Environment related news and events in Lyme Regis, Uplyme & Charmouth
FOLLOWING its campaign last year raising awareness of the environmental risks posed by use of disposable barbecues, Litter Free Dorset is going one step further this summer and calling for shops to stop selling the items. […]
LITTER Free Coast and Sea will be staging its 31st annual Great Dorset Beach Clean over the weekend of May 22 and 23. […]
AS harbours and marinas have reopened and people get back to sailing and boating, Litter Free Coast and Sea and Natural England have joined together to ask boaters to think about where they are going to the toilet. […]
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have claimed that Dorset’s draft Local Plan proposals for 39,000 new homes in the county over the next 17 years should be halved. […]
WE have all watched the distressing scenes on television where albatrosses regurgitate plastic debris to feed their young chicks and dead dolphins are found entangled in plastic fishing gear. […]
LEGAL controls on disposable barbecues in Dorset are unlikely to be in place for this holiday season and, until new rules are in force, the county will rely on educating people about the risk they pose. […]
DORSET Council has not ruled out support for wind farms off the county’s coastline – although it says that any future application will be decided at government level. […]
DORSET Council has joined forces with environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy and other local authorities across the country to launch a campaign aimed at stopping the millions of disposable nappies that are contaminating recycling. […]
INCREASED footfall is expected to cause more ‘wear and tear’ than usual to the South West Coast Path. […]
SINCE purchasing a one-acre paddock in Wootton Fitzpaine, near Lyme Regis, in 2012, Zanna and Jonny Hoskins and transformed it into a paradise of flowers and wildlife using permaculture. […]
AS part of a nationwide action, volunteers from the Dorset Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill Alliance hosted COVID-compliant banner drops this week, calling on Dorset MPs to back the bill. […]
SIGNAGE featuring fun and friendly wildlife characters will soon be seen on Dorset’s verges. […]
DORSET Council’s fight against roadside litter is continuing, with the annual spring clean of verges along some of the county’s busiest roads. […]
I WROTE this column last Tuesday, just before the Budget which I will comment on next time. Rest assured that I continue to make representations to the Treasury as to what support we need for our unique community here in Dorset. […]
LYME Regis based reforestation charity The Word Forest Organisation will be hosting its first tree awareness week from March 15 to 21. […]
THE Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has responded to local MP Chris Loder’s criticisms of the proposed Dorset National Park, saying it would help meet communities’ housing needs. […]
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