Category: News

All the latest news from the monthly digital Blackmore Vale magazine. Collected from across the Blackmore Vale and Dorset.

News rounds ups of the most popular features, and important local news items between issues.

We endeavour to bring you news that is important to you. Things that are hapening on your doorstep, things that affect your daily lives.

We aim to provide interesting articles and reports on subjects that are both intersting and informative.

The Blackmore Vale magazine news section is kept fresh and up to date by our local reporters and news desk items.

If you have a news story tah you think is worth sharing, then get in touch with the editor on editor@theblackmorevale.co.uk

Dorset Charity

West Country Landmarks to Light Up in Support of Air Ambulance Week 2024

As Air Ambulance Week 2024 approaches, three of the West Country’s most iconic landmarks – Glastonbury Tor, Wellington Monument, and Corfe Castle – are...

Editorial team - 4 September 2024

Days Out in Dorset

The Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show 2024!

It’s the second Wednesday in August, so everyone in the rural half of Dorset knows it must be time for the Gillingham & Shaftesbury...

LauraHitchcock - 14 August 2024

Book Corner

From the South Coast to the Deep South in search of the real Elvis

Dorset author Lorraine Gibson takes a Memphis journey as she explores Elvis Presley’s life through his iconic – and shocking – fashion A really comprehensive...

Editorial team - 6 August 2024

Dorset sport

Learning new moves: French rugby renaissance

Inspired by legendary coach Pierre Villepreux, Clayesmore coaches return from France with a fresh approach to rugby – Sam Peters reports On a mission to...

Editorial team - 5 August 2024

Equestrian Dorset

21-year-old jockey Alice Procter faces spinal injury after fall

After Alice’s devastating fall at Cartmel racecourse, her dad Doug Procter talks to editor Laura Hitchcock about living every parent’s nightmare I hadn’t spoken to...

Editorial team - 5 August 2024

Dorset community news

From Syria to Shaftesbury

Callum Sutherland talks to the Hammoud family, as they celebrate British citizenship and the home they have found in Dorset Do you know which British...

Editorial team - 4 August 2024

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September’s BV is out now! 🙂

LauraHitchcock - 6 September 20240

Dinah’s Hollow decision is ‘null and void’, and a local councillor lodges a complaint after an ‘unbelievable administrative error’ | page 4 The controversy in...

The BV Podcast

Farming frustration, Sturminster Cheese Fest, Riversmeet and a refugee family’s journey

LauraHitchcock - 1 September 20240

This month we hear from farmer Andrew Livingston - frustrated with a new government showing the same poor understanding in their approach to subsisides....