June 19, 2025
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All beer and skittles: you just can’t stop when you do the Dorset Flop!

When Karen Bate, the WDM news editor, asked me to write a story about the Dorset Flop, I was dumbfounded because I thought,

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That Riviera Touch: From high class to Risk List, here is the history of the once glorious art deco hotel in Weymouth

Built between 1936 and 1937, the Riviera Hotel at Bowleaze, Weymouth, had a problematic start when its owner went bankrupt just as construction

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Hardy Farmers Breakfast Club attract bumper crowd at public meeting in Bridport

A public meeting to discuss family farm tax and other pressures in Bridport attracted a bumper crowd. The meeting, organised by Hardy Farmers

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A Chilfrome farmer is on a winner with his exceptional alpaca stock

Farmer Tim Hey swapped his marine career in Tasmania for a life on the land near Cattistock. Tim and his family produce rare,

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Trinity St. Christmas Trees: Making Christmas memories for 35 years

For over 35 years, Pete Hyde and his family have been helping Dorset residents create magical Christmas memories with their locally grown, sustainably

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Langton Herring villagers £650k bid to buy their beloved ‘bouncing bomb’ boozer

Villagers in Langton Herring behind a £650,000 campaign to buy their historic, seaside pub where the ‘bouncing bomb’ was invented, are calling for

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‘Quirky Bridport’ celebrated in book

A book celebrating the quirky, the amusing and tales of the downright odd in Bridport over the centuries has been published by the

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Say hello to the West Dorset Magazine at Dorset County Show

Our illustrious cartoonist Lyndon Wall has created this Roald Dahl inspired front cover of September’s edition of the West Dorset Magazine, especially for

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A Green Man found lurking in Thorncombe Woods

This is the gnarly face of the Green Man who was found lurking in Thorncombe Woods by 12-year-old Spencer, who spotted him when

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Michael Kent from Bothenhampton is our BID winner

We have been overwhelmed with the response to our July competition for a £40 voucher courtesy of Dorchester BID. There can only be

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