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Spend a fiver – and put £1.9m per year into your local town

Sherborne locals and visitors alike are in for a treat, as the Totally Locally Fiver Fest comes to town from the 12th to the...

Local care company turns to the Philippines to fill vacancies

As the care staffing crisis continues to deepen, local care companies are turning to qualified international recruits to fill their staffing void. The pandemic has...

How Bagber managed for a week without power

Storm Eunice caused damage across the county on the 18th of February. But six days later the village of Bagber was still without power...

How a local businessman has helped people in North Dorset for over 400 years.

Thousands have been helped by the William Williams Trust - and yet very few seem to even know it exists to help them. Rachael...

Is Hardy’s ‘Vale of Little Dairies’ a place of brutality?

Since the BBC’s Panorama episode investigating dairy farms in the UK was released, the debate has raged on between animal rights groups and those...

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...

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Stud Life | October 2021

Lucy Procter, co-owner of the Glanvilles Stud, shares a diary of life on a Thoroughbred stud.This month - pregnancy checks and floating teeth. October 1st...

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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