Category: Dorset Politics

Back to London with 760 questions

Parliament’s six-week Summer Recess is ending, and I’m returning to the routine of being in London for half the week. Although the sunny weather...

Reform the Local Plan

As someone who was born and raised in Dorset, reading through the recently released Local Plan was, quite frankly, deeply unsettling. The level of...

What if disruption is the only way?

What information should environmental campaigners make widely known? And how should they share it in order to achieve the large-scale societal and behavioural changes...

Promises are never enough

Simon Hoare MP admits past failings, and warns that if government and opposition don’t deliver, the vacuum will fuel populism and protest votes I cannot...

Silence in Sturminster as mayor quits after four months

As Dorset councillor Carole Jones warns that Sturminster has lost ‘a wealth of experience’, Rachael Rowe tries to understand what is happening at Sturminster...

Dorset Council reveals draft Local Plan – 50,000 new homes by 2040

Dorset Council has published its Local Plan Options Consultation 2025, setting out where thousands of new homes, employment land, traveller sites – and even...

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One man, his horse, his birds -and the spirit of freedom

Moving crowds to tears is all in a day’s work for Jonathan Marshall, the horseback falconer starring at the new Spring Countryside Show. Talking to...

Name that village …

We had fewer correct guesses of last month’s mystery postcard which was of East Stour. We’re thinking his pick this month is the hardest...

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