Category: Featured
Dorset Politics
Blandford’s Crown Meadows plan – an act of philanthropy or a Trojan horse?
PLANS to site up to 40 caravans as temporary homes for Ukrainian refugees on land known locally as Crown Meadows on the western boundaries...
Dorset Art and Antiques
The art of the Red House
Edwina Baines had an exclusive tour of the art inside the UK’s best new architect-designed house, The Red House.
The winner of the Royal Institute...
Local History
The Bridge Street fire
Roger Guttridge has personal memories of the fire which destroyed Harding’s newsagent’s shop at Sturminster Newton in 1956
One of my most vivid childhood memories...
Dorset Island Discs
Anyone that sings a bit of country has my heart’ – Dorset Island Discs
As event organiser at the Turnpike Showground, shepherd Bonnie Cradock is facing a doubly busy spring, thanks to one over-excited fun-loving ram
Bonnie Cradock rolls...
A Country Living
Logging on to horse power
It may be 10,000 years old, but Toby Hoad believes the ancient skill of horse logging is vital in shaping and saving our woodlands....
News
Say YES to solar, but NO to huge greenfield solar power stations
Rupert Hardy, Chairman of North Dorset CPRE, shares his thoughts on current planning applications for two huge solar farms in Dorset
A few months ago...
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