NEWS FEED National Trust volunteer, Annette Joyce, at Clouds Hill ©National Trust/Martin Stephen The small cottages near Dorchester where Thomas Hardy and Lawrence of Arabia lived are charming to look at, but it’s the warm welcome of the volunteer guides there that turn them from houses into homes. On 1 March the National Trust will…
At a packed meeting at the Purbeck School, Purbeck District Councillors made a commitment to thoroughly review the current partial review of the Purbeck Local Plan.
Additional marine areas in Dorset have been identified for protection in a new report, ‘The case for Marine Conservation Zones’ which has been published by the Wildlife Trusts. The report identifies 48 areas around England that, if designated, will complete a “blue-belt” of protected places for marine wildlife.
Durlston Castle’s Fine Foundation Gallery will be filled with weird and wonderful creatures from the imaginations of mother and daughter artists Greta Berlin and Zennor Box from 19 September – 11 October.
The UK marine charity, The Marine Conservation Society (MCS), says it hopes a last push for people volunteering for its ‘Great British Beach Clean’ (16 – 19 September) around the Dorset coastline will ensure some of the most beautiful beaches in the UK aren’t being taken for granted.
An important public consultation on housing development ends in a couple of weeks.
The public now has access to a life-saving defibrillator at Swanage station, thanks to the Swanage Community Defibrillator Partnership.
A man who assaulted a paramedic who had come to his aid following a fight has been sentenced.
No passenger trains will run between Corfe Castle, Harman’s Cross and Swanage on Monday and Tuesday, 25 and 26 July while scenes for a new Second World War drama, set in 1940, are filmed at Swanage Station.
People from far and wide watched proudly as troops exercised their right to march through the streets of Purbeck on 24 June.
