Lyme Regis Harbour A west Dorset harbour entrance is to be dredged to improve access for boats ahead of the summer.     About 2,000 cubic metres (2,600 cubic yards) of sand and stone particles will be removed from Lyme Regis harbour. The work will be carried out by West Dorset District Council after easterly winds brought up a large amount of material along the shoreline. It has since been picked... 

Sport relief SailLaser and the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy Support BBC Sport Relief With a Tri-Mile Children’s Triathlon.  SailLaser and the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) hosted a lively Tri-Mile Triathlon event in aid of BBC Sport Relief 2010 on March 13.  It was a fabulous day for the event, the sun was shining and it was blowing 10 knots from the... 

Parking in Weymouth One of the measures being proposed by Weymouth & Portland Borough Council is to remove all the one hour free parking along Custom House Quay, Commercial Road and adjacent streets. The Weymoputh & Portland Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Executive Committee have discussed this proposal and are resolved to fight it. They believe these free one hour spaces are essential... 

There are plans afoot to build a power station on Portland that is powered by burning Palm oil and this palm oil comes from Indonesia. In Indonesia, they harvest the palm oil by chopping down forrests and creating plantations that have a useful life of only about 20 years. The use of land in this way also effects the local ecology and food supplies causing poverty and starvation in it’s wake. If...