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Litter Free Dorset have partnered with Weymouth Town Council and Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project to expand their beach toy library, with two additional locations on the busy Weymouth Seafront just in time for the start of summer holidays. The toy library allows visitors to borrow and reuse toys for free, meaning visitors save money, help reduce waste and stop plastic entering our oceans.
Organisers of Cornwall’s surf and music festival, Boardmasters, will donate £50,000 to Newquay’s Concrete Waves Skatepark between now and 2025.
The Falmouth Cringe Comedy Festival is returning to Cornwall from 6 – 9 July and this year and the festival is expanding, promising to bring a programme of events that everyone in the community will enjoy. 2023 headliners include Shaparak Khorsandi and Tim Key.
Over 120 artists and makers will exhibit their work at venues across BS5 next weekend.
In 2022, to celebrate the modern Matthew’s 25th anniversary and the 525th anniversary of John Cabot’s voyage across the Atlantic on the original Matthew in 1497, The Matthew of Bristol Trust embarked on a year-long project to further advance the educational aims of the ship and the Trust.
Bristol Stanza Group and Lyra Festival present 'Walking Words'. Both a book and a digital walking trail, accessible through a mobile app where spoken versions of the poems are triggered on your mobile phone as a participant walks past the specific poem sites. The book, published by Bristol Books is based on the poems and is on sale throughout the Lyra annual Bristol Poetry Festival, which this year runs from April 22 to May 1.
Local artists will have the chance to showcase their work as the popular BS5 Art Trail returns for its third year and The Chocolate Factory visitor centre in Greenbank has confirmed it will once again be one of the venues.
Cornish hedgers are being asked to complete a short online survey which will help determine whether the ancient skill should be classified as an endangered craft.
The challenging financial climate is not preventing people in Bristol from planning to party this Christmas, city hoteliers say.
Letters and diaries written by passengers on the SS Great Britain when it sailed the high seas have inspired a Bristol poet to produce a unique anthology.
Bristol Memorial Woodlands is to hold a candlelit service of remembrance on Sunday October 30 to mark All Souls Day, when people remember loved ones who have departed.
A new exhibition at Durlston Country Park, ‘Hidden Perspectives – A Sense of Studland’, features work from three artists June Ridgway, Lizzy Short and Lin Walker, showcasing their different perspectives and interpretations of the Studland landscape through the seasons.
A five-day festival will be staged at locations across Dorset next month to showcase the county’s exciting digital future.
Bristol Hoteliers have welcomed what industry leaders have described as an ‘unprecedented intervention’ by the Government to help them cope with soaring energy costs.
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has announced a partnership with the ground-breaking UK-wide art education project, The World Reimagined, which will see the firm sponsor two globe sculptures, one in Bristol and the other in London.
Hoteliers in Bristol are urging whoever becomes the new Prime Minister to cut the rate of VAT to help their businesses survive the post-pandemic threat of soaring costs.
An eye-catching display of flowers, made from recycled plastic, has been installed to mark the 600th anniversary of the Swan Hotel in Wells, Somerset providing bed, board and good food for visitors to the city.
Bristol hoteliers have broadly welcomed news that the city’s Clean Air Zone will begin in November, providing a welcome boost to their businesses in an increasingly greener, cleaner world.
