We’re nearly free! Time for extra mental health help
The 21st of June is now dangling tantalisingly before us – a date on which we’ll regain those freedoms which...
Dancing in the streets as folk festival set to return
By Miranda Robertson When I heard the Purbeck Valley Folk Festival was back on this year I actually did a...
Literary festival still alive and well-read on social media
The Blandford Literary Festival, which held its very successful inaugural event in 2019 and had hoped to make it an...
The show must go on after venue handed £38k lifeline
Westlands Entertainment Centre in Yeovil has secured £38,926 from the government’s £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund to implement covid-secure measures to...
School issues plea for your support
Blandford School has issued an urgent appeal for help as it prepares to re-open to all pupils. In an open...
Special online art workshops offered to pupils
Special workshops delivered by acclaimed and award-winning artists are the latest in a series of online events at Bryanston during...
For Greene’s a jolly good Fellow!
Yeovil College and the Yeovil College University Centre have awarded an Honorary Fellowship to Jo Roundell Greene. This honour is...
Trying to ‘fix your feelings’ with drink, work or exercise?
Psychotherapist David Stanton lives near Sherborne. All too often, I hear clients say: “but I had such a good childhood”...
A walk around… Haydon
Haydon is one of the smallest parishes in Dorset, in area and in population which is about 44. It’s very...
Why advertise in Local Services?
Welcome to the latest round-up of local services in the Blackmore Vale. Every edition, this section grows by about half a...
