The Blackmore Vale logo

Category: News

AFC Bournemouth support the opening of Archbishop Wake’s new MUGA.

Last year the Friends of Archbishop Wake Primary School launched a campaign to raise funds for an all-weather playing field; a multi-use games area...

Fighting for (or with!) our footpaths

My husband looks more like Indiana Jones than a rural dog walker, always armed with secateurs to hack back bully-boy brambles and nettles or...

Sherborne Antiques Market’s changing face (and windows).

“We’ve been in trouble” admits Craig Wharton as he shows me the broad window displays of the new Sherborne Antiques Market on Cheap Street....

Kicking out racism in football has missed the grassroots

Gillingham Town midfielder Eboni McCann reported he was racially abused by a spectator during a match against Bridport on October 9; Gillingham walked off...

The Dorset MP who voted with his conscience

This week North Dorset MP Simon Hoare was one of just 13 Conservative MPs to defy three-line whip in Commons vote on Leadsom Amendment. This...

Simon Hoare on the murder of David Amess

I welcomed the shock, horror and outrage that greeted the vicious murder of my colleague David Amess.  The response of the public highlighted that,...

Popular

Winter training clinics with Jo Rimmer

Jo Rimmer combines competing with producing young horses and training riders of all ages. She’s a 5* event rider, UKCCL3 BE coach PMP and...

Confessions – from Pepys to Mole

In her first Book Corner column for The BV, Victoria Sturgess from Black Pug Books in Wimborne takes us from war to wit in...

Latest comments