25 YEARS AGO:

July, 16 1993

GLORY: Top gun Lee Bowditch has his sights set on international glory after being called up to represent Britain in the European Clay Pigeon Championships.

It is thought Lee will become the first Beaminster sportsman to compete for Britain when he takes part in the championships in Czechoslovakia next month.

Lee (33) of East Street, has qualified for Britain's three-man team in the Olympic skeet discipline.

FUNDRAISING: Runners helped coin in more than £2000 in the thirteenth Charmouth Challenge and fun run.

The combined profit realised from the two events, and from Charmouth Primary School's annual fete the same day, boosted the school's Parent Teachers' Association funds by £2240.

BIGGER: There is no denying the annual lifeboat week programme at Lyme Regis is one of the most comprehensive in the country, and this year it is bigger than ever.

The organisers, the dynamic Lyme Regis Lifeboat Guild, have compiled a programme to please all tastes and to swell the coffers of the RNLI, which depends on the generosity of the public to maintain its superb life-saving record.

50 YEARS AGO:

July, 12 1968

FETE: For many people, the annual church fete at Chideock is "a real social occasion".

And this year, the 'social' atmosphere was enhanced by the fact that visitors were invited into the vicarage wine cellar to titilate their palates with the delicate flavours of beautifully blended ciders.

The fete, held in the Vicarage grounds and in Dr W. D. Osmands Vicarage, was a very pleasant and incidentally a sober affair.

PRAISE: Lyme Regis Art Group, which opened its 11th annual exhibition in the Methodist Church Hall on Monday, has received high praise from a well-known artist.

Among the early visitors, the exhibition is open until July 22, was E. H. Lloyd, an artist who has been featured in one-man exhibitions in London.

FRUITY: If, as Mr Victor Montagu of Mapperton House, says, "money is not always everything", then it is only to be hoped that the magnificent orangery recently erected in the grounds of his home, will, indeed, stand as he hopes, "for many hundreds of years".