Dorset: Dramatic Rescue at Durdle Door

Watch the video of the rescue (HM Coastguard/Dorset Echo)

Also on BBC News

Dorchester, Dorset: Markets and Car Park Development Plans

Dorchester's Fairfield won't be developed (for now), Dorset Echo

"The cheers came when he admitted that despite interest from developers the Fairfield would not be developed, either with shops or with a multi-storey car park for the foreseeable future. He said the deals being offered would mean the council bearing most of the financial risk which was not acceptable".

Alcohol and Health (The Lancet): No level of alcohol consumption improves health

From The Lancet - a sobering thought:

"The conclusions of the study are clear and unambiguous: alcohol is a colossal global health issue and small reductions in health-related harms at low levels of alcohol intake are outweighed by the increased risk of other health-related harms, including cancer. There is strong support here for the guideline published by the Chief Medical Officer of the UK who found that there is “no safe level of alcohol consumption”. The findings have further ramifications for public health policy, and suggest that policies that operate by decreasing population-level consumption should be prioritised. The most effective and cost-effective means to reduce alcohol-related harms are to reduce affordability through taxation or price regulation, including setting a minimum price per unit (MUP), closely followed by marketing regulation, and restrictions on the physical availability of alcohol".

Dorset: Bournemouth In Dread of Brexit?

From Jill Ward, Bloomberg

Also on MSN/Bloomberg - Seaside Town Is Starting to Fret

Times change:

Lawrence Durrell in dread of Bournemouth (and 'Pudding Island'):

"Lawrence Durrell always thought of Bournemouth as a ‘living death’, but both he and Gerald returned from time to time and used it as a base between foreign travels, postings and expeditions. Lawrence once worked as a porter at Bournemouth railway station and he and Nancy Myers were almost daily visitors to H G Commin’s bookshop. Lawrence and Nancy, the first of his four wives, were married on 22 January 1935 (before the family moved to Corfu, although there is no mention of Nancy in My Family and Other Animals). He was back in Bournemouth in the spring of 1947 with Eve Cohen, his second wife, living at his mother’s house".

Le Monde: Brexit - London prepares for the dark scenario of divorce without agreement

From Le Monde

Also of interest: The European Commission questions the practice of "golden visas"

"In recent years, Russians, Chinese or wealthy Americans have been able to acquire a residence permit or a passport that facilitates their access to a country of the Union, and therefore to the area, without a Schengen passport. Vera Jourova, the justice commissioner, fears that this practice facilitates money laundering, corruption and risks to security. Malta, Cyprus and Bulgaria are particularly targeted. The cases of Austria, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Portugal will also be scrutinized".


McDonnell backs claim second referendum on Brexit risks unrest, The Guardian


Brexit and the Overseas Territories, Legal Conferences, Bermuda Legal

Garbage on Corfu - Deutsche Welle Video

A little late in the day:

Garbage on Corfu, 23 August 2018, watch DW 4 minute video