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Category: Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show

The Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show is to become a two day show!

North Dorset's annual agricultural Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show is a beacon in the local calendar, and has traditionally been a single day event on...

Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show results

If you've not managed to take a look at the September issue yet, you might like a shortcut to this year's 2022 Gillingham &...

What a show!  The G&S team  makes it ‘the best ever’

The first full one-day show for the new G&S team was deemed a roaring success, report Laura Hitchcock and Rachael Rowe It was a relief...

Full steam ahead!

A growing number of women are entering the traditionally male world of steam. Rachael Rowe asked local steam enthusiast Coral Goddard why Coral Goddard is...

Where the horse work happens

Margaret Millward agreed to help with the show’s equestrian classes – temporarily – in the 1990s. She’s still there and does most of the...

Now more than ever we need to support our local farmers and producers

Grown • Produced • Caught • Reared • Brewed • Crafted • Cooked Are you concerned about the integrity of food labelling?Do you believe that...

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Toots settles into the Fox-Pitt yard with Freebie, Jago and new boy Taran

New columnist Toots Bartlett can’t hide her excitement as she leaves home to move into William Fox-Pitt’s yard near Sturminster Newton, buys a horse...

Raise a glass for rural futures at the G&S Wine & Wessex Grazing Platter Evening

A night of generosity, community spirit and local flavour awaits at the Wine & Wessex Grazing Platter Evening and Auction of Promises on Saturday...