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Carolyne Kardia opens up for Dorset Art Weeks

THE SCUPLTOR and painter Carolyne Kardia is taking part in Dorset Art Weeks every day (except Thursdays) between Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, June ...

Video: New bench fitted in Tudor Arcade, Dorchester

The new oak bench made for Tudor Arcade in Dorchester by Simon Thomas Pirie Furniture has been installed and is now “officially open”, ...

Dorset maker Guy Martin opens up for Dorset Art Weeks

THE SCUPLTOR and furniture maker Guy Martin is taking part in Dorset Art Weeks every day between Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, June 10. To mark the ...

New Dorset bench is A: throne? B: love seat? C: question mark? D: fun?

Or E: All of those things and more? The answer, of course, is E, certainly in the eyes of its makers – the team at Simon Thomas Pirie Furnitu...

Lush Places: a love letter to our local

OUR PUB re-opens next week and we're getting very excited. Oh how we've missed it. A couple of months ago, when it seemed all hope was lost, Lush P...

Why West Dorset has two CAMRA Pubs of the Year

MEMBERS of the West Dorset branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) have broken with tradition and picked - not one - but two Pubs of the Year. ...

Rare food to return to Bridport for one day only

The good folk of Bridport will be offered the chance to enjoy, for one day only, a delicacy that most of them will not have seen or tasted in decad...

Lush Places: who knows what tomorrow brings?

IN 2011, we lost our village shop. Our pub has been closed for the last three months. There are only rumours coming from the-brewery-with-no-apostr...

Dutch theme park proposed as Dorset tourist attraction

Put an artificial skating rink in the Square, glue a few rooks up in trees and invest in a couple of tons of artificial snow and tourists will floc...

Hunt for Thomas Hardy’s lost Dorset cider apple

My plan is to start a small cider orchard. It would be wonderful to find Thomas Hardy's Bockhampton Sweet and even more wonderful if it happened to...

“Precious little ‘democracy’” at West Dorset District Council

"Much that I’d been warned about in relation to the way in which West Dorset District Council conducts its affairs appears to be true. There is p...

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