Every April and May, near the traffic lights in Bridport town centre a lady can be spied wearing a large brown hat, stood behind a table brimming with bright green asparagus spears. This is Anita de Greeff, of Bothen Hill Read more »
Gabby Rabbitts is the newly appointed Director of the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis. She means business, and has a tall order to turn the tired venue around, but relishes what’s ahead, determined to transform the historic building into a Read more »
From her large beautifully designed open plan kitchen perched on top of Lyme Regis, Gill Coates provides workshops on how to make chocolates. Chocolate Amour has proved so popular, Gill is now teaching at Ashburton Cookery School. She learnt her Read more »
The owners of Cilla & Camilla, Richard Barker and his partner Sally Ann Palmer bought the original shop in Beaminster seven years ago. They kept the name but immediately started looking for new premises, as they were confident what they Read more »
Being creative is at the essence of Jolly Carter’s core. It has taken him to Chelsea School of Art in New York and back home to Dorset to start Dorshi, one of the county’s most progressive restaurants. Neither Jolly, whose Read more »
Brothers, business partners, travelling buddies, drinking cohorts and general muckers, the Ironmonger brothers Charlie and John do a lot of things together. Four years ago they set up Taddle Farm Tents, a marquee hire company which is expanding year on Read more »
Bang, crash, go the barrels as they are rolled across to the other side of the car park, where the empties are stacked. Paul Wiscombe, Landlord of The Anchor at Seatown’s childhood memories involve helping his parents at the pub Read more »
Superglue, baby wipes, multiway phone chargers, strip wax, magnums of champagne, packets of brightly coloured pasta from Italy, coconut cream, every spice combination you could wish for, personally selected red, white and rose wine, locally made mead, original Edwardian bottles Read more »
Lloyd Brown, MD of Grey Bear Bar Company grew up in Alton Pancreas, a hamlet nestled in the Piddle Valley. He went straight from school into his first job at The Victoria Hotel, Dorchester, knowing then that he wanted to Read more »
If it hadn’t been for Toby’s mum he wouldn’t be Operations Director at Beehive Self Storage and Beehive Toy Factory. Nine years ago, Richard Stone, the owner of Beehive received a phone call from a very persistent lady, who had Read more »