Row over Bournemouth’s empty West Cliff hotel

BBC South Today is reporting growing local anger over an empty hotel on Bournemouth’s West Cliff. The St George Hotel at the south end of West Cliff Gardens has beautiful red hanging tiles but the only occupants are pigeons. Neighbours running other hotels feel that it gives a bad impression.  John Warwick, who owns the Hotel [...]

Public performances at Shelley Park theatre

Yesterday Bournemouth’s Mary Shelley Festival ended with a performance of a play at the Mary Shelley pub and a brief poetry reading at the Shelley tomb at St Peter’s. At the end of this month there will be an opportunity to see another play about Shelley performed at the cliff top Shelley Park in Boscombe. [...]

New surface for Highcliffe path

Following improvements to the cliff exit from Highcliffe Castle there is now news of a new surface for the Christchurch Coastal Path in front of the car park to the east. Work started last month on laying a long lasting surface to the path linking the top of Culmore Steps to the Cliffhanger Cafe. See [...]