A year ago landscape photographer Mattia Bicchi saw some images of Durdle Door on The Jurassic Coast and was so taken by them that he decided there and then that he needed to head straight for the coast and discover more about our beautiful local coastline. From this journey came a commitment to develop a project [...]
Weymouth and Portland Mayor, Cllr Christine James has launched a competition for children to design her charity Christmas card. Mayor Cllr Christine James, said: “Cards will go sale in the run up to Christmas and all money raised will be split between the Dementia Action Alliance and LV Streetwise. “I’m looking forward to seeing all [...]
Residents and visitors are invited to Weymouth Seafront for a night of fun at the free annual Big Guy Fawkes Event on 5 November. Fun starts at 3pm with the fun fair on the Pavilion forecourt and stalls along the seafront followed by the traditional free Children’s Guy Fawkes competition at 6.30pm in the Pavilion [...]
Long established family run Weymouth seafront guest house The Channel has changed it's name to Weymouth Beach B and B. Chris Reay one of the proprietors explains ... "The house sits proudly opposite the award winning central beach, our guests only have to walk a matter of yards across The Esplanade to enjoy this fantastic [...]
The Challenge Weymouth Triathlon takes place on Sunday 13 September and thousands of athletes and spectators will be visiting Weymouth for this prestigious event in the annual Triathlon calendar. Whilst the event itself takes place on the Sunday Saturday 12th  is also likely to be very busy with many athletes and spectators choosing to stay in Weymouth [...]
Another wonderful video by Paul Hoskins shot at sunset at The Fleet
Many of the most spectacular views and relaxing walks to be found in the Weymouth and Portland area can be found along the shores of The Fleet. Here unspoilt Dorset farmland leads to the shores of the inland lagoon where the sheer beauty and natural wonder of this tranquil body of water is a wonder to behold... A photographers [...]
Weymouth harbour was alive with colour over the weekend of 5 and 6 September for the annual Waterfest celebration of the town's maritime heritage. For more pictures and video take a look at www.facebook.com/weymouthandportland [foogallery id="16316"]
Music with a nautical theme will be the order of the day on Sat 5 September and Sun 6 September at Waterfest Weymouth Feast your eyes and ears on these videos of the acts booked to perform on Weymouth Quayside over the Waterfest weekend then check out the times of their performances on the Waterfest weekend [...]
Beautifully shot video of Portland from the air by Jamie Moore ...
This Bank Holiday Weekend, Osprey Leisure Centre will host a Pop-up Jurassica Exhibition from Saturday 29th August until Monday 31st August 2015 from 10am to 4pm. This is a fantastic opportunity to travel back in time 140 million years to experience the terrifying world of Jurassic Dorset and meet the monsters of the deep. The [...]
Weymouth carnival is urging businesses to dress their shops, hotels and staff and get in the carnival spirit. Weymouth Hoteliers, Guest Houses & Leaseholders have donated £500 to Weymouth Carnival in the memory of Dave Price. Alison Weller of WHGLA said " After the sad and sudden death of our Chairman Dave Price earlier this [...]
Weymouth has four new members of Royalty as Weymouth Carnival has crowned the new Queen & Princes and for the first time ever King & Prince Weymouth’s new Queen is Cat Greenway was over the moon to have been chosen. “Pageant night was awesome, the ocean room looked beautiful and I really felt like important [...]
Sandworld unveiled their latest sculpture in their "Best of British" display today celebrating one of  the UK's best loved comedy series Only Fools and Horses Getting into the spirit of the day this spitting image of Del Boy dropped in to take a look for himself and say hello to world renown Sand Artist Baldrick Buckle who [...]
Three of Weymouth and Portland's gardens have won Keep Britain Tidy Green Flag Awards for 2015/16 Greenhill Gardens and Sandsfoot Gardens in Weymouth along with Easton Gardens on Portland took pride of place amongst the 83 winning gardens in the West Country when the winners were announced today. More information about the green flag scheme can be [...]
 Weymouth Carnival will be taking place on Wednesday the 19th August and is now set to get bigger and better thanks to the support from the local community and businesses. After a very difficult start to the year Weymouth Carnival is now only around £5,000 from braking even before the event. Businesses are now being [...]
Weymouth Carnival have launched the Grand draw for 2015. You could be going home from Weymouth Carnival on Wednesday 19th August in a brand new SUZUKI Celerio SZ2 which has been supplied at a discount from Lanehouse SUZUKI. As well as the car the carnival has had return support from Littlesea Holiday Park, and Howleys [...]
Last week saw the 85th anniversary of the opening of Weymouth's iconic Town Bridge which was opened on 4 July 1930. A year earlier in 1929 the Mayor of Weymouth laid the foundation stone for the pier. When doing so a time capsule was cemented into the foundation stone we presume it's still there and [...]
Jurassic Rocks, the music festival held on the Isle of Portland has rescheduled from July to 21st, 22nd & 23rd August. Jurassic Rocks organisers took the difficult decision after looking at the advance ticket sales and requests from bands that wanted to play the festival. The new dates allow the festival to now run over [...]
Fantastic video brings to life just how fun a days fishing out of Weymouth can be on one of the many Charter boats that operate out of the harbour. This video was shot on the Wild Frontier when taking a group out wreck fishing for cod. For more information about Wild Frontier visit their Facebook [...]
Circus Wonderland visits Weymouth this week and here's a great chance to win family tickets to the show. Just click here to visit the Loving Weymouth and Portland Facebook page where you will find the simple competition at the top of the page. For more about Circus Wonderland's visit click here.
A drone flight over the beautiful waters of Weymouth Bay on the south Dorset coast. Some beautiful sweeping views as this drone flies from Lodmoor around the bay to Newtons Cove. Subscribe to Aerial Flyer's YouTube Channel to see more of his videos.
Following a hugely successful season in 2014, PIRATES OF THE PAVILION – The Swashbuckling Summer Pantomime is back to take you on a brand new adventure! We are extremely excited to announce that BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT favourite PHILIP GREEN will be coming aboard the Saucy Sally as he steps into the role of Seadog Billy, [...]
This year’s major Armed Forces Day Celebrations will be held over a week starting on Saturday 20 June. There will be many stands and displays full of information from various veteran’s agencies and charity organisations for visitors to learn about the important role they play and how to support them. The festivities will kick off [...]
This week is volunteers week and to mark the occasion the RNLI wanted to celebrate that behind every rescue, there’s a volunteer – from the fundraiser to the education presenter, the launch authority to the museum volunteer, the crew member to the sea safety officer. Without volunteers, they wouldn’t have been able to help over 28,000 [...]
The warm waters have brought quite a lot of large Barrel Jellyfish into the waters around Weymouth over the past few days with some pretty huge ones being spotted. Spencer Nicklin captured this amazing video from the air of what looks like hundreds of them, maybe even thousands gathered in Portland Harbour. What an astonishing sight this [...]
News from the team behind the Jurassica Project is that despite the setback in the recent round of National Lottery Heritage Fund awards they are fully committed to developing the project and are confident that it will be opening on Portland by 2021. This video featuring Sir David Attenborough shows the vision behind the project [...]
There's great news  today that Weymouth Carnival has overcome it's earlier financial difficulties and is now taking entries for the Carnival Procession. The opening of entries for the procession had been left later than usual while the finances were sorted out but it's now full steam ahead for a bumper Carnival Day and residents, businesses and [...]
Weymouth based professional photographer Ollie Taylor has won the 2015 Lovers of Light photo competition  with his inspiring photograph ‘Durdle Door Starburst’. Over 21,000 photographs were entered in the competition and the judges commented on the award winning photo saying "The photograph evoked powerful memories of childhood holidays and long summer nights for each of our judges." [...]
Weymouth Central Beach has won the coveted Seaside Award for 2015 from Keep Britain Tidy. The Seaside Award recognises beaches in England that achieve the very highest management and environmental standards, as well as the tough bathing water quality criteria. Weymouth & Portland Borough Council’s Tourism & Events Manager, Matt Ryan said: “The borough council [...]