The New Stour & Avon – a sister magazine for the New Blackmore Vale – will hit the streets from Friday, April 23.

We have decided to launch the new magazine in response to a huge demand from the Wimborne area. The New Stour & Avon will be printed every two weeks (every other week to the NBV), and dropped off at distribution points in Wimborne, Blandford Forum, Ferndown and Verwood, as well as villages dotted throughout the area.

As we throw off the shackles of covid and return to something resembling normality, the New Stour & Avon will deliver all the news from the area, including a comprehensive guide to things to do and community events to support.

There will be a range of local contributors and columnists, some very familiar faces and some new features, too. One of the original magazine’s favourite sections, the Letters to the Editor, will return and will hopefully once again be a lively area for debate and discussion.
I have worked in magazines and newspapers for around 30 years now, and for the last five years published a hugely popular community magazine for Glastonbury and Street.

The response so far to our plan to bring out The New Stour & Avon has been incredibly positive. The closure of the original Stour & Avon back in 2018 left a massive hole in the community, as it was a fantastic source of news and information for the area. The New Stour and Avon will have everything that people loved about the original, plus a few new features, too.

For information about advertising in the New Stour and Avon, call advertising manager Debi Thorne on 07876 563683, or Jane Toomer, senior account manager, at jane.toomer@blackmorevale.net. For any editorial enquiries, get in touch with me on 07809 121434.

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