There seems to be quite a bit of alternative energy activity around the area. Large arrays of solar panels have been installed at several locations and wind turbines have sprung up. A large solar panel farm is on the cards for Rampisham Downs and locals are raising objections to a wind farm planned for a
I was out on Tuesday evening so I recorded the BBC1 hospital drama Holby City. I have only just had a chance to watch it. Someone in the writing of this weeks episode of Holby obviously has quite a bit of knowledge of West Dorset. In one of the story lines there were two young
When the closure of the short wave radio transmitter station on Rampisham Downs was announced the Real West Dorset web site speculated that the site could be converted to a wind farm. It seems using the site to generate power is on the cards, but not using wind turbines. The Toller Pocorum web site reports
The Rampisham radio mast closure story makes the pages of the Western Gazette this week, but they seem to think it’s a television transmitter! Fairly typical of the standard of journalism in some local papers I’m afraid. They also manage to somehow link the story to The Dorset Broadcasting Action Groups campaign for a BBC
BBC World Service transmitter site at Rampisham will close with the loss of 19 jobs according to BECTU trade union web site. The site is run by Babcock Engineering. © Image Copyright Nigel Mykura. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Licence