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ACCLAIMED stand-up poet and storyteller Jonny Fluffypunk is heading to The Gaggle of Geese in Buckland Newton with his…

Funny but thought-provoking theatre

How happily married are the happily married? Every couple needs a little fantasy to keep their marriage sparkling. But…

Wars of the Roses the setting for community play

REHEARSALS are well under way, costumes have been fitted and altered, and lines – almost – learned – which…

Hopes rising of trade deal with US

Fresh from his triumph over Northern Ireland, Rishi Sunak has launched straight into delivering on another of the people’s…

Variety truly is spice of an MP’s life

One of the joys of being an MP is the variety that each day brings. One of the hardest…

Government so wrong on small boats

STOP the boats, stop the boats, stop the boats shouted Prime Minister Sunak and his henchman Home Secretary ‘Cruella’…

Almshouse future: Share your views

THE local matters on which I work or help vary so much. Whether it is highways, housing, education or…

Protestors not ‘naïve’ and ‘selfish’

I thank the letters correspondent J L Mulley from Sherborne – New Blackmore Vale, March 3 – who responded…

The harms of can’t-do government

What to make of Boris and his honours list? The act of a romantic, mad, bad Byronic hero or…

Then & now: Gillingham’s First World War hospitals

by Lottie Hayton. On Saturday July 25, 1914, a remarkable event took place, which foreshadowed the horror of – and…