Author Archives: Leigh Hatts

The continuing row about the future of the IMAX cinema building on Bournemouth seafront will be featured on BBC1’s Inside Out programme to be shown in the South on Monday 6 March. A recent Channel 4 programme branded the building … Continue reading →

Plans have been approved by the National Trust to erect a Portland stone monument near Old Harry Rocks marking the eastern end of the World Heritage Site Jurassic Coast. The western boundary is at Orcombe Rocks, near Exmouth in East … Continue reading →

Lecturer and expedition leader Russell Thompson of Swanage filled three plastic rubbish bags with discarded dog mess bags, cans and wrappers on one winter day when walking the coast path leading out of the town. He is calling on Purbeck … Continue reading →

A female, who became stuck knee deep in the sand on the beach at Chewton Bunny, used her mobile phone to call the emergency services. Ambulance and fire service crews found her suffering from cold.

Highcliffe Castle has been voted the top visitor attraction by tourists to the Bournemouth area. The Bournecoast Award comes just weeks after the it was announced that an application for Lottery funding for further restoration work had been unsuccessful. Accepting … Continue reading →

Nationwide press coverage of the the couple queuing for a beach hut during the Christmas holiday showed Avon Beach near Mudeford looking attractive in the winter sun. The beach, although accessible, is in private ownership and the coveted 80 huts … Continue reading →

The Solent Way now runs even closer to the coast between Keyhaven and Lymington. Just after passing in front of Creek Cottage at Moses Dock, the path joins a lane to run through a tunnel of trees. But where the … Continue reading →

The IMAX cinema building next to Bournemouth Pier has been voted the second ugliest in Britain. The new edition of the Bournemouth Coast Path guide had to drop the drawing of the town’s seafront entrance because the low rise swimming … Continue reading →

The Crow’s Nest cafe, above Chewton Bunny and at the end of Highcliffe, was destroyed by fire in 1990. Now yet another design for the replacement is to be considered. The new plan, by architect Darren Crain, would replace the … Continue reading →