A planning application for a 40-acre solar farm near Maiden Newton has now secured the backing from the parish council after a new route into the site has been agreed. While Maiden Newton Parish Council had agreed the application ‘in principle’ councillors were concerned with the amount of ‘construction traffic’ on small narrow lanes. However, […]
Six parishes are preparing a long list of concerns to present to the group that runs their GP surgery. Ammonite Health Partnership has been running the Bridport Medical Practice, Beaminster’s Tunnel Road Surgery and Maiden Newton’s Tollerford Practice since May last year. In the middle of the pandemic, and during summer weather patients put up […]
Coastal erosion in West Dorset is releasing toxic waste from a disused landfill site into the sea. As the coastline at East Beach cliff is washed away by the tide it is revealing plastic, metal and concrete waste that lay buried in the Spittles Lane landfill site since the 1970s. Now scientists at Southampton University […]
A fisherman and conservationist from West Bay who was honoured by the Queen for his work protecting marine life and making his industry more sustainable, has died aged 84. David Sales spent 40 years of his 60-year fishing career in West Bay. He was instrumental in a campaign for a wildlife protection enclosure 60 miles […]
A group of traders who clubbed together to buy a defibrillator, fearing their shops were too far from the nearest one, have saved a person’s life within three weeks of its installation. Shopkeepers in Dorchester’s Durngate Street were shocked when another trader in their street moved to different premises – and took the defibrillator she […]
“It’s about listening to the horses,” says Vendela Eversden of her daughter Rebecca Maslen’s new enterprise, helping anxious young people learn coping strategies using equine assisted learning (EAL). Mum of three Rebecca has loved horses from an early age, having been inspired by her mum’s love for the creatures. Various work in schools, and […]
WHOLLY TRINITY: Chairman Dave Smith, secretary Ian Titterington and bar manager Sean Martin It’s such a traditional concept – a social club offering up classic league games of pool, skittles and darts, alongside bingo, entertainment and snacks. And it’s possibly something very few people under the age of 40 has experienced – I well remember sitting […]
A woman from Maiden Newton who works for a Ukrainian health charity staged a moving gesture of support for her colleagues caught up in the war – with a crowd of people gathering at the village war memorial. Rebekah Webb has been in regular contact with colleagues as Putin’s armies move through their […]
Pictures by Neil Barnes A bevy of older ladies are chatting excitedly when I arrive at Bradpole Village Hall on a Wednesday afternoon. They are looking forward to their weekly ballet class – an incredible 11 of them, with the three oldest members all in their early eighties. “Some of us have metalwork […]
When Colin and Stella Powell packed up their most precious possessions, with their two children, two dogs, six vintage cars and mum Edna in tow and left Australia for England in 1978, they faced life living in a campervan, with nowhere to go during the winter of discontent. But while things were bleak, and certainly […]