Everything is set for hundreds of witches, ghosts, cats and vampires to descend on Lyme Regis Seafront in the Lyme Slime 2K Fun Run this Saturday 29th October, at 11am. The ‘Lyme Slime Halloween Festival’, is a new extraordinary Halloween event for all the family, which will give participants...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is excited to learn that a seal photographed at Portland Bill twice over the last few days, is also known in Cornwall. The female grey seal, named, ‘Molar’ was recorded by Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust (CSGRT) in St Austell Bay in November 2014, and...
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...
This was our beautiful sixteen month old Labrador Tess just two weeks ago, after she won four rosettes at the local fun dog show.. Yet just yesterday Tess was fighting for her life with heart failure for the second time in six months. Unfortunately, in April this year we...
On Tuesday 11th October, the fifth Story Slam, the first event of the 2016 Bridport Open Book Festival, was the proverbial champagne bottle smashed on the side of the splendid new Bridport Arts Centre Café. The Slam is the literary baby of local writer Frances Colville and she was...
Residents of Dorset can soon once again live peacefully and at ease knowing that the slaughter of badgers is now stopping. Hundreds of badgers will have been slaughtered without mercy in Dorset , backed by the government and defended by the NFU. The NFU claims that slaughtering badgers is...
Following several trips to France to witness events first hand, Bridport's refugee solidarity group “Team Calais” is hosting a special evening at their base at the Chapel in the Garden to raise awareness and funds for those forced to seek refuge outside their home countries. On Saturday 22nd October...
Volunteers from the Richmond Fellowship group based in Poole will be hanging up their spades for the final time this month, after 8 years of volunteering with Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT). The group have given up their time to take part in a wide variety of vital conservation work,...
Thurs 3 Nov Bridport Electric Palace FILM: Bridget Jones’s Baby (15) (2016) 123mins Starts 7.30pm £4 on the door After breaking up with Mark Darcy (Firth), Bridget Jones’s (Zellweger), “happily ever after” hasn’t quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job...
Mark Doggrell huntmaster of the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale hunt has evaded prosecution for a second time. Last month he appeared in Court on a GBH charge when he ran over a hunt saboteur whilst driving his horse at 15 miles an hour. Despite video evidence the jury did...
