From the corner of a farm that nestles in the lee of Ballard Down, the first brewery in Swanage for more than a century quietly goes about its business of producing quality beer its patrons like and a living for its directors – brewer Jean Young and her partner Kevin Hunt who writes the recipes.
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‘Money or fame were never in my thinking’
If music is a universal language then Jim Etherington is a native speaker. He casts himself as a pub singer but a penchant for creating major outdoor music events in and around his adopted home town means he has been seen by tens of thousands of people in the forty years he has lived in Read More…
The birth of the boffin
The boffins at Bletchley Park and many other places all richly deserve their place in history, but the term ‘boffin’ was coined by and for TRE’s radar researchers whose work established Britain’s very own Silicon Valley in Purbeck.
Roddy Woomble
Reformed indie rockers Idlewild are to play their only mainland UK festival date with an acoustic show at Purbeck Folk Festival in August. The Scottish band released their last album Post Electric Blues in 2009 and since then frontman Roddy Woomble has released two solo albums, while guitarist Rod Jones has released material under his Read More…