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Time to start shouting!

Our most important 2025 New Year’s resolution will be to keep building public engagement in our efforts to support UK food & farming. It...

Optimism delayed: not extinguished

Gary Jackson North Dorset Liberal Democrats Pondering on the theme for this first column of 2025, I looked forward to spreading some optimism and positivity on...

Back to work

Daring to dream big?

Same bikes, new mission

Giles and Annie Henschel’s return to the Mediterranean highlights the crisis facing olive farmers and the resilience that is keeping hope alive In March 2024,...

‘We’re here to make life better’

Terry Bennett talks to West Dorset’s first Liberal Democrat MP, Edward Morello, who is still negotiating the Westminster jungle When Edward Morello walked into Westminster...

Winterborne Stickland | 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...

Sixpenny Handley | POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen two postcards from Sixpenny Handley, both sent in 1913, the year before the First World War began. Sent to...

Framing the past – Job Pottle’s story

A prolific photographer from the 1880s to the 1920s, Job Pottle captured local life from children to Churchill, the royal family to railways workers. Job...

THEN AND NOW: Okeford Fitzpaine

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...

Frozen Dorset

This month Barry Cuff has chosen two postcards with a suitably wintery feel – Sherbornians skating on the frozen lake in 1907, and the...

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...
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The Random 19 Questions

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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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Dorset Food & Drink

Our most important 2025 New Year’s resolution will be to keep building public engagement in our efforts to support UK food...

Sadie Wilkins from Sherborne’s award-winning indie wine merchant has some things to clear up regarding the new duty taxes As we pop...

Giles and Annie Henschel’s return to the Mediterranean highlights the crisis facing olive farmers and the resilience that is keeping hope...

Tucked away in the heart of Tarrant Monkton near Blandford, The Langton Arms is a standing symbol of rural Dorset. Surrounded...

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Shaftesbury-based chef and food writer Philippa Davis celebrates the wonderful food and drink of Dorset in a new six-part television series...

Dorset Farming

The 47 cow heartbreak

From devastating tests to tax protests, James Cossins sees...

Is it the year of the egg? |Farm Tales

Pessimism, promises and poultry: Andrew Livingston asks if 2025’s...

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The controversial tenant farmer: George Hosford on the inequities of land ownership | BV Podcast

In this episode of the BV Podcast, hosts Terry Bennett and Jenny Devitt dive into some of the hottest topics affecting Dorset’s communities. From...

Dorset Wildlife

Troglodytes troglodyte – the king of the birds

Wildlife writer Jane Adams greets one of the UK’s...

Graveyards: an excuse for weeds or a space that nature needs?

Rachael Rowe investigates how Dorset’s living legacy of churchyards...

It’s purr-fect inside Dorset Cattery

When Kirsty Sturmey goes to work each morning, she...

Have yourself a sustainable Christmas

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year …...

Our ancient neighbours

Wildlife writer Jane Adams explores the fascinating history and...

Have yourself a sustainable Christmas

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year … but it can also be the most wasteful.As the festive season approaches, it’s worth thinking...

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