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Times Online (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
A large whale has washed up on a South Coast beach where the Army has a firing range into the sea. The 22ft-long creature, thought to be a pilot whale, came ashore at Warbarrow Bay, near Lulworth, Dorset. The Receiver of Wrecks and the Ministry of Defence, which owns the area, were informed after it was spotted by the coastguard. A vet will try to establish how the whale died.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
Surfers have been riding the waves at Kimmeridge Bay on the Dorset coast for more than 40 years. Long, flat ledges of barely submerged shale have created one of Britain’s best surf breaks, known as Broad Bench, where big waves roll into tubes before crashing to the shore. Now, however, the area has been declared off limits by the Ministry of Defence.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Studland Bay is home to two types of seahorse, but their habitat is under threat from the anchors of pleasure craft
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
The Seahorse Trust has called for action to protect seahorses after finding Britain’s largest colony so far, in Studland Bay, Dorset.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
While seahorse numbers in UK waters are rising an argument is brewing between conservationists over how to protect the creatures that have come back from the brink
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
A historic tower immortalised by the novelists PD James and Thomas Hardy reopened yesterday after it was rebuilt brick by brick to stop it falling in to the sea. Clavell Tower was perched perilously close to a cliff edge at Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, and was at risk of a watery grave because of coastal erosion.
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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
So do you have that summer holiday feeling? I have got that I wish I was there feeling! (whilst working hard at the weekend). We used to live by Sandbanks in Dorset and also in Carbis Bay Cornwall and go back every year for holidays as often as we can (which isn't as often as we'd like). We should be there now but due to one thing and another the break away has been delayed. (sad faces all round!)...
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auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
... with the family, by the sea, for several glorious days. Exhiliarating swims in a crystal-clear sea, views of extraordinary beauty across the bay, walks along the clifftop paths, talkative family meals, discovery of local history and enjoyable pottering about via pleasing coffee-shops, evenings with Hercule Poirot or Lord Peter Wimsey on DVD. The sort of holiday that sneering Anonymous commentators...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
By EXCLUSIVE Philip Bowern Pressure from the Devon Wildlife Trust, which succeeded in banning scallopers and other bottom trawlers from an area of Lyme Bay, could force the displaced fishermen to move into even more sensitive marine areas off Devon and Dorset.
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Green Girls Global Blog (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
Lyme Bay Reefs on the Devon / Dorset coast is one of the UK’s finest marine wildlife sites and thanks to a successful campaign conducted by the Wildlife Trusts in conjunction with excellent support from members of the public, an area of 60sq miles has been protected from commercial scallop dredging. I first reported about the [...]
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Dorset Fire and Rescue Services are set to receive £300,000 as they gear up for the London 2012 Olympics, Fire Minister Parmjit Dhanda announced today. The cash injection comes as Dorset prepares to host the games’ sailing events at Weymouth Bay. But the excitement of staging a high profile event against the backdrop of Dorset's World [...]
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The Daily Novel (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The red coastguard helicopters (as you can just about see in my photo above) were buzzing over Lyme Bay today as the authorities decide what to do about huge landslip which cascaded rocks, tip debris and mud on to one of Dorset's most popular beaches on Tuesday night. Dorset Council has sealed the western end [...]
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 26/02/2008
KIMMERIDGE BAY An historic tower in Dorset that inspired the novelists P. D. James and Thomas Hardy has been dismantled and rebuilt brick by brick to stop it crumbling into the sea. Clavell Tower, which was close to the edge of a cliff at Kimmeridge Bay, was at risk because of erosion. During an 18-month project costing £898,000, the 1830 monument on the World Heritage Site was dismantled, with each...
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purbeckblog (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
[ January 13, 2008; 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. ] Dorset Wildlife Trust is organising a beach clean at the Purbeck Marine Wildlife Reserve at Worbarrow Bay on Sunday 13 January. Meet on the beach from 1.30pm - all equipment is provided.
