Local woman Clare Allen has just returned from opening a school in Sri Lanka, Clare has been working tirelessly since December 2004 to help victims of the Tsunami which caused such dreadful loss of life, livelyhood and property. The schools library is dedicated to her brother Joe Allen who raised funds for it by running the London Marathon this year (see related article) he also has been volounteering on the project.
I am Siobhan Dempsey of Bridport, Dorset. In September I will be embarking on a three month volunteer placement in Peru. I am a 24 year old graduate taking time out before returning to study a Masters in Social Work to spend time working with an organisation called Kiya Survivors where I will be working alongside local staff in the Rainbow Centre – their school in the Andes – teaching basic education, running art and drama workshops, helping with physiotherapy & music therapy and generally supporting the children in any way I can. I am funding the cost of the placement and flights myself. The primary purpose of this article to ask for donations of items greatly in need by the centre. Also to raise awareness of Kiya; the work they do, to introduce you to the idea of long term sponsorship and support for their ongoing and expanding work in Peru, as well as to get assistance or donations of extra items associated with living in Peru – for myself and for the centres.
Like a shooting star Jack's life was short-lived But the shortness of time takes away nothing from the awe inspiring brilliance and beauty of what has been.
He will be sorely missed by his friends and family.
I haven't (thankfully) been to a doctor in three years. After a month of having a right old pain in the neck that was getting worse, I went to the new medical centre. Everyone complains that there aren't enough disabled parking bays, that the place is too big and soulless, that they can't find their way about and so on and so on. I was quite impressed with it. They even had my name up in lights. I went to see the doctor who was taking patients that Friday afternoon,
If you would like to get involved in the plans for a Heritage Orchard, behind St Marys Church in South Street, please email your support. It may be you would just like to be kept up to date on progress or be more involved, like planting and maintaining the trees? It will be some months before we hopefully get the green light to go ahead but any help in this initiative would be gratefully received!
Nightmares of the holocaust of 2001 are coming back to haunt us with a new outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease, investigations made a link between problems with drainage and the possible actions, accidental or deliberate, of Merial employees who may own or use land near to the farm at Pirbright where the outbreak began.
Friday 3rd August from 11am to 8pm and Saturday 4th August 2007 from 9.30am to 2pm at Shop Unit 1, Tannery Road. Designs are on display for plans to the south west quadrant of Bridport including ideas for the future of the coach station and St Michaels trading estate. Members of the design and planning teams will be available to answer your questions. The project is by Morgan Carey Architects in conjunction with WDDC (see website) and Hayward and Co.
Four men from Bridport are embarking on an unusual adventure at 4pm on Thursday. They will leave from No10 Café Bar East Street and attempt to drive to Krakow in Poland, and back again, in a car disguised as a cow. They will also all be dressed as cows for the duration of the trip, expected to last around 10 days. They're back - watch this space for debrief
On Thursday 2 August the Bridport Environment Group will be showing a film in West Bay as part of its campaign to draw attention to environmental damage being carried out in Lyme Bay. In the past two years there has been an intensification of activity by scallop-dredging trawlers, causing significant damage to the seabed, to important marine species such as corals and pink sea fans, and to the feeding and breeding grounds of other species.
Whats all this about a new Chinese town crier? Where is the problem with enjoying a bit of tradition in the form of a loud person wearing shiny shoes, ridiculous white socks, plus 2's and a three pointed hat? The new incumbent has decided that a hand bell is far too heavy for her and that a large Chinese Gong complete with a big stick to beat it with is far more lightweight and portable!! Not happy with changing the traditional hailing device our new crier has also decided to enlist the help of the Pantomime players and decked herself out as Aladdin. Have the town council approved this departure from tradition I wonder or have we got a Maverick Crier on our hands, shortly to be seen storming into selected town take-aways and frightening innocent drunks by banging her gong and shouting 'he's behind you'!! We'll be seeing Geoff Ackerman turning out as widow twanky next. Wurzel
Local woman Clare Allen has just returned from opening a school in Sri Lanka, Clare has been working tirelessly since December 2004 to help victims of the Tsunami which caused such dreadful loss of life, livelyhood and property. The schools library is dedicated to her brother Joe Allen who raised funds for it by running the London Marathon this year (
I am Siobhan Dempsey of Bridport, Dorset. In September I will be embarking on a three month volunteer placement in Peru. I am a 24 year old graduate taking time out before returning to study a Masters in Social Work to spend time working with an organisation called Kiya Survivors where I will be working alongside local staff in the Rainbow Centre – their school in the Andes – teaching basic education, running art and drama workshops, helping with physiotherapy & music therapy and generally supporting the children in any way I can. I am funding the cost of the placement and flights myself. The primary purpose of this article to ask for donations of items greatly in need by the centre. Also to raise awareness of Kiya; the work they do, to introduce you to the idea of long term sponsorship and support for their ongoing and expanding work in Peru, as well as to get assistance or donations of extra items associated with living in Peru – for myself and for the centres.
Jack Mc Donnell 1980 - 2007
I haven't (thankfully) been to a doctor in three years. After a month of having a right old pain in the neck that was getting worse, I went to the new medical centre. Everyone complains that there aren't enough disabled parking bays, that the place is too big and soulless, that they can't find their way about and so on and so on. I was quite impressed with it. They even had my name up in lights. I went to see the doctor who was taking patients that Friday afternoon, 
If you would like to get involved in the plans for a Heritage Orchard, behind St Marys Church in South Street, please email your support. It may be you would just like to be kept up to date on progress or be more involved, like planting and maintaining the trees? It will be some months before we hopefully get the green light to go ahead but any help in this initiative would be gratefully received! 
Nightmares of the holocaust of 2001 are coming back to haunt us with a new outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease, investigations made a link between problems with drainage and the possible actions, accidental or deliberate, of 
Four men from Bridport are embarking on an unusual adventure at 4pm on Thursday. They will leave from No10 Café Bar East Street and attempt to drive to Krakow in Poland, and back again, in a car disguised as a cow. They will also all be dressed as cows for the duration of the trip, expected to last around 10 days. They're back - watch this space for debrief
On Thursday 2 August the Bridport Environment Group will be showing a film in West Bay as part of its campaign to draw attention to environmental damage being carried out in Lyme Bay. In the past two years there has been an intensification of activity by scallop-dredging trawlers, causing significant damage to the seabed, to important marine species such as corals and pink sea fans, and to the feeding and breeding grounds of other species.
Whats all this about a new Chinese town crier? Where is the problem with enjoying a bit of tradition in the form of a loud person wearing shiny shoes, ridiculous white socks, plus 2's and a three pointed hat? The new incumbent has decided that a hand bell is far too heavy for her and that a large Chinese Gong complete with a big stick to beat it with is far more lightweight and portable!! Not happy with changing the traditional hailing device our new crier has also decided to enlist the help of the Pantomime players and decked herself out as Aladdin. Have the town council approved this departure from tradition I wonder or have we got a Maverick Crier on our hands, shortly to be seen storming into selected town take-aways and frightening innocent drunks by banging her gong and shouting 'he's behind you'!!
