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]

News

Bingo nights to bright lights: a Blandford school’s magical Disney debut

During February half term, one group of children from Blandford was dancing on the main stage at Disneyland Paris. Rachael Rowe reports Disneyland is a...

4 March 2024

Dorset sport

Sturminster Newton – home of the best girls boxing club in Europe?

Packing a punch: Sturminster Newton’s female boxers bring home gold, silver and ‘Best Fight’ from the world’s largest female boxing tournament A small but formidable...

4 March 2024

News

On the road to the olives

Giles and Annie retrace their epic motorbike journey, riding 8,500 miles on the 30-year-old bikes to discover the challenges facing the olive oil industry “We...

3 March 2024

Dorset Charity

Julia’s House CEO exposes funding crisis on social media

Dorset’s allocation of NHS funding only provides eight per cent of the children’s hospice annual income – Rachael Rowe asks why ‘It shocked a lot...

2 March 2024

News

From here to Africa, alone with my Parkinson’s Disease

Guy Deacon CBE has just completed an inspirational 18,000 mile solo journey from London to Cape Town while living with Parkinson’s Disease Guy first became...

2 March 2024

News

First Milk get the cream of Shaftesbury

BV Dairy, the globally successful third generation family business in Shaftesbury, has been sold to First Milk - a British farming co-operative.The Highnam family...