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Your chance to comment on changes to the West Wincanton development plan

Amendments to the 650-home West Wincanton housing development, proposed by LVA (Land Value Alliances), have been published by Somerset Council. Concerned local people and...
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No lions were harmed in the making of this safari …

From racing clubs to Pony Club safaris, it’s been tours with tea and snoozy foals (and sausage rolls) for Doug Procter, with one final...

Dragon mode activated

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...

DORSET HISTORY

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Dorset Food & drink

When Food Is Medicine

Expert Karen Geary’s quick guide to the most common therapeutic diets, designed to support your health, not just your waistline We often think of diets...

Wildlife & farming

The one where she said yes anyway

by Andrew Livingston From dodgy tractor skills to a spitting alpaca, Andrew Livingston’s love story proves Abbotsbury swans aren’t the only ones who mate for...

Look again at wasps

Dorset Wildlife Trust’s conservation officer Hamish Murray wants us all to reconsider our opinion of the UK’s ‘stinging pests’ If there was a popularity ranking...

In the company of bees

From CPR on the kitchen floor to spinning honey in a shed, Stephen Toop found peace, healing and purpose in beekeeping on a Dorset...

Inconclusive is not a diagnosis

Triplets, toast-hungry sheep and maddeningly meaningless TB test results – George Hosford on the exasperating limbo that farmers face Below is a shot of the...
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July’s BV is here 🙂

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Editor's special picks for July: Eddy Scott is back in Dorset – and just four months after being blown up and losing two limbs in...
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A COUNTRY LIVING

In the company of bees

From CPR on the kitchen floor to spinning honey in a shed, Stephen Toop found peace, healing and purpose in beekeeping on a Dorset...

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

A binding narrative

From farm to festive feast

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