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21-year-old jockey Alice Procter faces a major spinal injury after a serious fall – her dad Doug Procter talks to editor Laura Hitchcock about living every parent’s nightmare | Page 4


Amid vanishing Wildlife, Dorset declares a Nature Emergency. Rachael Rowe looks at Dorset’s declaration and the steps it is taking to protect wildlife | Page 6


The art of dry stone walling: master craftsman Tom Trouton talks to Tracie Beardsley about finding a stone’s timeless connection to the landscape | Page 35


From Syria to Shaftesbury – Callum Sutherland talks to the Hammoud family, as they celebrate British citizenship and the home they have found in Dorset | Page 27


In farming, George Hosford looks at how his experiments in bi-cropping and mob grazing have been working, and sees the impact of ‘making room’ for nature | Page 20

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