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Rockies progress in League Cup

By Avril Lancaster. Shaftesbury 4 Laverstock & Ford 0 THE ‘Rockies’ reached the Wessex League Cup quarter-final once more after both…

League gets new sponsors

DORSET Cricket League have signed a three-year sponsorship deal with Wessex Internet after not having a sponsor last season. The…

Gold medal paralympian in visit to village school

GOLD medal-winning Paralympian Katrina Hart inspired pupils at St Andrew’s Primary School, Fontmell Magna when she led a circuit…

Celebrity artist’s visit

THE Gryphon School in Sherborne has been delighted to host a visit from celebrity painter Adebanji Alade. Adebanji (right) is…

Fairplay the watchword at tag rugby tournament

PUPILS from across North Dorset took part in a tag rugby tournament hosted at Sherborne Primary School. Teams of Year…

Panto is sell-out

WIDOW Twankee was played by Jon Noble (pictured) when Mere Amateur Dramatic Society staged four sell-out performances of A…

Dorset flavour to festive concert

THE Ridgeway Singers & Band, led by local musicians Tim Laycock and Phil Humphries, will be staging a West…

Cinderella on screen

The Australian Ballet’s production of Cinderella is being screened at Shaftesbury Arts Centre tomorrow (Saturday, December 10). The show has…

How the UK’s first female doctor worked disguised as a man…

By Laura Manning. ART historian Felicity Herring told the remarkable story of Margaret Anne Bulkley, the UK’s first female doctor,…

Get your head around grants changes

Free workshops are being held to help farmers and landowners plan for changes to grant payments. Between 2021 and 2027,…