25 YEARS AGO:

April 16, 1993:

HAPPY: Henry Smith and his wife Margaret received a cheque on behalf of the West Dorset Group of the Wessex Kidney Fund.

Double transplant patient, Mr Smith, of Lower Monkwood Farm, near Bridport, organised a dance at Broadwindsor's Comrades Hall to raise cash for the voluntary support group.

He and his wife officially received the proceeds for the fund when Tina Cornish, manager of the National and Provincial Building Society's Bridport agency, handed him a £420 cheque.

WINNER: A trip of a lifetime is lined up for a Lyme Regis schoolgirl who holds the Guides' most prestigious award.

Harriet Marsh (16), holder of a Baden Powell Trefoil Award, will jet off to Thailand in July after being chosen to go on a three week visit to east Asia to promote international relations between Guides.

BEAUTIFUL: Demonstrations of facial treatment and hair colouring were among the attractions at a Lyme Regis beauty and fashion show which raised almost £300 for the town's boy's club.

50 YEARS AGO:

April 12, 1968:

LANDSLIP: Suddenly, silently on Saturday evening, the whole face of Eype Beach was changed.

Hundreds of ton of cliff face plunged to the beach below forming another promontory jutting into the sea.

The tide was coming in at the time and when the masses of clay fell, the sea came to meet them, causing a massive pile up of earth and shingle.

BIRTHDAY: One of the oldest women in the British Isles, Mrs Frances Maud Wilson, a permanent resident at the Buckfield Nursing Home, Lyme Regis, since 1962, celebrated her 105th birthday on Sunday.

ARTIST: When nine years-old Susan Stork, of 6, Bridge Road, Charmouth, let her imagination run riot in colouring a picture of animals in Regent's Park Zoo for a national children's painting competition, little did she realise that her entry would win her a super painting set.