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Dinah’s Hollow decision is ‘null and void’, and a local councillor lodges a complaint...

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

A sting operation bee-hind enemy lines

The challenges facing pollinators are very real – but Andrew Livingston, the son of beekeepers, has a jaundiced view of the little stingy guys I...

Bucked in the Yarn

Three small Somerset villages had a huge impact on global exploration and trade – Rachael Rowe talks to Professor Terry Stevens “Nothing much ever happened...

Thorngrove on tour

It’s the official pre-show magazine for Frome Cheese Show!

We’re excited to bring you the very first official pre-show magazine for Frome Agricultural & Cheese Show! It's been a special one for us...

Forty years on:the Bourton Village Video

A window to 1983 – a time when the village suffered endless traffic jams, but there were two pubs and two shops … and...

Bucked in the Yarn

Three small Somerset villages had a huge impact on global exploration and trade – Rachael Rowe talks to Professor Terry Stevens “Nothing much ever happened...

Forty years on:the Bourton Village Video

A window to 1983 – a time when the village suffered endless traffic jams, but there were two pubs and two shops … and...

Shaftesbury | Then and Now

Step back in time with our ‘Then and Now’ feature, where vintage postcards from the Barry Cuff Collection meet modern-day reality. Explore the past...

A 60s trip to the seaside | POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen a pair of suitably holiday-themed postcards of the coast - both having been sent by children in the...

A century ago in Sherborne : POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen century-old postcards of Cheap Street and what was then the Ladies College in Sherborne… Sent to Miss L Sharp...

Piddletrenthide : Then and Now

Step back in time with our ‘Then and Now’ feature, where vintage postcards from the Barry Cuff Collection meet modern-day reality. Explore the past...
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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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We’re excited to bring you the very first official pre-show magazine for Frome Agricultural & Cheese Show! It's been a special...

On 3rd September, more than 150 people gathered in the splendid Members Pavilion at The Dorset County Show to celebrate the...

This recipe started out as a bit of an experiment but has now become a reliable go-to if I am looking...

Wilfrid Shon is making some of the best gin in the world in a Dorset farmyard – and its Asian kick...

In 2010 Chrissy and Karl Regler had just had their second child. Finances were tight, and Chrissy, on maternity leave from...

Callum Sutherland talks to the Hammoud family, as they celebrate British citizenship and the home they have found in Dorset Do you...

Dorset Farming

A sting operation bee-hind enemy lines

The challenges facing pollinators are very real – but...

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Walk and talk with the FCN

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Labour’s subsidy silence is a worry

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Farm walks with the FCN

Dorset FCN have been busy this summer, with plenty...

Balancing nature and farming

George Hosford looks at how his experiments in bi-cropping and mob grazing have been working, and sees the impact of ‘making room’ for nature Some...

Dorset Wildlife

Wildflower planting at conservation farm

Native plants can help to boost biodiversity on the...

Bees at risk: can we stop the hornet invasion?

Asian hornets pose a growing threat to Britain’s pollinators...

Nurturing nature – our garden choices matter

Wildlife-friendly gardening has an impact: DWT’s Jack Clarke takes...

Dorset’s little carnivores

Wildlife writer Jane Adams explores sundews – Dorset’s carnivorous...

Vanishing Wildlife – Dorset declares a Nature Emergency

As the council tackles biodiversity loss, Rachael Rowe looks...

Dorset’s little carnivores

Wildlife writer Jane Adams explores sundews – Dorset’s carnivorous plants – and Darwin’s fascination with their deadly allure In a letter dated 1860, the renowned...

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