Category: Dorset community news

Dorset Council needs to get out more

It started with an email from Dorset Council. I read the details while sipping my coffee, and I felt my spelling eye focussing on...

A summer of events and new faces in Sturminster Newton

There’s a buzz in town this June – and plenty of news around both Stur’s thriving independent shops and also upcoming events.Firstly, congratulations to...

A song for the stones of Mere

From weathervanes to war letters and worn stone steps, Richard Nye’s Windelstán gives Mere’s ancient church tower its own haunting voice The Tower Stories ·...

Labour pains for rural communities

A sudden Yeovil maternity shutdown sparked concern for rural mothers and highlights deeper NHS staffing, planning and leadership failures '...work-related stress, reportedly caused by a...

Cerne Abbas set to bloom again for its 49th Open Gardens weekend

Cerne Abbas is well known for its giant, its Abbey site … and for being one of the prettiest villages in Dorset. Since 1974,...

From holy row to holy wow

From conflict to coffee and conversation – the Dorset church that made peace, lost its pews, gained a loo … and found its future Five...

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Four riders … 25 fences … No regrets.

Fast, fearless and faintly unhinged, team chasing turns sensible riders into adrenaline junkies and horses like The Sass Queen into absolute legends It’s fair to...