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A decade of helping to unlock the digital world!

For ten years, Dorset’s Digital Champions have been inspiring digital inclusion and transforming lives. Rachael Rowe reports Dorset Council is celebrating a decade of award-winning...

Dennis Chinaworks celebrates 30 years of art pottery

An artist’s life from fashion to ceramics – for more than 60 years, Sally Tuffin has been at the forefront of British design. By...

Flash flooding devastates Sherborne’s Old Yarn Mill

Businesses in Sherborne’s old Yarn Mill face uncertain future after devastating floods, but the community rallies to support recovery efforts ‘I think I have lost...

Wyatt Homes’ Blandford-Pimperne development approved

‘Sad day for democracy’ as planners ignore neighbourhood plans and approve development on AONB, outside Blandford bypass It was ‘a sad day for local democracy,’...

Steve’s Goodwood quarter century

Presented with Motorsport UK’s 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award, the ‘legless marshal’ looks back at 25 years at Goodwood and calls himself lucky “Give me Goodwood...

Travelling 11,000 miles from Sturminster Newton to … Bridport

In a journey of oddly familiar exploration, Cllr Pauline Batstone is on the other side of the world visiting old names with very new...

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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...

Blacksmith’s wife dies in her chair

This month Barry Cuff has chosen a 1906 postcard of the Green Dragon in Piddletrenthide. To accompany it we found a news story from...

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