DECEMBER’S BV IS OUT NOW!

Inside the December issue of The BV magazine, the UK’s Regional Publication of the...

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DECEMBER’S BV IS OUT NOW!

Inside the December issue of The BV magazine, the UK’s Regional Publication of the Year: The Christmas issue of The BV is bursting at the...

Wunderdog Has Landed!

Dorset’s independent businesses now have a dedicated marketing partner in Wunderdog—a full-service agency specifically designed and priced for brilliant local businesses. Founded by Rhiannon Harris,...

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Wunderdog Has Landed!

Dorset’s independent businesses now have a dedicated marketing partner in Wunderdog—a full-service agency specifically designed and priced for brilliant local businesses. Founded by Rhiannon Harris,...

Growing Christmas – one tree at a time

Dorset’s expert grower, Pete Hyde, gives The BV’s editor Laura Hitchcock an insider peek at the secret life of Christmas trees ‘I started selling Christmas...

Godmanstone | THEN AND NOW

Step back in time with our ‘Then and Now’ feature, where vintage postcards from the Barry Cuff Collection meet modern-day reality. Explore the past...

Mid-century modern Blandford | POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen two postcards with scenes no doubt familiar to older locals – Blandford Forum a little more than 60...

Motcombe: Then and Now

Step back in time with our ‘Then and Now’ feature, where vintage postcards from the Barry Cuff Collection meet modern-day reality. Explore the past...

A note from the seaside: POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen two postcards more modern than usual, and scenes no doubt familiar to older locals. Both were sent by...

Hinton St Mary : Then and Now

Step back in time with our ‘Then and Now’ feature, where vintage postcards from the Barry Cuff Collection meet modern-day reality. Explore the past...

Notes to a sister : POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen a pair of postcards sent from Milborne St Andrew – quite by chance he has two cards sent...
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The BV magazine is a monthly digital publication which launched in August 2020, and it is in no way connected with the original, much-loved Blackmore Vale Magazine (owned by Reach PLC, and which ceased publication early the same year), nor with any other, more recently launched printed publication with a similar name. Never the free paper you pick up from the floor of the petrol station, The BV is the half hour read you spend a weekend coffee with.

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Keen’s Extra Mature Cheddar wins the first People’s Cheese Championship, organised by new campaign group The Real Cheese Project One of Somerset’s...

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We asked local chef Philippa Davis, the food writer for The Field, for the best place to start when cooking game....

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Dorset Farming

Growing Christmas – one tree at a time

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Government caught with its flock down

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High energy costs – are farmers turning green with fury?

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Dorset Wildlife

Fantastic fungi in Dorset

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A firework of cinders

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Wild Woodbury celebrates three years of rewilding success

From free roaming cattle to thriving wetlands – rewilding...

Going, going, gone!

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Owls in the combine

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