Category: Dorset community news

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...

Free festival to showcase Dorset’s bright digital future

How will learning change for our children in the digital age? How is tourism reinventing itself? How could technology help improve wellbeing and independence?...

Meet Your Local Shop (you’re eating all the pies)

Discover the faces and stories inside the village shop. This month we’ve been chatting to David Fawthrop who runs the Chettle Village store. How did...

The Elephant Trunk

Whilst most are mourning the long summer days, astrophotographers across the country are excited to see the longer hours of truly dark sky. The longer...

Off with his head | Tales from the Vale

The slow escape Big hoo-ha in Mappowder: a tortoise has gone missing (easily identifiable – it’s wearing a shell suit) which led my wife to...

The Iris Nebula

I’d like to start by acknowledging an amazing letter from one of the readers of the Blackmore Vale Magazine in last month’s edition. I...

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Woman on fire

Just don’t call her a female farrier – Abby Bunyard never set out to break barriers, she just forged her own path by refusing...

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