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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

Peter Wiltshire learned the art of hand bookbinding from his father. Now, he’s restoring literary treasures in his own Dorset workshop Peter Wiltshire gently lifts...

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...

From farm to festive feast

Tracie Beardsley meets a Dorset farmer gobbling up success by farming free-range turkeys – even some vegetarians are tempted! Mark Chilcott has been thinking about...

Dorset’s keeper of the past

Rob Gray: history-loving boy, former precious painting courier and now Wimborne’s museum curator cataloguing 40,000 pieces of Dorset’s past Rob Gray is squirrelled away in...

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The breeding season winds down

Doug and Lucy reflect on the enormous joy of an ‘I made that!’ moment - even as they teach foals to pick up their...

Two Wimborne icons unite in landmark electrical merger

Two of Wimborne’s oldest family-run businesses are joining forces in a landmark merger that marks a new era for local independent retail. Holmans of Wimborne,...

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