If you're planning a night out in Weymouth over the coming Winter months Weymouth and Portland Borough Council have an early Christmas present for you in the form of FREE parking in their car parks overnight between 1 November and 30 March 2014. Just look out for the orange sign on the car park ticket [...]
Tickets for Weymouth Lions Club Christmas Show on 3 December a Near Sellout After Just One Week! This ever popular show for Senior Citizens, which is FREE, has been a virtual sell-out again after only seven days of the tickets being available with only a few left, obtainable only at the Pavilion Box Office. Once [...]
Dennis and Thelma Spurle spent their 60th Wedding Anniversary as VIP guests at Weymouth Sea Life Adventure Park and Tower in October. After their wedding in 1953, they chose Weymouth as their honeymoon destination after booking a caravan for just £4! couple, from Torquay in Devon were welcomed to the Park and were treated to [...]
Weymouth’s Halloween celebrations came to a climax last Saturday when The Halloween Spooktacular organised by The Weymouth BID took place across the town centre. […]
Weymouth BID are investing £10,000 in festive attractions for Weymouth Victorian Shownight which takes place on Friday 6 December. These will include a synthetic ice rink; Santa arriving in his sleigh pulled by real reindeer; the official switching on of the town’s Christmas lights by the mayor with carol singing by local choirs; a live [...]
Over the weekend of 2 & 3 November The Weymouth Model Railway Association held their incredibly popular annual exhibition at Wey Valley School. As always the event attracted a large attendance on both days, we went along on the Sunday and despite the ample sized car parking facilities still found it difficult to find a [...]
The Sea Life Tower in Weymouth turns into a pumpkin as the focal point of Halloween Trick or Treat celebrations in Weymouth. Joining in with the festivities being organised within the town on Saturday 2nd of November for the Spooktacular Fun Day organized by the Weymouth Bid the Weymouth Sea Life Tower will glow orange [...]
Gold winner in the Dorset Tourism Awards this year, Dorset Seafood Festival has not only taken the ‘Dorset Tourism Event of the Year’ award but also secured a new 5-year sponsorship agreement with its title sponsor, Champagne Pommery.  To top the celebrations, this year’s Seafood Festival raised a total of £7973 for its charity partner, [...]
Well done to Rebecca Alford and nephew Matt Chambers from Portland who on Sunday 27th October, battling stormy weather and gusts of up to 30 knots,joined 25,000 others to run 10 wild miles around Portsmouth Historic Dockyard as part of the Great South Run. Rebecca decided to run for the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust after [...]
This competition is currently running on Facebook to win a family ticket for Weymouth SEA LIFE Adventure park. All you need to do is like the Loving Weymouth and Portland Page on Facebook and share the picture below to your Facebook timeline ... Competition closes 1 November Post by Loving Weymouth & Portland.
This is the final programme for Weymouth's Spooktacular Halloween Fun Day which takes place on 2 November. Click Here to Download The Witch Hunt Entry Form Â
Details have just been announced of the order of events in Weymouth Town Centre happening in Weymouth's Spooktacular Halloween Fun Day which has been organised by the Weymouth BID As can often happen with events of this type there is always a chance that running order may change a little on the day so to [...]
The Weymouth Victorian Shownight will be held on Friday 6th December in the heart of Weymouth starting at 3pm and finishing at 9pm. The event will be organised by Roger Dalton Associates in conjunction and support of the Weymouth BID team. Roger Dalton Associates were the successful business who won the Weymouth BID Events Tender [...]
Brewers Quay Emporium have just announced on their Facebook page that they have now opened an art gallery within their operation. They'll be selling original works on a commission basis which should be ideal for many local artists and gives yet another good reason for  a trip across the harbour from the town centre for [...]
The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) will be a mecca for world speed sailing this month. Weymouth Speed Week, the oldest and longest-running global speed sailing event will run from the 12th to the 18th October. Held annually since 1972, this year’s edition has attracted, Zara Davis, the double women’s world speed record [...]
To commemorate the 70th Anniversary of D-day the town of Weymouth is turning back the clock on the weekend of the 21st / 22nd of June 2014, it has been announced today. The event is being staged alongside the annual Veterans parade next year and will be taking place all across Weymouth. Called "Weymouth at [...]
During the past week there have been two announcements from The Weymouth BID about new revitalised events taking place in Weymouth over the winter months. The town's much loved Victorian Shownight will be back on 6 December and on 2 November they're planning a Halloween event in Weymouth town centre which promises from what we [...]
The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy was the ultimate venue last week for lucky Jaffa Citrus school competition winners. The competition promoted through Tesco Community Champions provided outstanding sports students at five schools with a water sports day treat run on site the 2012 Olympic sailing venue in association with SailLaser and OTC. The [...]
Weymouth came to life yesterday to the roar of the engines  of a few Hundred Harley Davidson motor cycles . We captured some shots as they  drove into Upwey village en route to Weymouth seafront. [justified_image_grid ng_gallery=36]
The Royal Yachting Association has selected the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) as the chosen venue for their upcoming ‘RYA Zone and Home Country Championships’. This annual event will run over the weekend 28/29 September. The youth national racing series is an important part of upcoming dingy sailors’ calendars. Ambitious young sailors from [...]
Finalists have been announced for the Dorset Tourism Awards 2013 and we are really pleased to say that three Weymouth tourist businesses are amongst them. Sandworld are one of four finalists in the Dorset Visitor attractions Category Dream Cottages are finalists in the Self Catering Category Dorset Seafood Festival made the finals in the events [...]
Tickets are selling fast for the Campaign for Real Ale’s [CAMRA] autumn beer festival in under three weeks time, on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 October- where 4752 pints of real ale from 66 different South West breweries will be on sale- plus around 15 casks of cider and perry. CAMRA nationally is celebrating reaching [...]
Macmillan Cancer Support Hopes to Raise £175,000.00 at World’s Biggest Coffee Morning Macmillan Cancer Support wants this year’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning to be the biggest ever and is inviting everyone to raise their mugs on Friday 27th September. The charity is hoping coffee mornings will take place across Dorset attracting thousands of people and is [...]
 Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) by invitation from the British Dragon Association for the Dragon World Championship on Thursday 12th September. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal is the Patron of this World Championship in recognition of the association of the Royal Family with [...]
If you haven't had the opportunity yet to visit Sandworld, Weymouth's amazing International Sand Sculpting Festival, here's a great opportunity to visit this  Autumn and make a huge saving. Sandworld have just released a discount ticket online for two adults including hot drinks in their Wildflower Cafe for just £8.25 which is an amazing 50% [...]
We recently received this news from Cafe Weymouth ... As proud members of Taste of the West we work hard to source some of the finest ingredients that Dorset and the West Country have to offer, as part of our membership we opted to enter the annual competition in the Café/Coffee shop category. The judge visits [...]
Our first trip to Weymouth was in May 2013 for a week, I found myself sitting on the harbour wall watching the world go by taking in the beautiful harbour and quaint cottages that line it; I didn’t want to leave! A short wander round into Brewers Quay and Hope Square brought me to Dream [...]
If cycling's your thing why not take advantage of the new Petit Tour de Manche cycle route and take a Weymouth to Weymouth cycle tour taking in The Jurassic Coast, Poole, St Malo and Jersey. This brand new route starts in Weymouth and takes you along the Jurassic coast to Poole, through rural Dorset. You [...]
For our site visitors from out of the region who may not have seen this yet here is the Weymouth Harbour " ident " fishing boats unloading their catch on Weymouth Quayside that has been airing throughout the summer on ITV West Country. We think it's really sets the scene of just how perfectly Weymouth [...]
A brand new production of Jack and the Beanstalk is coming to the Entertainments Centre at the Freshwater Beach Holiday Park in Burton Bradstock in December 2012. The Pantomime will be directed by Entertainments Manager, Drew Baker and produced by Freshwater Beach Holiday Park.  The new Entertainments team will be running a Panto’s Got Talent [...]