Real West Dorset
Blog URL http://www.realwestdorset.co.uk
Located Bridport, Dorset United Kingdom
Tags Bridport, Beaminster, Lyme Regis, Dorset news, Dorset culture, Dorset business, Dorset food and drink, Dorset environment
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- Take this Sword of Damocles away from our coast, says Dorset Wildlife Trust on Nov 19, 2009 in Environment Lyme Regis News Dorset Wildlife Trust Jurassic Coast
DORSET Wildlife Trust claims that 10 oil tankers sitting in Lyme Bay, waiting for oil prices to rise, are “an accident waiting to happen”. Tankers parked off the coast near Brixham are thought to be earning oil speculators £1 mil...
- Pilsdon the model for new woodland commune in Somerset on Nov 19, 2009 in Beaminster Books Bridport Culture News Pilsdon Community Tobias Jones
THE WRITER Tobias Jones has sold his house in Bristol and bought 10 acres of woodland in Somerset so that he and his family can set up a commune modelled on the Pilsdon Community in the Marshwood Vale. Pilsdon is a Christian refuge for people with...
- Take this Sword of Damocles away from our coast, says Dorset Wildlife Trust on Nov 19, 2009 in Bridport Environment Lyme Regis News Dorset Wildlife Trust Jurassic Coast
DORSET Wildlife Trust claims that 10 oil tankers sitting in Lyme Bay, waiting for oil prices to rise, are “an accident waiting to happen”. Tankers parked off the coast near Brixham are thought to be earning oil speculators £1 mil...
- Underground carbon storage proposed for Dorset: money-spinner or death trap? on Nov 18, 2009 in Business Environment News Politics carbon storage Portland Gas Portland Port
Note: This article was first published in October. It’s been slightly revised and is being republished now because of the Government’s anouncement, in the Queen’s Speech today, that it’s going to legislate for four carb...
- Er… Um… Ah on Nov 17, 2009 in Books Bridport Culture Bridport Arts Centre Bridport Old Books countertext09 Nigel Slight
I POPPED in to Bridport Old Books and Caroline said to me: “Here, try this.” So I put some headphones on and listened to what sounded like a conversation with all the interesting bits taken out. Er – pause – like – pause – ah – pause…...
- Phallic garden feature provokes fresh speculation about date of Cerne Abbas giant on Nov 17, 2009 in Culture News Cerne Abbas giant
YOU MUST read this: a piece in The Times about how an abandoned garden in Cerne Abbas suggests the giant was created in the late 16th or early 17th century. Click on this link here. The Times refers to a letter in Current Archaeology magazine in wh...
- “Who knows what a man who has drunk a lot of cider might get up to?” on Nov 16, 2009 in Beaminster Books Bridport Culture Andrew Pastor Drimpton Village Voices
Review of Who Were We? Connecting the lives of a 19th century Dorset community by Andrew Pastor, Village Voices, £14.95 paperback ON EVERY page of the new Drimpton Village Voices book Who Were We? there’s something that catches the eye. The...
