In reply to Ian Parsons: I went to Portland once in I think it was 1978 because the seas were too big at Swanage. I can remember we looked at some of the crags on the West side of the island - there was a big multi-pitch VS in the guidebook that went up a big corner but the weather wasn't too kind and the big VS looked too scary.
We ended up doing a couple of trad routes in the Cuttings !!!
They were both graded MVS but there was nothing mild about them