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There's something happening for everybody to enjoy in and around Weymouth most weeks of the year. From food fairs to an exciting live music scene and sporting events to a vibrant selection of shows at Weymouth Pavilion Theatre perfect if theatre breaks are your thing. To help you plan your visit here's what's up and coming in Weymouth and the surrounding area this year...

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Weymouth and Portland Gardens Win Green Flag Awards

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 [...]

July 23rd, 2015|0 Comments

Weymouth’s Town Bridge Time Capsule

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 [...]

July 6th, 2015|0 Comments

Jurassic Rocks Festival Re-schedules to August

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 [...]

July 6th, 2015|0 Comments

Win Tickets to Circus Wonderland in Weymouth

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.

June 22nd, 2015|0 Comments

The Waters of Weymouth

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.

June 15th, 2015|0 Comments

Weymouth Made Film Marks Volunteers Week for The RNLI

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 [...]

June 6th, 2015|0 Comments

Plague of Jellyfish in Portland Harbour

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. [...]

June 5th, 2015|0 Comments

Sir David Attenborough on Jurassica

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 [...]

June 3rd, 2015|0 Comments

Weymouth Carnival is Taking Procession Entries

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 [...]

June 1st, 2015|0 Comments

Local Photographer wins Prestigious Photo Competition

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 [...]

Weymouth Beach wins Seaside Award

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 [...]

May 20th, 2015|0 Comments

Far From The Madding Crowd Dorset Locations

The new version of Far From the Madding Crowd is due for release in cinemas on 1 May. We're so pleased that so much of the movie was filmed on location in Dorset all within easy reach of Weymouth. [pro_ad_display_adzone id="14623" align="left"]The cast and crew of the movie talk about their love of [...]

April 28th, 2015|0 Comments
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