Barbarism begins at homeLast year the artist Banksy burst into the Glastonbury Festival with his very clever moving art-piece called Sirens of the Lambs, which shows the screaming faces of lambs crying out from a truck bound for slaughter of the most unimaginably corrupt and vicious savagery. Michael Eavis,...
Local Green Party parliamentary candidate for West Dorset, Peter Barton said “I want to express to the electorate of West Dorset my strong support for the recent call from National Debtline for the establishment by government of free debt advice. National Debtline has reported that it received over three...
Thomas Hardy knew about the meaning of Brown in Dorset landscapes. The Return of the Native starts "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of...
Works will start in West Bay on Monday 13 April to make changes to the traffic management scheme. The pinch point at Haddon House will be widened, and a clearer pedestrian crossing facility introduced at St John’s Church.These changes were agreed by West Dorset District Council’s Executive Committee in July...
This May, Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT) Kingcombe Centre is celebrating the sounds of spring by inviting people to come and experience the unique and special songs of the dawn chorus on DWT’s Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve in west Dorset. On Friday 1st May – Sunday 3rd May, the Kingcombe...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is pleased to be taking part in the Bournemouth Natural Science Society’s (BNSS) open day on Saturday 11th April, with a series of wildlife gardening workshops. DWT experts will be available all day, on hand to offer wildlife friendly gardening advice, with hands-on workshops,...
In a project led by Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) and supported by the Mayor of Dorchester, Dorset’s county town will receive the first ever community grass free lawn to be planted in the UK on 6thApril (Easter Monday), in Dorchester’s Borough Gardens. Since September 2014, DWT has distributed 1,500...
Throughout the UK, not least here in West Dorset, areas of agricultural land and brownfield sites are being used to produce renewable energy from solar farms. Somerset-based British Solar Renewables recognise that these sites offer an unparalleled opportunity to actively promote biodiversity and have commissioned a West Dorset organisation...
Families are quids in at Bridport Electric Palace this Easter. The entertainment venue in South Street is screening a programme of classic family films, with tickets at just £1 to see each one. Drinks, popcorn and ice creams will also be £1. The movies will be shown on the...
"A sort of civilised St. Trinians," was how guest speaker Rev. Vicky Thurtell described the Dorchester Grammar School for Girls- widely known as the Green School from the colour of their uniforms- including their underclothing! The Vicar of St Peters, Dorchester, soon to become Canon Precentor at Exeter Cathedral,...
