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LUSCOMBE SUSAN CATHERINE

LUSCOMBE SUSAN CATHERINE Peacefully on 27th February at Salisbury Manor C/H, Salisbury, aged 76 years. Formerly of East Stour. A much loved mum,…

BRIAN AUSTIN RAINEY

BRIAN AUSTIN RAINEY On 11th March 2022 peacefully at home aged 90 years of Gillingham, formerly of Sutton Farm, Sutton…

KINGSLEY LEONARD DYER

KINGSLEY LEONARD DYER of Child Okeford, the village Butcher all of his working life Passed away peacefully on Monday 7th March…

Buzzing with knowledge

The ladies of Filgroup recently enjoyed a interesting talk by Fred Swift, alias The Wiltshire Beekeeper. Meeting once a month…

Welcoming home some old faces and planning for the arrival of new ones

The girls are home. At long last the field was dry enough to take the pregnant Zwartbles ewes back…

Northern Tea Bread with Mrs Simkins

Here’s another tea bread, a little different from the one featured in this column last March, which was based…

Tracy digs in for the Queen’s Green Canopy Project

A local woman has planted 60 trees on her land in North Dorset as part of the Queen’s Green…

Olive Bowl gig raises over £2,000 in musician’s memory

A successful charity gig has raised £2,587.52 for the Macmillan Cancer trust in memory of the late musician David…

Hedgehogs in need of your help

A local hedgehog welfare group is appealing for kind-hearted animal lovers to set up new hedgehog rescue centres. Blandford Hedgehog…

Nescafé serve up coffee masterclass to local care home residents

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Trinity Manor care home in Sherborne were recently treated to a live coffee masterclass…