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A sneak peek into St Mary’s Shaftesbury as it transforms into Centre of Excellence for Dorset with £10m SEND School

It’s the sense of calm that is most striking at St Mary’s Shaftesbury. The dinner bell is silent and poignant displays of artwork lie...

Friends of Guys Marsh Struggles as charity is not pink and fluffy

HELPING ON THE INSIDE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON THE OUTSIDE A Dorset charity is struggling to get noticed because, in the words of its...

Rosie’s 100 laps for Captain Tom Foundation and Gillingham Medical Practice

Gillingham Health Champion Rosie Thompson - a retired PE Teacher from Gillingham High School - walked 100 laps of the Peacemarsh Surgery car park...

Letters to the BV Editor May 2021

Editor's Letter: Allow me to share with you a delightful tale of classic Laura-ing. This month we were invited to a press event. An outside...

The old railway line in Stalbridge … | Tales from the Vale

My last column mentioned the old railway line in Stalbridge which, before the Beeching cuts, had a level crossing to stop traffic on each...

Purbeck Youth & Community Foundation

Purbeck Youth & Community Foundation took over running the Wareham Youth & Community Centre in 2016 setting up the Charity to run Wareham Youth...

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Never been to the races? Me neither…

My first visit to a racecourse – on a windblown and wet November day in Wincanton – wasn’t at all what I expected, says...

Wake up!

I often write about food production in this unstable world, and today’s world news only reinforces the message. I’m writing this on the last...