries. The Portland and Purbeck limestone of late Jurassic and early Cretaceous age (140-150 million years old) is exploited for example at Swanworth Quarry and Keates Quarry near Worth Matravers and Langton Matravers respectively. The stone...
Our aim is to make the UK a cleaner, greener place for everyone to enjoy. That’s why we’ve created our biggest ever beach clean campaign: the Million Mile Clean. We’re mobilising 100,000 people each year to get out there and protect the areas they love.
Beach, street, river or mountain,...
