It’s just as well that The New Blackmore Vale is only published every fortnight as it would have been a little late last week. And a bit smoky.

Blackmore, the company that prints the NBV, had a fire which broke out early on Wednesday morning – the day the magazine goes to press.
The fire service was alerted and engines drove around the corner from their Shaftesbury base to Longmead Industrial Estate.

The fire was quickly extinguished but with staff having evacuated the building with the windows closed, smoke damage was extensive near to the affected press.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

The printworks was out of action on April 7-8 but printing resumed last Friday. “Just 48 hours after the fire, we were able to get back into production in a limited form,” said commercial director Simon West.
And the company was comfortably able this week to print 40,000 copies of the edition you are reading.

“We would like to extend our huge thanks to the fire service and our staff,” said Simon. And we’d like to thank Blackmore – and our luck in last Wednesday not being press day.”

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