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]

Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show

What a show! The G&S team makes it ‘the best ever’

The first full one-day show for the new G&S team was deemed a roaring success, report Laura Hitchcock and Rachael Rowe It was a relief...

2 September 2022

Competitions

Win TEN tickets to Dorchester Literary Festival events!

To celebrate the stellar line-up of the 8th Dorchester Literary Festival this October, we’re giving away 10 tickets (worth £100) to one lucky winner. DLF...

30 August 2022

Blackmore Vale What's on

Great Dorset Steam Fair 2022 is all fired up

After a two years enforced break, the Great Dorset Steam Fair (GDSF) is back until Bank Holiday Monday (29th August)! Seen as the world's...

26 August 2022

Blackmore Vale What's on

£40m-worth of cars at local teenager’s ‘Classic & Supercar Sunday’ event

Following his successful supercar breakfast meet-up in June, this month local teenager Zander Miller staged his first all day Classic & Supercar Sunday event at...

22 August 2022

Dorset Farming

Major field fires in Dorset cause Red Alert

"The really frightening thing was the speed at which the fire took hold. It engulfed the field of corn so quickly, despite the efforts...

19 August 2022

Days Out in Dorset

WHAT a day for the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show!

The heatwave was a problem. And then the rain was a problem. But the 2022 Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show weather gods were kind; the...

18 August 2022

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Shooting from the saddle

26 January 20260

As winter drags on, mud and headtorches give way to arrows and adrenaline as Tamsin Doar discovers the addictive pull of horseback archery Although spring...

Opinion Column