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Ignored and underfunded: the FE sector crisis

One of the things that really energised me as a candidate during the general election campaign was education – yet it received scant wider...

Two million votes and growing: the Green surge

When it was finally over, the media smoke billowing off the election battlefield somewhat obscured the fact that as well as winning all four...

Survivor’s guilt and political resolve

Navigating politics with humility – MP Simon Hoare reflects on the election aftermath, his duty to North Dorset and promises constructive opposition Well! Quite a...

A century of service

Dorset’s longest-serving councillors – Stella Jones and Robert Corben talk to Rachael Rowe about 50 years of commitment to their communities Two Dorset residents are...

140,000 children in England with no home

he number of households in temporary accommodation in England is at its highest since records began. Charities now call on the “out of touch”...

Double the sewage, triple the stink

This article is published on the day that Dorset Council election votes are counted. By the time you read this, the celebrations and disappointments...

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A day at the sales

Doug Procter takes us with him from his 3am Dorset start to Tattersalls in search of a mare – and returns with one very...

The Dorset Cursus: the biggest Neolithic monument in Britain

Exploring Britain’s largest Neolithic monument, stretching across six miles of Cranborne Chase, with Dorset CPRE’s Rupert Hardy Built around 3,300 BC – predating Stonehenge by...