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The Dorset Seafood Festival was founded in 2008 and last year had a record attendance of 10,000 festival-goers. But organisers have pulled the plug on this year's event blaming spiralling costs and falling sponsorship for making it unsustainable.

They say the festival raised more than 拢90,000 for the Fisherman's Mission charity over 15 years, and a study on the impact of the 2022 event suggested there was a 拢3.1 million economic benefit locally.

We spoke to the chief operations officer at We Are Weymouth (the Business Improvement District), Dawn Rondeau-Irvine.