January’s BV is HERE!

Our first issue of 2025 picks up right where we left off – crammed...

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The BV magazine – our home is in the Blackmore Vale, our heart is rural Dorset

A whirlwind tour of all that’s coming up in Sturminster Newton this month

Pauline Batstone shares her monthly round up of what’s happening among the town’s collection of community enterprises and events Make Stur Sparkle 2024 Thank you to...

Dorset’s master of strings

Dorset luthier Jeremy Walsh on listening to the wood, a double bass jigsaw, holding a $15m Stradivarius and Friday night rave music In his self-built...

Championing rural Britain

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...

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...

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...
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The Random 19 Questions

TV presenter Alice Plunkett takes on the Random 19 questions

North Dorset resident Alice Plunkett is one of the leading horseracing presenters for ITV. She is a former eventer and National Hunt jockey herself...

The Countess of Carnarvon answers the 19 random 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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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...

2024 has been a very busy year here at Love Local Trust Local HQ. We started working hard at the beginning...

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

Since 2012, Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival has helped to generate almost £400,000 for charities. More than £260,000 of this has been...

Ingredients 200g digestive biscuits 50g melted butter 400g cream cheese 75ml double cream Heaped tbsp caramel sauce 50g icing sugar Fudge pieces & caramel sauce to finish Method Line the...

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Watch where you put your finger …

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The serious matter of brooms

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Voice of a Farmer | July 2021

After an extremely wet May, June finally settled down to a spell of some warm dry weather. We were able to finish silage making...

Dorset Wildlife

It’s purr-fect inside Dorset Cattery

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

Have yourself a sustainable Christmas

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Our ancient neighbours

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

Fantastic fungi in Dorset

Dorset Wildlife Trust’s conservation officer Mariko Whyte takes a...

A firework of cinders

An early dawn drive captures the magic of mist,...

Fantastic fungi in Dorset

Dorset Wildlife Trust’s conservation officer Mariko Whyte takes a closer look at just a few of the fungi you can find on a walk...

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