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The Lady From the Wild Frontier

In the 80s Harriet Sandys was commissioned by Pinewood Studios to source Afghan costumes for the James Bond film ‘The Living Daylights’. In the spring...

Verging on the Wild Side

Wildflower verges are a hot topic this summer.  It’s clear that more needs to be done to protect bees and other wildlife. Wildflowers are a...

Dorset Florist Provides English Flowers For Dorset Royal Visit

Dorset Flowers We’re very excited to have Charlotte Tombs, an experienced Dorset flower farmer at Northcombe Flowers in Sturminster Marshall, sharing her growing year and...

Ninebarrow

If you went to Ibiza a short while ago you could have experienced a bizarre sight. The Dorset folk duo Ninebarrow - fresh from...

Prescribing a Dose of Kindness- A Day in the Life of a Social Prescriber

An elderly lady walking slowly across the Town Meadow pauses as Liz Rose stops to chat with her. Kindness and positivity radiate from Liz...

A University Centre for Rural Dorset: How Dorset Teens Are Being Failed Right Now

For a long time, for those of us who were lucky enough to go, the first experience of university was that heady moment when...

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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...

Shooting from the saddle

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...

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