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‘LIKE AN OPEN PRISON’: Covid-hit Gypsies say ambulance was unable to access their camp for two emergencies – and the council site is ‘being left to rot’

By Karen Bate newsdesk@blackmorevale.net   A covid outbreak at Piddlehinton Gypsy and Traveller site has highlighted worrying difficulties for its…

Come Buy, Londoner outbids shepherd for rotten old hut

I wanted it for my wife: Sheep farmer outbid in battle for £16k shepherd’s hut By Steve Keenan newsdesk@blackmorevale.net The sheep farmer…

Trouble at mill? Not any more: It’s back to the grindstone at much loved attraction

Flour power! Mill reopens after a difficult year By Steve Keenan It will be all hands to the grindstone this weekend…

Hardy cyclists brave thunder and rain

With big smiles and high spirits, hundreds of soggy cyclists braved the monsoons and pushed through the gruelling 55-mile…

Opposition grows to scheme for giant

A bid to build one of Britain’s biggest solar power stations on 190 acres, the size of more than…