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 editor@theblackmorevale.co.uk

Dorset Charity

The Random 19 with Singer-songwriter Beverley Craven

Beverley Craven has sold over four million records in her career, and is best known for her 1991 UK hit single Promise Me. Beverley fell...

Editorial team - 28 February 2022

News

A Dorset Victorian thriller with a twist

Lovers of historical murder mysteries will enjoy this exquisitely researched tale of dark goings-on set in Victorian Dorset and told in the vernacular of...

Editorial team - 11 February 2022

News

Local boy Freddie Gingell tipped for success after poignant first win as he turns 16

Amateur jockey Freddie Gingell, from Mere, celebrated his first ever winner under Rules just a month after turning 16 at his local track, Wincanton....

Laura - 8 February 2022

News

Pool closure sends shock waves

A community is devastated at radical council cutbacks ‘which will affect public mental health’, says Steve Keenan. Wimborne residents are facing loss of access to...

Editorial team - 7 February 2022

Dorset Charity

The Dorset Nerdle

The word game Wordle went viral within weeks. Now two Dorset families have created Nerdle - a maths equivalent that’s destined for stardom, says...

Editorial team - 6 February 2022

News

Where would you build a new Dorset town?

The increase in second homes combined with rocketing property prices in the south west mean tough decisions must be made for planners wanting to...

Editorial team - 5 February 2022

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Dorset’s master of strings

Editorial team - 13 January 20250

Dorset luthier Jeremy Walsh on listening to the wood, a double bass jigsaw, holding a $15m Stradivarius and Friday night rave music In his self-built...

Local History

Framing the past – Job Pottle’s story

Editorial team - 15 January 20250

A prolific photographer from the 1880s to the 1920s, Job Pottle captured local life from children to Churchill, the royal family to railways workers. Job...