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Dorset Council budget relies on Council Tax to fund rising care costs
Dorset Council has published its draft budget proposals for 2026/27, revealing that the majority of new spending on social care and services will be...
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The BV puzzles – January 2026
Welcome to January's BV Puzzles page – your free spot for a quick brain workout. Complete the crossword, test your logic with a classic...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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