Category: Dorset community news

My top three favourite pubs and Restaurants to Visit in North Dorset

Employ My Ability offers vocational training for students with learning disabilities and special educational needs and disabilities. One of their students, Maddie Walters, spent...

Sherborne car event raises £60k

The Sherborne Classic & Supercars show team have presented cheques to a total value of £60,000 to 13 local charities (the total profits from...

£63k raised by village Country Fayre!

Berwick St John Country Fayre has raised the largest amount of money in its 30 year history.The organisers announced the total raised and presented...

Sturminster’s Royal British Legion joins with Combined Cadet Force

On Saturday 12th November, Clayesmore School’s Combined Cadet Force (CCF) assembled at Sturminster Newton. The detachment was to be awarded new badges, announcing its...

Connections with community

Feeling connected is a fundamental human need, says Dorset Mind’s Abigail Hole, and one that should be thought about as winter arrives As the colder...

Neighbourhood priorities

The autumn has seen the local policing teams concentrating on the issues which the public have said are their biggest concerns, says PC Tom...

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‘We marvelled at her natural maternal instinct’

A complicated foaling left the newborn orphaned, but with medicines and good husbandry we found a foster mare, says Lucy Procter. January is a significant...

How Dorset Villages Are Keeping Traditional Pub Games Alive

Across the Blackmore Vale's village pubs skittle alleys are being swept clean, dartboards rehung, and cribbage cards shuffled again on Tuesday evenings. Far from...