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We’ve been to Spring Countrsyide Show 2024!

Dingle Fingle & The Clown Town Crime Watch were an absolute MUST-SEE in the main ring of the Spring Countryside Show today! We ooh-ed,...

It’s the official Spring Countryside Show Magazine 2024!

Race you to the Spring Countryside Show! Celebrate rural life with racing pigs, comedy car acts, equestrian displays, exciting dog shows, free tractor rides,...

Photographers – have Charlie Waite judge your work at the show!

Keen local photographers are being invited to enter their submissions for the inaugural photographic exhibition at the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Spring Countryside Show, which...

Gillingham & Shaftesbury Spring Countryside Show

Alfred Tennyson might have mused that spring was the season for romance, but in Dorset, hearts are set aflutter with a different kind of...

Cat Harris – the first female show secretary at the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show

New secretary and West End events pro Cat Harris is set to inject fresh energy into the show, while keeping its agricultural heart and...

Wowie and the Wolfhangers

Wowie Dunnings, inspired by a visit to her sister’s sheep, now successfully raises and showcases her Southdown and Oxford Down sheep in Fifehead St...

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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...

Spiced Pumpkin Cornbread

Meet our new food writer – Lizzie Crow is a familiar face at just about every food event in the county, better known to...

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