Category: Featured

We’re shortlisted – NMA2023’s Regional Publication of the Year!

On the top of winning Digital Magazine of the Year last month - which was a total surprise, as we hadn't entered anything –...

21 March 2023

Dorset Politics

Blandford’s Crown Meadows plan – an act of philanthropy or a Trojan horse?

PLANS to site up to 40 caravans as temporary homes for Ukrainian refugees on land known locally as Crown Meadows on the western boundaries...

16 March 2023

Dorset Art and Antiques

The art of the Red House

Edwina Baines had an exclusive tour of the art inside the UK’s best new architect-designed house, The Red House. The winner of the Royal Institute...

11 March 2023

Local History

The Bridge Street fire

Roger Guttridge has personal memories of the fire which destroyed Harding’s newsagent’s shop at Sturminster Newton in 1956 One of my most vivid childhood memories...

8 March 2023

Dorset Island Discs

Anyone that sings a bit of country has my heart’ – Dorset Island Discs

As event organiser at the Turnpike Showground, shepherd Bonnie Cradock is facing a doubly busy spring, thanks to one over-excited fun-loving ram Bonnie Cradock rolls...

8 March 2023

A Country Living