Category: News

All the latest news from the monthly digital Blackmore Vale magazine. Collected from across the Blackmore Vale and Dorset.

News rounds ups of the most popular features, and important local news items between issues.

We endeavour to bring you news that is important to you. Things that are hapening on your doorstep, things that affect your daily lives.

We aim to provide interesting articles and reports on subjects that are both intersting and informative.

The Blackmore Vale magazine news section is kept fresh and up to date by our local reporters and news desk items.

If you have a news story tah you think is worth sharing, then get in touch with the editor on [email protected]

Dorset Wildlife & Animals

CRT launches festive appeal to protect Britain’s hazel dormice

The Countryside Regeneration Trust (CRT) has launched its 2025 Christmas Appeal – and this year, it’s all about helping one of Britain’s most vulnerable...

10 December 2025

News

Christmas Book Gift Guide from Dorset’s Independent Bookshops

Everyone knows booksellers make the BEST book suggestions – so we asked our local indies what they thought was gift-worthy this year Who better to...

9 December 2025

Dorset community news

BabyBank Gillingham – a little space holding families together

Community kindness still changes lives, says Joanne Platt, who offers struggling families a lifeline from her packed garage in Gillingham All the bills have come...

6 December 2025

News

Can you name that door?

Lost parcels, wrong porches and a dog bin drop-off have turned winter deliveries into a rural guessing game, as North Dorset villagers turn detective For...

6 December 2025

Dorset Charity

West Farm: where futures are being rewritten

Vulnerable young people in Dorset are about to be given an opportunity to rewrite their futures, thanks to an innovative and inspirational partnership between...

6 December 2025

News