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The Stableyard Café is open for visitors to enjoy Picture: National Trust/Lucy Fenna

New takeaway café opens at Stourhead’s historic Stableyard

VISITORS to Stourhead will be able to stop for refreshments at a new takeaway café spot as they walk…

Number Sixteen, in Wincanton High Street, will close on May 31. Picture: Google

Popular Somerset café, wine shop and deli announces it will close next week

A POPULAR Somerset café, wine shop and deli is closing next week. Number Sixteen, in Wincanton High Street, has been…

Pork belly, nachos and jackfruit burgers are all on the menu Pictures: CuraConn

Guy Ritchie launches new smokehouse restaurant at Compton Abbas Airfield

A TEXAS-style barbeque restaurant owned by Hollywood director Guy Ritchie has opened its doors in Dorset. Lore Of The Sky…

The Bird in Hand, in Henstridge, is up for sale. Picture: Google

Your chance to buy shares – and keep Somerset village pub open

A COMMUNITY bid to buy the village pub in order to “keep it open as an essential meeting place”…

The Forum Frier, in Blandford, makes the NFFF top 40 chip shops list. Pictures: NFFF/Google

Just one Dorset chip shop makes top 40 list ahead of Good Friday chippy tea!

A CHIPPY tea is a Friday night tradition across the UK. And to celebrate this Good Friday, the National Federation…

The Shack has been a popular venue for a decade

Popular venue The Shack closes down after 10 years due to “financial climate”

A POPULAR Spetisbury venue has closed down “due to the financial climate” after 10 years. The Shack, at Clapcotts Farm,…

Food at the restaurant has been praised by The Times Pictures: The Grosvenor Arms

Dorset hotel named in The Times list for best value stay

EXPERTS at The Times have named a Shaftesbury hotel as one of the best places to stay for under…

General manager David Hill said he is "incredibly proud" of his team Picture: The Clockspire

The Clockspire restaurant in Milborne Port scoops ‘Best Front of House Team’ prize

FINE dining restaurant The Clockspire has taken home the award for ‘Best Front of House Team’ in this year’s…

The plans have received the backing of Gillingham Town Council Picture: Google

Continental style wine bar could fill empty High Street shop in Gillingham

A NEW “relaxed” wine bar could soon come to Gillingham if plans are approved. Plans have been submitted to Dorset…

Clockwise from top left: The Newt, the Grosvenor Arms, The Old Bell Hotel and the Manor House

Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire hotels make Times top 100 places to stay list

A NUMBER of hotels, inns and resorts in Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset make a new list of the best…