Sally Allan
Sally Allan’s first lobster was caught in Jersey waters. She was on holiday, visiting her uncle, when he took her to meet the fishermen and buy direct. He then taught her how to prepare and eat it. It’s been a Read more »
Catherine Taylor
Colin ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins
Should you veer off the A35 towards North Chideock, leaving the main village of Chideock behind, you’ll meander down a tree-lined road, passing picture-perfect wheat fields, lampposts heralding an ancient church, slices of sky glimpsed through trees and pass a Read more »
Penny Callaghan
Inspiration, aspiration and hard work combined has helped to produce a local clothes shop that has just been awarded Best UK Online Boutique. No small feat for Penny Callaghan, owner of Colmers Hill Fashion, located in Symondsbury’s Manor Yard. It Read more »
Gideon Hitchin
When your most vivid memory of childhood is licking an olive, or taking a tentative bite out of a slice of salami, it’s no surprise that making food becomes your career. Which is what Gideon Hitchin has done, to great Read more »
Luke Hayter
Leaping out of bed, the first thing Luke Hayter does in the morning is yoga, limbering up for a full day of activity at the Fitness Hub. This ball of fitness energy left Bridport Leisure Centre over a year ago Read more »
Richard Mabb
The Dorset Spice Shed is more than just a shed. It’s Richard Mabb’s working-week home where he’s building on a love-affair with herbs and spices that started in childhood. Now based at Bridport’s Dreadnought Trading Estate, the business, which also Read more »
Sue England
Sue England’s father was an apprentice at Smith & Smith Gentlemen’s Outfitters in Bridport. When Mr Smith and Mr Smith died within a year of each other Sue’s family bought the shop, which she now owns with her sister and Read more »
Phil Verden
With his nose pressed up as close to the oven door as he dares, a young Phil Verden watches his mother’s Yorkshire Puddings rise higher and higher, wondering just how she manages it. Today, Phil attends to his own batches Read more »
Nathan Tuck
“I grew up in Dorchester, went to school there, but didn’t behave myself all the time. There was a new fire station being built, so I laboured there for a while. That’s when I first found out I wasn’t very Read more »
Katy Howell
“I love the mornings when I wake up and go downstairs before the kids are awake, knowing I have 400 brownies to make that day”, says Katy Howell, creator, cook and owner of Bayside Bakery. That’s pretty much every morning Read more »