Category: Dorset community news

Where young minds grow

There is an air of new season excitement at Thorngrove this month. You can’t keep a good gardener down, no matter how much...

Milborne St Andrew First School

This year the global theme for Earth Day was Planet vs. Plastic – or as one school likes to call it, Milborne vs. Plastic.Milborne...

Europe comes to Sherborne!

During April, Sherborne hosted the 48th General Meeting of Douzelage with 140 members from 24 partner towns gathering under the theme Wellbeing Through Nature...

Shaftesbury’s first Easter Fun Run is a runaway success!

Almost 150 runners participated in the first Easter Fun Run organised by Shaftesbury Rotary Club, raising The event raised more than £800.With 5km and...

Chaucer reimagined: Dorset’s Shaftesbury Tales

Throughout Dorset people having been diving into an imaginative world of 1,000 years ago for The Shaftesbury Tales Short Story Writing Competition.SISATA Director Charmaine...

Gillingham Singers Spring Concert

Anyone walking past St Mary’s church, Motcombe on the evening of 13th April would have been treated to the sound of All In The...

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Polo’s back in the saddle

Sally Cooper looks beyond 1980s Jilly Cooper to polo’s fast-paced, bruising but surprisingly inclusive world, with rare gender equality The recent wave of publicity for...

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...