Saint Alban’s head coastwatch station opens its doors
The National Coastwatch station will open its doors to members of the public to its Open Days over the Easter bank holiday weekend.
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Lego for a day out to Beaulieu to see life-size model caravan
Holding the Guinness World Record as ‘the largest caravan built with interlocking plastic bricks’ a caravan creation has gone on display in the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.
Comedy rocks at Camp Bestival as Reginald D Hunter announced as headline act
Reginald D Hunter, frequently described as the coolest man in comedy, will be headlining this year’s comedy acts at Camp Bestival at Lulworth Castle on 27 and 30 July.
Transgender Day of Visibility: Sophie Cook calls for trans people to come out of the shadows
“The fight for freedom of bigotry isn’t over yet,” says Sophie Cook in an opinion piece on Transgender Day of Visibility, a day that aims to bring attention to the accomplishments of trans people around the globe.
Rare locomotive that starred on stage in ‘The Railway Children’ has been transferred to Swanage Railway
A unique Victorian steam locomotive that escaped the cutting torch thanks to the centenary of London’s Waterloo station – and starred in ‘The Railway Children’ on both sides of the Atlantic – has been transferred to the Swanage Railway by the National Railway Museum.
Article 50: no ‘plain sailing’ towards a UK exit from the EU warns MEP
A South West MEP has warned there would be no ‘plain sailing’ towards a UK exit from the EU, as Prime Minister Theresa May formally triggers Article 50.
Swanage Railway volunteer ‘does the locomotive’ with an old pal to mark 50th anniversary of the end of main line steam
A veteran engineman and stalwart Swanage Railway volunteer has been reunited with the express steam locomotive that he worked on as a young cleaner and fireman during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Rare items will ring bells at Crewkerne auction
Two extremely rare items, an early bicycle and a police telephone box, are to be sold by Lawrences Auctioneers of Crewkerne.
‘Purbeck and Beyond’ – exhibition by Hamish Murray at Durlston Country Park
Hamish Murray will be presenting an exciting exhibition of his photographs, sketches and paintings inspired by Durlston and the local area during the last 40 or so years.
Open weekend will celebrate new chandlery at Buckler’s Hard
A new chandlery for Beaulieu River customers will be officially opened by Lord Montagu at Buckler’s Hard Yacht Harbour on Friday 31 March.