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Letters to the BV Editor January 2022

The slow painful death-by-visitorIt is particularly apparent in winter when driving through villages after dark, just how much of our housing stock is used...

Letters to the BV Editor December 2021

I am writing, I’m afraid to say, with a complaint: I have very much missed the column from Vineyards in the last couple of...

Letters to the BV Editor October 2021

A correctionI very much agree with C. Owen, who said the photograph of Compton Abbas church doesn’t look anything like Compton Abbas St Mary....

Letters to the BV Editor September 2021

In the August Letters, P Bone of Shaftesbury took me to task for saying I prefer Plain Salted crisps to any other flavour (see...

Letters to the BV Editor August 2021

I was saddened to hear that the Tourist Information Centre has closed in Sherborne with Dorset Council’s excuse being that there was very little...

Letters to the BV Editor July 2021

We have all been told how wonderful the pedestrianisation of Shaftesbury High Street is and how people are now flocking there to shop.We have...

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