BRIDPORT businessman Cyril Campbell hit out this week after his company was overlooked for the contract to supply and fit blinds at the town's new police station.

Mr Campbell had to relocate ABC Roller Blinds after being on Tannery Road site for more than 20 years to make way for the new station.

He said: "I was led to believe that we would be considered for a quote but we were not. I feel like we've been kicked in the teeth. It's absolutely disgusting."

The building, which is due to become operational in December, is being created under a private finance initiative which will also see a new divisional HQ at Weymouth and new police stations in Weymouth and Dorchester.

Mr Campbell is now operating just around the corner from Tannery Road in St Michael's trading estate, after West Dorset District Council helped him relocate.

But he says he was assured by contractors Norwest Holst Construction that he would at least have the chance to quote for installing blinds at the new police station.

But a different company - WS Atkins - is involved in kitting out the station and Mr Campbell says they have told him they know nothing about it and the contract has been awarded to someone else.

Said Mr Campbell: "I'm really gutted about this and it's not gone down very well at all."

And he said it was just another example of how business went to out-of-town firms when it came to large-scale developments.

Dorset Police said it could not comment on what was essentially private matter between Mr Campbell and the agents carrying out the work.

A spokesman for Norwest Holst said it had been approached about six months ago by ABC Roller Blinds and had passed the firm's details on to WS Atkins, who run the facility management side of the PFI contract.