Category: Featured
Dorset Farming
A sticking plaster budget from a ‘rurally ignorant’ Chancellor
The Chancellor’s budget is urban-centred, will hit small businesses hard, potentially threatens the future of small family farms across the region, has nothing for...
News
ANNOUNCING The BV Reader’s Photography Charity Calendar 2025
We're thrilled to introduce the very first BV Readers' Photography Charity Calendar, celebrating Dorset's beauty through the eyes of our talented photographer readers! After...
News
Community saddened by abrupt closure of local garden centre
Thorngrove Garden Centre, having been at the heart of Gillingham for more than 50 years, has been closed to the public, though it currently...
Property law and finance
Protecting Dorset: housing targets damagingly destructive
Unrealistic targets double the build rate, threaten greenfields and ignore affordable homes and local infrastructure, says CPRE’s Rupert Hardy
Labour swept to power this summer...
Dorset Wildlife & Animals
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,...
A Country Living
The 46-year tractor ride
Tracie Beardsley catches up with C&O’s Matthew Holland - in between him selling tractors, fighting fires, making honey and selling cider!
When the excited 16-year-old...
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