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Chateau Rimmer hits the road

From Chateau Rimmer to soggy Chard, it’s been quite a month for Jess Rimmer, with laughs, qualifiers and falling in love with a little...

School’s out for summer

With 68 wins and a personal best for Joe, it’s finally turnout time at the Tizzard Yard – and the spring pressure-washing begins … The...

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Dorset Food & drink

Ditch the miracle diets

Expert Karen Geary’s round-up of popular weight-loss approaches – with straight-talking pros, cons and why habits always beat hacks The sun’s out, you ate too...

Wildlife & farming

A year in wild moments

From bluebells to beeches, Jane Adams explains how simple nature journaling can reconnect us to the quiet magic unfolding on our doorstep https://youtube.com/shorts/1L-bGhZZxTo?si=knGaLERbtYakhqih Do you ever...

Dorset County Show donates nearly £16,000 to local charities

The Dorset County Show has made generous donations totalling £15,938 to two important Dorset charities: Julia’s House and the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI). Julia’s...

Crops in, cows out – just add water

With rainfall low and food security a priority, Dorset farmers push back on proposals to reduce farmland in favour of trees and stewardship It has...

Power from the ground up

Brain’s Farm near Wincanton is producing biomethane and preparing to supply digestate back to farms, completing a truly circular energy cycle It is predicted that,...

May’s BV is right here

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This month’s BV is packed with stories you won’t want to miss – from Dorset’s angry pom-pom crow who stole 100,000 hearts, to chip...
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A COUNTRY LIVING

Big bad wolf proof

Tracie Beardsley meets sustainable builder Phil Christopher, championing a straw home revolution and defying the big bad wolf It would have been a very different...

Forever fronds

Meet the couple who have brought an exotic plant world to the village of Spetisbury, growing a pteridophile passion into a living It was a...

A binding narrative

From farm to festive feast

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