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A Dorset man – Tim Laycock answers the Random 19 questions

Folk musician, singer, actor, storyteller, historian, Thomas Hardy expert … Dorset’s Tim Laycock is a man of many talents. Folk musician, singer, actor, storyteller, historian,...

TV presenter Alice Plunkett takes on the Random 19 questions

North Dorset resident Alice Plunkett is one of the leading horseracing presenters for ITV. She is a former eventer and National Hunt jockey herself...

Sonnaz Nooranvary, The Repair Shop’s expert upholsterer, takes on the Random 19

Sonnaz Nooranvary is a British-Iranian upholsterer who lives near Wimborne, best known as the resident upholstery expert on BBC One’s The Repair Shop. At the...

Philanthropist and environmentalist Edward Hoare takes on the Random 19

Edward Hoare is a philanthropist and environmentalist and direct descendant of Sir Richard Hoare, who founded Hoare's Bank in 1672.  C. Hoare & Co. is...

Author Minette Walters takes on the Random 19 questions

Minette Walters’ first full-length crime novel, The Ice House, was published in 1992. It took two and a half years to write and was...

Mark Hix, the English restaurateur and chef, takes on the Random 19

Renowned chef and restaurateur Mark Hix permanently relocated to Dorset at the start of the pandemic, coming home after spending his adult life in...

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Winter training clinics with Jo Rimmer

Jo Rimmer combines competing with producing young horses and training riders of all ages. She’s a 5* event rider, UKCCL3 BE coach PMP and...
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When governments look away

Whenever you hear someone in government say that ‘difficult decisions have to be made’ inevitably the question inevitably arises, difficult for whom? Those making...

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