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Dorset
Friday, January 10, 2025
Dorset Arts Festival, the smash-hit event of summer 2020, makes a welcome return to Sculpture by the Lakes in Dorset in June 2021 - even bigger and better than before. Following the sell-out success of last year’s inaugural event Sculpture by the Lakes is launching Dorset Arts Festival 2021, which...
Weymouth Town Council, St Mary’s Church and the RSPB have teamed up to produce a series of short videos to promote wellbeing. The videos will encourage residents to take time to observe, explore and enjoy the Lodmoor and Radipole Lake Nature Reserves, known as the Weymouth Wetlands. They will also offer simple craft...
Local Bournemouth businessmen Ty Temel, Jamie Whisken and Ben Reynolds, founders of R1SE Gym, have teamed up with Dorset Mind once again to inspire local people to reap the benefits of exercise on mental health and raise vital funds for the mental health charity at the same time.   Almost 200 people took part in ‘The June 500’ last year,...
New research shows that over 11,600 jobs could be created in Dorset across green infrastructure and care work in the next two years, rising to more than 27,000 over 10 years.   The data, compiled by Green New Deal UK, shows that Dorset is likely to suffer over 26,000 permanent...
Having read Gillian Tett’s article (“How the Kit Kat went global”, Magazine, FT Weekend, March 20) I find it odd such a lengthy piece did not arouse any interest in the origin of the name. Our family believed, in Tett’s words, that “Kit Kat” was the product of the...
Following much conjecture which included one theory that aliens had landed, the mystery of the sonic boom that could be heard over much of Dorset on Saturday looks like it has been solved. It transpires that the sound came from a 'fireball meteor'. https://twitter.com/simon_sat/status/1373374924597891075?s=20 It was heard in Dorchester and Weymouth amongst...
Peoples assembly green plan
Following on from https://dorseteye.com/peoples-assemblies-on-the-dorset-local-plan-consultation/ Another on Saturday 6th March 2-4pm The Dorset Local Plan is out for public consultation and ends on 15 March 2021. The Plan will last at least until 2038, so will shape all development for the next 17 years – that’s a long time.  Anything built in that time will leave a...
If we don't contribute now we will not get another chance until at least 2038. The assemblies are open to everyone. They will give people an opportunity to explore the issues around the proposed local plan, express their concerns, things they like and want to support, ideas for improvement and...

Defibrillator Awareness

Have you come across Defibagram yet? Defibagram is a Defibrillator Awareness Campaign for the South West and beyond.Two years ago Defibagram was a play on words, an idea. Today, we've mapped more than 240 defibrillators (outdoors and indoors) across the South West. Dorset based, we're on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest...
Shower. Not a bath, a shower. Use water as hot or cold as you like. You don’t even need to wash. Just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. Sit on the floor if you gotta. Moisturize everything. Use whatever lotion you like....