Mad Hatters in Swanage swanage pier trust writes: Don’t be late for the Mad Hatters Tea Party, Alice and her friends invite you all, to join them for a Free afternoon of magic, mayhem and fun at Swanage Pier’s first ever Mad Hatters Tea Party On Saturday 12th March, as part of this years British Tourism Week. Swanage Pier were last years runners up in the National Pier Society “Pier... 

Swanage Railway by Andrew P.M. Wright Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers start running their festive fund-raising ‘Santa Special’ steam trains – on the award-winning relaid Purbeck Line to Corfe Castle and Norden ‘park and ride’ – this Saturday, 4 December 2010. By the end of Christmas Eve, the 36 Yuletide trains will have run a total of 432 miles – the equivalent distance from the... 

New Turntable NETWORK RAIL DONATES LARGE LOCOMOTIVE TURNTABLE FROM LONDON TRAIN DEPOT TO THE SWANAGE RAILWAY A rare 26-ton locomotive turntable, set for demolition as part of the building of a new £15.9 billion railway line across London, has been saved and donated to the Swanage Railway – for a new working life on the award-winning relaid Purbeck Line. The large 70-foot electrically operated steel... 

Weymouth Beach Motorcross Purbeck Motocross Club and Weymouth and Portland Lions Club sponsored an exciting day of motor cycle racing on Weymouth Beach on Sunday 10 October. This is an annual charity event so the riders pay to enter and with the money raised from the sale of programmes etc. a four-figure sum is usually donated to the Lions after expenses are met. The course the motorcyclists had to... 

Gig Rowing Bridport Gig Rowing Club New gig rowing clubs have sprung up in nearby Sidmouth and Portland and BGRC have attended their launches in support. With established clubs also in Swanage, Weymouth and Lyme Regis the scene is set for an exciting Jurrassic Coast Gig Rowing League, which will all add to the regions legacy for the 2012 Olympics. At Portland, the launch of their gig “Big Ope”... 

  A Dorset based will writer claims Monday’s Panorama programme supported what he has always said: that a will is one of the most important documents a person will ever write and should be carried out by a qualified, person belonging to a regulated body.   Matt Walkden from MW Legal Services and the major online will writing website www.Wills.org.uk is a member of the Society of Will Writers (SWW),...