Catherine Taylor

‘How do you fancy driving a campervan around the Dorset coast this summer?’ or similar was the wording in a local advert that caught Ben Dames’ eye five years ago. Successfully applying for a new role with the National Trust Read more »

If you were to pass the A.P. Chant offices in Bridport at 4.30am and see a light on, you’d be forgiven for thinking the building services company had left the light on. More likely however is that owner Ashley Chant Read more »

Claire is usually the first face people see when they walk into Dodge Interiors in Sherborne. She is front of house, shop assistant and also deals with the advertising. Starting out in the back office some 28 years ago, then Read more »

While attending St John Colfox school in Bridport, Steve Kilcoyne discovered he had a talent for running and hurdles and was County Champion three years in a row. He won a scholarship to Milfield School to be mentored by 400m Read more »

Although Caroline lives in Beaminster, went to school at Marshwood Primary and then Beaminster she hasn’t always lived there. After 6th Form she went to London, spending six years training to be a nurse, with a further two years in Read more »

It’s programme deadline. The copy has to be proof read and Nigel Corbett, the recently appointed Beaminster Festival Director is busy trying to get media photographs out of musicians, a task more difficult than he first envisaged. Plans are in Read more »

From selling espadrilles on a Saturday in Bridport Market to Doc Martin’s out of his high street shop, Riff Tilbury knows all there is to know about selling shoes. He would leave before dawn on a Sunday morning travelling from Read more »

For a person to wake up at 4.30am every morning there must be a lot to do in their day. Caroline Smith says it’s a habit she can’t seem to break as there is so much going on in her Read more »

ALTHOUGH organising a one day show held the last Thursday before the Bank Holiday each August, The Melplash Show’s Secretary, Lucy Hart, works year round to produce the event. Planning begins 14 months before the big day, so while we’re Read more »

Picking, pruning and perfecting the vines, Rupert Leeds works hard under the Autumn sun to help produce a world renowned, award winning wine—and it’s English wine to boot. Rupert works for Furleigh Estate, hidden in the depths of the Marshwood Read more »