THE visit of a Government tourism minister to Dorset was a turning point for the county, an MP has said. Nigel Huddleston, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, visited the area to meet with West Dorset MP Chris Loder. Mr Loder hailed the visit as a turning point for tourism in west Dorset and said it was the first time a tourism minister had visited the area in decades. Mr Loder said: “My objective was to ensure the government has west Dorset at the top of its agenda in supporting our economy and its post-Covid recovery. We had an excellent day with the minister, showing off West Dorset. From the Sherborne Abbey, the Cerne Abbas Giant and the Jurassic Coast, to our brilliant Dorset Museum and Kingston Maurward to name only a few.
THE visit of a Government tourism minister to Dorset was a turning point for the county, an MP has said. Nigel Huddleston, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, visited the area to meet with West Dorset MP Chris Loder. Mr Loder hailed the visit as a turning point for tourism in west Dorset and said it was the first time a tourism minister had visited the area in decades. Mr Loder said: “My objective was to ensure the government has west Dorset at the top of its agenda in supporting our economy and its post-Covid recovery. We had an excellent day with the minister, showing off West Dorset. From the Sherborne Abbey, the Cerne Abbas Giant and the Jurassic Coast, to our brilliant Dorset Museum and Kingston Maurward to name only a few.
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A FOSSIL hunting festival is going virtual. The Lyme Regis Fossil and Earth Science Festival is returning in virtual form, starting on Saturday, July 10. The annual event has been transferred online as a result of the Covid-19 restrictions. Traditionally, the physical festival, previously known as the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival attracts some of the world s best palaeontologists and geologists to Lyme Regis. The two day festival will be available to access via the brand new Fossil and Earth Science Festival website, which will go live in the early hours of July 10. The festival will feature more than 100 separate pre-recorded video contributions from world experts on wide ranging topics in the fields of palaeontology, geology, earth sciences and more.
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