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  • Rotarian helps keep India free from polio

    A PAST president of Bridport Rotary Club has been helping to immunise children against polio in India. Clive Bath joined a group of 40 Rotarians from the UK, Belgium and Luxembourg in Delhi to take part in the National Immunisation Day organised

  • Applications now accepted for Bridport Community Fund

    APPLICATIONS are being invited to the Bridport Area Community Fund 2014 which opens on Monday, March 17. Local charities and community groups have until May 30, 2014 to apply for grants ranging from £50 - £3,000. The grants are funded from

  • Opening extension to waste site

    PERMISSION has been granted for Bridport’s temporary waste recycling centre to operate for a further 18 months. The Household Recycling Centre in South Street was opened as a stop-gap measure after the Bothenhampton tip closed in the mid-1990s.

  • Storm-battered Cobb in need of restoration

    STRUCTURAL and surface repairs to the historic Cobb in Lyme Regis could cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. The Grade I-listed structure, which was originally built in the medieval period, bore the brunt of the winter storms that battered Lyme

  • Bridport celebrates International Women's Day

    SISTERS did it for themselves in Bridport to mark International Women’s Day. And grandmothers, daughters and children danced in the street on Saturday, March 8, as part of a weekend of celebrations and activities. The programme was organised

  • Rare creature from the deep washes up on Dorset beach

    A RARE sea creature which is only usually seen at the depths of the ocean was found washed up on a Dorset beach. Biomedical scientist Paul Harris was walking along West Bexington Beach when he stumbled upon a Sea Mouse, which can usually be found

  • Concerns over mortuary cost cutting in county

    GRIEVING West Dorset families will face having to travel to the other side of Dorset to say a final farewell to loved ones in the latest round of cost-cutting initiatives. Dorset County Council, which pays Dorset County Hospital for mortuary services

  • Repair to the Cobb after storm damage could cost £100,000

    STRUCTURAL and surface repairs to the historic Cobb in Lyme Regis could cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. The Grade I-listed structure, which was originally built in the medieval period, bore the brunt of the winter storms that battered Lyme