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Dorset Council budget relies on Council Tax to fund rising care costs
Dorset Council has published its draft budget proposals for 2026/27, revealing that the majority of new spending on social care and services will be...
Dorset Farming
Batters review dismantles the ‘0.6% myth’ and warns farming is being priced out of survival
Minette Batters’ long-awaited Farming Profitability Review, published today, delivers a forensic challenge to one of the most persistent assumptions in Whitehall: that farming is...
Dorset sport
‘I won’t give up’: Local world champion devastated by theft of race-winning bike
Sherborne’s duathlon world champion Zoe Tucker has been left “devastated” after thieves broke into her garage and stole two high-end racing bikes – including...
Dorset Food & Drink
A View From the Saddle: two riders, one ridiculous adventure
Two old bikes, two older riders and one dog-eaten pair of bifocals – Giles and Annie Henschel return to the road after 30 years
Giles...
Dorset community news
BabyBank Gillingham – a little space holding families together
Community kindness still changes lives, says Joanne Platt, who offers struggling families a lifeline from her packed garage in Gillingham
All the bills have come...
Dorset Charity
West Farm: where futures are being rewritten
Vulnerable young people in Dorset are about to be given an opportunity to rewrite their futures, thanks to an innovative and inspirational partnership between...
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