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Turning ‘no-one likes olives’ into a business supplying Fortnum & Mason (via Take That)

Giles Henschel, the award-winning ‘oliveer’, who came to his national artisan brand by way of school expulsion, the Army, being deported from Libya with...

Dorset Island Disc’s with Abbey 104’s Taff Martin

“I’ve been lucky. I don’t need any credit, I just like to help where I can” Taff Martin is a surprisingly bashful Welshman; a Falklands...

Nocturin ‘Noc’ Lacey-Clarke Conservative councillor in Blandford |  Dorset Island Discs

“I grew up in poverty and was bullied at school” Nocturin ‘Noc’ Lacey-Clarke, 35, is a Conservative councillor in Blandford. He is not your average...

Dr Dominic Luckett, head teacher of Sherborne school | Dorset Island Discs

(Warning) Don’t listen while driving! A piece of music, scientifically established as the most relaxing ever written, reducing heart-rate, and inducing sleep to the extent...

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21-year-old jockey Alice Procter faces spinal injury after fall

After Alice’s devastating fall at Cartmel racecourse, her dad Doug Procter talks to editor Laura Hitchcock about living every parent’s nightmare I hadn’t spoken to...

Christmas tree collections raise more than £53,000 for Dorset charities

This year’s local Christmas treecycling efforts have smashed records, raising over £53,000 between them for two Dorset-based charities – Weldmar Hospicecare and Diverse Abilities. In...

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