Category: Dorset community news

How can I afford my new council tax bill?

A local expert from Citizen’s Advice provides timely tips on consumer issues. Q: ‘I have just received my new council tax bill and it’s gone...

Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings

The Sturminster Newton Literary Festival 2024 D-Day Project is looking for contributions from local people whose family members took part in the military invasion...

Shaftesbury’s FOLDE is in the running for Bookshop of the Year

FOLDE, the independent Shaftesbury bookshop which specialises in nature writing, is a regional and country finalist in The British Book Awards 2024. The shop...

Abbey104 Album of the Month – It Leads To This by The Pineapple Thief

Kscope records I regularly champion local artists on my weekly radio show – and at times, I’ll admit this means playing songs which may not...

Book Corner March 2024

Crypt by Professor Alice Roberts £22 – signed special editions in stock nowThe history of the Middle Ages is typically the story of the rich...

Join the Birdwatch: is your garden bird-friendly?

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

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That’s not a lion, it’s a Lexus

Ah, the sweet sound of spring in North Dorset: birdsong, lambs bleating, engines revving … and my horse doing the fancy sideways samba because...

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...