Inside the November issue of The BV magazine, the UK’s Regional Publication of the Year:
- There’s fury in Dorset over the changes in Inheritance Tax and what they will mean for the future of small family farms – the lifeblood of Dorset’s rural community. Read Andrew Livingston’s fiery Farms To The Slaughter on page 68.
Simon Hoare MP also spoke to The BV on the day of the Budget to discuss the implications for his North Dorset constituents. He calls Rachel Reeves a ‘rurally ignorant’ Chancellor - We see both sides of the West Wincanton argument – will the plan for the 650-home development be an unsustainable misuse of good farmland, or an opportunity to deliver more than housing?
- We also get to the bottom of why not everyone in Shaftesbury is celebrating the £880k fund yet.
- Our Dorset Insider, a local parish councillor, asks just how meaningful that Big Conversation was, judging by the glaring holes in Dorset’s new Draft Plan.
- Rob Gray is a former precious painting courier, a National Trust collections manager and now he’s cataloguing 40,000 pieces of the county’s past for the Museum of East Dorset.
- Sally Cooper looks past the 1980s Jilly Cooper bonkbuster image, and discovers polo‘s fast-paced, bruising but surprisingly inclusive sport
- Jane Adams writes a stunning ode to jackdaws in her wildife column, and The Dorset Game Larder are helping us get a little wild this November.
- Plus pages and pages of Community News and What’s Ons, health, local history, gardening … Why are you still here? Go! Make a mug of tea, and have a READ!
