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A new topic - surely not..
The Drummond Rd project has been refused, the Westbury is going to be 9 - 2 bed and 1 - 3 bed flats, the garages behind Curiosity are going to become 2 flats, and for some light amusement, Wareham is going to get a Tattoo parlour, sorry, Design Studio.
Not often we here anything good about Purbeck Housing Trust; but house bought under ´right to buy´ can only be sold to (sort of) locals.
http://tinyurl.com/l3k9f2
THE MOWLEM
Isn't it looking good now!
Live Music Sundays at Bar Se7en
Thanks to everybody who has helped to make Live Music Sundays so successful at Bar Se7en (formerly known as the Victoria Club), 1 High Street, Swanage opposite the stone quay.
Every Sunday from 5pm-8pm - admission free - we have Live Music ranging from Boogie Woogie, Blues and Soul to Country, Swing and Rock 'n' Roll. I play keyboards/bass, Bournemouth Fred's on drums and we have a variety of top guests (many professional) on guitar, harmonica and vocals.
All welcome! Spread the word if you can please. Live Music is good for the soul, and for Tourism too! For more information call me on 01929 422338, email s.darrington@btopenworld.com or just come along.
You'll be made welcome and you will enjoy it!
Had cause to re-tune my Freeview TV yesterday evening, when I checked the programme list they included - Arte, France 3 Caen, France 3 Le Havre, France 2, 4 & 5 and 3 Canal+ channels, some of which were watchable.
So at the moment, in this great digital age, I can watch French digital TV but I have to watch Wimbledon on BBC on analogue channels.
Whose idea was it to have the path on the Downs resurfaced two days before the kids break up from school?
A NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR SWANAGE
The schools and residents of Swanage have managed to get more consultation on how two-tier education will work in the town. But this does not have to be limited to primary schools.
Swanage should get a new secondary school rather than busing over 700 children from the area to Wareham every day.
We are the ONLY town in Dorset not to have a secondary school (except for new town Verwood) but we have enough children to fill one.
The Purbeck School will soon take 1750 children - making it enormous - bigger than 97 per cent of secondary schools in the country - most are half that size. Do we want children to go from tiny village schools to a huge comp split over two sites in Wareham? Why can't one of the sites be here?
The town lost its two secondary schools by one vote in 1974. This is a chance to put it right.
We could get adult education and sports facilities at the same time, plus all the benefits of after-school activities and better parental involvement.
Jim Knight agrees, Bill Trite agrees, the main Conservative party agree and say that communities should have their own schools. Only Dorset CC want to deny us the right to have this choice.
Carl Styants
Here is a suggestion for Swanage. Its not original, its something they do in a place called Tiburon in California which is a tourist town a little smaller than Swanage.
Quoting Wikipedia: "On Friday evenings in the spring and summer, the town's Main Street is closed to vehicles and transformed into a large alfresco dining area for "Friday Nights on Main". Local restaurants and bars provide outdoor dining and drinks, with music and lively crowds helping create a festive atmosphere."
This is something we could do in the High Street. I know we have the odd shower here but most summer evenings are dry. The oyster bar shows what can be done. Surely it is something that can be built on.
We already have lots of people sitting at the tables outside the fish plaice and on benches eating fish and chips and enjoying the alfresco experience so why not offer curry, chinese food, pizzas etc on the street as well.
Is there any chance of the last posting being moved to the front page so it can be discussed?
New topic - charity that will use a mattress
Does anyone know of a local charity that would use (and will take away) a fairly new and good quality mattress?
The Echo says on July 31:
BOURNEMOUTH’S tourism chief has revealed plans to install new cameras along the seafront in a bid to provide accurate online weather information for the resort.
Mr Smith told the Daily Echo: “With a couple of local companies, we are exploring the cost and weighing up the feasibility of providing our own webcams, purely for promotional purposes.
“Then people would not have to rely on inaccurate Met Office forecasts which have cost us so dearly in the past. They would simply have to go online to get a correct guide for the weather and surfing conditions.”
Couldn't Swanage benefit from doing this? I understand that each camera costs round about £200 and has to be replaced every couple of years. One situated at each end of the bay could do a fantastic job of showing potential visitors how good the weather is, when the forecast is lousy.
The amount of money, spread over two years, is very little compared to the potential benefits, surely?
Euros in Swanage
Look at this article and in the box "Where to splash your Euros" wonder where that came from ?
link would help !!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8060020.stm
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