Volunteers have stepped up to turn a rural Dorset chapel into their village’s ‘Other Public House’. Since February, Uploders Methodist Chapel has been opening once a week for Post Office staff to offer counter services to locals. But chapel volunteers and co-ordinators are now seeing the venue grow into more than just a part-time Post […]
A couple who launched their print business a month before the first covid lockdown, but battled back to win a business award have opened new premises with an expanded offering. David and Juanita Prince moved from South Africa and took over Dorchester’s main Post Office in Trinity Street in 2018. They bought Sprint Signs in […]
Weymouth pensioner Bob Roberts has swum into the record books as part of the oldest team to swim the Channel – after an attempt last year ended in a row over the rules. Bob, 75, joined a six-strong team with an average age of over 77 to clinch the record. Last year, Bob was one […]
A celebratory tractor run and raffle raised £1,172 for the Caundle Marsh community. Some 55 tractors assembled on Hiscocks’ farm off the A3030 earlier this month for the fundraising event. Organised by the Caundle Marsh Parochial Church Council and led by James and Di Hiscock, the event saw drivers and other workers lining up for […]
A legal fight to stop the Bibby Stockholm being used as migrant accommodation was being heard in London’s Royal Courts of Justice as we went to press, after a donation from Dame Vanessa Redgrave got the fund over £25,000. If the case, launched by Portland’s mayor Carralyn Parkes, is approved it goes on to judicial […]
Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters? We suggest calling several hundred mates, and head for Dorchester’s Brewery Square donning a white sheet each – ones you don’t mind cutting eye holes in. The shopping and leisure precinct, flanked by the historic Eldridge Pope Brewery buildings, is set to become the venue for a spooky world record […]
Chesil residents are being urged to go to the polls to have a say on future development plans. The Chesil Bank Neighbourhood Plan referendum will be held on September 28 with polling stations open from 7am to 10pm. People must be registered to vote by September 12 and photo ID is now required at polling […]
A rare Roman coin hoard unearthed in Askerswell is on display at Dorset Museum. The hoard of 627 silver denarius coins was recovered in 2017 during a metal detecting rally. It was probably buried in the late 80s AD, as the latest coin found dates to 85 AD. However, the earliest coins date to the […]
Growing up in absolute poverty in 1950s Nottingham, the black child of a single white mum, Sir Kenneth Olisa’s life chances were pretty bleak. His playgrounds were Second World War bomb sites, their bath was a tin thing hung on the wall outside. And yet here he is at 71, the first British-born black person […]
Melplash Agricultural Society has awarded students £34,000 in its scholarship scheme, aiming to encourage further education in agriculture and closely allied topics. The students, aged 16 years and over, all live within a 12-mile radius of Melplash Village Church. The scholarship offers financial assistance with their apprenticeship, diploma or degree course. The financial support will […]