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A splash of yellow in December

Jane Adams enjoys her chance meetings with a grey wagtail, Wimborne’s winter dancer There’s a bird I always associate with the colder months. I shouldn’t,...

W is for Winter…

Our Darkest Hour?

Crumbs! It’s 50 years since that Hovis advert | Then & Now

Exactly half a century after the iconic Hovis advert hit our TV screens, Roger Guttridge takes a stroll through the story of Dorset’s most...

The Dorset surgeon who rescued the Elephant Man and saved Edward VII

Sir Frederick Treves, who died a century ago this month, was one of Dorset’s most famous men – Rachael Rowe reports On 15 February 1853,...