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Local musician, Jane Stokes, has achieved a long-held ambition of recording her first album of Harp music. Jane, who lives in Child Okeford, plays fourteen tracks of varied music from the repertoire for Celtic harp. Much of the music Jane … Read More

MermaidsUK took part in a brand new ITV series, Give It A Year Episode 5 on ITV Monday 14th May 2018, 8pm. MermaidsUK took part in Give It A Year, a brand new ITV series. The company is run by Mother and Daughter … Read More

  Shaftesbury Civic Society will salute the town’s most community-minded resident, club or organisation with a new, annual prize. The winner of the first of the annual Rachel Caldwell awards will be announced during the society’s Civic Day event on … Read More

Shaftesbury Fringe is adding independent movies to this summer’s event, in a new partnership with the Purbeck Film Festival. Three up-and-coming directors from the region will attend a screening of their works, each lasting approximately 12 minutes, at Shaftesbury Arts … Read More

    Shaftesbury Fringe organisers say that the three-day event is now England’s third-largest open-access arts festival, based on performance numbers. When artist registration closed on Thursday night, 139 separate performances had been booked, a massive increase from the 83 … Read More

The Great Get Together picnic is being held on the Town Meadow in Gillingham on Sunday 24th June from 12 noon. Nationally, The Great Get Together encourages communities to hold an event to spend some time together and emphasise that we have … Read More

Award-winning BV Dairy, one of the most respected and successful independent dairies in the South West of England and supplier of dairy products to national / international brands and the hospitality industry, has sponsored Shaftesbury School’s membership of Dorset Chamber’s Young Chamber … Read More

Gold Hill Museum opened for the season on Saturday 24th March with two new exhibitions, sponsored by BV Dairy. One of the displays features life on a North Dorset dairy farm in 1940. It reveals how we take modern luxuries for granted. … Read More

Young Gillingham woman raising money to support voluntary work in Cambodia Rowan Mackain-Bremner, from Gillingham Dorset, is raising money to support a project that tackles poverty in Cambodia, where she will be volunteering for 10 weeks.   Rowan, 22, will travel out … Read More

‘What have you found?’ Jeanette’s words were whipped away by the wind and never reached her husband’s ears. She caught up with Mark, crouching on the shingle, examining his latest find. ‘What is it?’ she said, a little breathless. ‘It’s … Read More