Latest news from the monthly digital Blackmore Vale magazine – the new free local digital glossy for North Dorset and surrounding region.
Rounds ups of the most popular features, and important news items between issues.
Hot on the heels of the Dorset crop circle that appeared on Okeford Hill a few weeks ago, a stunning new design has appeared in a field close to the trailway just outside Blandford. We covered Dorset’s Okeford Hill crop circle last month, and the NFU spokesperson told us it caused over £600 of wheat […]
How utterly brilliant it was today to spend hours roaming the Turnpike Showground, surrounded by thousands of people simply having a great time at the biggest Agricultural Show in the area: finally the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show 2021 was back and reuniting the rural community.It feels like a long long time – and today’s amazing […]
The members of the Blandford Parish Church Big Church Project are thrilled to announce that they have been awarded a grant of £664,400 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The decades of patching the roof will finally be over, as the funding is now in place for a complete refurbishment. Alongside the repair work there […]
August’s digital Blackmore Vale magazine is out – read it free here https://bit.ly/BVAug21FS – take your time, it’s an absolute corker! This month in the digital Blackmore Vale magazine last week armed police chased suspected hare coursers near Blandford, arresting four suspects – we have the details, plus why illegal hare coursing is still an […]
For some people it is the vultures, and for others it is the metal cowboy that makes them slow down on the A3030 at North Wootton. Many people will have seen the recent cow sculpture funded by a community fundraiser in Sturminster Newton, and the giant metal soldier that got national attention. Now there’s another excuse to take […]
HEALTH AND VEG FOR ALL When a police car drove up to the Big Yellow Bus Garden Project (BYBG), alongside the North Dorset Trailway between Blandford and Sturminster Newton, project co-ordinator Paul Williams panicked. It was lockdown. His community space was allowed to be open but could he find his letter of authority? The uniformed […]
The end of WW1 in 1918 saw millions of ex soldiers returning to civilian life, many of them bearing physical and mental wounds after four cruel years of industrialised slaughter not just in Flanders but in war theatres around the world and at sea. It would be inaccurate to say that they were ‘the lucky […]
A police helicopter and armed officers chased a gang of poachers across east Dorset on the night of Friday July 29th. They were called to an area near Blandford after a local person reported people in a 4×4 car targeting hares and damaging property. Officers followed the vehicle before it was abandoned and the men […]
Champion of Champions! A Blackmore Vale butchers shop has won one of the most prestigious awards in the meat industry for their sausages. T Buttling Butchers of Ludwell near Shaftesbury, work to a closely guarded family recipe and have been entering the Champion of Champions competition for around 20 years. This year their traditional pork […]