Van damaged in Frome fire in residential street
A VAN was damaged by fire in a Frome street last night (June 11). Firefighters from the town, and from…
Building badly damaged by fire in Motcombe
A BUILDING in Motcombe was badly damaged by fire on Friday evening (June 9). The incident, at Lodge Lane, was…
How Wincanton became linked with Terry Pratchett and Discworld
“COMING back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” So wrote Sir Terry Pratchett in A…
LETTER: ‘Councillors need to wake up before they ruin Dorset’
I COMPLETELY agree with the letter on housing in the New Blackmore Vale (‘How much housing is enough?’,…
LETTER: ‘MPs are absent – so why obsess over councillor?’
CHRIS Loder MP may have a point – New Blackmore Vale, May 23 – regarding the absent Sherborne…
LETTER: ‘Council has a lack of interest in Sherborne’
DURING the many years that I was Sherborne Town Council’s chair of planning, I repeatedly raised the matter of…
New book reveals 10 secrets of the Tarrant Valley
Local author reveals interesting and little-known facts about our churches A recently published Dorset book relates some fascinating, little-known facts…
Get back to nature at Hooke Farm rewilding weekend
HOOKE Farm, near Beaminster (DT8 3NZ), will be hosting a rewilding weekend as part of the National Garden Scheme,…
French twin town residents jet into Sherborne for visit (or jumelage!)
RESIDENTS of Sherborne’s twin town Granville, Normandy, enjoyed a swap – or jumelage – with town members recently. The visitors…
FARMING COLUMN: ‘Lambs behave just like their mums’
by Tria Stebbing THEN, just like magic, the grass went mad. If we had a flock of 350, we still…
