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Coffee and punctures Tales from the Vale

Coffee and punctures Great new coffee house in King’s Stag attached to the Green Man pub with an attractive almost Scandi-minimally-decorated interior. I was going to...

Off with his head | Tales from the Vale

The slow escape Big hoo-ha in Mappowder: a tortoise has gone missing (easily identifiable – it’s wearing a shell suit) which led my wife to...

Thomas Hardy too miserable to read | Tales from the Vale

I expected a storm of complaints about my last column which had a bit of a go at ‘famous Dorset novelist’ Thomas Hardy -...

Why is Hardy so popular?

Why is Hardy so popular? A lot of locals revere the writer Thomas Hardy.  I hate to be a party pooper but he’s just that little...

A letter from Her Maj

To get a birthday card from the Queen (my father in Law is 100, an absolute miracle – as you’ll read below) you’ve got...

Haggis, the Falklands and DFLs | Tales from the Vale

Great little farm shop and outdoor café up a dirt track near Milton Abbas owned by ‘Steve,’ but run by two self-confessed ‘smiley girls,’...

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Hayley Foy – Female Farrier

Hayley Foy is a 36 year old female farrier from West Dorset. Having completed a four and half year apprenticeship with well known Abbotsbury...
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Progress, not Populism

Gary Jackson North Dorset Liberal Democrats Conservatives managed our decline for the last ten years and people were finally fed up of it, nationally and locally....

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