January’s BV is HERE!

Our first issue of 2025 picks up right where we left off – crammed...

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

Racing highs, weather lows

Chris Wald reflects on December’s challenges and triumphs on the yard, and looks ahead to the Tizzard team’s path to The Festival The good form...

Sixpenny Handley | POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen two postcards from Sixpenny Handley, both sent in 1913, the year before the First World War began. Sent to...

What’s on show in 2025?

Same bikes, new mission

Giles and Annie Henschel’s return to the Mediterranean highlights the crisis facing olive farmers and the resilience that is keeping hope alive In March 2024,...

‘We’re here to make life better’

Terry Bennett talks to West Dorset’s first Liberal Democrat MP, Edward Morello, who is still negotiating the Westminster jungle When Edward Morello walked into Westminster...

Sixpenny Handley | POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen two postcards from Sixpenny Handley, both sent in 1913, the year before the First World War began. Sent to...

Framing the past – Job Pottle’s story

A prolific photographer from the 1880s to the 1920s, Job Pottle captured local life from children to Churchill, the royal family to railways workers. Job...

THEN AND NOW: Okeford Fitzpaine

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...

Frozen Dorset

This month Barry Cuff has chosen two postcards with a suitably wintery feel – Sherbornians skating on the frozen lake in 1907, and the...

Godmanstone | 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...

Mid-century modern Blandford | POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen two postcards with scenes no doubt familiar to older locals – Blandford Forum a little more than 60...
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The Random 19 Questions

The Random 19 with world-famous novelist Tracy Chevalier.

Tracy Chevalier FRSL is an author of 10 novels, perhaps best known for the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, a timeless modern...

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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

Sadie Wilkins from Sherborne’s award-winning indie wine merchant has some things to clear up regarding the new duty taxes As we pop...

Giles and Annie Henschel’s return to the Mediterranean highlights the crisis facing olive farmers and the resilience that is keeping hope...

Tucked away in the heart of Tarrant Monkton near Blandford, The Langton Arms is a standing symbol of rural Dorset. Surrounded...

2024 has been a very busy year here at Love Local Trust Local HQ. We started working hard at the beginning...

Shaftesbury-based chef and food writer Philippa Davis celebrates the wonderful food and drink of Dorset in a new six-part television series...

Since 2012, Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival has helped to generate almost £400,000 for charities. More than £260,000 of this has been...

Dorset Farming

Is it the year of the egg? |Farm Tales

Pessimism, promises and poultry: Andrew Livingston asks if 2025’s...

Championing rural Britain

The BV takes a look inside the Countryside Alliance’s...

Two FCN quiz nights coming up!

January and February can often be a hard slog...

A quick catch up with the FCN

Christmas has so many different meanings to each person...

Watch where you put your finger …

Last month my partner and I actually managed to...

The Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show is to become a two day show!

North Dorset's annual agricultural Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show is a beacon in the local calendar, and has traditionally been a single day event on...

Dorset Wildlife

Graveyards: an excuse for weeds or a space that nature needs?

Rachael Rowe investigates how Dorset’s living legacy of churchyards...

It’s purr-fect inside Dorset Cattery

When Kirsty Sturmey goes to work each morning, she...

Have yourself a sustainable Christmas

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year …...

Our ancient neighbours

Wildlife writer Jane Adams explores the fascinating history and...

Fantastic fungi in Dorset

Dorset Wildlife Trust’s conservation officer Mariko Whyte takes a...

Our ancient neighbours

Wildlife writer Jane Adams explores the fascinating history and potentially fragile future of Dorset’s ancient yew trees Yews are a common sight in Dorset, but...

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