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Dorset tip booking goes live

From Monday, booking a slot to visit the tip will no longer be optional at four Dorset recycling centres – the long-discussed change that...

equestrian

From the first homebred winner to the yard’s Cheltenham contenders

Youth and experience both won this week, sharpening expectations ahead of a Festival packed with opportunity, says Chris Wald It was a week of extremes...

Four riders … 25 fences … No regrets.

Fast, fearless and faintly unhinged, team chasing turns sensible riders into adrenaline junkies and horses like The Sass Queen into absolute legends It’s fair to...

DORSET HISTORY

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Wildlife & farming

Waiting for the shelves to empty

From fragile supply chains to frozen farm budgets, Tim Gelfs says NFU conference laid bare the gap between rhetoric and delivery Fresh back from NFU...

Rethinking dairy in life after TB

TB relief at Rawston, but falling milk prices, ageing kit and new rules force a decisive reset for the family business, writes James Cossins The...

Roundup and the road ahead

As glyphosate faces renewed scrutiny, George Hosford argues that routine pre-harvest use risks threatening its future altogether There is a row brewing over the future...

Let it bee spring

As spring gathers pace, Dorset’s gardens begin to fill with tawny mining bees, hairy footed flower bees and colourful nomads emerging from winter Bees are...

Dorset Food & drink

Orange, chocolate and watercress muffins

Lizzie Crow is better known to most as Lizzie Baking Bird. From her tiny bakery in West Dorset, Lizzie creates an impressive range of...
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A COUNTRY LIVING

Ranger of a 1,000 miles

Behind Dorset’s wildflower verges and well-kept footpaths stands Graham Stanley, a senior ranger juggling bats, budgets and public expectations Graham Stanley leaps out of his...

Dorset’s Mr Bean

Giles Dick-Read spotted the coffee revolution before Britain knew it wanted one, quitting the corporate world for a converted Sherborne dairy It’s 1993: a world...

Black Pug Books

Flying in the fear factor

Dorset’s very own Batman

dorset walks