Our experienced LymeOnline writers share opinion and comment on the latest Lyme Regis news in their blogs, plus regular contributions from local organisation.
THE egregious behaviour of town councillors is rapidly making Lyme Regis into a laughing stock. Wherever I go, people – usually with a big grin on their face – ask me: “What is the matter with your council?” […]
DO you believe in ghosts? I do. But when you’ve worked in some of Lyme’s oldest buildings and heard stories about housemaids committing suicide or actors who took a permanent stage right, you kind of get swept along with the whole spooks and spectres thing. […]
WITH barely any events to cover last year, I had almost forgotten what the hectic summer months in Lyme Regis felt like. […]
AS it was this column that finally flushed out Scott Cinemas to confirm they were trying to offload the Regent Cinema in Lyme Regis, I was delighted to see that a campaign has been launched in a bid to return it to its former glory. […]
THE past fortnight has of course been dominated by football and I write this a little weary after England’s spectacular semi-final victory over Denmark. […]
I ONCE believed Oxford University was the educational envy of the country, if not the world. […]
PARK and ride will return for the summer holidays – all being well. […]
THE Falklands War 25th anniversary commemorations in central London, with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher standing out among the military personnel and royalty in her bright pink ensemble. […]
THERE may be some disagreement in the council chamber over what to do about Lyme’s increasing traffic problems – but all will agree that this summer is going to be pretty awful. […]
THERE’S been a lot of talk in our office of late about the level of interest in local government. Does the everyday man on the street really care about his local council? […]
INCREASING numbers of private tenants are turning to Citizens Advice for help, as the protections put in place for renters during the pandemic come to an end. […]
ROSE tinted accounts of the time came from the pens of the upper-classes whose perceptions were witnessed from a privileged perspective. […]
ONE of Lyme Regis Museum’s most unusual displays comprises some of the weird and wonderful things that have been found in the Lyme Regis tip. […]
PICTURED above, England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham, now Lord Botham, walking through Devon on his second 874-mile marathon for the Leukaemia Research Fund, from John O’Groats to Land’s End. […]
IT was the late Victor Homyer – fisherman, councillor and former mayor – who described the seafront and beach area as “Lyme’s shop window”. And he wasn’t wrong. […]
THEY said it’s going to be a record-breaking summer for UK holiday resorts, and if the heaving half term was anything to go by, they weren’t wrong. […]
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