Category: Dorset Politics

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...

Mind the gap – why North Dorset needs a technical college

No skills, no STEM, no jobs: without local training, North Dorset risks becoming a housing corridor with no future for its young people When the...

A year of change and challenge

Friday 4th July marks exactly one year since the 2024 General Election where I was elected to Parliament as the first non-Conservative MP in...

Young minds for a better future

As a professional engineer I take great joy from the occasional opportunities I get to encourage young people to explore, or even take up,...

When governments look away

Whenever you hear someone in government say that ‘difficult decisions have to be made’ inevitably the question inevitably arises, difficult for whom? Those making...

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RDA Auction of Promises with buffet supper

Every Tuesday evening and Friday morning during term time, Luccombe Riding Centre in Milton Abbas comes to life with a special kind of energy....

The woman who talks to her loom

Debby Kirby’s loom has sung through Walford Mill for 40 years as she weaves her hand-dyed silk into luminous accessories and wall art You can...

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