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Dorset Chamber: don’t rinse business for Budget cash

In her speech to the House of Commons, Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out a bold vision of “national renewal”, promising an annual 2.3% real-terms...

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Cheeky Max snorts happily through Bicton while Jess packs snacks and nerves for her U25 championship 4* debut with Basil at Bramham May was really...

Endurance … and other life lessons

From jelly babies to chestnut chaos – Tamsin Doar discovers endurance riding with The Sass Queen and Sam Mowatt of The Piddle Ride With the...

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Dorset Food & drink

Sausages and stories with LLTL

The demonstration and presentation at the Dorset Spring Show has to be described as a complete success again this year. On both days we...

Wildlife & farming

Nature recovery by 2030? Fat chance

Chaotic policy and chronic underfunding – Dorset NFU’s Tim Gelfs calls time on the empty rhetoric behind the Government’s green aims There are two phrases...

The last cut for local meat

When small abattoirs close, farmers lose options, animals travel miles and rare breeds, food miles and the ability to sell truly local meat are...

Sausages and stories with LLTL

The demonstration and presentation at the Dorset Spring Show has to be described as a complete success again this year. On both days we...

Say NO to chemical pest control

Dorset Wildlife Trust volunteer Mitch Perkins explains why we should put the pesticides down and go chemical-free in our gardens this spring I don’t usually...
Gary jacobs Beaver in the Stour cover for The BV June 25 issue

June issue is HERE

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Laura's top editor's picks this month:‘A toxic work culture and managerial bullying’ were at the heart of Yeovil’s maternity services closure, said Adam Dance...
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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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