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April issue of The BV is here!

Welcome to April’s BV – where fire station closures meet the farmers' Golden Buzzer moment, Radio Wimborne fights for its future and Jess Rimmer...

Dorset tip booking goes live

From Monday, booking a slot to visit the tip will no longer be optional at four Dorset recycling centres – the long-discussed change that...

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...

Family forger who faced the noose found in the ‘R’ box

It was a cardboard archive box in a London library that stopped Rachael Rowe in her tracks.‘I pulled out this packet of papers labelled...

British Under 18 Taekwon-Do champion returns to teach

‘I loved it, and it was my life. It was absolute life.’As a teenager in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Taekwon-Do wasn’t a...

Dorset showcased at Westminster

Dorset’s food, drink and heritage were promoted in Parliament at the end of February during a special Westminster showcase hosted by the county’s two...

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Mud, rain, mud …

Lucy Procter is in the midst of the highs and lows of managing a rain-soaked foaling season ‘I’m just so over this wet weather! When...

Classroom Teacher required by Fairmead School (Mudford Road, Yeovil, Somerset. BA21 4NZ)

Full & Part Time Classroom Teachers MPS/UPS + 1 SEN September 2026 or potentially earlier Fairmead School is a special school for young people aged 4–16...