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The Official Dorset County Show Magazine 2025

The countdown is on – the Dorset County Show returns on 6th & 7th September, and we’re delighted to bring you the official pre-show...

Dorset Council reveals draft Local Plan – 50,000 new homes by 2040

Dorset Council has published its Local Plan Options Consultation 2025, setting out where thousands of new homes, employment land, traveller sites – and even...

Mind the gap – why North Dorset needs a technical college

No skills, no STEM, no jobs: without local training, North Dorset risks becoming a housing corridor with no future for its young people When the...

Heavy horses and high drama at G&S Show

It’s the second Wednesday in August, so of course it must be time for the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show. After a scorching heatwave for...

Butterboys forever

Okeford Fitzpaine’s team marks 125 years of village football, dairy roots and generations of families who have played for the love of the game When...

Unlicensed rescues put dogs and families at risk

As dog adoptions rise we assume dog rescue centres are safe – but they’re unregulated, and as one Dorset family learned, the reality can...

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Heroic horsewoman runs the London marathon (aged 77) for the charities that saved her life

This month, Shena Kozuba-Kozubska will be running her second London Marathon. It’s likely to be even tougher than the one she did 30 years...

Dorset’s beaver believer does dam good work

For Steve Oliver, it is more than a job – it’s almost two decades of hands-on protection of the rivers, wildlife and landscapes where...

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