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 community news

What she said next shocked no one

When did we stop letting things be surprises? These days, it feels like every “big announcement” is ruined before it even happens – not...
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Dorset community news

Dorset Council needs to get out more

It started with an email from Dorset Council. I read the details while sipping my coffee, and I felt my spelling eye focussing on...
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Dorset community news

A song for the stones of Mere

From weathervanes to war letters and worn stone steps, Richard Nye’s Windelstán gives Mere’s ancient church tower its own haunting voice The Tower Stories ·...
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Dorset community news

Labour pains for rural communities

A sudden Yeovil maternity shutdown sparked concern for rural mothers and highlights deeper NHS staffing, planning and leadership failures '...work-related stress, reportedly caused by a...
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Dorset community news

From holy row to holy wow

From conflict to coffee and conversation – the Dorset church that made peace, lost its pews, gained a loo … and found its future Five...
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Blackmore Vale What's on

The ladies who brought back the Bard

A North Dorset countess helped rescue Shakespeare’s bawdy brilliance from censorship, and is finally getting the credit … 300 years overdue A new book on...
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Foaling, backing, pretraining, first race under rules … owner Lucy Procter covers the full journey this month at The Glanvilles Stud Our only February foal...
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Victoria Sturgess has a clutch of comic classics to remind us that misfortune, misunderstanding and absurdity make great entertainment Let us use the coming of...
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