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The Compasses Inn – food worth finding

Tucked away in the tiny hamlet of Lower Chicksgrove (10 miles north east of Shaftesbury, a mile off the A30), The Compasses Inn is...

Build, baby, build

The Dorset Insider is a no-holds-barred column pulling back the curtain on local affairs with sharp insight, unfiltered honesty and the occasional raised eyebrow....

Stranded: Dorset is one of the worst in the country

Among the worst-served areas for rural transport, a House of Commons inquiry hears that failing bus networks are widening social inequality. For rural Dorset, public...

Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance celebrates 25 years of saving lives

From farm accidents to heart attacks … here are the stories of some of the many people who owe everything to the ‘hospital in...

Help, hope …and great coffee

Newly opened at Sturminster Newton, the Vale Family Hub offers vital community support for North Dorset residents ‘How did we get here? Blood, sweat, tears,...

On the Ukrainian road to recovery – an update from Eddy in Kyiv

While delivering humanitarian aid in Ukraine, Eddy Scott from Shaftesbury suffered major injuries during a drone attack ‘It’s the people that make this country. They...

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Dorset Mounties

Riding into the fight against rural crime: Andrew Livingston spoke to one of Dorset’s new rural mounted volunteers You’ll struggle to find a village that...
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Cloaked in bubbles

Wildlife writer Jane Adams introduces the sweet, invisible and venomous predator with ultrasonic powers that seems to swim cloaked in mercury Hidden away in the...