25 YEARS AGO

APRIL 1 1994

BAKERS EXPANSION: A scheme by Bridport bakers, H. G. Hussey and Sons, to expand by swapping premises with a financial services office has been approved by planners.

The bakers want to expand into the Alliance and Leicester office next door to their West Street shop, turning it into a combined shop and coffee bar.

CLIFF WARNING: A sign warning of the dangers of the cliffs, the tides and the perils of swimming in the lagoon that forms on beach will be put up at Seatown.

This follows four years of requests to West Dorset District Council and the most serious landslip at Seatown for more than 100 years.

MEMORIAL CLEANING: People doing community service orders may be brought in to clean Chideock war memorial.

Chideock parish councillors discussed what materials the offenders should use. Some were worried that the proposed combination of water and Demestos would not do the job and others feared that the existing damage could be worsened.

50 YEARS AGO

MARCH 28 1969

CELEBRATIONS: A Netherbury man, the only survivor when a tank was blown up in the First World War, has just celebrated his golden wedding.

Mr Ted Harfield, of Bloomfield Cottage, was seconded to the 5th Tank Battalion of the Royal Tank Corps and spent most of the war deep in the mud and horrors of Flanders.

FIRST CHINESE RESTAURANT: Mr Yiu Wah Wong, who will shortly be opening Bridport’s first Chinese restaurant – the Pagoda in East Street – has been given permission by Bridport Licensing Justices to serve drinks.

NOISE COMPLAINT: A Bridport housewife who greeted her neighbours with blasts of ‘Top of the Pops’ when they went into the garden was warned by Judge David Pennant at Bridport County Court: “If you do this again you will go to prison.”

Mrs. Helen Rendell of East Road was brought before the judge by her next-door neighbours to enforce an injunction which forbade Mrs. Rendell from making excessive noise with her radio.