Category: News

St Mary’s Approved to Become a New SEND School and a Leading National Centre of Excellence

A new school with fantastic facilities will improve the lives of Dorset children with SEND and reduce future costs, after ambitious plans were last...

14yr old Stalbridge girl, Ruby ‘The Pocket Rocket’ Else-White, named one of ‘Europe’s top boxing prospects’.

Ruby Else-White has been recognised as one of Europe’s top talents at just 14 years old. “It was mad!” Ruby said of the competition in...

Deco Artist’s Poignant Masterpiece Tells Tragic Tale of Loss in Stur

The jewelled colours of St Elizabeth of Hungary sparkle in the late afternoon sunlight. Her flaming red hair and the sight of the Madonna...

Friends of Guys Marsh Struggles as charity is not pink and fluffy

HELPING ON THE INSIDE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON THE OUTSIDE A Dorset charity is struggling to get noticed because, in the words of its...

DORSET WELCOMES BACK ITS COFFEE CULTURE

Before lockdown, on average we were buying three drinks from a coffee shop each week, spending over £10 billion in coffee shops yearly -...

A Giant Solar Farm

From Mappowder’s Parish Chairman, David Horrell (This month we broke the rules, and have two stories on the same subject - the CPRE choose their...

Popular

Rolling fields, raising dreams

Spring brings dry fields, quiet sunrises and the patter of new hooves – for Lucy Procter, it’s the season of hope for the futures...

Osprey pair return to Dorset for fifth year

A pair of ospreys central to Dorset’s reintroduction project have returned to the county for the fifth consecutive year. Female CJ7 and male 022 –...

Latest comments