March 12th 2019

The beach in West Bay has been closed following a major rockfall of around 1,000 tons. Emergency services, including police and the Coastguard Agency were called to East Cliff at West Bay on Tuesday the afternoon of Tuesday March 12^th.

Emergency services were called to East Beach in West Bay at around 7.40pm on the evening of Tuesday 16th August 2016, after a kayaker witnessed the ‘medium to large’ fall from the water. Coastguard rescue teams from West Bay and Lyme Regis, the Coastguard search and rescue helicopter, Dorset Police, the NPAS police helicopter, Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service and Devon and Somerset Urban Search and Rescue Team were all sent to the area to establish if anyone was caught in the cliff fall. South West Ambulance Service was also called to the scene.

On Tuesday 22nd March 2016, a fire starting in the loft space and has destroyed Lyme's historic Art Deco Cinema, The Regent.
Note added April 21st: Sadly, and much to the general disgust of the town the premises was then burgled sometime around April 11th with the loss of valuable projection equipment.

If you are planning a holiday in Lyme, or even just a brief visit, may we suggest you:

Also, the next Lyme Regis Fossil Festival will take place in 2019 (we hope).

For infomation, as it becomes available, please click on the link below....
(Volunteers always needed!)

The two images above, show author John Fowles' house "Belmont" in Lyme Regis, following a superb two year renovation by The Landmark Trust and now open to the public..