November’s BV is HERE!

Inside the November issue of The BV magazine, the UK's Regional Publication of the...

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

A final ultra for faith

In a quiet corner of Dorset, Eric Jager, 68, embarked on his most challenging run ever – a self-organised 72-kilometre journey, passing 25 churches...

Gillingham Sixth Form: ready for anything

Gillingham Sixth Form is an inclusive learning environment which promotes academic resilience and personal development. Our students are ambitious and socially responsible, and they...

Tucking up for winter

From Brixton riots to Blandford

Blandford practice nurse Buffy Wareham talks about the changes she’s seen in 50 years of nursing, personal loss, and her enduring need to help For...

Hubbub Over HUB: Mampitts Green decision fuels new row

It’s been a long road for Shaftesbury, and though £880k in council funding has been awarded, some residents aren’t celebrating yet When the chance to...

Motcombe: 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 note from the seaside: POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen two postcards more modern than usual, and scenes no doubt familiar to older locals. Both were sent by...

Hinton St Mary : 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...

Notes to a sister : POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen a pair of postcards sent from Milborne St Andrew – quite by chance he has two cards sent...

The English Hippocrates

Thomas Sydenham, one of the most prominent physicians in 17th century England, was born 400 years ago, just ten miles from Dorchester Known as the...

St Basil’s mysterious,extraordinary font

The allure of a mysterious Saxon font in Toller Fratrum’s tiny church has fascinated artists for a century, says CPRE’s Rupert Hardy n 1934, the...
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The Random 19 Questions

West End star Joanna Woodward answers the Random 19 questions

Based on the best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger, the musical adaptation of The Time Traveller’s Wife is scheduled for a West End run at...

The Random 19 with renowned journalist, author and broadcaster Kate Adie.

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Charles Church, master of the equestrian portrait

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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

Local cheese-makers Lyburn Cheese took home the Golden Fork for the best English product at this year’s Great Taste awards night Battersea...

A blondie is the brownie’s fairer sister: and while the texture can be similar, the delicious, caramel flavour of a blondie...

We were thrilled to host some of Dorset’s finest producers at the 2024 Love Local Awards. Founded six years ago, the...

I think a homemade jam makes any cake or scone taste incredible – I will often go that extra mile when...

Fanny Charles talks to James and Lucy Smart, who are celebrating ten years of running one of this country’s finest charcuterie...

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

Dorset Farming

Government caught with its flock down

Coughs, colds and costly outbreaks … Andrew Livingston asks...

Farms to the slaughter

It’s the final nail in the coffin of every...

A sticking plaster budget from a ‘rurally ignorant’ Chancellor

The Chancellor’s budget is urban-centred, will hit small businesses...

Mixing it up with the seeds

From cover crops to clever seed mixing, George Hosford...

Cluckonomics revisited: Farm Tales

Is it time to import, asks Andrew Livingston, as...

Back British Farming

November saw the seventh annual Back British Farming Day with support across Westminster, says NFU county advisor Gemma Harvey On Wednesday 2nd November, the NFU...

Dorset Wildlife

A fireworkof cinders

An early dawn drive captures the magic of mist,...

Wild Woodbury celebrates three years of rewilding success

From free roaming cattle to thriving wetlands – rewilding...

Going, going, gone!

It’s the unsung hero of autumn: as other blooms...

Owls in the combine

Farming columnist George Hosford had surprise farm guests this...

Brilliant bryophytes

Steve Masters, Dorset Wildlife Trust’s ecologist, shines a light...

Owls in the combine

Farming columnist George Hosford had surprise farm guests this summer, prompting a delicate rescue before harvest could begin Before we could start harvesting this year,...

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