BEAMINSTER Festival has been cancelled for the second year in a row. The event, which usually takes place in June, has been called off due to the uncertainties surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions. This is the second year the festival has been cancelled due to the pandemic, and the event s organisers hope they can arrange a grand festival in 2022. A spokesman for the Beaminster Festival Committee and Trustees said: It is with great regret that we must announce that this year s Beaminster Festival planned for June will not take place and that this will be another year of enforced absence. The safety of all our supporters, friends and volunteers is paramount and with the uncertainties of Covid still with us, the trustees reluctantly decided that it would be unwise to continue with the festival as planned.
BEAMINSTER Museum s expansion project is one step closer to the finished article as all building work on the site has been completed. Work began in August 2020 to build a two-storey extension at the rear of the building after the museum received a £99,000 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The work will enable the museum to increase its size, activities and the range of people and groups who will be able to use the museum. Dr Murray Rose, chairman of the museum s trustees, said: “The actual building phase of our expansion project, part-funded by the National Lottery, is now completed, with our contractors having left in early February.