TRIBUTES have been paid to a well-respected community figure who has died tragically.

BRIDPORT businesses have spoken of their 'disappointment' with the delay of 'Freedom Day'.

A PETITION has been launched as famers and campaigners try to gather support for a new law to be introduced preventing dogs from being off the lead around livestock.

A POP-UP shop of models clothes from the 1960s has opened in Bridport town centre.

Cakes, bread, vegetables and more are available at this week's garden glut event.

A MONTHLY vegan market is returning to Dorset this weekend.

IT HAS been many weeks since I have spoken about coronavirus in this column, but given the announcement from the Prime Minister on Monday, it is timely to do so again.

EXETER City boss Matt Taylor scored a sublime unbeaten 145 to inflict Uplyme & Lyme Regis’ first defeat of the Devon Cricket League season.

ILLEGAL waste dumpers will be targeted in a new campaign that aims to reduce fly-tipping, after the council spent £60,000 cleaning up the county at the beginning of the year.

POLICE across Dorset have said enforcement action will always be taken when dealing with 'blatant breaches' of Covid-19 rules - as figures showed 1,636 fixed penalty notices had been handed out in the county since the start of the pandemic.

HERE are today's tide times for Portland, West Bay and Lyme Regis.

THE author of a biography of one of Lyme Regis' most famous historical residents is returning to the town for a book signing next week.

NEXT Wednesday sees the start of pre-season for the senior side of Bridport Rugby Club.

BEAMINSTER were skittled for 52 as Stalbridge earned a giant 214-run victory at the Memorial Ground.

MEMBERS of staff at a Bridport café were able to put out a fire caused by a faulty fuse box.

A PROJECT which protects and conserves fossils across the Dorset coastline is set to benefit from an £80,000 funding boost.

RE: ‘Cow dies in dog chase’, Bridport News, June 3rd.

'Intense thunderstorms’ and ‘torrential rain’ are possible over the next three days in Dorset after weather warnings were issued.

A DORSET auctioneer took on a new role in international diplomacy after Ethiopia demanded that a bible looted by the British more than 150 years ago be returned.

Coronavirus cases are on the rise again in Dorset as the lifting of restrictions was delayed by four weeks.

A PERFORMANCE of songs and poetry based on west Dorset locations will be going ahead next month.

FOR WORLD Oceans Day, Greenpeace UK has launched Operation Ocean Witness to patrol UK marine protected areas off the nation’s south coast.

A PILOT project aimed at bringing the circus to rural communities will be touring Dorset this summer.

VOLUNTEERS are needed to act as macebearers in a town council's civic party.

MORE than 100 new coronavirus cases have been recorded across Dorset as the overall total of cases reaches the 38,000 mark.

POLICE are urging parents and guardians across Dorset to abide by child car seat safety laws.

Hundreds of children were admitted to hospital with injuries in Dorset in just one year, figures reveal.

More patients visited A&E at Dorset County Hospital last month, with demand rising above the levels seen over the same period last year.

Dorset and Wiltshire fire crews rescued people from lifts thousands of times in a decade, figures show.

FIRE crews raced to a business park and evacuated a building after reports of a fire this morning.

DORSET could experience ‘intense thunderstorms’ and ‘torrential rain’ this week following a warm spell of weather.

A BRIDPORT restaurant has been forced to close its doors for the week after one of its employees tested positive for Covid-19.

A NUMBER of Bridport businesses have been recognised at the 2021 Bridport Business Awards.

A LOTTERY ticket purchased in west Dorset and worth more than £141,000 has been claimed.

MORE than 50 new coronavirus cases have been recorded across Dorset within the last 24-hour period, according to the latest statistics.

THE MP for West Dorset does not agree with the decision to extend the lockdown, claiming 'it is not in Dorset’s interests to continue with these restrictions'.

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STUDENTS at the Sir John Colfox Academy celebrated the end of their time in Year 11 with an ice-cream in the sunshine.

Experts feared going ahead with Step 4 on June 21 as anticipated could lead to hospital admissions on the scale of the first wave of Covid-19.

RESIDENTS are being urged to stay out of direct sunlight for certain times of the day.

SURVEYORS from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency are to carry out unannounced inspections of fishing vessels across the UK.

WOMEN are now able to have two partners to support them through their labour and birth at Dorset County Hospital.

MULTIPLE people have been rescued after they were trapped in their vehicles following a crash on the A35.

AN EVENT set to highlight the need to help a refugee family seek aid in Bridport has sold out.

A BRIDPORT dance troop has produced a film which will be shown at a national festival.

MORE than 60 new coronavirus cases have been recorded across Dorset within the last 24-hour period, according to the latest statistics.

A MAN has suffered 'serious injuries' in a crash on the A35.

A SECTION of the A35 is blocked due to a crash.

FRESH after the successful return of its annual festival, Jazz Jurassica is running a series of jazz gigs in Lyme Regis.

A PERSON has been taken to hospital following a crash.