News in Bridport

Every week we will be sharing a circular walk in and around our local area with directions and photos. We use the OS Map app, which is very useful if you are out walking.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, you will be able to receive the walk first every Friday and be able to enjoy it over the weekend.

Restrictions may not have completely lifted, but more and more events are able to take place.

Live music, fairs, markets and more are taking place in and around Bridport and after a difficult year and cancelled events, we want to let people know what wonderful things are happening in their area.

Dorset's famous tithe barns at Symondsbury, Abbotsbury and Cerne Abbas feature in a new book

Tithe Barns, due out this month, is by Joseph Rogers and highlights the three barns in a chapter dedicated to South West England.

Coronavirus cases have more than doubled across Dorset over the last week.

Public Health Dorset reports there are 42 confirmed cases in the last seven days in the Dorset Council area, compared to 14 on June 4, and 74 in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council area, compared to 34 on June 4.

Are you up to the challenge of a plastic free picnic?

Join the Plastic Free Bridport team with a plastic free picnic at the Millennium Green for an afternoon of live musical entertainment for all ages and tastes.

After calls to reverse plans for the LSi building in East Street, Bridport Area Development Trust (BADT), which owns it, has outlined why it has chosen the new plans.

The trust announced changes to Bridport LSi last month, which included a partnership between three tenants - Crowdfunder, new community interest company 3DCentre (3DC) and an unnamed financial services company.

A paraglider was lucky to escape injury after crash landing onto the cliffs near Eype.

Both the West Bay and Lyme Regis Coastguard officers were called, who was thought to be trapped, just before 3.30pm yesterday (Thursday) should a cliff rescue be required.

Some of Bridport's best businesses were recognised and praised

The Bridport Business Awards were held yesterday (Thursday) at the Tithe Barn in Symondsbury.

Officers investigating reports of a fail-to-stop road traffic collision involving a tractor in West Dorset are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.

At around 11.50am on Tuesday, June 8 a dark blue New Holland tractor with a triple green mower on the back collided with a telegraph pole on Bluntshay Lane near Whitchurch Canonicorum. It was reported that the tractor failed to stop at the scene and made off towards Whitchurch Canonicorum.

Dorset Council is to go ahead with flats in a West 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.