Ridgeway Magazine 19th June 2019

Published June 26, 2019

Blood Bikes save lives. Who are the Yeovil Freewheelers to whom Simon Gudgeon of the Sculpture By The Lakes near Dorchester has donated a £15,000 motorcycle? More info at yfwbloodbikes.org
Two initiatives from Weymouth’s Business Investment District. One is about responsible crabbing and the other will promote Weymouth and Portland’s many heritage sites
We meet a housekeeper (male) who is all at sea as he looks after the needs of 3,800 passengers and crew
While D-Day is in the news, John visits Norway to learn about an unsuccessful (but gallant) naval landing in 1940 which failed to thwart the Nazi forces and their occupation of the country
Can it be true? Were all US forces dead repatriated to their homeland? Perhaps not so, as historian Roger Guttridge reveals
Another instalment of Pet Patter from retired vet and author Malcolm Welshman entitled ‘Madam Mountjoy’