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Saturday, October 12, 2024
You may have seen West Dorset 4 EU in Dorchester, Bridport and Weymouth (next stop Blandford) running a street survey using their ‘Brexitometer’, with people queuing up to answer some simple Yes/No/Don’t know questions:   Is Brexit going well? Brexit will be good for jobs? Brexit will be good for the NHS? We need...
Here's our email to the Journalist, sent at 10am on 26/6/18 "What we heard this morning was an uncritical promotion of the 'brave new world'. Debby was on for less than a minute, at 7.17. We won't even put it on the FB page as it is simple propaganda for the...
`Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and Humour Book of the Year Winner of the Books Are My Bag Book of the Year Winner of iBooks' Book of...
Detectives investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal powerboat collision on behalf of the coroner are appealing for witnesses or anyone with video footage to come forward. Dorset Police was called at 3.13pm on Sunday 24 June 2018 to reports that a powerboat had overturned after colliding with another powerboat off...
Sedums are hard to beat. There are endless varieties and if you can get hold of a piece off someone's dry wall costing you zilch (I've taken bits growing from customers' rotten window sills and roof tiles while doing sash window restorations) poke them into compost or into the ground...
Lovers of outdoor film will be thrilled to hear that there are two wonderful films lined up to be shown at this years FREE open-air cinema event which is being held at Maumbury Rings in Dorchester on Saturday 21 July.   The first film, The Lion King, will be shown...
Nabil Amra is about to race his 38ft yacht around the world in the second edition of the Golden Globe Race, leaving France on the 1st July. Why’s this important to lefties? He’s flying the Palestinian flag. I will be upfront here and say that I am one of “Labour’s...
Sometimes we’re all in a hurry and need something quick to eat and being vegan can, on occasion, really limit you when you’re on the go (I can’t tell you how many time’s I’ve had to have a packet of crisps or peanut brittle for my lunch while out...
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...
The Wildlife Trusts are asking the public to add their “wave of support” to 41 potential new Marine Conservation Zones in England, following the announcement last week that a 6-week public consultation period has started to decide whether the new sites should be designated.   Six out of the 41 proposed...