Essential reading for all those with Lyme Regis at heart, by veteran local journalist Philip Evans. To view more comment and opinion pieces, visit our Blogs section.
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?” […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
I WAS pleased that Lyme Regis Town Council has decided to make their longest serving member, Cllr Stan Williams, an Honourary Freeman of the Town. […]
THERE has been discussions among councillors, I am reliably informed, about the possibility of letting out areas of the Marine Parade shelters for commercial purposes. […]
JUST as I was about to start writing this column, a message pinged into my mobile phone stating: “Philip, as far as I’m aware, we’re still waiting on news from the council at Lyme, but we are on the case to get clarity over the cinema.” […]
Dear Scott Cinemas, it was good to read last week that your five cinemas in the South West had each received £46,000 from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. […]
HAVING spent £650,00o on resurfacing, the spotlight is very much on how Lyme Regis Town Council deal with the future use and protection of the flat roof at the foot of Lister Gardens. […]
LYME Regis Town Council has had a fractious relationship with the hospitality trade in Lyme Regis for many years. […]
ONE big negative of these lockdown days has been the huge impact it has had on the raising of funds to keep the many charities and good causes in our town afloat. […]
IN a long career in journalism I’ve covered local government from the smallest parish meetings in Devon to the first time the BNP won a seat on Tower Hamlets Council in East London, a story that made all the national papers. […]
DARE we hope for some semblance of a Lyme Regis summer we so missed last year? […]
THIS is the time of year when town councillors turn their thoughts to who will be our next mayor. […]
I WAS disappointed when it emerged that Lyme Regis Town Council’s youngest member, 22-year-old Leon Howe, had decided to give up his seat. […]
I PROMISED myself that I would not mention the dreaded C-word in this, my last column of this most distressing of years. I am fed up of writing about it and you, dear reader, I am sure are fed up of reading about it. […]
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