Site updates in Local Area
We have updated the local area home page with new content and updated other pages with new information
http://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/localarea/default.aspx
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Swanage James Day Residential Home to Close
James Day Home in New Swanage will be closing as a residential home which is planned for the end of March / early April.
There is to be a meeting at the home on Thursday 4th Feb when the residents will be told that they are to be relocated.
The home has had many thousands of pounds spent on it over recent months and the standard of care and facilities provided are excellent so the choice by Dorset County Council to vastly increase the rent the owners have to pay making it no longer viable to keep open seems very unfair on both the residents and staff who have worked very hard to look after the elderly residents and run the home.
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Corfe Castle Virtual Google Tours
We have updated the Corfe Castle page to include the new street view tour which Google has created of the castle and grounds.
http://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/outdoors/page.aspx?p=corfecastle
New Topics
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Website Stats for 2007, 2008 and 2009
Website visitor stats for the past three years, as you can see from the numbers below the visitors for 2009 are down from 2008 but there was a sharp decline in visitors around August 2008 when the media started to give a lot of coverage to the up and coming recession.
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Panoramic Gallery Update
We have updated the panoramic gallery so that nearly all the 360 tours have hotspots you can click to link to other tours.
http://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/gallery/panoramic.aspx
We hope to get new tours to cover the Isle of Purbeck this summer.
Top 10 places for retirement
Contrary to popular belief, Swanage isn’t the top place for people to retire to in the UK but 3 of the top 10 locations are in Dorset.
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£100,000 pledge to ensure Swanage and Corfe Castle rejoin rail network
DISTRICT transport chiefs have pledged £100,000 to ensure Swanage and Corfe Castle are reconnected to the mainline rail network.
If regular passenger services are ever to return to the Purbeck towns, after an absence of more than three decades, it is essential Worgret Junction, near Wareham, is upgraded.
So Purbeck District Council members agreed to invest the £100,000 to help bankroll a junction signalling and track design blueprint.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/
Overseas Visitors to the site
The web logs are showing lots of visitors to the website and hopefully they will visit the town one day, especially the nice people in Puerto Vallarta in Mexico on 187.146.222.115 who spent a lot of time last night trying to hack this website and the people on 189.30.227.243 at brasiltelecom.net.br who are busy trying to hack in again today.
