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Has there been any news about how Swanage Town Council has, or will, invest or spend the windfall of 7.25 million pounds from the sale of Swanage Bay View Holiday Park?
If not, do our bloggers think that the Council must be transparent about this, or is this privileged information (leaving us to trust the oversight carried out by the District Auditor)?
Swanage Town Council response ??
Are we going to hear what the Swanage Town Councils response is to the Core Strategy.
Objective 2 Housing
Objective 4 Retail-supermarkets
obective 6 Sustainable design and renewable energy.
Objective 8 Employment
Objective 9 Transport
The Scott Arms - recently revamped and reinjected with life by new landlords after years of neglect by an indifferent pubco and it's managers - faces the threat of losing it's licence, It seems a tiny minority of holiday homers dont like the pub and want it closed so they can have their "peace" at the weekend. Whatever that means.
Please support the pub - firstly by signing the petition in the pub, secondly by writing to the council in support (letters to arrive by noon 18th)
at the following address -
Re:Scott Arms Licence Review
Head of Legal & Democratic Services
Purbeck District Council
Westport House
Worgret Road
WAREHAM
Bh20 4PP
This pub,along with the church, is the heart of Kingston and hosts and supports many events for the village. Don't let small minded people shut it down, it will be another nail in the coffin for village life.
10 YEARS OF SWANAGE BLUES FESTIVALS
I am looking at something special for 2010, being the tenth year of Swanage blues festivals.
Currently I’m in talks to have Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones) play in Swanage on Thursday 4 March 2010 as part of the ABCD of Boogie, with Axel Zwingenburger (German concert pianist); Ben Waters (boogie woogie pianist, Weymouth-born and Owermoigne resident); and Dave Green (Jools Holland’s double bass player). They’ve appeared on Jools Holland’s TV show several times.
If you are interested in tickets for the concert, please let me know approximately how many tickets you might require at around £15 each, to give me an idea of numbers.
Email to s.darrington@btopenworld.com, or drop a line to Steve Darrington, Swanage Blues, c/o T I C, Shore Road, Swanage BH19 1LB. Thank you.
Any idea what happened at Swanage Middle School this afternoon? Virtual Swanage has reported an explosion. I hope nobody was hurt.
I see on the Dorset forum the webmaster has reported it as an explosion in the science lab in one of the after school clubs.
Surf's Up in Swanage !!
About 20 surfing in Swanage today say that the waves are as good as Newquay. Free entertainment, watch tomorrow.
There we go then.
2-tier and Langton and Herston on the Middle School site.
The good thing is that at least we'll have a non-church Primary.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/districts/purbeck/4747259.Several_Purbeck_schools_may_be_saved_after_public_feedback/
just in case
http://tinyurl.com/yjq866a
"Dorset RNLI crew race to the rescue in Cumbria flood zone
By James Morton »
LIFEBOAT crew from Dorset have been deployed to Cumbria to help with rescues during the devastating floods.
Two volunteer crew members from RNLI headquarters in Poole and two from Swanage lifeboat station arrived in Cockermouth at around 10pm last night (November 19).
Floodwaters have risen to more than eight feet in the town centre, with torrents gushing through the streets at speeds of up to 25 knots.
John Deas and Gavin Steeden, from the Swanage station, and Glen Mallen and Lee Firman, from Poole HQ, are Dorset's RNLI men in the flood zone".
Good on you, guys.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4750826.Dorset_RNLI_crew_race_to_the_rescue_in_Cumbria_flood_zone/
JIC
http://tinyurl.com/yhk7tw2
BLUES ANNIVERSARY PARTY INVITATION
The pleasure of your company is cordially requested this Sunday between the hours of 5pm and 8pm at Bar Se7en - formerly the Victoria Club, 1 High Street, Swanage - to celebrate one year of Live Music Sundays.
Music by Steve Darrington and his Band, featuring 'Harmonica' Hugh Budden. Dress: Casual or Fancy Dress with the theme of 'Speakeasy'. Nibbles will be provided.
BLUES ANNIVERSARY PARTY INVITATION
The pleasure of your company is cordially requested this Sunday (22 November) between the hours of 5pm and 8pm at Bar Se7en - formerly the Victoria Club, 1 High Street, Swanage - to celebrate one year of Live Music Sundays.
Music by Steve Darrington and his Band, featuring 'Harmonica' Hugh Budden. Dress: Casual or Fancy Dress with the theme of 'Speakeasy'. Nibbles will be provided.
I was just a'pondering that as there are two articles from the Echo on Education in Swanage, and both have been suggested as New Topics, could 'the management' explain why they don't consider them to be worthwhile New Topics?
Thanks.
http://tinyurl.com/yhf5bor
http://tinyurl.com/yjq866a
I put them under the Education thread...
Yeah, thanks. I know that you're the mod, but I thought that they were worth a new topic, else I'd've posted them on the existing threads, which are disappearing into the past and I thought needed a refresh.
Maybe the people are exhausted and can't be bothered.
Those threads are near as damn it dead.
I really think that you should start a new thread, especially as DCC are going to be discussing this issue in the coming week.
"Free Christmas parking at Wareham and Corfe Castle"
(Bournemouth Echo 23 November)
Meanwhile the spirit of Scrooge lives on in Swanage town hall. Last year the least used car parks were free for a few days.
Why not go the whole hog and have a Swanage Humbug festival, ban decorations, trees etc and have a big week long party for all the people who can't stand christmas. Strike a blow against the commercial infantalisation of our lives. Christians would rejoice as this would be the one place where it was a religious festival rather than the feast of shopping, as its know in the god trade. Humanists, sceptics etc would fill our guest accommodation to get away from the xmas horrors everywhere else and of course kids would get even more presents as the money was not going on useless rubbish quite as much as usual. Result everybody wins except the chinese manufacturers of baubles, flashing lights and plastic fir trees.
Once upon a time .......
Imagine that there was a country called Grungia and that it had a group of people who we shall call Smirsh. One day a group of them were sailing their yacht, the 'A brim o' hatch' down – or indeed up, or even across the Engrish channel.
As they neared the Stuglind peninsular they realised the people of the Dis-United Kringderm were in need of certain medicinal drugs that they just happened to have in their possession. Well, they swam ashore and buried this treasure and then completed their pleasure cruise.
A few weeks later some of their friends boarded a large boat in the Frunkish peninsular port of SherryBurg. As they neared the entrance to Poope harbour they fell off the ship and were rescued by our brave Liff Ship Peepul, and of course, the Look out to Sea Peepul. Our wonderful POOOO LEASE, then took the Grungians into custody where the Grungians asked for sanctuary from the nasty Grungians who would torture them if they were sent home.
Sanctuary was granted and the poor Grungians went missing and suddenly a large quantity of a certain drug flooded onto the D-U. K. market.
Pure fantasy of course …...
Just thought all the EU lovers and socialist would like to comment on this!
http://captainranty.blogspot.com/
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