Category: Dorset Politics

Push-me-pull-you and magic moneyfruit

The worry of the Australia deal, swinging politics and the ever-more-terrifying cost of living – Mike Chapman speaks for Liberal Democrats across the Blackmore...

Not the nine o’clock news

The change in the way we consume our news has lead inexorably to a political fatigue that challenges politicans, says MP Simon Hoare In a...

Whatever you do, don’t look up!

A recent film was an unsubtle look at what those in power are (not) doing about the current climate emergency, says Ken Huggins of...

Tory leadership hopefuls stage a West Country two-step

Truss pledges a bonfire of farming and planning bureaucracy and Sunak promises help for farmers and first-time buyers You could, if you were so minded,...

Liz Truss visits West Dorset

Tory leadership candidate promises cuts to red tape and more jobs and homes for rural communities LIZ Truss’s heroine, Margaret Thatcher, famously quipped: “You turn...

Rishi Sunak visits the Blackmore Vale

Tory leadership hopeful pledges more support for farmers, pharmacies and first-time buyers HOT on the heels of weekend interviews, in which he pledged greater support...

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Honeysuckle reigns supreme, and it’s a busy foaling season at the stud

Mother’s Day was not the day of rest and relaxation Lucy Procter might have planned - but the unusual daytime foalings were special to...

Help keep this place open

Sturminster Newton’s leisure centre is run by the community – and it needs a couple more people to help protect and guide its future For...

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