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 Farming

Batters review dismantles the ‘0.6% myth’ and warns farming is being priced out of survival

Minette Batters’ long-awaited Farming Profitability Review, published today, delivers a forensic challenge to one of the most persistent assumptions in Whitehall: that farming is...
Laura
A Country Living

Black Pug Books

She wrangled Queen, Frost and the Rolling Stones – 50 years on Victoria Sturgess runs Black Pug Books with the same wit, grit and...
Editorial team
Dorset sport

‘I won’t give up’: Local world champion devastated by theft of race-winning bike

Sherborne’s duathlon world champion Zoe Tucker has been left “devastated” after thieves broke into her garage and stole two high-end racing bikes – including...
Laura
News

Nina May June Bolam nee Weed

5th May 1929 - 22nd November 2025 Passed away peacefully in Dorchester Hospital at 96 years. Will be sadly missed by all her family...
Editorial team
News

Castle Cary Community Choir Christmas Concert (all the C’s including Carols!

Castle Cary Community Choir invites you to celebrate the season at their annual Christmas Concert on Friday 19th December, 7.30pm at Cary Methodist Church...
Editorial team
Dorset Food & Drink

A View From the Saddle: two riders, one ridiculous adventure

Two old bikes, two older riders and one dog-eaten pair of bifocals – Giles and Annie Henschel return to the road after 30 years Giles...
Editorial team
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Equestrian Dorset

By the law of averages, not all foals are going to be problem free…

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Life or death foals, DIY one-sided milking, windswept legs, film stardom and “Go Honeysuckle, go!” - it’s another average month at TGS with Lucy...
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Dorset Charity

The Inca trail with Parkinson’s

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** Regular readers will remember 47-year-old Child Okeford resident Matt Riggs who had been diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s. We spoke to him last summer...
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