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Bridport Radio brings you Postcards From Hell

Published on 30 July 2011 by Knobby in Dorset

Have just spotted this on the Bridport Radio website. There are mock ups of two not too flattering postcards, one from Weymouth, the other Bridport. I’d love to reproduce them here that would be pinching so you will just have to visit this link and see for yourself.

Tags: Bridport, Bridport Radio, Postcard, Weymouth

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A change of direction!

Ok, so the idea of using The Dorset Knob website as a forum where Dorset folks could chat didn’t take off. We got very few genuine posts and lots of spam that had to be weeded out. It’s time to move on. Here is the all new Dorset Knob website. I’m not sure what it

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Parking warden wins unfair dismissal case for not issuing his quota of tickets

Remember when traffic wardens came under the police and were there to keep traffic moving? Since local authorities took over parking enforcement I like many others have been suspicious that it has mainly become a revenue raising exercise. Reading Auto Express magazine I came across a story about Hakim Berkani who claims he was expected

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Harlequin Ladybirds

I’ve spotted three ladybirds in the last two days and all three have been the recently arrived harlequins. Two were red with multiple black spots, the other black with two red spots. Much has been written about these recent Asian invaders, how they are rapidly spreading across the country and threatening our native UK ladybird

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Carberry & Katich see out a draw 19 May 2012
Michael Carberry and Simon Katich both make half centuries as the final day ends in a rain-hit draw at Headingley. […]
Missing fishermen search halted 19 May 2012
The search ends for two fishermen missing off the Dorset coast, after a life-raft was found on-board the wreck of their boat. […]
VIDEO: Minute's silence for fishermen 19 May 2012
A minute's silence has been held in Weymouth for the three crewmen from fishing boat, Purbeck Isle. […]
Sub disaster remembered 80 years on 19 May 2012
Relatives hope to visit the site of the world's first underwater aircraft carrier which sank in 1932 […]