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A GIANT bug hotel was built to give insects a safe home over the winter months.

Entrance to West Rivers House (Boldwood House) off West Allington Bridport Picture: Google DORSET Council is to go ahead with flats in a Dorset property, although some may be too small to meet national minimum standards. The council’s area planning committee has agreed a proposal to divide four flats into eight at West Rivers House, 13 West Allington on the outskirts of Bridport town centre. The flats are intended for short-term emergency homeless accommodation. Planners heard that some will be 22 square metres – much less than the national ‘technical’ minimum standard of 37 s...

DORSET Council is to go ahead with flats in a Bridport property, although some may be too small to meet national minimum standards.

Nothing was tangibly done about safety at Custom House Quay in Weymouth until I asked for the Harbour Risk Assessments last year. I did that because I was so moved when two parents shared the tragedy of losing their son who fell in the harbour and died. Over the last month or so, Weymouth Town Councillors have had a campaign against these railings. In my opinion, the campaign so far has been a distinct attempt to distract attention away from the issue – and that issue is that Weymouth Town Councillors have done nothing (that I can see), whilst people have continued to fall in that h...

Gurkha restaurant WEYMOUTH’S Gurkha Restaurant has been given permission to run a take-away business. The Commercial Road restaurant, in the shape of a boat, off the Melcombe Regis car park, had requested a change of use to operate as both a restaurant and a hot food take away. When permission is granted the business will be reminded of the need to keep the area free of litter. Cllr Kate Wheller told the area planning committee that the while not all the rubbish in the area could be attributed to the business its staff should ensure that its own rubbish was contained...