Here's what was making the News headlines 50 and 25 years ago

TRAFFIC CALMING: Plans to eliminate Bridport’s traffic congestion have been prepared by Bridport and District Ratepayers and Residents’ Association.

The Ratepayers’ Association claim the obvious answer to the problem is a by-pass.

HINT OF THE MONTH: ‘Pedestrians look longer and live longer’ is this month’s hint from the Bridport Lyme Regis and District Road Safety Committee.

At their meeting on Monday, committee members heard that five pedestrians, three of them children, were involved in accidents last month.

The youngsters age two, seven and nine, were only sightly injured.

APPEAL: An Appeal by Mr and Mrs H T Huxter against the decisions of Bridport Rural District Council to refuse planning permission for the continued use of land at Broadlands, Chideock, for the stationing of one caravan, has been allowed by the Minister of Housing and Local Government.

The appeal site is in the South-East corner or a 10-acre field behind houses on the South side of the A35 road.

RE-HALLOWED: The eight bells of St Mary’s Church, Beaminster, are to be re-hallowed by the Bishop of Salisbury Dr Joseph Fison at a special service in the Parish Church on the evening of 17th December.

25 YEARS AGO

Friday October 16, 1992

HOUSING MOVE: Tenants look set to play a key role in managing 5,300 homes in West Dorset when a housing association take over the properties from the district council.

The wholesale transfer at a cost of up to £50 million has bene backed by 77 per cent of the tenants.

WINDFALL: West Bay’s chapel on the beach is to receive a £3,000 windfall - a legacy from a man who lived at the resort for just a year.

Mr Leonard May, of Newbury, died in August, leaving estate valued at between £25,000 and £40,000.

HELPING HAND: Boxes of equipment are being sent out to Romania from Bridport tomorrow in a combined effort to aid a school in Moldavia.

Pupils from St Mary’s and County Primary have collected items ranging form rulers to warm clothes following a challenge issued by Mrs Mary Gibson, founder of the Romanian Orphanage Trust.

PRAISE: Dorset Health Authority have been praised for their support of the new Joseph Weld hospice, being built at Dorchester.
They are funding eight beds at the hospice will will take in patients from the Bridport area.