25 YEARS AGO:

November, 19 1993

REMEMBRANCE: Peacemakers in a violent world were praised at Bridport's Remembrance Sunday service.

Team Rector the Rev John Gann urged the congregation in St Mary's Church to strive for peace as well as those who died fighting in its name.

He said: "On our television screens we see so much war, so much violence, people being killed, people sorrowing in Bosnia where their homes are destroyed and their whole way of life disappears."

RECORD PAYOUT: A record £6,800 payment to charity was made by Bridport Carnival Committee at their annual meeting in the town this week.

Among the groups receiving donations were the St John Ambulance Brigade, Talking Newspapers for the Blind and the Young Persons Action Trust.

SLEEP OUT: Scouts slept the night in their new hut to celebrate its official re-opening by the Mayor of Bridport, Colin Crosby.

Part of the hut on Bridport's Plottingham playing field was badly damaged by fire last year.

50 YEARS AGO:

November, 15 1968

EXHIBITING: In a tiny art sop in Perry Street, a 60-year-old professional artist, A Cashmore, is holding his first professional exhibition after a lifetime's painting.

Mr Cashmore moved to The Studio, Claverley, Crewkerne Road from West Bromwich about six months ago and has become a familiar figure on the local art scene.

NEW LIFEBOAT: Lyme Regis is to have a new lifeboat.

The RNLI has decided that there is a need for an intermediate-type class of boat at the station, and one is scheduled to arrive soon at the resort for operational trials.

The £2,000 boat has been purchased for the Lyme Regis station by the family of the late Rev George Eyre, a great supporter of the RNLI and former mayor of the borough.

POPPY COLLECTIONS: The Poppy Day house-to-house and street collections at Lyme Regis totalled £159 7s 1d, the second highest amount ever achieved in the borough.

It is less than £2 short of the record collections of 1966.