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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...

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

A cruel father found guilty in 1905

Southern Times and Dorset County Herald - Saturday 07January 1905Charles Stay, a tramp, was charged with wilfully exposing three children, Charles, 16, Elizabeth, 11...

Knoll Gardens charity puts wildlife at the centre

A Dorset-based gardening charity is inviting people to rethink how their gardens work, with a new programme of events focused on wildlife, sustainability and...

North Dorset writer publishes new book on Britain

Dorset author Harry Bucknall has published a new book charting a 6,500-mile journey across Britain.A Road for All Seasons, released on 19th March, follows...

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...

A cruel father found guilty in 1905

Southern Times and Dorset County Herald - Saturday 07January 1905Charles Stay, a tramp, was charged with wilfully exposing three children, Charles, 16, Elizabeth, 11...

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...
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Death Announcements

Farewell to Adrienne Howell

IF Mere had a 'national treasure' it would surely...

Angela Rebecca Teasdale

5th October 1976 – 14th December 2025 Angie passed away...

Sir Tom Stoppard, 1937-2025

PLAYWRIGHT Sir Tom Stoppard, who was born in the...

The Random 19 Questions

Cook, farmer and gardener Julius Roberts answers the Random 19

From city chef to Dorset farmer – meet the Instagram sensation who’s working to reconnect a modern audience with their food Julius Roberts is the...

Bestselling author Libby Page answers the Random 19 questions

Libby Page is a Sunday Times bestselling author, known for her feelgood novels exploring themes of community, love and connection.Born and raised in Dorset,...

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...

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.

Dorset Island Discs

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 the Golden 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...

Rain, reactors and running out

Bovine TB dominates farm life, George Hosford says, as flawed testing and policy inertia persist (and January rain only adds to the pressure) The total...

Dorset Wildlife

Reviving a forgotten boundary in the Dorset hills

Reviving this ancient parish boundary, estimated to be around...

Osprey pair return to Dorset for fifth year

A pair of ospreys central to Dorset’s reintroduction project...

A bee utopia on Pentridge Hill

From a wild hilltop to a suburban garden, Jane...

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...

Public consultation opens on beavers’ return to Dorset

Dorset Wildlife Trust is inviting residents, landowners and businesses to have their say on the potential return of wild beavers to parts of the...

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