25 YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 18 1994

SCHOOL PLAN: County cash looks set to be poured into a scheme to integrate handicapped youngsters into a mainstream local school.

The £182,000 project to create facilities for the disabled at Beaminster School will be discussed when councillors consider the education authority’s minor capital works programme.

Thousands of pounds are also earmarked for improvements to voluntary aided primary schools at Powerstock and Symondsbury.

FAREWELL: Bradpole bells rang out in a special farewell quarter-peel for Bridport area team vicar the Reverend Richard Tebbs and his family.

Mr Tebbs, his wife Lynn and their three young children, Sarah, Helen and Andrew, are due to travel to his new parish in Yelverton, where he will be team rector.

Mr Tebbs was also chairman of the local Council of Churches, steering the organisation through the change to Churches Together in Bridport and District.

BIG DAY: Norman Welsh has been swamped with offers of help since he appealed in the News for a posh outfit for his Palace trip in march.

The pensioner, who has raised thousands of pounds for the RNLI in Lyme Regis, has had offers of morning suits, transport to London and even overnight accommodation.

But Norman’s big day will be taken care of by a national newspaper which will pick up the bill for his outfit and luxury transport to London.

50 YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 14 1969

DANCE BUS DISORDER: Trouble on the ‘late night dance bus’ from Lyme Regis to Bridport ended in two west Dorset men being fined £5 each at Bridport court.

The Bridport men, 24-year-old Andrew Scourey and 22-year-old Robert William Bishop both denied behaving in a disorderly manner on the Southern National bus.

VALENTINE’S DRINK: It is too late to buy those Valentine cards now but its not too late to enjoy a late drink at Bridport’s Concord Club tonight.

There is a party in the Barrack Street club and Grayham Rosamund will be there singing until 1am.

PETROL APPEAL: The Minister of Housing and Local Government has dismissed an appeal by Mr and Mrs R. J. Heavans against the decision of Beaminster R.D.C. to refuse planning permission for the erection of a petrol filling station on land at the village stores, Salway Ash.

The appeal site contains the forecourt and lay-by of the stores. Salway Ash lies within an area that has not been allocated for development on the approved county development plan and is on a narrow-classified road.