Dorset
There is still time to have your say on a new social housing policy
DORSET Council is drafting a new policy looking at how people access social housing in the area. […]
Month: May 2020
Coronavirus
Local reforestation charity to host live-stream with Kenya tonight
LYME Regis-based international reforestation charity, The Word Forest Organisation, has been working throughout lockdown, raising awareness of the planetary value of trees and raising funds to reforest Kenya. […]
Blogs
Should I be more supportive of the reporters giving Boris such a hard time?
I’M still struggling with my conscious over whether I should be more supportive of the torrid time my fellow journalists are dishing out to Boris Johnson and his beleaguered Cabinet during the coronavirus crisis. […]
Coronavirus
Marine Theatre launched £21,000 fundraising campaign
THE Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis has launched an online fundraising campaign to ensure it can reopen after lockdown. […]
Dorset
Dorset’s highways are going green!
DORSET’S highway fixers are back in action and now producing 15% less emissions. […]
Lyme Regis
Coastguard and lifeboat launched to help stranded woman
COASTGUARDS and the lifeboat crew were launched on Tuesday afternoon to assist a woman stranded between Lyme Regis and Charton Bay, west of the town. […]
Coronavirus
West Dorset MP responds to Cummings row
WEST Dorset MP Chris Loder has issued a response to the Prime Minister’s chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, reportedly breaking lockdown rules, which has sparked a huge public row. […]
Blogs
Cummings-gate: Unrepentant and determined to stick it out
IT’S bound to end in tears. The unprecedented 60-minute grilling of the Prime Minister’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings in the Rose Garden at No 10 Downing Street by the cream of British journalism solved exactly zilch. […]
Charmouth
Bymead residents lift spirits with spring ball
BYMEAD House Nursing Home in Charmouth recently held a spring ball for all its residents. […]
Blogs
Cummings-gate: a distraction from steering the country out of lockdown
IN my last diary entry on Saturday I referred to the Dominic Cummings spat as “a sideshow” compared to the more pressing job in hand of steering the country our of lockdown. […]
Dorset
Community pharmacies to join the Dorset Care Record
UP to 150 community pharmacies across the county are to be given access to health and social care records held within the Dorset Care Record (DCR).
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Coronavirus
Alternative plant sale raised £120 for foodbank
UPLYME & Lyme Regis Horticultural Society would usually be hosting their spring plant sale at this time of year. […]
Community
Lockdown is no barrier to badges for Charmouth Scouts
BEING in lockdown for nine weeks hasn’t stopped the members of the 1st Charmouth Scout Group continuing their badge work with weekly fun activities. […]
Coronavirus
Museum hopes to reopen in September
LYME Regis Museum plans to reopen in September, subject to clarity from the government. […]
Coronavirus
Dorset Council’s country parks to re-open
THE four country parks managed by Dorset Council are re-opening to the public on Tuesday, May 26. […]
Blogs
Another sideshow spat to put the Prime Minister on the spot
BORIS Johnson is in the soup again. Having escaped a criminal enquiry over his alleged liaison with American pole-dancing tech blonde Jennifer Arcuri, our very own blonde bombshell finds himself of the back foot again after his chief advisor, the enigmatic Dominic Cummings, breached the lockdown rules when he developed COVID-19 symptoms. […]