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Dorset’s Spring Countryside Show springs to life this month!

The weekend event is taking place at Turnpike Showground between Gillingham and Shaftesbury on the 22nd and 23rd April The Spring Countryside Show is BACK!Get...

Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival 2022

'J’adore le Cheddar! Et les flapjacks aussi!'Madame Maryline Lecampion’s eyes twinkled as she described the food she had tasted at Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival....

Great Dorset Steam Fair 2022 is all fired up

After a two years enforced break, the Great Dorset Steam Fair (GDSF) is back until Bank Holiday Monday (29th August)! Seen as the world's...

£40m-worth of cars at local teenager’s ‘Classic & Supercar Sunday’ event 

Following his successful supercar breakfast meet-up in June, this month local teenager Zander Miller staged his first all day Classic & Supercar Sunday event at...

WHAT a day for the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show!

The heatwave was a problem. And then the rain was a problem. But the 2022 Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show weather gods were kind; the...

Tom Robinson – 72, and still got it

Tom Robinson, songwriter and broadcaster, will be at The Exchange later this month. Editor Laura Hitchcock spoke to him about his 50-year career as...

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“I wasn’t thinking about managing. I was terrified I’d never ride again”

When Jemima Green was paralysed from the waist down after a car crash, she thought she’d never be able to ride again. She was...

Rain, reactors and running out

Bovine TB dominates farm life, George Hosford says, as flawed testing and policy inertia persist (and January rain only adds to the pressure) The total...

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