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April issue of The BV is here!

Welcome to April’s BV – where fire station closures meet the farmers' Golden Buzzer...

Your Community, Your Stories

The BV magazine – our home is in the Blackmore Vale, our heart is rural Dorset

Greener Wimborne series launches with opening talk

A new community learning series focused on environmental action will launch in Wimborne on 20th April. Greener Wimborne, Better Planet is a joint initiative between...

A £40k cultivator, broken incentives and a hazel hedge

Eye-watering machinery costs and disappearing hedgerow incentives: this spring’s progress comes with familiar frustrations, writes George Hosford Spring sowing has proceeded at pace over the...

Victor Ernest Eason

Victor Ernest Eason

30 March 1938 - 01 April 2026 EASON - Victor Ernest 1st April aged 88. Beloved husband of Valerie. Adored father, step-father, grandfather and great...

Rural fire cover under threat

Cuts will kill, warns Fire Brigade Union, as rural communities rally to fight proposed station closures and loss of engines The decision to close eight...

Churchill’s secret army, part II

Secret civilian networks, hidden transmitters and chalk-marked raids reveal how Dorset prepared for invasion in the shadows, writes Rupert Hardy During the Second World War,...

Meeting Mr Hardy: The Birdsmoorgate murder, Tess and Lady Pinney

Martha Brown, a widow married to a much younger man, John Brown, ran a little shop in the tiny village of Birdsmoorgate in the...

Dorset roads – a century of complaint

This month Barry has selected a postcard of Moreton School, sent in 1911 (right). The letter that follows was written by Hermann Lea, one...

Name that village …

Last month’s mystery postcard caused quite the kerfuffle on Facebook: it was of course Chettle! We’re thinking Barry Cuff’s pick this month looks rather...

Brixmis, the beret, the cow pat and the bomb

Among the artefacts in the Royal Signals Museum’s new Cold War exhibition is an object that looks entirely ordinary: a British Army beret. Yet...

Family forger who faced the noose found in the ‘R’ box

It was a cardboard archive box in a London library that stopped Rachael Rowe in her tracks.‘I pulled out this packet of papers labelled...
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Farewell to Adrienne Howell

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The Random 19 Questions

The end of an Eventing era

William Fox-Pitt bids a quiet farewell to 5 Star Eventing – Sally Cooper talks to him about his plans for training and breeding …...

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,...

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The BV magazine is a monthly digital publication which launched in August 2020, and it is in no way connected with the original, much-loved Blackmore Vale Magazine (owned by Reach PLC, and which ceased publication early the same year), nor with any other, more recently launched printed publication with a similar name. Never the free paper you pick up from the floor of the petrol station, The BV is the half hour read you spend a weekend coffee with.

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Dorset Food & Drink

We have just two months left – the Love Local, Trust Local 2026 Awards close at the end of May! What...

Lizzie Crow is better known to most as Lizzie Baking Bird. From her tiny bakery in West Dorset, Lizzie creates an...

The Love Local Trust Local (LLTL) Awards are officially open for 2026, marking the fifth year of celebrating the outstanding farmers,...

‘This is a great way to add some veggies to your macaroni cheese. I also use a creamy garlic cheese with...

This year marks our fifth celebration of the amazing food, farming and craftsmanship that makes Dorset so special.Dorset leads the way...

‘Simplicity is key for this quick mid-week supper! This tart makes the most of Dorset produce: grab a roll of Dorset...

Dorset Farming

A £40k cultivator, broken incentives and a hazel hedge

Eye-watering machinery costs and disappearing hedgerow incentives: this spring’s...

Celebrating Dorset, rebuilding trust

We have just two months left – the Love...

After the rain

A very long winter has suddenly been interrupted by...

Two Dorset farmers get theGolden Buzzer

When Jeremy Clarkson’s Farmers’ Choir hit the Golden Buzzer,...

Waiting for the shelves to empty

From fragile supply chains to frozen farm budgets, Tim...

The ley of the land

Regenerative farming is full of trade-offs: leatherjackets love ley fields, birds love the worms and schemes shut before you can apply The picture below, taken...

Dorset Wildlife

Public consultation opens on beavers’ return to Dorset

Dorset Wildlife Trust is inviting residents, landowners and businesses...

The skylark at Badbury Rings

Jane Adam’s chance encounter with an injured skylark at...

Let it bee spring

As spring gathers pace, Dorset’s gardens begin to fill...

Dorset’s winter colours

Winter may feel muted, but Dorset still offers colour,...

The soft paws of spring

Pussy willow catkins are among late winter’s most generous...

Dorset’s winter colours

Winter may feel muted, but Dorset still offers colour, from evergreen trees and bright birds to fungi, mosses and lichens thriving in the colder...

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