Visit Greener Homes across the Vale
This October, be inspired by the environmental efforts of your friends and neighbours and gather practical advice from homeowners about...
A valuable archive
Windrose Rural Media Trust has been giving a voice to people living in the wilder areas of Dorset, Somerset and...
Planet Shaftesbury tackles light pollution
An illustrated talk at Shaftesbury Town Hall this October promises to offer illuminating solutions to the problem of unnatural light...
Lost Summer, August 2022
Struck by the ‘false autumn’ happening in her family’s garden, a photographer reflects on the changes happening around us… by...
Five Vale women raise £1,700 for Alzheimer’s Society
Five women have put their best foot forward and raised £1,700 for the Alzheimer’s Society in the Trek 26 Challenge...
Ride & Stride is a super success
Rector of Sherborne Abbey the Rev Martin Lee sent the participants in Dorset Historic Churches Trust’s annual Ride & Stride...
Record-breaking beer festival fundraiser!
More than 1,500 beer lovers raised a glass and a record-breaking £13,638 for Dorset Mind at the Hall & Woodhouse...
The big cheeses in British cheese
The British Cheese Awards are set to return to the Bath & West Showground at Shepton Mallet for the biggest...
Marathon effort
Anyone who lives within a 10-mile radius of Shillingstone may have spotted charity worker Alice Chapman training for the London...
Cartoon capers
Cartoonists from all over the country – including the Blackmore Vale’s very own bagpiping cartoonist Lyndon Wall – headed to...
