25 YEARS AGO

SEPTEMBER 30, 1994

BRAVERY AWARD: Three Bridport men who saved two motorists from burning alive in their cars have been honoured for their bravery.

Raymnd McMaster, Michael Smith and Danny Adams were each presented with the Giancarlo Tofi award at Dorset Police Headquarters in Windfriith.

The accident happened in November 1992 on the A35 between Bridport and Dorchester. Two cars collided head-on and both drivers were trapped.

NEW LABORATORIES: Five new science and technology laboratories are to be built in one go at Beaminster School.

Dorset County Council’s education planning and development sub-committee agreed to go ahead with a scheme costing £828,000, after being told that school governors were prepared to contribute up to £300,000.

BUSINESS TOO BIG: A multi-million pound business based in Bridport is going to be sold, because it’s getting too big for its owner.

Netherbury inventor Harold Poole is the creator of Miklink, a hitching device for bicycles to pull a trailer carrying up to 23 stones in weight.

Tens of thousands of Miklinks are soon going to be made in China and Africa.

50 YEARS AGO

SEPTEMBER 26, 1969

NO CROSSING: There is to be no pedestrian crossing in St Andrew’s, Bridport, after all. At a town council meeting, the borough engineer, Mr F. M. Watts, submitted details of the pedestrian census, taken on July 11 and 16, which showed totals of 419 and 494 respectively.

The county surveyor had indicated that the Ministry of Transport recommended that crossings were normally not appropriate when the value of the formula for pedestrians and vehicles was less than 100 million.

BIN MYSTERY: The case of a vanishing litter bin remains unsolved. The town council received a request from a licensed taxi driver for the council to remove the bin in West Street car park as it was advertising the services of a non-licensed taxi driver.

It was reported that it has now been un-lawfully removed and attempts to find it had failed.

CLIFF TO FALL: A party of geologists who have been studying the cliffs along Charmouth beach have discovered that they are still very much “alive”.

Mr B. W. Conway, the man in charge of operations, believes that another major cliff fall is likely in the not too distant future.