• Dorset anti-litter project a shining example for other communities

  By malr1

  This wouldn't work in Vermins Road, Sherborne. There are too many imbeciles who don't even look...

            

   

  By This is Dorset at 08:00 on 02/11/11

  

  It started with one Dorset resident getting fed up with the amount of litter near his home but now, a decade later, the Chickerell Community Litter Team is celebrating its tenth anniverary. When Brian Bean decided to start picking up the litter whenever he could, he soon realised that prevention was better than cure, so opted to try and involve the whole community. Since then, a number of initiatives have been introduced, including a...

• Weymouth prays for family of tragic toddler

  By SailGirl

  RIP little boy, my thoughts are with your family xx

            

   

  By Newshound007 at 13:31 on 30/10/11

  

  PRAYERS were said in Weymouth and Portland churches today, as the town united in grief over the death of a two-year-old boy in Chickerell. The tot was reported missing from his home just before lunchtime on Friday. Police officers and the force helicopter searched the surrounding area. He was found in a nearby pond just half an hour afterwards, and rushed to Dorset County Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Local paper the...

• Relief road sculpture panned as "lumps on sticks"

  By BucklandRiper

  I think it could look great. I wish we had more big art sculptures around Weymouth, but I thought...

            

   

  By Newshound007 at 20:35 on 25/10/11

  

  What do you think about this new sculpture for the Weymouth relief road? Is it art? Or an eyesore? The 'Jurassic Stones' sculpture by Richard Harris is definitely a hot topic on Twitter since the Photoshop design was launched earlier this week. Tweeters are telling @weymouthpeople they are not very impressed. @Johndt5, of Portland, said: 'What the hell is it? A wind farm looks more elegant....lumps on a post....did it say an...

• BE AN OLYMPIC AMBASSADOR

  By BucklandRiper

  I saw some of the people practising for this during Weymouth Carnival. It looks really worthwhile...

            

   

  By SailGirl at 19:36 on 29/09/11

  

  Volunteers are needed to help welcome visitors to Weymouth and Portland during the Olympics next year. The area is staging the Olympic and Paralympic sailing which, together with the cultural events planned during the summer of 2012, are expected to attract over 500,000 extra visitors to the area. To help welcome these visitors, up to 800 volunteers, known as Weymouth & Portland Ambassadors, are required. Over 650 applications...

• DAYS OF THE DINOSAURS RETURN TO ABBOTSBURY

  By SailGirl

  That looks really interesting. I went to the Chelsea Flower Show when they made the Jurassic Garden...

            

   

  By Watershed__PR at 22:14 on 30/09/11

  

  A primeval swamp filled with plants from the time of the dinosaurs has been created at Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens near Weymouth. The unusual landscape feature was inspired by the Jurassic Coast of Dorset and East Devon, England's only natural World Heritage Site. Steve Griffith, curator of Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, said: 'The idea is to have plants that have been seen in fossils, ancient plants that have been on the earth...

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