Editor’s special picks for July:
- Eddy Scott is back in Dorset – and just four months after being blown up and losing two limbs in Ukraine, he’s walking, smiling… and already planning what’s next.
- The new Stile Trail is a brilliant example of an entire community pitching in and getting something done – and it sets a roadmap for other villages to follow.
- There’s a fascinating interview with Carole Jones about the work The Vale Hub does – and exactly who’s using it (hint: it’s not “benefit scroungers”).
- Jess Rimmer’s account of competing at Bramham is a wonderful read – don’t miss the video, and if you’re not smiling by the end, you’re probably dead inside.
- The Larmer Tree Project has been quietly getting on with providing astonishing days out for local schoolchildren – entirely free. Frankly, they’re doing something flippin’ brilliant.
We’ve also got a trout farm that’s a national trade secret, the Grumbler fed up over the recycling depot fiasco, Dorset blueberry season, Andrew Livingston back from honeymoon and on his soapbox, and the usual ridiculous amount of amazing readers’ photography.
Not in the newsagent. Not in landfill. Never printed. Always read.
This is July issue of The BV – digital, award-winning and better written.
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It wouldn’t be Wincanton anymore it would be just another big town . No high street shops because everything is online . A place where people don’t care about each other or the area where they live . Fields and fields of bricks and concrete as far as the eye can see is that what you want . When are people going to wake up and realise money isn’t everything . We need fields, farms and green spaces . Most people don’t understand until it’s gone ……….. What we have really lost .
The whole of England is going to be concrete. There will not be any green spaces. If we keep building and keep saying people need homes. If we sent back all illegal immigrants and anyone that should not be here. Look after our veterans and family we would have space. If all council repaired old properties built on brown spaces. But no they will build on farm land . We need farm land for food. The government is destroying the farmers and farmland. So the food will have to be imported and cost more.