Category: Featured
Dorset Business News
The BV scoops a Highly Commended at national award ceremony in Mayfair!
The London Marriott Grosvenor Square was the place to be last night for the prestigious 2023 Newspaper and Magazine Awards. The glitzy evening was...
Local History
The pub and the puddle – Bradford Abbas’s Rose and Crown
Roger Guttridge tells the story of Bradford Abbas’s Rose and Crown pub and its ‘famous five’ customers from the 1930s
It looks like an overgrown...
Dorset Island Discs
Charlie North-Lewis: from the Stray Cats to Tivoli Theatre via BAFTA …
You can’t interview Charlie without a steady stream of name-dropping – his long and winding career is a musical tour through 40 years of...
A Country Living
The call of the charcoal
Jim Bettle of Dorset Charcoal makes his living from an ancient craft, fuelling his passion for a more sustainable country. Tracie Beardsley reports
Jim Bettle’s...
Dorset Wildlife & Animals
What’s so great about the dawn chorus, anyway?
Wildlife writer Jane Adams grew up in the suburbs, and vividly recalls the first time she shared her morning tea with the waking birds
In...
Dorset Charity
Small shop, big heart, long week
The Vale Pantry in Sturminster Newton is a new breed of community service, offering food and practical help to those who are struggling
Tucked away...
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