SAT 1 ROCKPOOL RAMBLE, 2.30 – 4pm, Fine Foundation Marine Centre, Kimmeridge. Celebrate Marine Week. Join us at the best rockpooling site in Dorset. Short walk involved. Weather dependent. £3 adult/£1.50 child.Chesil Beach Centre, halfway along the A354 between Weymouth and Portland. Post code: DT4 9XE. Phone 01305 206191...
Bridport and surrounding area is captured beautifully 64 years ago. Narrated by Richard Dimbleby it is a wonderful opportunity for some nostalgia and history. Come With Me To Bridport
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is asking for help from members of the public to ensure the continued protection of heathland and the wildlife habitats in it, by joining the ‘Heathwatch’ scheme. Heathwatch was set up in consultation with Dorset Police, Dorset Fire and Rescue and the Urban Heaths partnership...
The online wildlife recording site ‘Living Record’, developed in Dorset for use anywhere in the country, has reached 500,000 records for 6,800 species across the UK. Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is one of many local conservation organisations championing the system. DWT’s Great Heath Living Landscape project is encouraging its...
After yesterday's blog about describing the opening salvo's in the propaganda war that's started in advance of the Rampisham Solar Farm public inquiry, more shots come thick and fast. Dorset Eye, a Dorset community media website, have published a piece from Hannah Lovegrove who has launched a scathing attack...
WHAT’S ON AUGUST Sat 8th Little Strummers 11am to 12pm Seaside + free film at 12pm £5 per child on the door Little Strummers is a music group for children aged three to seven years. Parents accompany their children who will learn about rhythm, percussion, playing and performing in...
Businesses in Bridport have thrown their weight behind a campaign for a pan-Dorset network of chambers of commerce to fight the county’s corner. Bridport Business has become the fifth town chamber – and the first in the west of the county - to become affiliated to the Dorset Chamber...
The Information Commissioner recently posed the question, “Are charities taking advantage of people's generosity, or indeed just taking advantage of people full stop?” People put their faith in these organisations, and trust that they will present a true and accurate picture of matters of interest to their membership, that...
The Magic Oxygen Literary Prize is a truly unique writing competition. The inaugural contest took place last year and the organisers, Magic Oxygen Publishing, planted a tree for every entry and gave away £3,000 in prize money. They also started building an urgently needed classroom at Kundeni Primary School...
West Dorset District Council’s engineers have scooped a top award at a recent ceremony hosted by the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) in Bristol. The pioneering Lyme Regis Environmental Improvements Phase IV scheme beat off 14 competitors to take home the ICE South West Major Project of the Year...
