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A DAY of special events will take place next month as part this year's Bridport Literary Festival.

A RENOWNED literary festival is set to return to Bridport this year.

Building a tunnel to carry an upgraded A303 road below the World Heritage Site south of Stonehenge has caused heated debate. Much of it has been fuelled by negative publicity and misunderstandings about the processes by which archaeological concerns feed into planning and delivering development. But I want to offer a rather different perspective, and argue that this is the most ambitious conservation project ever undertaken to protect and enhance Britain’s archaeological heritage. The A303 runs for 92 miles between the M3 at Basingstoke and the A30 at Honiton, and was first designated as a ...

Tom Fort’s Casting Shadows is an excellent, balanced portrait of fisher folk in Britain Fort’s new book is alive to the poetry that stirs the human soul while fishing.   According to Tom Fort, the carbon dating of fish traps found at the Thames-side localities we now know as Vauxhall, Chelsea and Hammersmith is proof that fishing was part of our national life from at least AD 650. Fort, the author of this excellent, balanced portrait of fisher folk in Britain, goes on to argue that devices of a similar kind were probably in operation on British rivers since humans first arrived on th...

£30,000 legal bill to fight appeal ');  '); SONNING Common Parish Council is to spend £30,000 on legal representation at an inquiry into a development it opposes. Inspired Villages  appealed after being refused planning permission for a new retirement village in Blounts Court Road, opposite the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre. Its application was rejected by South Oxfordshire District Council, the planning authority, in June. The appeal will be heard at an inquiry in front of a planning inspector in April.  The parish council opposes the plans on the grounds that the development would...