25 YEARS AGO:

August, 13 1993

FAIR: Charmouth Fair is expected to have grossed around £5000 when takings and cash from associated attractions are added up.

Sunday's event featured Lyme Regis Junior Band, Lyme Majorettes, helicopter rides, a children's fancy dress competition and a dog show.

And a group of superbly dressed village girls formed a dance group and entertained a crowd of around 1000 at the village playing field.

MUSICAL: Two musicians from Lyme Regis Woodroffe School, taught by Tom Forward of the Dorset Music Support Service, have been accepted into County Youth orchestras.

They are alto-saxophonists John Kingscott from Chideock and Anna Labrom of Lyme Regis.

GOLDEN: School boy antics led to a lifelong romance for Shipton Gorge couple, Ronald and Thelma Dean, who celebrate their Golden Wedding.

The animal-loving pair, both aged 70, met in 1937 when Ronald's friend kicked a football at Thelma's dog while she was out walking in Eltham, South East London.

50 YEARS AGO:

August, 9 1968

FUN: The sports day and flower show at Shave Cross is the great summer attraction for everyone in Marshwood Vale.

Crowds from the scattered villages as well as passing holidaymakers crowded onto the field, now the long-established rendezvous for local sportsman and women and for keen amateur gardeners.

By two o'clock on Saturday, when the judges had long since gone for lunch, the children were milling round the sports track in nervous anticipation while Jack Chubb and Charlie Wensley counted up their first, second and third awards (they gained 45 and 43 points respectively) just to check which cups they had won this year.

CROSSING: A Bridport man was on the first-ever cross-channel passenger and car-carrying Hovercraft flight on Thursday of last week.

Mr Fred Rumney, manager of Messrs R. M. Gillingham and Son, the Bridport travel agents, was among the 100 passengers on the world's largest hovercraft, the 165-ton Mount-batten class SR N4, on the maiden voyage from Dover to Boulogne.

CAPTAIN: A Lyme-born boy will be captaining the England Schools' cricket team against the Public Schools at Portsmouth.

The honour of leading the national side in the match, was given to 15-year-old Andrew Marsh.