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£880,000 legacy secures future of hospice care in North Dorset

Specialist end of life care across Shaftesbury and North Dorset has been given a significant boost following an £880,000 donation to Weldmar Hospicecare from...

Dorset tip booking goes live

From Monday, booking a slot to visit the tip will no longer be optional at four Dorset recycling centres – the long-discussed change that...

Are we wasting our time?

What do you call a gathering of parish councillors? A tribe? A murmuration?(A wrangle? A mutter? A grievance? – Ed)Whatever we are called, I...

Four years on, and Ukrainian refugees face uncertain times over visas

Four years after fleeing Kyiv, Olena Andrusenko has built a fragile new life for her family in Dorset, now shadowed by uncertainty ‘We live in...

Developed – but not delivered

Buyers who trusted glossy masterplans now face unmet promises and unfinished landscaping as enforcement struggles to keep pace Across the Blackmore Vale, residents who believed...

Dorset farmer guilty, and repeatedly fails to comply with slurry notice

A Dorset dairy farmer has been fined after failing to comply with a formal anti-pollution notice, following more than a decade of slurry-related incidents...

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Oh good, it’s mud season again

It finally rained, it’s autumn eventing season – and for Jess Rimmer it’s a fresh reminder that eventers are never quite satisfied Right – I...

How Digital Connectivity Is Changing Dorset’s Rural Businesses

Improved internet and mobile networks have begun to transform the practical realities of rural work in Dorset. With greater digital connectivity, long-established enterprises are...