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The BV Podcast
Imported dogs, rural pressure and Minette Batters’ roadmap for farming | BV podcast
August’s BV podcast – from lockdown dog imports and unregulated rescues to a planning system stretched to its limits, and the voices still shouting...
Dorset community news
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...
Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show
Heavy horses and high drama at G&S Show
It’s the second Wednesday in August, so of course it must be time for the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show. After a scorching heatwave for...
Dorset Charity
A farmer’s tribute: £8,800 gift honours wife’s memory and local NHS care
Local farmer Philip Trim has donated £8,800 to University Hospitals Dorset’s Radiotherapy department in memory of his late wife, Jane – a deeply personal...
Dorset Farming
‘Flip-flopping is killing confidence’
Farming’s future demands clarity not chaos, says Minette Batters, as she warns of political drift, food insecurity and farmers close to walking away
Former NFU...
Dorset Business News
Community always comes first, says James Gibson Fleming MBE
Wessex Internet founder and rural champion James Gibson Fleming MBE says true service is just being part of something bigger than yourself
He didn’t expect...
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