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Record funding, record potholes

As drivers dodge deepening craters, ministers promise record investment – but is the current model built for harsher winters and rural mileage? When Yeovil MP...

Developed – but not delivered

Buyers who trusted glossy masterplans now face unmet promises and unfinished landscaping as enforcement struggles to keep pace Across the Blackmore Vale, residents who believed...

Dorset farmer guilty, and repeatedly fails to comply with slurry notice

A Dorset dairy farmer has been fined after failing to comply with a formal anti-pollution notice, following more than a decade of slurry-related incidents...

Read March’s BV here

Welcome to March's The BV - we've got potholes and developers (though it's moderately tricky to create an issue without them, if I'm honest),...

Supercars return to Canford after record year

More than 700 display cars and 5,000 visitors turned the lawns of Canford School into one of the South’s most significant automotive gatherings last summer – and Canford Classic & Supercar...

Biodiversity loss is now seen as a national security risk

The loss of biodiversity threatens national security, says a new government report – and Dorset is already feeling the effects Wildlife populations are down by...

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(Very) early mornings and stable fans were the heatwave drill for team TB

The weather forced a change in the yard schedule, says Toots Bartlett, but it was an opportunity to discover how the horses might cope...

The Inca trail with Parkinson’s

** Regular readers will remember 47-year-old Child Okeford resident Matt Riggs who had been diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s. We spoke to him last summer...