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The New Blackmore Vale Friday, November 12, 2021 A veteran holds a poppy cross on Remembrance Sunday 2019 at the war memorial in The Borough, Yeovil. The last wreath laying before lockdown PIC: LEN COPLAND

LEST WE FORGET People around the Vale pay tribute to the fallen: P20

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What’s inside this week Announcements 46-49 Arts & Entertainments 79-84 Antiques & Collectibles 51-53 Business 89-91 Church 50 Education 39 Events 8-10 Equestrian 99 Farming 100-107 Field And Stream 99 Food & Drink 67-71 Health & Wellbeing 72-75 History 34-35 Home & Gardens 54-58 Items For Sale 41 Letters 44-45 Local Services 59-66 Motoring 84-88 MPs 42-43 Pets 78-79 Property 108-112 Public Notices 46 Puzzles 76-77, 102-103 Recruitment 92-95 Sport 96-98

n Explorer recalls presenting a Chihuahua to Haile Selassie: P18-19 n Flooding concerns on road near land marked for homes: P32-33 n A family’s fascinating history through war and peace: P34-35

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Classified ads may be accepted after this, however these will be subject to space.

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CPRE claims council misleading the public

By Karen Bate

The Countryside charity, CPRE claims the scale of opposition to Dorset Council’s draft plan for 30,500 new homes has been ‘disguised as a misleading low number’.

The published summary of responses to the draft Local Plan, which revealed overwhelming opposition to the council’s housing strategy until 2038, does not reveal the true scale of rejection, say CPRE. The charity points out that town and parish clerks, who represent more than 108,000 Dorset residents between them, are named individually rather than by the organisation.

Peter Bowyer, the Chairman of Trustees of Dorset CPRE, said: “Our analysis, which is ongoing, was made much more difficult since each response was filed under the name of the respondent. This is fine for individual people but the parish clerk of, for example, Corfe

Mullen, is responding on behalf of 10,000 residents and the town clerk of Dorchester represents over 21,000.”

He added: “The opposition to the Local Plan is further complicated by the fact that responses are recorded in the name of individuals, rather than their organisations. Who would know that the Dorset Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) response can only be found under the name of chiarman Peter Bowyer or Jo Witherden – the planning

consultant who put together the submission.”

A CPRE spokesman added: “All of this seems like an effort to hide the reality, or at best it is a poor collation.”

A spokesperson for Dorset Council said its recent publication of comments received on the draft Local Plan was not intended to demonstrate the volume of opposition or support for the plan and said it had never claimed that it was.

“Dorset Council has published all of the consultation responses on its website in the form in which they were submitted, this includes responses from over 9,000 individuals, organisations and businesses,” she said.

“Where the comments were submitted directly into our online response form, these have been published in that form. Where comments were submitted by alternative means (for example by paper or by email) these have been manually entered, as an attachment, and then published using the name of the person, and/or organisation, who submitted the comment.”

She said the analysis undertaken by the council is ‘focused on the specific planning issues raised rather than a quantitative analysis based on the number of responses’. Many responses did not indicate whether they supported or objected to policies and therefore attempting to draw statistical conclusions on the level of support for a particular policy would be misleading and involve an interpretation of the sentiment of the comment,” she said.

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Loos plan encounters a wee problem

By Nicci Brown

newsdesk@blackmorevale.net

Proposals for a Tourist Information Centre and public lavatories in Greyhound Square, Blandford, have encountered opposition because there is inadequate access for the disabled.

Blandford Town Council, Blandford & District Civic Society and the Disability Action Group (North Dorset) have objected to the detailed application by John Long of JKL (Enterprises) Ltd which follows outline permission being granted in 2018 for three commercial units together with the TIC and toilets.

The plans showed that although the proposed height of the floor had been lowered since the outline plans were approved, it was not low enough to prevent the need for steps which would not be negotiable by anyone in a wheelchair who was

unaccompanied.

The town council agreed by nine votes to one with two abstentions to object due to the proposed access arrangements not being fully accessible for every member of the community, and to seek a design allowing full access to all four units.

In addition to saying it is unacceptable for public toilets not to have full disabled access, the Civic Society has also queried the very restricted size of the proposed TIC in a unit where around a quarter of the ground floor will be occupied by the toilets.

They have also queried the need for the use, originally proposed alongside an application to demolish Riverside House in West Street which houses the existing facilities and redevelop the site, since no permission has been given for that proposal.

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Children celebrate opening of Muga Pupils at Archbishop Wake Primary School in Blandford welcomed members of AFC Bournemouth Women’s Team to their playing field on Friday for the official opening and naming of their new multi-use games area, the Wake Zone.

The official opening – some time after the new facility came into use at the start of the autumn term – was arranged to thank all those who had supported the project, including the Friends of the school, the Rotary Club of Blandford, pupils who took part in a whole-school sponsored walk, the family of a pupil who completed his own sponsored walk,

Music licence debated A call for a review or suspension of the entertainment licence of Ye Olde Two Brewers in St James Street, Shaftesbury was considered by Dorset Council’s licensing sub-committee last Tuesday.

The application in the names of Patrick Riley and Roland Merry came from two local residents on the grounds of noise pollution from frequent live music events in the garden of the pub and unruly behaviour of customers.

It was submitted three weeks after a series of outdoor afternoon and evening events as part of the Shaftesbury Fringe and two Saturday evening events in September.

The committee considered 12 letters in support of the licence review on the grounds of the impact of the pub’s GOAL ACHIEVED: Archbishop Wake Primary House operation on the quality of life of Captains with manager Steve Cuss and members of AFC residents in what is described as a Bournemouth Women’s Team at the official opening of the “quiet residential area” due to noise, school’s new multi-use games area abusive language from customers and Howdens, A-G-I Grass and gathered on the playing field - lack of parking.

But the application was strenuously DSAT (the Diocese of the name chosen by the opposed by licensee Chris Henson-Ball, Salisbury Academy Trust of pupils. The school’s House which the school in part).

Captains then officially cut the and there were nearly 100 letters pleading for the pub’s live music events Headteacher Daniel Carter ribbon, and following the invited two Year Six pupils to opening, year groups took it in to continue, saying they caused the writers no problems and that the announce the school’s thanks turns to meet with the AFC complaints are exaggerations. and – with a loud drum roll Bournemouth players and from the entire school enjoy some football training. The committee is expected to announce its decision some days after the hearing.

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Remembering forgotten heroes of the

By Karen Bate newsdesk@blackmorevale.net

Horses were the forgotten heroes of the First World War. These brave creatures performed cavalry roles, moved supplies, equipment, guns and ammunition, but most of all, were the cavalryman’s best-friend.

Arthur Shephard from Gillingham served as a cavalryman in the Queen’s Own Dorset Yeomanry for the duration of the First World War, seeing action in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine.

His son John said: “When I saw the film War Horse 10 years ago, I was sure I had overheard my father telling a similar tale to his friends.

“On further investigation, it turned out that he had recorded some reminiscences about his

REMEMBERING: The centenary commemoration held on the ridge in Israel in the centenary year of 2017 and, left, the cavalry on motorbikes

service with historian Peter Liddle in the 1970s. The original tape remained in a locked drawer in the family home.”

Describing his experiences in the Battle of El Mughar in Palestine in 1917 Arthur said: “I had a lump of shrapnel go through my

centre bandolier, which shattered the brass stud, went through 10 rounds of live ammunition and lodged in the back of the bandolier, fortunately not touching my uniform at all. And my horse was wounded in seven places and was sent back to the transport lines for attention, as they had no Veterinary Corps up.”

Arthur, who also needed

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medical attention, added: “I was taken out of the line for a time and so I was able to look after my own horse and restore him to health.”

Arthur refused to allow the men who were shooting wounded horses, to shoot his.

He said: “I was sickened by the sight of it and I thought as long as a horse could

walk and as long as it wasn’t obviously dying, it seemed fairly strong, that I absolutely dared them to do it.

“As I say, the horse eventually went back completely recovered.”

This battle took place on November 13, 1917 and paved the way for the Battle of Jerusalem in early December. The Dorset Yeomanry, together with the Buckinghamshire Hussars were under the command of 6 Mounted Brigade and had been tasked with clearing the German-led Turkish forces from the El Mughar Ridge in Palestine.

Successfully over-running the Turkish defences, the Brigade earned the praise of General Allenby.

Tragically, the price paid by the Dorset Yeomanry’s horses was dreadful, with no fewer than 80 killed.

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EVENTS GUIDE

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n Sherborne Library is running a number of free events for adults and children over the next month or so.

The first is on Friday, November 26 from 3pm-4pm, when local author Jackie Winter will be talking about her book Exploring the Quiet Lanes and Villages of West Dorset.

On Saturday, December 4 from 11am-12pm, there’s a Christmas card making session for children aged 4+ and their adults – create festive cards and wrapping paper.

On Saturday, December 11 from 11am-12pm, there’s a Christmas decorations session for children aged 4+ and their adults – decorate your home with your creations.

Then on Tuesday, December 21 from 11am-11.30am, there’s a ‘Christmas Storytime’ – listen to your favourite festive stories.

Suitable for children aged two and over. Booking is essential for all the above events – visit Eventbrite or call 01935 812683.

The library also hosts another couple of regular events: l Every Monday from 2pm3.30pm, it’s ‘Feel Better with a Book’ - a calm and relaxed shared reading session. Come along to read with others and have group discussions. Please call 01935 812683 for more information. l Every Thursday between 2pm and 4pm, there’s ‘Get Online with a Digital Champion’ – book in to have a free 1-1 session and get help using a computer or your own device.

Booking is essential so please call the library directly on 01935 812683. n Wincanton Remembrance Parade and Service will be taking place on Sunday, November 14 at 10am from the Memorial Hall to Wincanton Parish Church for a service at 10.45am. n A table top sale will be held at Thornford Village Hall on

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To advertise call 01963 400186 Sunday, November 21 from 10am-1pm.

Come and take the opportunity to come and buy or sell quality goods at possibly Bargain Hunt prices. A lot of items from a single house due to owner downsizing. For tables ring Billy Preston on 01935 873701 – £7 per table. n Pimperne Village Hall’s monthly coffee morning is due to be held on November 20 from 10am-12pm.

Entrance is only 50p and includes tea/coffee and a couple of biscuits. The usual attractions.

Profits are being raised for The Royal Signals. n The Cinnamon Trust, the charity for elderly and terminally ill people and their pets, will be running a Christmas stall full of home-made cakes, scarves, dog toys and doggy clothes, on Saturday, December 11 at Parsons Yard, Cheap Street between 9am and 3pm.

n The Sturminster Newton Remembrance Parade will be leaving the Royal British Legion club at 9.55am on Sunday, November 14 and marching to St Mary’s Church for a service at 10.15pm. n Help us raise money for the charity Crisis at our Christmas Fayre in St John’s Church, Charlton SP7 9LZ on Saturday, November 20 between 10am and noon.

There’s free tea, coffee and cakes, although donations welcome, whilst taking the chance to browse our range of gifts and home-made cakes.

Just off the A30 before you go into Ludwell and easy parking is available at the Remembrance Hall car park. n A Christmas crafts and artisan coffee morning will be held at Kington Magna church on Saturday, November 13 from 10am-12noon.

All are welcome.

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CAR BOOT SALE every Sunday 12pm -3pm Wincanton Sports Ground, Moor Lane, BH9 9RB (now moved from Yeovil Showground) Cars/Trailers/Vans £5 for as much room as required. Gate opens at 10am - room for 300 sellers - £1 public car parking strictly no buyers before 12pm.

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The New Blackmore Vale Our Advertising deadlines for this Christmas New Blackmore Vale, edition of 24th December, booking and copy deadline is Monday 13th December at 4pm for display advertising New Stour and Avon, edition of 31st December, booking and copy deadline is Friday 17th December at 4pm for display advertising

The New Stour & Avon BLANDFORD & STURMINSTER NEWTON CATS PROTECTION VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We are looking for volunteers to help with a variety of roles including indoor fosterers.

You will need to live in DT10/11 and SP7/8 or BH21 postcode areas.

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n Stalbridge History Society will be hosting a talk on women’s suffrage in Dorset on Saturday, November 20, which is not only of topical interest but involves a Dorset name. Karen Hunt has been Professor of Modern British History at Keele University for ten years, and is well-known nationally and internationally for having a long-term special interest in promoting women’s history and the role of women in society, especially in politics.

One of her projects has been to throw light on the history of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Dorset. Her Stalbridge talk will be entitled Women’s Suffrage in Dorset – Forgotten Stories.

Prof Hunt’s link with Dorset is that she retired to Bridport where she is now chairman of the Bridport Museum Trust. She was instrumental in researching a recent exhibition at the museum entitled Home Front which looked at the role of women in rallying the war effort in the First World War. Doors open 10.30am, talk at 11am.

Congregational Church, Station Road, Stalbridge. Non-members welcome. stalbridgehistory@gmail.com. n The next meeting of Gillingham Local History Society is on November 16 at the Methodist Church Hall at 2.30pm. Robert Wellen will talk about Bellringers and Gravestones.

Robert is the current Master of the Salisbury Diocesan Guild of Ringers.

In 2019 he compiled a Great War Memorial Booklet to record the details of the church bell ringers from the Diocese of Salisbury known to have died in the First World War. During the lockdown, his walks through the Gillingham Cemetery inspired him to write accounts of the human stories behind some of the gravestones..

Donations from non-members appreciated. gillinghammuseum.co.uk

n The Castle Cary Cafe Scientifique’s next event is on December 14 at 7pm at the Market House. Café Sci offers free monthly talks and debates about the latest thinking in science and technology from researchers and experts – all in an informal café-style setting.

The talks are aimed at anyone who would like to know more about science, and you can take a glass of wine or cup of coffee and join in the debate.

December’s speaker is ;The guru of nodig gardening;, successful organic farmer, author, educator and broadcaster Charles Dowding. His talk is entitled Can Science Help Us to Garden Better?

Charles explores how plants themselves might teach us about the processes that have occurred under the soil and asks: ‘Is this science?’ More details from Colleen Bower on 07375 890751 or email to tcolleenbower@gmail.com. n Socially Connecting Shaftesbury: Find out about mental health and wellbeing support and activities on Tuesday, November 16 at Open House, Father’s House, Christy’s Lane (10am-2pm) and on Thursday, November 18 (2pm-6pm) and Friday 19 (2pm-7pm) at the Town Hall. Come and talk to Mental Health North Dorset Help and Peer Support, Rural Mental Health Matters and many other guests. Socially Connecting Shaftesbury is a lottery-funded free dropin project for all things connected to mental health and wellbeing. mentalhealthnd.org/ socially-connectingshaftesbury n The Balsam Centre in Wincanton, a charity whose focus is to support the mental and physical well-being of the local community, will be holding a winter fair on Saturday, November 13 at Wincanton Racecourse, with all profits going to the centre.

This is the centre’s first fair since the lockdowns. Doors open at 10am.

Do you love a walk in stunning countryside without a house in view? Join a small team of like-minded walkers to help on a private pheasant shoot, make new friends, enjoy a free three course lunch with wine, take home a brace of pheasants and come to the summer Bar-B-Q party of spit roast lamb? Call 07973 664 524

THE SWANS TRUST AGM The AGM will be held at Saint Peter’s Church Hall at 6pm on 17th November.

All members welcome to attend.

CHRISTMAS BINGO. Monday 22nd November Doors 7.00pm Start 7.45pm Vicarage schoolrooms Gillingham Carnival Committee

JUMBLE SALE 2-4PM Saturday 27 November at The Scout Hall Blackberry Lane Sherborne DT9 4DE £1 entry fee. In aid of 1st Sherborne Scout Group

MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS FOOD & CRAFT FAIR, Sunday 28th November at Riversmeet Leisure Centre from 10-4. Family friendly event, Free Entry.

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TACK SALE, Sun 21st Nov. Marnhull village hall Sellers 8.30, £10, buyers from 9.1512.30. Craft stalls welcome. Call Steph 07773 795697.

LYN’S BINGO At Marnhull Royal British Legion on 22nd November, eyes down at 7PM JUMBLE SALE for Scout Group. 2.30pm Saturday 20th November. Scout Community Hall, Milton on Stour, Gillingham SP85QD. 50p entry. Covid safeguarding measures will be applied.

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Sylvia’s in the market for donations to her charities fundraiser A Blandford woman is raising money for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance and the town’s foodbank with a table at the weekly market in the Corn Exchange on November 25, from 8am to 2pm.

Sylvia Gray runs regular stalls at the

market and twice a year she does a special fundraising stall.

She would like food items for hampers on the tombola and items to sell, which she will split between the two charities.

She said: “I’m going to split the takings with the foodbank this time, because

it’s quite exceptional. It’s not just a foodbank it’s cheerful, it’s happy.

“There’s a gentleman who brings in flowers from his allotment, another brings eggs from his farm.”

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It’s full steam ahead for show in 2022

By Miranda Robertson Steam fair fans who were left bitterly disappointed after two years of cancellations are celebrating its welcome return next year.

The Great Dorset Steam Show’s MD Martin Oliver announced the event will definitely go ahead in 2022, after being cancelled in 2020 and 2021.

The news was greeted with an absolute outpouring of joy on Facebook, with 600 comments racked up in less than an hour.

One commenter, KD Johnson, said: “Great News!

“This annual event is one of,

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if not the, highlight of my year and I have missed it dreadfully.”

And John Mitchell said: “Excellent news Great Dorset Steam Fair – just the news we have been waiting to hear.”

Martin said: “We are delighted to be sharing this news with you after what has

been a very long and difficult 18 months for us all.

“The show dates will be August 25-29.

“We are so grateful to all of you that have held your tickets (and camping) over from the 2020 show and I am pleased to confirm that these will be re-issued to you electronically this afternoon

with all of the new dates on them for next year.”

New tickets and camping for the 2022 show went on sale this week and the directors are expecting demand to be high. Martin added: “I am confident that it will be a great success.

“We have all missed the steam fair massively these past two years and it will be wonderful to see you all back at Tarrant Hinton next August. May I take this opportunity of thanking everyone for their continued support.” n See facebook.com/Great DorsetSteamFair or gdsf.co.uk

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TRES BIEN: Chilmark Primary School pupils at their French day

Formidable! Pupils enjoy French day Elm Class at Chilmark Primary School had a French Day just before the half term break.

The children came dressed in red, white and blue and made replicas of the Eiffel Tower.

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assistant Mrs Farrant set up a café and the children placed their orders in French. Pain au chocolat was a firm favourite and everyone agreed it was a fun day and great to practice the French they have been learning.

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A couple who have been at the heart of the Leigh community for three decades are retiring to spend more time with their grandchildren in the magnificent Blackmore Vale countryside.

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FREE PARKING ALL DAY 27TH NOVEMBER 10 a.m. onwards – Craft Market at The Exchange, Anonymous Travelling Market with a range of goods. William Barnes School Choir will be performing outside Poets Corner.

Rudolf and her Reindeers will be cycling from Stur to Bere Marsh and back in time to great Father Christmas and the Lantern Parade. Book a place with dilysgartside@gmail.com

From 1 December keep your eyes open for Christmas Angels appearing around town….for you to take home to keep, give a name to, and if you like, bring to the Christingle Service at St. Mary’s Church, 4.00 p.m. on Christmas Eve afternoon.

The Car and Bike enthusiasts will be meeting as usual in the Station Road Car Park on Saturday 4th December (weather permitting) – bring your pride and joy or just come to admire.

4th December is also Small Business Saturday so shop local and look out for special offers.

(Free parking) And from 4th December to 18th December take part in the SturShops quiz to win a hamper – pick up a form from The Emporium, the Exchange, Holebrooks Fine Foods or Hansons

Father Christmas will be in the White Hart Stable Yard to meet children during the afternoon

10th and 11th December “Christmas at the Opera” raising money for The Exchange and the Pantry.

4.30 p.m. Lantern Parade from The Exchange to the Market Place

Join the Santa Stride on 12th December along the Trailway.

5.00 p.m. Christmas Tree Lights Switch on in the Market place by Paul Young and Jamie Moses of Los Pacaminos, helped by Father Christmas. Los Pacominos are appearing at The Exchange that evening.

St Mary’s Church Carol Service on 19th December .

Afterwards – music and carols in the Market Place.

the Bridge Garage and Petrol Station in 1989, moving from Sussex with their daughters Stephanie, then 11 years old, nineyear-old Gemma and Cobby the springer spaniel, to take on the car repair garage, petrol station and shop, on November 30 – almost 32 years ago to the day.

Brenda said: “The shop was built

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Free parking on the 27th December Other news no longer needed goods have been turned into a defibrillator on the outside of The Emporium classes are being offered both on how to use it and also how to do CPR. the income from the community shops has paid for the Level Crossing Gates at the Trailway entrance, putting up the small Christmas trees around town and other Christmas event expenses.

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couple are set to retire

BUSY: Brenda on the phone in the shop and, below, with Steve

as a car showroom and when we first arrived, it was home to a vintage Vauxhall, numerous cans of oil and motoring goods along with a few drinks and sweets.”

Less than a year later, Brenda took on the Post Office in August, 1990.

“The current Post Mistress Gwen Gosney decided she would like to retire as she was 88 years young.

“Her father had run the post office before her. I have gradually

expanded the shop over the years and Steve has kept everyone’s vehicles running smoothly, which is most essential as we have no bus service in Leigh.

“We served petrol until 2011, but sadly it was no longer viable to replace the outdated pumps and tanks.”

NEW BROOM: Sica Burton reopened the shop on Brenda secured a loyal team over Monday after a refit the years. Former Little Bredy postmistress the late Gill Wills worked in the Leigh branch once a week and took charge while Brenda holidayed. Beverley Berry helped in the shop. The couple made a great many good friends.

Brenda added: “It has been a wonderful place for our girls to grow up and we have very much enjoyed being part of the community.”

Former wedding photographer and videographer Sica (Jessica) Burton has lived in the village almost six years and during the first lockdown developed her own Tapas Takeaway.

Sica said: “I quickly realised Contemporary or traditional there is a need and want for food kitchens manufactured to order and convenience for people and when Brenda announced she was retiring I thought that this was too Gillingham Showroom good an opportunity to miss.

01747 833 789 “The shop is a lifeline for me and everyone in the village. I have Unit 21, some of the skills but definitely Kingsmead Business Park, the passion and enthusiasm to Gillingham, Dorset SP8 5JG take it on.”

Sica will be stocking the shop Opening Hours with fruits and vegetables, meat Monday–Friday: 9am–5pm and dairy and she is applying for by appointment only. a licence to be able to sell Closed Saturday & Sunday. alcohol. There will be a coffee shop within the shop for coffee, www.solsticekitchens.co.uk tea and cakes and pastries.

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Trading Playboy glimpses for frogs, The renowned international explorer COLONEL JOHN BLASHFORD SNELL writes for the New Blackmore Vale magazine As adventure training officer at Sandhurst, my job was to despatch officer cadets around the globe during the long summer vacation on worthwhile projects for the benefit of their characters and the least possible detriment to the Empire, as the Commandant put it.

Scanning the world map in my office (labelled Training Area), Ethiopia seemed a suitably wild land to take a party of cadets on a zoological quest.

A letter from my godfather, who knew the Emperor, resulted in an invitation from the King of Kings, Elect of God and Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

Thus in 1965 60 wellarmed, budding zoologists set out to enhance the natural history collections of the British Museum.

I recall a particular quest for a rare species of mongoose believed to exist in the South of the country.

Reaching the end of the trail we left our Land Rovers and proceeded on foot. Two army drivers would remain with them and I guessed that as soon as we disappeared they would be off sunbathing.

To keep them gainfully occupied, I handed out two large plastic tubs and indicated a nearby mosquito-ridden swamp.

“The museum is in urgent need of small green frogs.

By the time I return I expect

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these to be full,” I said.

“Sir,” they replied, in a tone verging on dumb insolence.

Three days later, having collected the mongoose, we marched into camp and, as expected, the soldiers were dozing in the shade.

“Frogs,” I bellowed. “In tub,” said one. To my astonishment both containers were crammed with writhing green reptiles.

the expedition that I discovered their method.

They would go to a village with a copy of Playboy. As soon as the local men had gathered round, they would open the centre pages and permit a quick peep, and then say ‘Three frogs, one look’. Thus encouraged, the natives would rush off to collect frogs.

On our return to Addis Ababa, we were invited to meet His Imperial Majesty and report on our quest. The invitation was extended to everybody, and I wondered whether the court realised just how many we were. Protocol demanded one bowed to the Emperor three times. Once on entry, again halfway up the red carpet and finally when right before him. On leaving his

‘Bow down, look between your legs: You can see lions’ ‘How on earth did you do it?’ ‘Oh, was nuffin’ really, just a bit of hard work,’ they replied with assumed modesty.

Much impressed, I recommended them for promotion! It was long after

presence one had to repeat the process in reverse. No problem, you may think, for well-drilled officer cadets, but Haile Selassie had his pet lions roaming the throne room and I could imagine a terrible incident that might result if a cadet, walking backwards, should fall over one of the royal beasts.

I consulted Tommy, an Ethiopian working at the British Embassy, who said: “You will notice that we cast ourselves down very low when bowing to the Emperor, pressing our foreheads upon the carpet.”

“Steady on,” I said, “we’re British you know – a stiff little bow is all that is usually required.”

“I’m not suggesting you be obsequious,” replied Tommy, “but if you cast yourself down low you can look between your legs and see the lions lurking behind you.”

By this means 60 officer cadets and two ladies in skirts successfully entered

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HOP IT: Trading frogs with glimpses of a Playboy magazine and, left, John Blashford-Snell presents His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie with the Chihuahua, Lulu

and left the presence of His Imperial Majesty.

The next meeting with the Emperor came in 1968 following an even more epic expedition, when at his royal request, a team of servicemen and scientists, pioneered the use of inflatable boats to make the first descent of the uncharted

Blue Nile; then thought to be the last unexplored region in Africa.

As the Emperor was our patron, we felt we should take him a gift. Consulting the Minister at Court, I learned His Imperial Majesty’s favourite pet was a male Chihuahua named Lulu. Apparently his driver

had the same name which could cause confusion at feeding times. However it was suggested we present the Emperor with a mate for his pet. Thus I phoned Judith, my wife, enjoying peace and quiet at home, and requested she find an attractive chihuahua bitch and despatch it forthwith to Addis Ababa. For the princely sum of £50, a fortune in those day, she acquired Lulette.

So it was a red carpet rolled out as the Ethiopian Airlines plane halted and a sergeant of the Imperial Bodyguard, his pith helmet bedecked with a lion’s mane, carried a rather tired little dog into Ethiopia.

We just had time to give her a shampoo before being driven to the palace. Now came the march into the throne room. Although I had practised bowing low, it was

quite a challenge to do so whilst balancing a chihuahua on a silk cushion.

The King of King’s eyes lit up as he reached forward to accept our gift. “You could not have brought me anything nicer,” he said in perfect English and having lovingly hugged the little lady, put her down on the polished floor. Immediately an excited Lulu appeared, rushing over, as dogs do, to inspect the new arrival and as a result Lulette who could no longer restrain herself, delivered an enormous puddle. “Never mind,” smiled the Emperor, “it shows she is at home in my Empire”. Whereupon Lulette went behind the throne and dropped a rather large mess. “Now you must see my other pets,” said His Imperial Majesty, leading us into his garden. It was unfortunate that our lady manager was wearing a leopard skin patterned dress when she met the Emperor’s prize cheetah.

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Jacqueline’s prints have received worldwide acclaim and she is regarded as the country’s foremost Remembrance artist.

Jacqueline’s work can be viewed at poshoriginalart.co.uk For a chance to win The Last Post by Jacqueline Hurley, please answer the following question.

Which year did Jacqueline start painting her Remembrance Collection? Please email your answer to karen.bate@blackmorevale.net Finn, 16, created this tribute at the Big Yellow Bus project in Shillingstone

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Villager’s Remembrance poem wins prize A poet from Dewlish has scooped an international prize for his poem of Remembrance – which features all 21 names on the village war memorial.

In an awards ceremony in London, John Seymour was named the winner of the SAA

International Poetry Competition for his poem Lest We Forget.

This prestigious award attracted a great volume of entries from around the world from Thailand to the USA. The judges said: “The standard of entries was incredibly high

and it was a challenge for the judges to decide upon a winner.”

John, who served with H.M. Royal Marines is also the author of books, children’s stories and many other poems.

He said: “I passionately believe every generation must

understand the true cost of war and therefore the price paid by these men, such a high number from such a small community. It is an understanding we must ensure is passed on to those that come after us. That was the inspiration for this poem.”

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blackmorevale.net Dorset Wildlife Trust has announced a new partnership with Farewill, a provider of free online will writing services.

The trust’s members and supporters can now access free wills written online, or over the telephone, all year round.

To enable important conservation work to continue, Dorset Wildlife Trust relies on 25% of its work being funded through gifts in wills. Leaving a gift in your will is something extremely generous that you can do now, which will make a huge difference to the future of Dorset’s wildlife.

Leaving just 1% to Dorset Wildlife Trust in your will makes a significant impact and means your loved ones still receive 99%. There is no obligation for members to leave a gift to Dorset Wildlife Trust when taking up this offer, but they say: “We are always honoured when members choose to support the future of Dorset’s wildlife in this way.”

Hannah Filer, the trust’s legacy and grants officer, said: “Legacy fundraising is vital to the trust and plays a significant part in enabling us to conserve

ONLY NATURAL: A red squirrel photographed by Bertie Gregory

How to ensure wildlife goes on after your own passing Dorset’s precious wildlife, helping fund work on our nature reserves and at our centres. For supporters who decide to leave a gift to Dorset Wildlife Trust, no matter how

large or small, comfort can be taken in knowing that their legacy will help our wildlife for many years to come.”

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online will can be written with them in as little as 30 minutes.

Supporters can find more details and links to begin the simple process at dorsetwildlife trust.org.uk/gifts_in_wills.

Skate park to benefit from popular Christmas pop-up sale A popular Christmas pop-up sale is back in Bruton on Friday, November 26 from 9am-4pm.

The festive shopping event will raise funds for the BruBowl, Bruton’s new skate park initiative.

The Somerset Collective, a unique pop-up event showcasing the best of Somerset’s small independent businesses while raising money for local charities, returns to At The Chapel this year.

Originally launched in 2015 by Nicky Mendoza-Wilson, owner of the Rose & Lyons boutique in Bruton, and her business partner Gemma Bond, The Somerset Collective hosts regular pop-up sales offering a range of products from food and drink, toys, accessories, bath and skincare to fashion, artworks, stationery and homewares. All stallholders are small, independent businesses based in the South West, many with a sustainable approach to their business and products.

More than 20 independent stall-

holders will be offering a range of festive gift items including handcrafted, fragrant soaps by Bath & Still, sustainable hand-made chocolates by Popachoc, unique hand-thrown pottery homewares from Stephanie Geyl Pottery and natural herbal tea infusions designed especially for the female body by Wild Women Tea Club.

A total of 10% of proceeds will be donated to the BruBowl, an initiative to create a new skate park for Bruton, accommodating skateboards, bikes, scooters, blades and skates.

Henry Brook from the BruBowl said: “The BruBowl skate park will provide a much-needed outdoor space where local people can get outdoors to socialise, exercise and have fun.

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Pop-up sale to help bereavement charity A Christmas pop-up sale is being held in Ilminster to raise funds for The Rosie Crane Trust, supporting bereaved parents.

The Somerset Collective, will organise the event, showcasing the best of Somerset’s small independent businesses while raising money for local charities in Ilminster on Sunday, November 14 and Monday, November 1 at Jordans Courtyard from 10am-4pm.

Originally launched in 2015 by Nicky Mendoza-Wilson and her business partner Gemma Bond, The Somerset Collective originated in Bruton, hosting regular pop-up sales offering a range of products from food and

drink, toys, accessories, bath and skincare to fashion, artworks, stationery and homewares.

Taking over the reins in 2018, organiser Jess Hyde expanded the sales to further venues. All stallholders are small, independent businesses based in the South West, many with a sustainable approach to their business and products.

With 10% of all sales donated to charities The Somerset Collective has raised more than £9,000 for causes including We Hear You, Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance, Yeovil Hospital Maternity Unit, Lisa’s Army, The Nelson Trust, Alzheimer’s Society, The British Legion and The Rosie Crane Trust.

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Jordans Courtyard farm shed will be transformed into a lively undercover Christmas Market, with additional stallholders set up in the adjacent stone Yoga Barn and also the Gift Barn. Prebookable craft workshops for Christmas door-wreaths and mantlepiece garlands will be held at The Cottage Garden at Jordans Courtyard, with refreshments served throughout at the venue’s Old Calf Shed

Café.

Carol Crane, founder of the Rosie Crane Trust, said: “We’re enormously grateful to The Somerset Collective and Jordans Courtyard for their donation to The Rosie Crane Trust. Earlier this year, the Somerset Collective pop-up at Jordan’s Courtyard raised more than £2,000 for the Trust, helping to support our Listening Ear Helpline, Drop-In Centres, Befriending Service and counselling for thousands of bereaved parents.” n thesomerset collective.co.uk

THANKS: Howard Wills, director of Towers Wills, David Hayes, chairman Friends of the Yeatman Hospital and Hamish Dalziel of Towers Wills

Agents’ gift for Friends The first of many donations from new Sherborne estate agents Tower Wills was presented to the Friends of Yeatman Hospital.

Tower Wills director Howard Wills gave £100 to the chairman of the charity arm, and said: “This is the first of what we intend to be many donations to the

Friends of the Yeatman Hospital. We are delighted to be in Sherborne which is a wonderful vibrant town.

“We support local charities wherever we operate and as the Friends charity is at an essential part of the town’s history and its future it is most appropriate that we support it.”

Volunteers wanted at Abbey Volunteers are urgently needed at Sherborne Abbey during lunchtime on Sundays between noon and 2pm.

If you feel that you would be able to help out, even if only occasionally, please do get in touch with the churchwarden Jonathan Rodd on 01935 389480.

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READY TO GO: The nine new volunteers at Home-Start are now ready to get out into the community

Nine volunteers start for Home-Start: Could you be next?

Nine new volunteers have just completed their Home-Start preparation course, having received training in active listening, safeguarding children, boundaries when working with families, child development and play.

They are now ready to be matched

with a local family needing some extra help.

If you have a child under five and need help Home-Start may be able to support you. Call Jamie on 07730 218436 or email jamie.keast@homestart-northdorset.co.uk, or Vix on 07730 218435 / vix.madel@home-

start-northdorset.co.uk or the office on 01258 473038.

A new course will be starting in the New Year so if you would like to know more about volunteering, would like to give a donation or become a business supporter, please contact the numbers above.

It’s no Secret: Ben’s a fundraising ace A 13-year-old Sherborne student has smashed not only his target hours for his Duke of Edinburgh award – he has also more than quadrupled his original fundraising goal.

Gryphon student Ben Molineux, from Templecombe, was asked to carry out 12 hours of volunteering for the bronze award at the rate of at least one hour per week for three months.

Instead, he has spent more than 50 hours raising money for Somerset’s Secret World Wildlife Rescue, and raised more than £1,000.

Ben has been collecting donated items and selling them at car boot sales, as well as collecting donations from the local community.

He has set up a Just giving account with an initial fundraising target of £250, which he later changed to £1,000. After an appeal on social media for items to sell, Ben spent time collecting

TOP WORK: Ben Molineux with David Plant of Secret World

donations, sorting them, and selling them to raise much needed funds. Ben also handmade popular dog toys by upcycling fleece blankets and created bags of dog biscuits, hay, straw, and bird seed to sell. He created several upcycled bird feeders, using unwanted ceramic items, to sell locally.

The final amount raised is awaiting confirmation by Secret World due to several collection tins waiting to be added up by the team.

Although the final amount is yet to be revealed, as of today the total on Ben’s Just giving account (justgiving. com/fundraising/benmolineux) is £1,092. One of

the car boot sales raised an astounding £263.

Ben has decided to continue fundraising and being an advocate for Secret World Wildlife Rescue. He has set up a permanent information point and collection tin in his local café in Templecombe, the Jasmine & Bay. The café also sold maps of the village designed by Ben’s mum to raise more funds.

Ben successfully completed a Wildlife First Aid course during September, in a step towards become a wildlife first responder when he turns 18.

During half-term Ben met with the fundraising manager and a team of volunteer wildlife keepers. He spent time with the birds of prey and resident wildlife, followed by a tour of the newly built wildlife hospital at their East Huntspill site.

Secret World rewarded Ben with a hedgehog adoption to say thank you.

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Scholarship honour for rising music star Tom WELL PLAYED: Tom Sheppard with Professor Ryan Lavelle of Winchester University

An exceptional teenage musician from Sturminster Marshall has won the 2021 Dee Butterfield Scholarship for Young People and plans to put his scholarship towards a new saxophone.

Tom Sheppard, 17, stunned the Mackrell Charity Memorial with his lecture on The Battle of Hastings who awarded him the title and £250.

Tom said: “I have always loved music so I jumped at an opportunity to learn the saxophone.

“Seven years later, I’m still enjoying it and have found it an excellent way to relieve stress from schoolwork.

“I am incredibly thankful for the Dee Butterfield Scholarship.”

Tom, is involved in a number of school bands and has participated in many performances, including

playing at the Swanage Jazz Festival.

Katy Norman from the Mackrell Charity said: “Tom is a talented and committed musician and the charity is delighted to be able to make a contribution to the future of this aspiring young man.”

The annual scholarship was set up in memory of Dee Butterfield, the charity’s former president and inspiration, to provide an opportunity for a young person to pursue a personal ambition. Young people aged between 11 and 19 who live near the town, are encouraged to apply for the award next year.

Applications must be received by midnight June 30, 2022, and should be sent to: The Mackrell Charity, c/o The Old School, Church Street, Sturminster Marshall, BH21 4BU.

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CHEERS ALL ROUND: Volunteers at This is Alfred celebrate their success at the Community Radio Awards

We all love This is Alfred – Shaftesbury’s excellent daily podcast.

Now a panel of radio experts have agreed, pronouncing the 40-minute Alfred Daily broadcasts the best in the UK. The daily online broadcast, launched to keep people in Shaftesbury and surrounding villages connected during the pandemic, took the gold award in the podcast of the year category at the Community Radio Awards in Coventry.

The judges said the Alfred Daily had “a hyper-local appeal, giving a real sense of place and community,” and that, “each episode stands as a beautifully crafted documentary.”

The honour recognises the work undertaken by around 80 local volunteers who contribute to the broadcasts.

A new episode has been made each day since March

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Soon the Alfred Daily podcast and a new selection of programmes of information and conversation aimed at the Shaftesbury area will be available to a wider audience.

Alfred was awarded an FM community radio licence by Ofcom before the pandemic.

The not-for-profit community radio station will start broadcasting using an aerial on top of the Trinity tower soon, on 107.3 FM. The transmission site, at 770 feet above sea level, will send Alfred’s FM radio signal for miles.

But the service will remain devoted to Shaftesbury and surrounding villages of

Melbury, Compton, Fontmell, The Donheads, Semley, Ludwell, Berwick and Motcombe.

Managing editor of Alfred, Keri Jones, is delighted by the award.

“All of our team are volunteers,” he said. “None of us is paid.

“And we will continue to operate on an entirely voluntary basis even when the FM radio station comes on the air.

“Our regular helpers record interviews and make programmes reflecting local news events, North Dorset history and local nature.

They do this purely because we’re passionate about our area.

“To be told that our

broadcast is the best in its class by a group of radio experts has motivated our team.

“But even more gratifying has been the dozens of congratulatory messages and kind comments from hundreds of members of our community who have learned of our award.

Without Shaftesbury and Motcombe’s support, we would be nothing.”

Alfred is currently training additional volunteers ready for the launch of the FM radio service. Anyone living in the SP7 postcode area is invited to get involved in the project. Email hello@ThisIsAlfred.com.

Listen to the broadcasts at ThisIsAlfred.com.

Community volunteers up for prize as Rotary take charge Shaftesbury Rotary have taken over the Caldwell Award after the civic society folded – and they are urging people to nominate their local organisation or group for recognition.

The club is looking for organisations and groups who have given up their time to volunteer to help the community of Shaftesbury during the past 12 months.

The winner will be awarded the Shaftesbury Rotary Caldwell Award 2021, they will get £50 and a certificate of appreciation.

Nominations should be sent to hello@ shaftesburyrotaryclub.org.

When making your nomination please provide: 1) the name of the group/organisation; 2) why the group/organisation should get the

award; 3) your name and email address; and 4) if the group has helped you, how? The closing date for nominations is November 21. One organisation/ group will be chosen. The winner will be announced in December.

Previous winners of the award were This is Alfred in 2020, Shaftesbury Snowdrop in 2019 and Shaftesbury’s Hilltop Litter Pickers in 2018.

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What are the benefits of leaving a gift to a charity in your Will?

The Battens Charitable Trust was set up in 1985 by Battens Solicitors to help local charities across Somerset and Dorset. Since then the BCT has donated more than half a million pounds to deserving causes, and during the recent pandemic it was also proud to play its part by increasing donations to local food banks and supporting key workers at hospitals in the south west region. Many of those donations were a result of people gifting money through a Will. But what are the benefits of donating to charity in your Will? Head of Private Client Naomi Dyer explains: Many charities such as the Battens Charitable Trust rely on the generous and kind hearted donations from people who want to make a real difference to their local communities. But there are unexpected benefits if you choose to donate. Not only is a gift to charity free of inheritance tax (IHT), should you gift over 10% of your estate to charity and your estate is still subject to IHT, it will be charged at 36%, rather than the usual 40%.

particular asset, such as a shareholding or a house, or you can leave them a percentage of your estate.

Can you leave your entire estate to a charity? Can this be disputed?

In this country we have ‘testamentary freedom’, which means you are free to leave your estate to anyone you wish, including leaving everything to charity. However, potentially family members, anyone you have cohabited with over 2 years, and anyone who was financially dependent on you could make a claim against your estate under the Inheritance (Provision for Family & Dependents) Act 1975. Whether they are successful or not will depend on the circumstances.

How is your donation passed onto your chosen charity after your death?

Your Executor will need to account to a charity for your gift once they have access to your funds and after various deadlines have passed. This is usually after they have obtained a Grant of Probate which can take What are the different types of legacy you some months. In any event, they should can leave to a charity? if possible account to the charity within You can leave a fixed sum of money, a one year of the date of death, otherwise

‘statutory interest’ is added to any fixed sum of money left to a charity (but not a share of your estate). This is known as the ‘Executors’ Year’.

How can a solicitor help you include a donation to a charity in your Will and ensure your wishes are carried out?

A solicitor can advise you on the best way to leave a gift to a charity. There are different implications for leaving either fixed sums of money, specific assets or a share of your estate and the procedures after your death and any costs associated with administering them will be different. So it is important that you take professional advice. The solicitor can also advise you on the IHT implications of leaving a gift to charity.

Battens Solicitors For more information, please contact Naomi Dyer on 01935 811307 email at naomi.dyer@battens.co.uk

If you would like to make a donation, leave a legacy to the Battens Charitable Trust or apply for a grant, please contact the Trust team by emailing: bct@battens.co.uk or by calling 01935 811304

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WHEEL OF FORTUNE: Work at Lordsmead Mill at Mere

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Restoration project ensures there’s no trouble at mill The water wheel at Lordsmead Mill in Mere will once again be driven by the River Shreen on its way to the River Stour following its restoration.

The wheel dates back to 1899, when it was cast by ES Hindley in Bourton, and up until the 1950s provided the water for Mere Down Farm, using ¾

of a horsepower to action a triple action pump, considered advanced for its time.

Mill owner Stephen Burroughs funded the works, which were carried out by Jeff Paul, who has refurbished the wheel to ‘the highest of standards’.

George Jeans said: “Stephen has in the

last 20 months or more, installed a mini turbine as a renewable power source, now he has had the smaller wheel reinstated. Paul Millard, who runs a local firm, steered the wheel into position with his transporter.

“Lordsmead Mill is a very attractive local destination.”

Scheme for 200 homes goes to appeal

By Karen Bate Developers wanting to build 200 houses on the field rising above Castle Cary railway station have taken the plan to appeal.

A public inquiry held by the Planning Inspectorate has already begun at Caryford Hall in Ansford, between November 9-12 and November 24.

Wyke Farms and Hopkins Development submitted joint plans in 2019 for new homes on the A371 on Station Road, just south of the town’s Victorian railway station.

The community reacted to the scheme with fury and both Castle Cary Town Council and Ansford Town Council, along with the CPRE, the countryside

charity objected, citing the significant and demonstrable negative impact on the landscape environment of the Brue Valley and the loss of visual amenity from nearby vantage points.

A spokesperson said: “The green field site is beyond the natural boundary of Ansford and Castle Cary marked by the A371 at Ansford Hill and is not in the direction of growth for the town established in the Local Plan of which the joint Neighbourhood Plan, passed by an overwhelming local referendum vote, forms part.

“Castle Cary and Ansford were allocated a target of at least 374 dwellings in the Local Plan, but over 600 have been built or approved so far. A further 200 built on a green field site would mean

significant over-provision.”

Local residents are concerned about the impact on infrastructure – education, roads, medical, dental, the traffic conditions on Ansford Hill and the additional phosphate discharge into the Somerset Levels.

South Somerset District Council refused planning permission, stating the homes would ‘create a highly conspicuous scar on the landscape’.

Local residents are being encouraged to attend the Inquiry to show their concern.

The chair of Castle Cary Town Council, Judi Morison, said: “People in Castle Cary do not want to see the beautiful Brue Valley, the setting of our delightful market town, encumbered

with a 200-house development on a green field site, especially as we already have greatly exceeded our allocation of new houses.

This scheme is outside the planned direction of growth for the town and is a step too far.”

A CPRE spokesman said: “We oppose the development as do the local Town Council and we will be speaking up at the appeal. We are concerned about the landscape impact on Castle Cary and damage to the setting of the Victorian railway station. In our view, this development represents unacceptable urban sprawl outside the direction of growth of this market town.”

To sign the petition against the plan, go to cpresomerset.org.uk

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Lest we forget: Ceremony for Legion appeal A special ceremony was held at the War Memorial at Sherborne Abbey to mark the launch of the Royal British Legion’s Centenary Poppy Appeal.

A traditional two minutes’ silence was observed before the centenary wreath was laid by Sherborne Mayor Anne Hall and chairman of the Sherborne & District Branch of the Royal British Legion, Dave Bows.

Dave said: “We are always on the look out for new members so that we can indeed take the branch forward. You do not have to have been a serving member of the Armed Forces, so please ring for a chat.”

Ring Dave on 01935 389 272 or 07967 583312. REMEMBERING: RBL chairman Dave Bows and Sherborne Mayor Anne Hall

Euthanasia group to hold first meeting

By Miranda Robertson A new group pushing for law reform on euthanasia is planning to hold its first meeting in a couple of weeks.

The Wessex Group of My Death, My Decision will meet on Saturday, November 27 at the Rising Sun pub on the A30 just outside Shaftesbury.

Supporters will meet from 11am-12.30pm and chat about the issues around assisted dying, which the organisation wants put before parliament for reconsideration.

Director Claire Macdonald said: “We need to convince parliament to look at this again, and local campaigning

n YouGov, which has conducted the opinion survey, found that 73% of respondents think the law should be changed to allow doctors to assist in the suicide of someone suffering from a terminal illness. There was also support for a change in the law to allow doctors to assist in the death of someone suffering from a painful and incurable but not terminal illness.

Among the general public, 50% backed such a move with 23% opposed.

Among MPs, only 16% were in favour, and 51% opposed.

can be so important.

“It’s a justice issue because some people can’t afford the £10-15,000 it costs to go to Switzerland.

“Loads of jurisdictions around the world now allow this and the sky hasn’t fallen in. Yet here if a person does accompany someone to Switzerland for an assisted death they could face 40 years in prison for assisting a suicide.”

She added: “Since there was last a vote on this, evidence from counties such as Germany, Canada and Spain

show that the fears of a ‘slippery slope’ and coercion of vulnerable people are not borne out.”

Anyone interested in hearing what the group is all about should email to book a place – Claire’s anxious that there’s enough cake to go around.

Claire said: “At the meeting people will share their personal stories and learn about making an advanced decision to refuse treatment, which is a legally binding document.

“We’re very bad about

talking about end-of-life choice in this country.”

My Death, My Decision is a not-for-profit organisation, which is wholly funded by supporters.

Local campaigners are asked to contact their MP and help with fundraising.

Last week the House of Lords debated Baroness Meacher’s Bill on changing the law to permit assisted dying. And a recent poll commissioned by My Death, My Decision shows most MPs now support a change in the law, says Claire.

Go to mydeathmydecision.org.uk to find out more, and email claire.macdonald@mydeathmydecision.org.uk to book a place.

Parish council left with one member after another quits A fourth resignation from Winterborne Whitechurch Parish Council has left only one member serving, and unable to act on behalf of the parish.

Following the resignations in September of chairman Emma Park, vice-chairman

Aideene Turley and Steven Pringle, and an invitation to call for an election by October 14, no such call was received.

On that date, a further notice of vacancy was published announcing the resignation of Martyn Gleaden, leaving

only Liam Deeney in post.

Electors on this occasion were given until November 3 to call for an election to be held no later than January 10.

In the absence of a call for election, the vacancies can be filled by adoption, but for

the time being, responsibility has been delegated to the Chief Executive of Dorset Council, in consultation with political group leaders and the local member, to make temporary co-options so that the parish council can continue to function.

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Last push for new cancer unit

Green heating for school St Gregory’s in Marnhull is the first school in Dorset to have a ground source heat pump installed.

Work is already underway and MP Simon Hoare went to chat to the installers Nadder Energy to learn more.

A new breast cancer unit at Yeovil Hospital is within months of being built, thanks to an enormous effort to raise £2million.

Fundraising has now nudged over £1,900,000 and now supporters are giving it one last, huge push to seal the deal, and provide a desperately needed, state-of-the-art unit to treat one of our most prevalent cancers.

Appeal committee member Maggie Hague would love to hear from anybody with unwanted and broken jewellery they would like to donate, after jewellery sales ramped up the total.

The trinkets are being sold by Acreman Antiques in Sherborne.

It is hoped building will start in the new year. The target is still at least £2 million plus, so with this in mind the charity is still collecting unwanted and broken jewellery and watches to raise money to achieve the amount

needed.

Maggie said: “The unit is so needed and will be such an asset to Yeovil Hospital and the breast cancer team.”

Breast care services at Yeovil Hospital are currently spread around the hospital, which means that patients need to move around and undress in multiple locations.

A dedicated unit next to the Women’s Hospital will allow patients to have a biopsy, a mammogram, an ultrasound and a consultation all in one place.

And there will be space for difficult conversations, a dedicated waiting area away from the rest of the hospital and a meeting room for support groups and wellbeing activities.

If you can help, or if you have jewellery to donate, contact Maggie on 01963 250108. There is also a JustGiving page at justgiving.com/ campaign/breastcancerappeal.

Lost for words? Not us, say Scribblers An entertaining book, In a Matter of Words, has been penned by a group of writers in Sherborne, The Scribblers, and has hit the shelves to raise money for the recently converted Tin Chapel.

The Scribblers of Sherborne formed almost a decade ago for like-minded amateur writers to meet regularly to share ideas and skills. The 12-strong group is made up of mainly retirees whose diverse backgrounds fuel original and entertaining story telling.

Over the years, the group has written themed assignments, one being selected each month for publication in The Sherborne Times.

And the Scribblers kept writing these assignments during the pandemic. For a few, this was the extent of their literary output whilst some, already published authors, battled to finish work formerly consigned to a pending tray, including novels and other genres.

Former chairman Mark

DOING ALL WRITE: Scribblers James Stubbs, Jan Garner, Malcolm Cockburn, Mark Milbank, Bill Bennette, Sue Cameron, Peter Ludgate

Milbank said: “Having reached the stage where, at a rough estimate, The Scribblers had written more than 1,000 stories, the initiative was taken to produce a volume of their collective work. Still in the time of the third lockdown, this was collated by a team of three via Zoom meetings

and email, the group being unable to meet at their usual venue, The Studio Theatre, courtesy of The Amateur Players of Sherborne.

Spawned as the threat of the virus diminished, the group did much to keep one another sane during the isolation of the pandemic, appreciating how picking up

a pen and starting to scribble had a cathartic effect even in the most challenging of times.”

In A Matter of Words is 160 pages, boasting 45 of the group’s best stories sprinkled with a few poems and is available from Winstone’s Book Shop, Cheap Street, Sherborne priced at £9.99.

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Our Loose Canon...

with Canon Eric Woods DL

Why we must remember the past In two days’ time, millions will gather in churches and at war memorials up and down the country.

It will be Remembrance Sunday, and we will commemorate all the fallen in war – and not just from the great conflicts. Since the Second World War there has been only one year – 1968 – in which British servicemen and women have not died in the cause of peace. They, and all the civilian dead too, must be remembered.

Remembering is important.

When in 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, he immediately carried out a purge of all those teaching in Germany’s schools and universities. And the very first departments he purged were not those of chemistry, physics or technology, as you might imagine, but those of history, philosophy and theology. He realised much

more clearly than many people do today, that those who control our understanding of the past will also control our perception of the present and our ambitions for the future. He knew that philosophers and theologians who taught Germans to think about big moral issues were inherently dangerous to him.

He wanted only his version of history, philosophy and theology to be taught – not least that there was one race – a master race – which was destined to achieve world domination, and that all other races (especially the Jewish, but also the Black, the Roma – and gay people too) were somehow inferior or even sub-human.

By asserting the superiority of the Aryan people, Hitler was able to justify his hideous persecution of the Jewish and other minorities in the lands he controlled.

We should not be surprised by that. The manipulation of history has been the technique of tyrants and dictators down the ages. It is so important to get history right: to know our own place in our nation’s story, and know what to be proud of in that story, and of what to be ashamed.

In the Old Testament, the story of Israel’s bondage in Egypt and subsequent journey to the Promised Land was so important that it was told over and over again, from father to son, generation after generation. And then in the New Testament the liberating story of what Jesus achieved for us on the Cross was seen as so vital that that story – the greatest story ever told – was proclaimed time and again.

That is why I tremble that so many schools and universities are not only

failing to tell the stories anymore, but are even beginning to dismiss them as irrelevant and not ‘woke’.

They want to ‘cancel’ those distinguished scholars with whom they happen to disagree – and they are succeeding.

When the essential stories of our island race and – far more importantly – the essential stories of our salvation history, can no longer be told because a group of self-appointed thought-police have decreed them to be politically incorrect, then we have to be very much on our guard lest the tyranny against which this nation has so often fought is not creeping-in by the back door. We must remember, in order to be renewed and re-inspired by the stories which are our foundation history.

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Show organisers set to Spring into action

The organisers of the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show have announced plans for a new Spring Countryside Show on Saturday and Sunday, April 23 and 24.

Whether you are a garden enthusiast or a food lover, the show will have something for everyone, focusing on woodland and forestry with wood carving and axemen, gardening with show gardens and nurseries, local food & drink with a food marquee, street food area, beer, cider and gin garden, alongside showcasing rural life.

Organiser James Cox said: “We wanted to create a new show that celebrated one of the most special seasons in the calendar. Spring sees the rolling countryside come to life in so many colours and shades while on the farm and in the woodland we see the birth of new life.”

Show chairman Giles Simpson said: “The show hopes to support local businesses, especially in the food and craft Industries. Trading at the show starts at just £35.”

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By Steve Keenan newsdesk@blackmorevale.net

The flooding of a road bordering Gillingham’s planned housing expansion has raised new concerns over the impact of the project.

Heavy rainfall on the morning of October 31 saw Cole Street Lane disappear under water, with some homes flooded for the second time in 10 days.

The lane borders farmland on which Welbeck Land plans to build 961 homes, nearly half the total envisaged for Gillingham’s vast southern extension.

Work has already begun on a new arterial road across the site, sections of which flooded due to the downpour and River Lodden bursting its banks.

Resident Andrew Pring said on Facebook: “Water running into Cole Street Lane can’t get away, has flooded Cole Street Farm car park and up to my doorstep. First time ever.”

Another resident, Vicki La Bouchardiere, added: “Cole Street Lane completely flooded. Our house is flooded for a second time but much worse than before. This never happened before.”

The Lodden also flooded houses in the centre of Gillingham, covered a bridge and Wren Place playground.

Resident Rachel Joan said: “We’ve lived here in Wren Place 16 years, bought from new and have never seen the river so high.

“I’d say you wouldn’t want to buy at the back of the new estate.”

She was referring to 90 new houses currently being built behind Lodden Lakes by Taylor Wimpey, which also has approval for 115 more homes in a second phase.

Another resident, Verity Minns, posted: “I’ve lived here seven

RAIN STOPS PLAY: Wren Place playground Picture: Rachel Joan

WATER MEADOW: Lower Lodden Meadow at Gillingham Picture: Kane Armstrong

AWASH: The newly completed Durweston Causeway crossing the floodplain

years and never seen the river so high until they started building work, cutting down all the blackthorn trees and turfing up the marsh grass.”

This week, developers and house builders were invited to bid for the right to build 205 houses, the first phase of 971 homes planned on the Welbeck site.

A further 634 homes are planned the other side of the Gillingham-

Repair café in need of your expertise Blandford’s repair café is being revived! And they are on the lookout for fixers. They are looking for amateur and experienced electricians, handy people, carpenters, engineers, bike experts and craftspeople who may be able to spare two hours to help at the Blandford Repair Café sometime in

early December.

The café is a place for people to bring broken goods and have them fixed or receive advice on how to fix them to reduce waste and encourage sustainability.

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n The floods of October 31, a Sunday morning, were the second to cause chaos across the region within 10 days. The A30 was closed at East Stour and near Henstridge; Eccliffe was impassable even to 4x4s and houses were flooded in Motcombe.

The Crown Inn at East Stour and Halsey Arms in Pulham were closed due to flooding, while a subsequent power cut shut the The Stapleton Arms in Buckhorn Weston.

Trains between Exeter and London were also cancelled when the main line flooded near Gillingham.

Concerns after road near land marked for homes left under water after heavy rain

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FLOODING SWAMPED: A30 flooded at Toomer Hill between Henstridge and Milborne Port

Shaftesbury road, making 1,800 in total, currently the biggest building project in Dorset.

The artery road through the Welbeck site is part of groundworks which will include utility water and sewage pipes, as well as a surface water drainage system, drainage and ditches.

New attenuation ponds will be needed to hold and slow run-off water, while new burrows are being dug on site to compensate for loss of flood plain due to the road construction.

The fear is that future flood and rainwater may be forced into other, new areas. Many commentators noted the Madjeston roads flooded

Pic: MANDY PIKE

heavily on Oct 31, with many cars abandoned.

But Simon McFarlane, major projects officer for Dorset Council, and who is overseeing the southern extension development, said he was confident the work planned will be robust.

He told The New Blackmore Vale: “I think everybody acknowledges that part of

this project lies within the flood zone by virtue of being adjacent to the River Lodden.

“The application was designed with a flood risk in mind and taken into account, not just today but with future climate change in mind. Those climate change allowances are really big on top of what we know is the risk today.”

He said the new road was a ‘key piece’ of infrastructure, now being built by the council’s contractor, Hanson.

Project manager Vinny Veness told Gillingham News last month: “We’re working to a challenging programme to complete construction in spring 2022, with a very busy site and work being carried out across the area.

‘Our focus for the moment is to install all the primary utilities under the road and also working across the new route to stabilise the clay soils. The shape of the road will start to become more evident as ground stabilisation progresses.”

Trust acute care in UK’s top ten after patients’ praise Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust has been rated among the best acute trusts in England for patient experience.

The trust came in the top ten for patient experience, scoring 4.39 out of 5 based on patient feedback.

The data analysed in the What Patients Think Report comes from PEP Health’s Patient Experience Platform (PEP)

which collects publicly available comments on what patients are saying about their care in every single hospital across the UK. The methodology used

by PEP Health means it can compare and benchmark different healthcare providers across the country. The full report is at pephealth.ai.

The trust’s CEO Stacey Hunter said:

“We are humbled and proud that our patients think so highly of our staff and the care they receive at the hospital. As one of our core values we strive every day to provide an outstanding experience for every patient including the highest quality care. Positive comments from patients and service users are a huge motivational boost.”

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History

Fascinating history of farming family The Knott family is probably one of the oldest farming families in Sturminster Newton. Philip Knott steps back in time after spotting his great grandfather, Tom Knott, in our cover photograph in a recent edition.

Tom is fifth from the left behind the gate.

My great grandfather, Tom Knott (snr) lived in a house at the top of Newton Hill, now known as Larkspur. He rented farm buildings and a cow stall, adjoining Stalbridge Lane, from the Pitt Rivers Estate, along with fields in the Colber area, known as Oaks Farm.

Before taking on the Oaks Farm tenancy he rented one of a pair of cottages at Broadoak, along with two small orchards and a paddock on the road towards Dirty Gate, where he kept horses used for his contract haulage business.

The two main contracts were hauling gravel from the quarry at Okeford Common, where the car scrap yard now stands, for council road building and for the milk factory at Butts Pond. On alternate days he hauled coal from the railway goods yard to fire the factory boilers.

Tom’s brother Walter lived in a shepherd’s hut in the orchard at Broadoak, where he kept a pony, a donkey, geese and poultry. The pony was used for towing his cart on his Western Gazette delivery round every Thursday.

Tom married Emma Pope in St Mary’s

n Tom Knott, circled, with a group of farming friends on a rabbit hunt

n Pumping water from the Stour at Newton and, inset, Herbert Knott with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War

Church, Sturminster Newton, in 1883 and the couple had eight children, sadly two died in infancy.

Ivor and Lily never

married and worked together on the family farm, taking over the tenancy of Oaks Farm, when Tom Snr retired.

My grandfather Herbert and his brother, Tom (Jnr), enlisted for service in the Dorset Yeomanry at the start of the First World War, taking their own horses with them, serving in the Middle East and the Gallipoli landings, in the Dardanelles, with Hebert transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916.

On his release from the

forces, Herbert decided that he wanted to become a farmer, like his father before him, and, shortly after my father Ken was born, he moved from Broadoak to Rolls Mill, adjoining the A357 Ralph Down, where he rented a house, and erected a cow shed on the land from the Pitt Rivers Estate.

After the First World War, Tom Jnr, became landlord of The Red Lion Inn at Newton before moving to Rockhill Farm at Stourton Caundle in

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through times of war and prosperity 1940.

Herbert’s sister Maggie married Ron Guy and took over the tenancy of the New Inn and attached farm, at the far end of Crown Road at Marnhull.

The brother of Tom Snr, John married Sarah (née Chinn) from Hinton St Mary and they had 13 children.

The year before his death, in 1956, aged 96, he accepted and won a challenge to jump a five-bar gate – the catch being that the gate was lying flat on the ground!

Herbert’s cousin Olive Knott, was born in Rixon Cottage in 1902. After leaving Blandford Secondary School she taught at Hazelbury Bryan. She wrote 12 books about Dorset, including Down Dorset Way, Tales of Dorset, More About Dorset and Dorset Again. After retirement later publications include Witches of Dorset, and A Pictorial History of Sturminster Newton, using historical photographs from the Raymond Rogers Collection.

Cousin Sydney, a cattle and hay dealer, was indeed a colourful character. He married Matilda Rose, widow of James Rose of Fiddleford Mill who died in 1875. Sydney was the Master Miller and Leaseholder of Sturminster Newton Mill where he installed hydroelectric turbines in 1904.

My father remembers Sydney in his memoirs: “The highlight of Christmas in our school days was the visit of a cousin of my father’s by the name of Sydney. A few days before Christmas he would make the journey to Rolls Mill, bringing all four of us children a toy. Times were hard for us, but Sydney was

n Pupils at Child Okeford Primary School

n The A357 through Newton in the early 1960s

n The Red Lion pub at Newton

a relatively wealthy man, who owned parcels of land around Newton and Fiddleford. He was also the leaseholder and Master Miller for Sturminster Mill and lived in Newton House.

When he retired he moved to Bonslea House at Bath Road. When living at Bonslea House he would often send his chauffeur/gardener out to my father to borrow his horse and putt or wagon, usually he wanted to haul some manure for the garden.

Sydney would bring out the toys at Christmas as a sort of payment to my father.

“On one occasion, when Sydney’s chauffeur was driving him to Blandford, a car sped past him. Sydney instructed his chauffeur to speed up and overtake. The chauffeur however was unable to – which made Sydney furious – so he immediately purchased a more powerful Bentley.

“Sydney was also a lover of horses and kept one or two excellent racing types.

“Another owner challenged Sydney to a race over a mile on Blandford Downs one Saturday morning and Sydney readily accepted.

Sydney’s horse won, which must have been a relief to his stable staff.”

Sydney passed away in 1946, aged 91. In his will he left bequests of land and money to the town, which made a significant contribution to the building of the new hall in 1967.

My paternal grandmother, Mabel, was the daughter of Arthur and Mary Quick.

Arthur was appointed as the headmaster of Child Okeford School in 1905 and Mary was a teaching assistant. Mabel survived scarlet fever in 1908, which left her with a severe hearing disability. Two of her sisters had passed away alongside her, when all three of them were sharing the same bed. Her sisters are laid to rest, in a marked grave, in Child Okeford churchyard.

Mabel was a student teacher at the school, until 1917, when her father was forced to resign, following an altercation in the village high street. He was on his way to the church for a Sunday morning service, when he was confronted by the father of a boy pupil he had caned during the previous week.

At the start of the First World War Mabel’s brother Albert enlisted in the West Somerset Yeomanry. He lost his life in the November of 1915, as a result of dysentery, after being evacuated from the trenches to a hospital ship anchored off of the Gallipoli peninsula.

He is commemorated on the war memorial at Child Okeford.

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What on Earth to wear for a ‘suddenly back on’ or lastminute event, when everyone feels they want to make an effort but not be too dressed up?

We’re selling a lot of sparkly vintage jewels at the moment, to cheer up velvets and knits.

This time of year, a reminder that as well as all our fabulous Italian knits, famous velvet stretch jeans, and ‘can’t do without‘ black double stretch trousers, we are mixing our knits with chiffon wired and pleated skirts, which is a great look and covers this transitional time of year.

We have our ever popular velvet jackets and coats which always work beautifully with our velvet jeans or palazzos; or our one-off kaftan jackets, for a ‘suddenly back on’ event.

What on Earth to wear to help save the planet?!

As well as making all our outfits locally, a reminder that we love doing designer alterations. Not just altering, but re-modelling a lovely fabric, changing shoulders (very important!), changing length, or transforming a skirt shape or trouser length.

Don’t forget a winter hat, trilby, or Autumn feathers. Flowers or sparkle in the hair always looks good and is also fun.

What on Earth to wear is important, as it’s part of our feeling better about everything!

We are now happily settled round the corner. If you still can’t find us we’re next to the opticians at the top of Digby Road, still opposite Sherborne Abbey.

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Education

Chrome, sweet Chrome: Laptops for Castle Cary pupils Some 20 pupils at Castle Cary Community Primary School have benefitted from a Chromebook to make learning at home possible.

Brue Valley Rotary Club together with Castle Cary Town Council have pledged their support to the Laptops4Learners scheme, launched by district councillor Sarah Dyke for pupils without IT equipment at home.

The scheme also aims to provide equipment for the members of the community who are digitally excluded.

Old and unused equipment is collected and Simon Barfoot of donateit.co.uk wipes data, upcycles and renovates the tablets.

Hinkley Point C power station donated funds for 16 Chromebooks and a further four were donated by the community.

THANKS VERY MUCH: Castle Cary pupils with their new laptops

WE DID IT: Richard Johnson, Bryanston’s Head of Swimming, far left, with pupils after their successful Solent swim – including Max Leigh, second left, Blaise Lanphere, fifth from left, and Fiona Murray, eighth from left

That’s all Wight: School swimmers’ £5k Bryanston pupils have raised nearly £5,000 for Level Water, a national children’s charity, with a challenging swim.

Ten pupils aged 14-18 completed the 6km crossing from Fort Gilkicker near Gosport to Ryde Sands on the Isle of Wight after many months of intensive open water training at various locations along the Dorset coast.

“This is a stunning

achievement for every member of the team”, said Bryanston’s head of swimming, Richard Johnson.

“The Solent presents a real test of endurance and a demanding challenge for even the most accomplished swimmers, as the swell, tidal currents and water traffic can be very disorientating.

“Although absolutely exhausted, all of our swimmers had beaming smiles as they climbed out of

the water and there is no doubt the experience will last in their memory for many years to come.”

It took around two hours for all pupils to complete the swim, with 14-year-old Max Leigh completing the course in just 1 hour 8 minutes.

Blaise Lanphere, 17, the squad’s new captain, said: “Although the swim was a real test of stamina and it was quite unnerving to be swimming with so many

yachts, hovercrafts, ferries and cargo ships around us, we all knew our efforts were for such a good cause. The charity is very close to our hearts as it uses the power and experience of swimming to improve lives for children with disabilities.”

Anyone wishing to support the fundraising by the Bryanston Swim Squad should visit justgiving.com/fundraising/ brysolentswim2021.

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Lion fountain and plaque restored

After an incident of vandalism caused damage to the pool in the Millennium Garden at Blandford Community Hospital earlier this year, the lion fountain feature and its pump have now been restored by members of Blandford Lions Club, who originally contributed to its installation.

They have also restored as new the plaque, which reads “Millennium Garden: Provided by the Friends of Blandford

Community Hospital with features donated by the Lions Club of Blandford and the families of patients. Opened 26th Jul 2002 by Betty Greenleaves, a Life President of the Friends.”

Tony Ives and James Mayo are pictured at the pool, and Mr Mayo said: “We are hoping to tidy up the memorial garden in due course, if we can get some volunteers, as the man that used to do it has retired, and it’s getting overgrown.”

POOLING RESOURCES: Tony Ives and James Mayo at the Millennium Garden pool

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Family business makes for fascinating talk

Robert Cowley of the plumbing company Cowley and Son revealed the fascinating history of his family business at the Blackmore Vale Group of the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society.

Robert’s grandfather Frederick completed a five-year apprenticeship as a tinplate worker and gas fitter for four shillings a week, working 12 hours a day, six days a week before he struck out alone in 1898, forming Cowley and Son. Robert brought in two huge ledger books with each job meticulously noted, along with the cost of materials. A typical example: 19 lbs of sheet lead – 3 shillings one and a half pence – for dressing the chimney in the police station in 1905. In recent years, the

records kept by the firm have helped Robert and his brother to ascertain the best way to approach renovations – knowing how and where the original pipes were used is essential!

A wonderful photograph of the Sturminster Orchestra in Edwardian splendour was shown, which served as a reminder that plumbing in ordinary houses was still not common at this time and

householders would have had to draw their water from the various town pumps. Fred Cowley had the contract to maintain all the standpipes in Sturminster.

On Wednesday, November 17, historian Helen Baggott will give a presentation The Mayflower Connection at Sturminster Exchange, illustrating the story of The Mayflower through postcards sent from the UK, Holland and America more than 100 years ago.

Non-members welcome to come along to the event, which will start at 7.30pm.

Politics

Such generosity – in selective bubbles

By Mike Chapman with Sarah Dyke and Steve Oldrieve for the Liberal Democrats across the Blackmore Vale, Somerton & Frome and South-West Wiltshire The variety of the voluntary activity across the Blackmore Vale is astonishing. On the environmental ticket, just this year and despite covid, I have witnessed path, pond and river clearing, litter picking, Himalayan balsam eradication (wet and messy), bracken bashing (fun but exhausting), stile mending and tree planting.

There is a myriad of governing, managing, coaching, remedial, mentoring and guidance roles and projects provided by volunteers in schools, clubs and places of worship. Help and support for the lonely, the less able and the elderly is also delivered daily by a legion of

volunteers. The gifts of time, knowledge, understanding and spirit by so many are truly generous.

There are other forms of generosity, too. Children in families with no computer or poor internet access often miss out on vital educational activity and many of our elders need help to access the social support now increasingly online. The Laptops4learners initiative is now active across the area, pushed along by Sarah and others with the support of local IT businesses. It is reaching out to the community for help to bridge the digital divide between the haves and the have-nots. So, as we upgrade and replace our IT, as individuals, groups and businesses, we should consider donating the unwanted kit for refurbishment and re-use.

An email to donateIT@ r3cycle.co.uk will make the connection.

It is so good to see the idea now being extended to those settling in our area who have had to flee Afghanistan in recent weeks and months.

I am struck, though, by the lack of generosity when society acts en masse.

As soon as there is the whiff of a shortage, it all becomes ‘me first’. The consumer seems to be at the top of every policy tree such that a trade deal delivering a lower cost bottle of wine is seen to justify putting our livestock farmers in further jeopardy downstream. A focus on the least cost, maximum availability, far from giving us more choice has led to dominance by the biggest and most powerful. We have experienced the dangers of this top-heavy over-reliance on the few many times over the past 15 years or so, sector by sector. The vulnerabilities persist. Worse, the consumer-led, market-based

approach has still not enabled us to define a fit-for-purpose Social Care system in tune with our needs and wants as people, parents and children. Our welfare system is scarcely more supportive with its high hurdles and deliberate, deterrent delays and it just became even less generous with the loss of the covid uplift. Poverty may be a crime but it is rarely the poor who are guilty of it.

Generosity should be the new watchword: generosity in our expectations of people; generosity in the opportunities we create for others; generosity in what we provide for the vulnerable; generosity in our recognition and thanks for the help and support we ourselves have received from the many around us – there is no such thing as being self-made. We should be generous, too, in our praise of the great exemplars in our midst.

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MPs’ round-up

Being pragmatic, let’s keep our standards up In this edition’s column, I want to address two themes or points.

The first is Tory Pragmatism.

One of the key reasons I became a Tory was that, as a party, we operated under a set of principles rather than an ideological book of rules against which all policies had to be assessed. The Tory way was one of practical commonsense, pragmatism and realism. What is the problem? How can it be solved? Does the solution work? If so, let’s go with that.

This flexible pragmatism has meant that we have been able to survive as the world’s longest lived political party and explains why we have been in Government for so many years over the decades. For example, furlough was not a Small State, dog eat dog policy response. It was a pragmatic use of State powers to keep people and the economy afloat.

Furlough was not a doctrinaire

MP for North Dorset Simon Hoare solution. The increase in NI contributions, not desirable of itself but necessary was able to be delivered due to the commonsense and pragmatic analysis that the NHS needed addition £ to meet the Covid backlog. The change in assessment of the urgency of the need to address the issue of sewage discharge into our watercourses and seas (an issue upon which I rebelled) is of itself testimony to a

Government which continues to understand the need for pragmatic responses when faced with new data or thinking. Those of us who champion pragmatism should not castigate decision makers when they pause, listen and respond. Good governments listen.

My second point is the issue of Standards and the utter, avoidable dog’s breakfast that we have seen this week.

Embarrassing, unedifying, demeaning and counterproductive. I still believe that the doing of politics is a noble calling, a vocation if you will. While we are not saints the public has the right to expect high standards of behaviour from those of us in public life. I cut my political teeth as a Parliamentary Candidate way back in 1997. I lost count of the number of times brown envelopes, being

on the take, a crook, cheat etc was mentioned. Slowly Parliament has cleaned its stable. Our Standards regime seems to work as wrongdoings get found out and are punished appropriately.

This week did so much damage to the standing of politics in our country and, I fear, gave further licence to those who wish politicians harm. For these reasons, and others, I (again) rebelled against the Whip and voted against the Leadsom Amendment.

It is never easy to rebel.

I just felt that my constituents, you the reader, deserved more and better. I am pleased the Government listened to those of us who either rebelled or abstained and changed policy.

I’m just embarrassed and sad that Parliament was put in that position.

May it NEVER happen again.

A tough lesson to learn but education really matters In what seems like a lifetime ago, and for many years, I taught music in an inner city comprehensive in London. It was a difficult school, with morning knife-checks, serious drug problems and fairly regular physical attacks on teachers.

Many pupils came from enormously troubled backgrounds, and it was something of a challenge to get many of them to appear at school at all.

But it was a deeply satisfying and rewarding job. To be able to show the students that their horizons could be lifted and help them find the confidence both to reach higher and also believe in themselves was a highlight of my life. School really is vital. Education works.

Here in Somerset, especially in our rural villages, we have a rather different problem. Unlike the school of my past where parents, carers and children

Somerton & Frome MP David Warburton often had no interest in attending school, in Somerset the problem is reversed. Here, they desperately want to get to school but many are finding it increasingly difficult.

A growing number of people are contacting me, in some distress, saying they simply cannot get their children to

school. With rural bus services becoming ever less frequent, and school buses often filled to capacity, they have no way of accessing school.

In the Commons this week, I told the Education Minister of my concerns. I asked him what specific steps his department is taking to help ensure children in rural communities with limited public transport are able to attend school.

In fact, local authorities are obliged to provide transport for children of compulsory school age to attend their nearest school if they cannot walk there because of distance, route safety or special needs.

During the next spending review period, authorities will receive an extra £1.6 billion a year to maintain vital services such as these.

The Minister assured me the department regularly talks to the Department for Transport about

school transport, and last year gave Somerset more than £1.1 million of additional funding for school and college transport.

But it doesn’t seem to be getting through. My conversations with our local authorities have been disappointingly fruitless.

More action needs to be taken.

I am now bringing together all stakeholders: parents and carers, schools, bus companies and local authorities to understand where the additional money has gone, why children are being left in the cold, and what can be done to unlock the cash and offer the provision to all.

When I was teaching, I understood the problems facing both parents and children, and their reasons for not seeing education and meaningful.

In Somerset now, there seems to be a lack of understanding of the depth of the problem we face and how best to resolve it. I intend to find out.

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Parliament shouldn’t change system to suit one MP The great majority of French fishing boats who wanted a licence to fish in UK waters have got one. But President Macron was quick off the blocks to do his usual – having a postBrexit pop at the UK. Part of it is playing to the gallery before the Presidential elections in the spring. However, actions have consequences and sooner or later the grown-ups in Paris will have to get a grip or we’ll be heading for a trade war – in nobody’s interests beyond French politicians seeking re-election.

A report from the Standards Committee to the House of Commons sounds techy and dull. But Wednesday’s debate on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards investigation into the conduct of my colleague Owen Paterson MP was very important, far from just another Westminster bubble obsession with no traction in the real world.

My colleague was found to have engaged in paid lobbying for two businesses, an activity that has been rightly proscribed in Parliament since the 17th century and especially since the

MP for South West Wiltshire Dr Andrew Murrison ‘cash for questions’ scandals of the 1990s. The penalty awarded – 30 days’ suspension triggering a probable recall, by-election and possibly the loss of his seat – was in my view severe given the mitigation and on compassionate grounds. You may recall Rose Paterson tragically committed suicide, probably influenced by the lengthy investigation into her husband’s conduct.

Another of my backbench colleagues tabled an amendment to the required motion that

would have endorsed the verdict and sentence. It passed narrowly, eviscerating the motion. It aims to change the rules allowing, among other things, Mr Paterson a further hearing, different verdict or possible penalty. That makes me very uncomfortable.

Parliament set up the standards system in its current form very recently. It shouldn’t change it when it dislikes one of its outcomes. Where on earth does that lead us in credibility at a time when parliament is hardly riding high in the public’s estimations?

We badly need an appellate system to improve the safety of the disciplinary mechanism for MPs, that’s for sure. Every other professional outfit you can name has one. Mine is the GMC, one of the most rigorous, an exemplar if you like. But you can’t just make these things up on the hoof. It should have been done quite separately from the Owen Paterson case, not in response to it.

So, I just could not support the amendment but I do feel Mr Paterson has been badly handled

and has been managed in a less than compassionate way. That’s why after a lot of thought, having read the Commissioner’s report thoroughly and noting Mr Paterson’s lack of access to any recognisable appeal mechanism I decided to abstain. That’s a big deal for any loyal government backbencher. It’s a very big deal for me. Despite the Opposition voting against and large numbers of my side abstaining, the amendment passed.

It isn’t clear what will now happen. I suspect the Opposition will not engage with any alternative structure created by the amended motion passed today by the House for dealing with MP conduct matters. That means it will collapse. In short, a bit of a mess.

Disappointment mixed with good news from COP26 and Glasgow. Positive on methane and forests. Not so clear as I write about some of the national targets – from an elusive carbon belching China especially – and climate finance aimed at weaning developing countries off carbon. Still, we live in hope.

I voted to ensure fairness, not to save Patterson Owen Patterson is a now a former MP who has resigned. I can’t say that I particularly like him. He is curt and abrupt and his fairly defiant reaction to the vote in Westminster on Wednesday evening was an indication of his character – although his character is of little relevance.

On Wednesday last week, we had placed before us an amendment to a motion of sanction and understandably, constituents of mine have asked me why I felt fit to vote in support of the amendment given the press headlines and I thought it would be worth sharing my thoughts with you.

The amendment, laid by Andrea Leadsom, did not look to get this man off the hook. It did not look to quash his charge or to exonerate him. When I read the report it was clear that

MP for West Dorset Chris Loder there were issues to be answered and that would have happened, although deferred by just a few months. However, there are some important considerations before anyone jumps to the conclusion that anyone who voted for the

amendment wants to see this issue ‘swept under the carpet’.

This investigation started on October 30, 2019. The standards report came to Parliament just over two years afterwards – a huge amount of time. The process we have allows one person to, in effect, be investigator and ‘prosecutor’. The process does not allow the person investigated to have any representation, nor to speak to anyone during the investigation for support.

And when it gets so bad, that someone has committed suicide, as has Owen’s wife only a few months ago, it would be pretty merciless, in my opinion, not to have the process checked and reviewed to ensure fairness had prevailed – which is what I wanted my vote to represent.

Earlier in my career, I used to be a member of a trade union, the RMT. I know that, from my time as a member that the dayto-day processes in the parliamentary system are a mile away from what is expected in normal workplace disciplinary practice – and that does need to be addressed.

The vote should not have been ‘whipped’ in my view and the Patterson case and the review of process should not have been conflated, but as an MP, we don’t get to choose the votes and can only vote on what is before us. As I wrote this last weekend, I’m sure much more will have evolved before you read this summary and I’m pleased the Government is changing tack, but I hope this offers you a helpful perspective in the meantime.

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Letters

Isn’t it time we stopped muzzling people My eight-month-old granddaughter was in our local Waitrose café with her mum, where she was chatted to by various kind people. However, she did not know how to respond. She would look at them, then at her mother, and back again. The difference? Her mother was not wearing a mask. Without seeing the facial expression of the person chatting to her, she was unable to read whether this person was being kind or not. Ultimately, she turned her face away from the person wearing the mask, and hid her face in her arm. The person talking to her was unable to convey kindness because they were, in effect, muzzled.

To be human is to be able to read expressions and body language, alongside verbal communication.

We have an innate need to see faces. The wearing of a face mask is dehumanising. Children are denied full interaction with a parent who wears a face mask.

At this time of year we remember those who lost their lives in wars defending our freedom from tyranny. In the past 18 months we have been required to deny everything that makes us human.

To honour those who gave their lives for us, put the face mask where it belongs: in the bin.

Alison Watson, Pen Selwood n Re: Blackmore Vale, 1 October. Simon Hoare: We Should Appoint a Supply Minister.

Simon Hoare suggests that events can overtake any government.

This is true – but I would like to point out that it is especially problematic for a government (dare I say party) that does not seem at all capable of planning for the future. I will address a few quotes from his column.

“Our leaving the EU was always going to create issues in need of solutions”. Very true. Since 2014 those of us who tried to point out these issues have been called Remoaners or Scaremongers.

Unfortunately, name calling may make folks feel superior but doesn’t solve the problems that Remoaners were pointing out. For example, that in Ireland it will be impossible to have a border and not have a border at the same time.

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That the easy flow of goods will be severely hampered and we would have a lack of HGV drivers, strawberry pickers, butchers – the list is endless.

“Then along came covid…” Yes, it did. Even this was mishandled, as if the government was seemingly not aware that pandemics could happen – even as covid was spreading like wildfire in Asia and Europe. A recent MP’s report cited these failures: An initial belief in herd immunity, delays in lockdown (both times), a disastrous (and expensive) rollout of Test and Trace, discharging patients from hospitals to care homes, and an unacceptably high death rate among various ethnic groups and the disabled (including do not resuscitate orders for disabled patients).

“And then along came Afghanistan”. Do I even need to comment on the ridiculousness of this statement? How to deal with a war that started in 2001? No ideas yet?

Finally, “…the ever-present climate emergency and preparation for COP26”. This is especially disingenuous. We have ALL been aware of the disaster looming for 20+ years at least!

The Department of Energy &

Climate Change started by Gordon Brown was subsumed under the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy in July 2016 under Theresa May. I think the name change shows where the emphasis was shifted.

There is nothing new in climate change and much we could have been doing in the last 20 years if our governments had considered the importance of this issue.

None of these issues jumped up and bit the government on the behind. All of them have just been being ignored in favour of coming up with witty sound bites and mindless flag waving that for some reason appeal to parts of the electorate but don’t address real issues. They are designed only to get them re-elected.

Our MP suggests governments can ‘walk and chew gum simultaneously’. I suggest some may be able to, but our current government has shown not only that they cannot, but that they don’t care to try.

Dr Sylvia Hixson Andrews Blandford n I thought your readers may be interested in our experience.

Over recent weeks we invited two professionals into our home on

separate occasions. One a builder probably in his sixties; the other an insurance valuation officer perhaps in his fifties. We assumed they had been covid vaccinated. In general conversation it became apparent they had no intention of getting vaccinated. And unless requested, neither would wear masks. The builder was completely entrenched and influenced by misinformation banded about by the anti-vax brigade. The valuer’s opinion was that “as we are all going to get it, why bother”. Their welcome inside our home was tolerated, managed politely – but short lived.

We are pensioners, retired and have both had the covid vaccination and booster.

Outwardly we look and sound fit and healthy. But my husband has serious and complex underlying health issues. Had he contracted covid prior to vaccination it is unlikely he would have survived. With vaccination, we are confident and of course hopeful that he will survive if he contracts this dreadful disease that has brought death to thousands in this country and misery to their families. We continue to take sensible precautions. Your readers will have their own views and opinions of the two professional visitors to our home. Mine are unprintable.

Name and address supplied n There has been much media coverage of late about how difficult it is to see one’s GP and/or access other NHS services. This has not been my experience.

I asked to see my GP about a relatively trivial matter. I was given an appointment and saw my doctor a few days later. He decided my trivial concern might not be so trivial, and referred me, there and then, to Yeovil Hospital. I saw the consultant eight days later who diagnosed the problem – fortunately not serious – and arranged for follow-on treatment.

It is too easy to take this level of service and commitment by dedicated individuals for granted, and so I say: thank you to the doctors and their colleagues at

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with face masks and dehumanising them?

The Apples surgery, Sherborne, and Yeovil Hospital’s dermatology department.

Gordon Morris, Leigh n I was cleaning my teeth, and musing about the double cover of the Blackmore Vale decrying the public for putting wet wipes down the toilet, causing blockages. I was wondering why people did not seem to know that they should not do that, or didn’t care. Then I realised the canny water company were doing a massive PR exercise to divert focus from their monumental and illegal dumping of sewage in our pristine waters, for which there had been a massive public outcry that week. Apparently, the inference is that it is all our fault. I don’t think so. They have been doing the same for years, as have all the water companies, with hardly a court case brought by the Environment Agency. To be specific, there were 3.5 million hours of unlawful discharges into our rivers and sea last year. The question has to be asked, why the Govt seem to think this is ok? Water should be nationalised and the Government brought to account. We are an island nation with no respect for our water it seems.

Diana Garner, Park Lands n FAITH IN HUMAN NATURE RESTORED! Have you ever wondered whether the days of old-fashioned gallantry were history? I used to until yesterday when I was the recipient of real kindness.

Caught in flood water on the road from Shaftesbury to Mere I was in serious trouble because I am a fulltime wheelchair user and cannot even stand, let alone walk. A gentleman with a four-wheel drive vehicle saw my plight and waded through the flood water, found my car’s tow hook and then towed my car out of the water. The car wouldn’t start and I faced a very long wait for assistance.

Apart from taking his wife home and going to fetch me a hot drink he stayed with me for three hours, by which time the light was failing and it was very cold so once again he went home and brought a towbar and towed me, all the way back to Gillingham.

Unfortunately I don’t even know

Yesterday’s Vale: Sturminster Newton David Burnett is the author of LOST DORSET: The Villages & Countryside, whose companion volume, LOST DORSET: The Towns, published last month.

Sturminster Newton Mill, about 1900, showing the miller’s cottage and Newton House in the distance.

In 1904 the two waterwheels were replaced by a turbine, which curiously makes the mill’s machinery now much rarer. It would be interesting to know if the man peering out of the window for the benefit of the photographer is the miller Harry Elkins, who was born at Broad Oak in 1879, worked at the mill as a boy and was its miller until the gentleman’s name but he drives a P-registration 4x4 vehicle and lives in Gillingham.

Wendy Tindall-Shepherd Gillingham n Dear puzzle editor I have been attempting your puzzle page and am very confused. The crossword and arrow words seem at odds.

I’m hoping it’s your solutions are wrong, otherwise I shall soon be an inmate at a funny farm.

A very confused E A Malson Answers on P102-103! Sorry. Ed

n What a shame that with such a stunning landscape just down the road from my home near Stourhead, the reputation of the National Trust is becoming tarnished due to its failure to ban trail hunting, simply putting it on pause, and deferring a decision on its member’s banning vote until perhaps, the fuss dies down.

As leader of Bourton’s Wildlife and Habitats Group, I personally

shortly before his death in 1949. One of Dorset most popular atrractions, offering a whole range of events, the mill is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and despite occasional closures came back to life when the Pandemic struck and continues producing flour today. The miller’s cottage was demolished in 1926/27 after flooding swept away part of the weir and stone was needed for rebuilding.

will be putting any further visits to NT properties on pause for as long as the NT has trail hunting on pause. Until it bans this pretence for good, I will be visiting English Heritage sites, beginning with Old Wardour Castle.

As has been clearly demonstrated by a guilty verdict in court, trail hunting is used as a deliberate ploy by the hunting fraternity’s s most senior leadership to continue the hideously cruel hunting of foxes below the radar.

Bernard Sullivan, Bourton

the family GP knowing your history....now, when and if you are fortunate to contact someone you have to then relate the problem (probably ongoing) to perhaps enable them to reach a decision without examining you. I have long standing sinus infection problems....back and forth to surgery by phone, ultimately told by phone that I will be referred to a consultant. Still waiting...

How is this for a patient experience then Simon Hoare?

Paul Cumberland, Gillingham

n So, in this week’s edition Simon Hoare talks about the ‘Patient Experience’.... Has he tried to contact a GP, if so what is HIS patient experience to it?

Here in Gillingham the old feeling of having a family GP has long gone. Try phoning with a medical problem....18th in the queue, 17th and so on....get to the stage where you just give up.

111 might get somewhere, even if ultimately you are told to ring your local surgery! You used to rely on

n Developers know very well what they are doing when they apply to build on flood plains, and so do councils when they grant permission. In my view the cost of the damage that results when the properties then flood should not fall on the shoulders of the unfortunate owners but be shared equally by the developers and councils. That might help concentrate minds.

Roger White, Sherborne

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Announcements PUBLIC NOTICES DONALD CHARLES BLAGDEN (Deceased) Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925 any persons having a claim against or an interest in the Estate of the above named, late of Mead House, St James Common, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 0JA, who died on 24/02/2021, are required to send written particulars thereof to the undersigned 103-year-old Mary Thomas of Shaftesbury on or before 04/02/2022, with her birthday cake after which date the Estate specially made for her by will be distributed having carer Jacqui Lucas, of regard only to the claims and Semley interests of which they have had notice.

Farnfields Solicitors, 4 Church Lane Shaftesbury Dorset SP7 8JT

Happy 103rd birthday!

One of the Blackmore Vale’s oldest residents celebrated her 103rd birthday in Shaftesbury with family and a few friends.

She said: “I’ve lived too long and it’s time I moved over and gave others more room but they won’t let me.”

A former long-time volunteer with Shaftesbury hospital, Shaftesbury British Legion, Swans Trust, Shaftesbury Probus and Shaftesbury WI, Mary has lived in Shaftesbury since retiring there with her late husband Cubby, a former RAF bomber pilot and winner of the Air Force Cross, in 1989.

Born two weeks before the end of the First World War, Mary is well known to many in the town for her support of a number of local causes.

Mary told friends: “I’ve always believed you should stand by your beliefs and do what you think is right and I’ve encouraged my children to do the same.”

HEATHER ROWLAND (Deceased) Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925 any persons having a claim against or an interest in the Estate of the above named, late of 2 Riversdene Tarrant Keyneston Blandford Forum Dorset, DT11 9JF, who died on 03/07/2021, are required to send written particulars thereof to the undersigned on or before 13/01/2021, after which date the Estate will be distributed having regard only to the claims and interests of which they have had notice.

Farnfields LLP, 4 Church Lane Shaftesbury Dorset SP7 8JT

THANK YOU SIMS PETER

STRETTON JOHN

Jacqui and the children wish to thank everyone for their kind support and love at this very difficult time.

Please accept as a personal thank you.

The family of the late John Stretton.

Appreciate all the kindness shown at this sad time, and the letters, cards and shared memories have been a great comfort. We thank all who attended the Service of Thanksgiving and wish we had met more of his friends.

BATEMAN HAZEL Ben, Russell, Mandy and families would like to thank all who attended her funeral and all those who sent messages. Also a big thank you to St Margaret’s Hospice staff especially Mel, the Butterfields Carers and all the other doctors and nurses who helped Hazel in her final days.

TO PLACE A NOTICE CALL 01963 400186

CHARD LAWRENCE (LAURIE) The family wish to thank all the Medical staff who helped him for all their kindness.

We also thank relatives and friends for their kind cards and messages of sympathy, for their attendance at the service and for donations. Please accept this as our personal message of thanks.

IN MEMORIAM Corporal Albert Brine died 1918 Italy

Bombardier Frank Brine died 1917 France

Private Reginald Brine

died 1918 in action, HMS Lion Enmore Green & Motcombe Memorials

Mr Nigel Garrett

DEATHS HARDING : WILLIAM (BILL)AC Of Mudford near Yeovil. Peacefully on 25th October 2021 aged 76 years. Sadly missed by all his family and friends. Funeral service will take place at Yeovil Crematorium on Monday, November 15 at 10.40am. Donations in memory of Bill are invited for the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance c/o A.J. Wakely & Sons, 33 Sparrow Road, Yeovil. BA21 4BT. Tel : 01935 479913.

Please make cheques payable to the charity.

ALAN WOODLAND Passed away peacefully at The Grange Care Home on 25 October 2021.

Husband of Mary and Dad to Jenny & Ian Cremation to be held at 2.30 pm today, 12 November at Poole Crematorium Alan will be sadly missed by all who knew him.

Donations in memory of Alan to Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance, C/O Colin J Close Funeral Service. Tel. 01258 453133

DARBY SHANNON Funeral service to be held at Lesley Shand Funeral Parlour at 11am on Wednesday, November 17. Family flowers only Donations if desired to Cancer Research c/o Lesley Shand 28 East Street Blandford DT11 7DR funeraldirector.co.uk/shannondarby

TIMOTHY WEAVER (TIM) On 27th October 2021 peacefully at home aged 72 years of Gillingham. A much loved husband to Linda, also a loving dad, brother, step-father and grandfather, who will be sorely missed by all family and friends. Funeral service takes place at Salisbury Crematorium on Tuesday, November 16 at 11am. No flowers please but donations if desired to The RNLI Poole may be sent to Merefield & Henstridge Funeral Directors, Ridgemount, Pitts Lane, West Melbury, Shaftesbury, Dorset. SP7 0BU. Tel: 01747 853532

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Announcements PETER DE- COURCY PRIDEAUX On 29th October 2021 peacefully in The Cedars Nursing Home aged 92 years of Shaftesbury.

Loving husband to the late Jenny, devoted dad to Sarah and Vicky, loving grandad to Stephanie who will be sorely missed by all family and friends.

Funeral service takes place at St Mary's Church, Motcombe on 15th November at 11am. No flowers please but donations if desired to The RNLI or The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance may be sent to Merefield & Henstridge Funeral Directors, Ridgemount, Pitts Lane, West Melbury, Shaftesbury, Dorset. SP7 0BU. Tel: 01747 853532

MARGARET MARY DAVIES On 25th October, peacefully at home in Mere, after a short illness, bravely borne.

Wife of the late Michael Davies, a much-loved mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, who will be sadly missed by all her family and friends.

The funeral service will take place at Salisbury Crematorium on Friday, November 19 at 1pm.

Glad rags not sad rags please.

Family flowers only, but donations in Margaret's memory should be made payable to Mere Surgery and sent c/o L C Hill and Son, Water Street, Mere, Wiltshire.

CYNTH MATTHEWS Passed away peacefully at home in Sturminster Newton on the 29th October 2021. Cynthia Muriel Jean aged 92 years, formerly of Okeford Fitzpaine. A much loved mum, granny and great granny. Private burial followed by a service of thanksgiving to be held at St Mary’s Church, Sturminster Newton on Wednesday, November 17 at 2pm, to which all are welcome. No flowers please, donations if desired for the MND Association or Cats Protection. C/o Peter Jackson Funeral Services, Mons, High Street, Henstridge, BA8 0RB. Tel: 01963 362570

CROW KATHLEEN ANITA (KATE) Passed away peacefully on 28th October at Larks Leas, Blandford, aged 90 years.

Dearly loved mum to Mark.

Funeral service to be held at Poole Crematorium on Thursday, November 18 at 11am.

No flowers by request but donations, if desired for Weldmar Hospicecare Trust, may be made online by visiting close-funeral.co.uk or cheques payable to the charity c/o Colin J Close Funeral Service, Peel Close, Salisbury Road, Blandford DT11 7JU. Tel: 01258 453133

SNOWDEN MARJORIE Passed away peacefully, after a short illness, on 24th October, 2021, aged 94 years.

Formerly a Mayor of Sherborne Town.

She will be sadly missed by her family, friends and neighbours.

A funeral service will take place at Yeovil Crematorium on Wednesday 10th November, 2021at 12.40pm.

Donations in memory of Marjorie for Friends of the Yeatman Hospital may be sent c/o A.J. Wakely & Sons, 16 Newland, Sherborne, DT9 3JQ (Cheques made payable to the charity)

MONICA MARTIN Passed away peacefully on Monday 18th October 2021 aged 95 years.

Much loved mother, grandmother and great grandmother.

Thanksgiving Service to be held on Monday 15 November at St Mary and St James’ Church, Hazelbury Bryan at 2pm.

Please wear a splash of colour.

If desired donations can be made in her memory to Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance – Via Bracher Brothers, Newbury, Gillingham, Dorset SP8 4QL

A J Wakely& Sons Independent Family Funeral Directors Choice of Hearses available including our Land Rover Hearse

– 24 Hour Service –

Sherborne Tel: 01935 816817 Wincanton Tel: 01963 31310 Pre-payment plans available

Please contact Richard Wakely, or a member of our dedicated team for any advice or guidance.

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Family Run Caring & E cient • Private Chapels of Rest Personal Day & Night Service “Golden Charter” Pre-paid Funeral Plans available Memorials in Stone Marble & Granite, etc.

Shaftesbury (01747) 853532 imere昀eld@aol.com Gillingham (01747) 835335 www.mhfd.co.uk “Ridgemount”, Pitts Lane, West Melbury, Shaftesbury, Dorset. SP7 0BU

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Newell, Sherborne DT9 4EZ Tel: 01935 813479

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Baby born in GP surgery in 15 minutes

By Karen Bate newsdesk@blackmorevale.net

A couple from Sturminster Newton are celebrating the dramatic arrival of their baby girl after giving birth in just 15 minutes at their doctor’s surgery.

Zoe Maidment and her partner Chris Cowell had just set off in Chris’s Transit van for the 39-minute trip to Dorset County Hospital, when they knew they wouldn’t make it in time for the baby to be delivered.

With no time to spare, Chris spotted that Sturminster Newton Medical Centre was still open and pulled in.

Chris said: “I saw the medical centre was open, pulled in and ran inside shouting for ‘help’. Two receptionists and two patients at the counter dashed out of the surgery to help bring Zoe in from my van. I am a gardener and my van is full of tools, I really didn’t want her to give birth in my dirty old van, I only had a couple of towels!

“The nurse was amazing and she and I basically delivered the baby. The doctors still had appointments and in between patients were popping their heads in to see how we were getting on. It

SPECIAL DELIVERY: Baby Teanna, Zoe and Chris

was an amazing experience – I even cut the cord – and I can’t thank everyone who helped us enough. The nurse was lovely and thrilled to bits.

“When the paramedics arrived Teanna had been born.

“We did make it to Dorchester Hospital after Teanna had been born and

Zoe stayed in overnight for observation. But all was well and we are just so happy.”

Teanna Lily Cowell was born at 6.10pm on November 2, weighing 6lb 4oz and is ‘healthy and happy’ despite her dramatic delivery and Zoe is doing well.

Chris said: “I had been working that day, so Zoe and I kept close contact on the phone. She thought the contractions she was having were Braxton Hicks. I was working in Fiddleford when I rang Zoe towards the end of the day and she was in a lot of pain and hung up. I rang again and she said her contractions were coming every four minutes, so I dashed home to get to the hospital.

“We were just leaving and I knew we weren’t going to make it. Luckily the doctor’s surgery was open. I believe Teanna is the first baby born there!”

Grandparents Nicholas and Margaret Cowell are delighted with the new arrival.

Nicholas said: “The staff at the doctor’s have been wonderful, we have nothing but praise for them and how they delivered Teanna. We are very chuffed.”

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WELCOME: The Rev Martin Lee and wife Sue are greeted by the congregation at Lillington Church

Martin visits St Martin’s!

The new Team Rector of Sherborne Abbey The Rev Martin Lee and his wife Sue were given a warm welcome when they visited one of his new churches.

The couple were greeted at Lillington church by chaplain Rev Hugh Bonsey

Church services Shaftesbury Team Ministry Sunday, November 14 10am, Motcombe, Remembrance Service 10.30am, Compton Abbas, Remembrance Service 10.45am, St James’, Remembrance Service 10.45am, Melbury Abbas, Remembrance Service 10.50am, West Orchard, Remembrance Service 11am, St Peter’s, Remembrance Service 6pm, St James’, Pilgrim Service Sunday, November 21 9.30am, St Peter’s, Parish Communion 9.30am, St James’, Parish Communion

Trail of angels in Blandford

and few of the regular congregation.

Lillington Church is where Sir Walter Raleigh’s son, Wat, was christened in 1593.

There is a service held in Lillington every Sunday at 10am

Look out! The angels are coming in time for Christmas.

Dotted around Blandford Forum town centre from lunchtime on Saturday, December 11, you will find lovingly hand knitted angels which last year decorated the tree at Blandford Methodist Church for the Christmas

Tree Trail Competition.

This Christmas, though, our delightful celestial beings will carry the dates and times of Christmas services to be held at Blandford Methodist Church.

Please do take one and come and join us to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas.

11.15am, Compton Abbas, Parish Communion 11.15am, Enmore Green, Parish Communion 6pm, Motcombe, Evening Worship Team Office: office@ShaftesburyCofE.org. uk / 01747 853060 facebook.com/ShaftesburyCofE

Shaftesbury Quakers (Society of Friends) We meet for one hour each Sunday from 10.30am at the Quaker Meeting House, Abbey Walk, Shaftesbury SP7 8BB. All are welcome.

and we will return your call within 24 hours.

John Cornish, Steward 07799 516 735 Catholic services Marnhull and Gillingham Our Lady’s Marnhull 9.30am and 6pm St Benedict’s Gillingham 11am

Benefice of Hazelbury Bryan and the Hillside Parishes Sunday, November 14 10.30am, Hazelbury Bryan Service of Remembrance Sunday, November 21 TBC Ibberton TBC Family Service 10.30am Hazelbury Bryan Family Worship 10.30am, Belchalwell Holy Communion

Blandford Methodist Church You are warmly invited to our Sunday Services starting at 10.45am The over 60s are also invited to our lunch club on Tuesdays and Fridays at £4 per person. Please request your reservation by phone.

Everyone is welcome to our coffee morning for refreshments on Thursdays from 10am till noon.

We are anxious to offer help to those in need. Please leave your message on the phone

St Mary’s, Stalbridge Please join us for any of the following services: November 14 Service of Remembrance at 10.55am. Also Evensong at 4pm November 21 Morning Worship at 10am November 25 Holy Communion at 10am facebook.com/StalbridgeChurch

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Sir Costalot makes a lot at bikes auction The Charterhouse specialist auction of classic and vintage motorcycles at The Haynes International Motor Museum on October 13 was a great success with over £250,000 raised with a selling rate of just under 70%.

“We were instructed to sell a great range of motorcycles from across England,” commented Charterhouse motorcycle expert George Beale.

“There were barn stored projects through to show and race bikes so there was pretty much something for everyone.”

The star lot in the auction was a Vincent Rapide. Named by a previous owner as Sir Costalot due to the money he spent on the bike, there was plenty of pre-auction interest. From a deceased estate near Leicester, this was a nonmatching numbers motorcycle constructed in 1963 from a 1953 Vincent Comet frame and a 1951 Vincent Rapide engine and sold to a buyer in Cheshire at £27,450, underbid by a collector on the Isle of Man. The contents an old barn in Devon revealed a collection of pre and post war Velocettes and associated parts.

They had been amassed by a keen Velocette enthusiast over many years until he recently passed away.

At the auction, the barn stored bikes were hotly contested with buyers looking for winter projects and all the lots sold. Top lot of the collection was 1962 Velocette Viper project which sold for just over £3,400 with the bikes and bits

WHAT A LOT: The Vincent Rapide and, right, some of the Velocettes in a barn. Below: The Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Tilting Trike

totalling over £20,000.

A collection of motorcycles, including a group of Greeves scramblers, from a client in Kent, also generated a good deal of bidding. Rather like the Devon barn collection, there were bikes from Kent needing restoration and recommissioning. Overall this collection sold for over £24,450.

The earliest bike in the auction was a 1927 James Model 11 motorcycle.

It had spent most of its life in Somerset, was in wonderful original condition, and sold to a North Yorkshire collector biding on the internet for just over £12,000.

However, one motorcycle which attracted several raised eyebrows was a 2007 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail tilting trike from a client near London. Believed to be WE BUY RECORDS, the only Harley COLLECTIONS LARGE Davidson tilting trike in AND SMALL the UK, this sold to a Call BILL 07967 816506 client in or 01747 811100 Northamptonshire for Email: bill@tunes.co.uk £9,380, underbid by a Dorset biker Antique & Classic Clock Repairs Contact Charterhouse & Restoration at The Long Street Longcase Clocks a speciality Salerooms, Sherborne Antique Clock sales 01935 812277, bikes@charterhouseauction.com or via Tel: (01935) 423233 Mobile: 07974 520545 charterhousebclocksunlimited@aol.com auction.com www.clocksunlimited.co.uk

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Fine Art & Antiques Sale Thursday 25th November 10am

A late 19th century diamond and gold bangle, with a centring of a circular diamond cluster of old-cut diamonds £2000 - £3000 VIEWING TIMES Saturday 20th 10am - 12 noon Tuesday 23rd 10am - 5pm Wednesday 24th 10am - 5pm

House clearances arranged Probate & Insurance valuations Contact info@busby.co.uk 01308 420 100 The Old Hemp Store North Mills, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3BE

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Antiques & Collectibles ACREMAN ST. ANTIQUES AUCTION SHERBORNE

Textile, Fashion & Apparel Friday 19th November 10am

General Antiques & Collectors Friday 26th November 10am Viewing on the Thursday prior 10am-5pm online through easyliveauction.com

We are now accepting entries for our December sale For all enquiries please contact Gill Norman on 07908 333577 or 01935 508764 auction@acremanstreetantiques.co.uk

Sale for dedicated followers of fashion Acreman St. Antiques Auction Sherborne last month saw an increase in physical viewing and bidding (although we reserve the right to restrict numbers of people in the room) with good prices achieved across the sale, with especially fierce bidding for the jewellery, silver and watches which included over 40 lots being sold on behalf of the Yeovil Hospital Breast Cancer Unit Appeal.

This month we are holding out specialist Textile, Fashion and Apparel Auction on Friday, November 19, of 440 lots of textiles including, 60s & 70s fashion, antique costume & lingerie, linen & lace, rolls of furnishing fabrics, curtains, antique bedding, samplers & tapestries and sewing related items. Viewing is on Thursday, November 1810am-5pm.

Our General Antiques, Fine Art and Collector’s Auction is on Friday, November 26 at 10am, which will include a small collection of clocks, paintings and mirrors, toys, furniture, as well as up to 350 lots of jewellery, watches and silver for which we are inviting further entries.

If you have any enquiries, please contact Gill Norman on 07908333577 or 01935 508764 or by email auction@acreman streetantiques.co.uk.

VALE OF OKE AUCTIONS: Next Auction Sun 14th November. Okeford Fitzpaine village hall. 1pm viewing, 3pm start. Entries invited. 07971 298562

Free Valuations, Shaftesbury Office

Bronze by Abigail Varela (b.1948)

SOLD for £11,000 3rd March

t Entries invited for our forthcoming Specialist sales t Catalogues available online t Full calendar of Specialist sales A Chinese huanghuali desk, 20th century

SOLD for £24,000

2nd December

9th March

November Free Valuation Days Model Cars, Trains, Dolls & Toys 15th Free Valuations, Shaftesbury Office Silver, Jewellery & Watches 16th Coins, Medals, Militaria & Stamps 17th Beswick, Doulton & other Ceramics 18th Pictures, Maps, Books & Postcards 19th A fine diamond ribbon brooch Classic & Vintage Cars March SOLD for £8,200 Classic & Vintage Motorcycles March

Station Road, Semley, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 9AN t Entries invited for our 01747 855 122 www.semleyauctioneers.com forthcoming Specialist Offices in Dorset, Wiltshire and London sales t Catalogues available

Further Entries Now Being Accepted The Long Street Salerooms Sherborne DT9 3BS 01935 812277 • www.charterhouse-auction.com

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So much at two-day sale This Friday sees the first day of along and have a look.

Clarke’s Auctions at Semley’s twoThe next sale to be held will be their day sale with the garden and Christmas sale on December 30 and architectural section, ceramics and 31 and historically this is one of glass, militaria, scientific items, their busiest sales of the year with taxidermy, musical quality collectibles instruments, rugs, commanding the best carpets and pictures prices. They are & prints all being expecting over 1000 offered on Friday lots of interesting and the Chinese, antiques and Japanese & Asian collectables and are items, furniture and open for free silver & jewellery valuations at the being offered on the salerooms so please Saturday. contact them on the FRAMED: Lady in Front of There are over 200 number below if you a Window (oil on canvas) lots of furniture for have anything you

by John Bratby (19281992) Estimate £800-1,200 sale ranging from would like to consign.

Georgian secretaire bookcases and They also offer free home to value 17th and18th century oak pieces to items for consignment into all a modern Arkana dining table and future sales and are open for free matching chairs. There are pot verbal valuations Monday to Friday cupboards, chests of drawers, at their salerooms behind the Victorian pine furniture, extending Kingsettle Antique Centre on dining tables and chairs, a Victorian Station Road, Semley. All club fender, bedside tables, enquiries should be directed to wardrobes and pedestal desks and either Richard Clarke or Karen Marshall on 01747 they are open for viewing on 855109.

Thursday from 9am to 5pm so pop

CLARKE’S AUCTIONS Auctioneers & Valuers Antiques, Collectibles & Asian Art Next sale Friday 12th and Saturday 13th November. 10am start Colour catalogue available at the-saleroom.com and easyliveauction.com A set of six Chinese watercolour paintings.

Estimate £100-£200 An Art Nouveau Arts & Crafts enamel plaque depicting a lady. Sold for £1,350

Units 1 & 2 Kingsettle Business Park Station Road, Semley, Shaftesbury, SP7 9BU 01747 855109 enquiries@clarkesauctions.co.uk clarkesauctions.co.uk

Inside track on interiors Duke’s integral Interiors auctions have seen sensational success. Interiors, inspired by the world of design, feature the best in affordable and decorative antiques.

From large country house carpets selling for over £6,000 to a GOING GLOBAL: A mahogany table mahogany table globe globe from a private residence in London reaching £2,340 more sold for £2,340 to sale. All items on the Duke’s than ten times higher than its “in-house” online bidding original estimate. platform, which allows you to Interiors will continue Duke’s bid from anywhere with no tradition of works of art sold in additional surcharge on our an environmentally conscious website. and forward-thinking manner.

The heads of sale for this new The sales recycle objects from series will be Senan the 16th century to the 1960’s.

The upcoming Interiors auction MacDonagh and Will Batt. on the December 10 will feature Please contact them at senan.macdonagh@dukestwo prominent private auctions.com and william.batt collections.

Fully illustrated online @dukes-auctions.com or catalogues are available on the call 01305 265080 with any Duke’s website two weeks prior enquiries.

INTERIORS 10th December at 10:30am

Upcoming Auctions December

7th

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8th

Asian Art

9th

A Taste of Luxury

10th

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Gardening...

...with botanist Dr Dave Aplin

Sex-crazed moths come to a sticky end You may recall (issue 28 available online) I recently described the invasion of the horse chestnut leaf-mining moth. The larvae of these moths greatly disfigure leaves of horse chestnut trees. I mentioned cultural ways to try and reduce them.

Reader Richard Wood made contact and said: “I have found using pheromone traps from dragonfli.co.uk dramatically reduce infestations.”

I was unaware these traps for this pest were publicly available, thanks to Mr Wood, I can share this information. In recent years pheromone traps have become increasingly popular, so thought them an interesting topic to discuss.

All animals communicate between themselves and their environment, insects are no different. Among the strongest chemical signals are sex-pheromones, these are species-specific, seductive compounds that enable insects to locate a mate. They are normally emitted from the females to attract males. Since their discovery in 1959, scientists have worked to isolate and synthesize these compounds to help monitor and control insect pests.

Pheromones are usually purchased impregnated on sticky sheets of card covered by a tent-like roof, or buying a lantern-like structure that requires priming with the seductive compound. The lanternlike version is reusable and can be used at different times for different pheromones to lure additional insect pests. Their design also ensures small birds won’t get caught up in a gooey mess.

Pheromone traps are chiefly used commercially to monitor pest populations.

This provides growers with precise information on when to use alternative control methods. Pheromones are increasingly sold to the public as a means of controlling pest species. Their

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pheromones is to ensure the traps are up and ready prior to insect emergence.

Timings will depend upon which species you are trying to control, but retailers of these traps provide all this advice. The effectiveness of sex-pheromones as a sole control or pests appears to have mixed fortunes, but as Mr Wood described, in some instances, pheromones TRADITIONAL & MODERN UPHOLSTERY can make a TEL: 07968 983176 significant EMAIL: JAK.KIFF@HOTMAIL.COM difference.

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We Clear, Clean and Move.

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MJ HPPS LTD Plumbing and Heating Contractors

We offer a range of property clearance services with a reliable and efficient clearance service that takes the stress out of house clearance, downsizing, decluttering, or clearing unwanted items or rubbish.

We will clear everything from single items to whole house contents.

We clear houses, garages, and gardens as well as general rubbish clearance. We have a hoarding expert who can assist in decluttering and clearance of hoarded properties. On occasion we do buy items or can advise if these should go to auction.

General Plumbing Oil/Natural Gas/LPG Installations Bathroom and Kitchen Installations New Boilers and Cylinders Underfloor Heating & Renewables Landlord Safety Certificates

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We try and recycle as much as we can however some of the items cleared are not reusable. In these circumstances our clearance waste is split into categories of household waste, wood, rubble, metals, and hazardous waste such as old refrigeration units, paint and mattresses.

We use 35yard containers for household waste, wood and metals, with most of our waste going to Canford Recycling centre, near Wimborne or Dorset Waste Partnership.

Office: 01747 829222 Mobile: 07900916810 Email: mike@mjheat.co.uk All workmanship guaranteed, along with manufacturers’ warranties.

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Local Services WASTE & HOUSE CLEARANCE

Serving the West Country for 40 years SEPTIC TANK EMPTYING SERVICE The same team are still providing Pete White’s friendly service

DEMOLITION ANDDISPOSAL OFANYTHING All enquiries welcome large or small

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All Size Skips Available Full muckaway service available, small or large loads inc grab lorries Tipping facilities at our premises Sand, gravel & top soil supplied Loose or in Bulk Bags

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CHIMNEYS

• Natural Gas, LPG and Oil • Central Heating and Power

D&T Plumbing and Heating Oil servicing and repairs, plus all other aspects of plumbing and heating carried out

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Flushing

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Combination Boilers

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• Landlord’s Certificates • Bathrooms, Kitchens and Tiling

• All of the Blackmore Vale area covered

ABBEY DRAINAGE UNBLOCKING DRAINS

Smokin Nicely Chimney Sweeps Chimneys and Flues professionally swept. Extremely clean service. Keeping Dorset’s chimneys smokin’ nicely.

Tel: 01258 455251 Email: smokin.nicely@hotmail.co.uk smokinnicely.co.uk

COLIN THE CHIMNEY SWEEP: Call anytime for a quote. Certificates available upon request. Fully insured.

01963 458199/07889 597741.

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& Property Maintenance Clive Young carries out Chimney Sweeping Solid Fuel Stove Servicing & Repairs All Chimney Work Birdguards & Cowls Repointing & Leadwork

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B SNOOK CHIMNEY SWEEP brush vaccum*, problem chimneys*, replace new bird guards (also Chimney pots*) Insurance cover 5 million* Est 50 years Donhead 01747 828904* STEVE ADAMS CHIMNEY SWEEPING HETAS registered woodburner and flue installer. Birdguards and cowls . 07932 655267

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GENEALOGY SEEKING THE DORSET ROOTS OF YOUR FAMILY TREE? Experienced genealogist now available to do the digging! Enquiries to Tony 01425 838184

STORAGE SHIPPING CONTAINERS ( 20ft X 8ft ) available for storage at the Milborne Business Centre, Milborne St Andrew for £100 + VAT pcm.

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INSTALLATIONS accredited installers from the competent persons scheme for wood burners, multi fuel stoves, chimney liners and twin walled flues. Sweeping chimneys, birdguards & cowls. Fireplace alterations to your needs, chimney works including pointing. 01749 677440, 07921 074602 solidfuel3@aol.com solidfuelinstallations ltd.co.uk

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New bunded tank installed for between £1300 and £1900 +VAT depending on size of tank.

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KDL PLUMBING & HEATING Free estimates. 0747-512-8249 (01258) 490265 (01935) - 360154

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KDC PAVING AND LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES STORE stock a wide range of aggregates, natural stone paving, porcelain paving and building materials. We offer delivery via kerb side Hiab delivery or tipped loose loads. In addition we also offer plant hire including small diggers and Wacker plates, all at competitive prices. In addition, KDC are a well-established, experienced hard and soft landscaping company, with a solid reputation for high quality workmanship. Contact us for a free quotation. Find us at Unit 1, Domoney Estate, DINTON, SALISBURY, SP3 5EB – call us on 01722 500055 or visit dcpavingandlandscapes.co.uk

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Local Services GARDENING & LANDSCAPING (see also Home & Garden) For all your fencing and decking needs

Machine or Hand-Lay Local Authority Approved ESTABLISHED 1988

All aspects of Surfacing Roads Drives Footpaths Drop Kerbs Resin Bond Drives

Concrete & Floor Screed Mixed On site Any Quantity Delivered Sand Gravel Stone Cement Blocks etc Supplied Loose or in Big Bags Good Quality Top Soil in Stock

Now available... Rockery Stone

Competitive Rates 01747 853687 or 01747 855630 www.hardimanconcrete.co.uk

Call for a free quote 01747 820234 The Depot, Longcross, Warminster BA12 6LJ

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D KING & SON Tree and Garden Services t 25 years’ experience t Registered waste carrier t Free estimates t All areas covered t No job too small

Closeboard, panels & sheds supplied and fitted.

Gates made to measure.

Sherborne Fencing Ltd Tel: 01935 814272 Mobile: 07814246332 TREE & GARDEN SERVICES 07435 220238/ 01258 858888 Fully insured quality service provided

FENCING AND REPAIRS, No VAT, Call Dave Whitehand on 07549 151799 ALL IRONWORK Handrails, gates, railings, repairs., restoration.

01258 880301

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AJCB PONY PADDOCKS & REPAIRS • • • • • • • •

Fencing post/rails Topping Ragwort removal Hedge Trimming Materials supplied if required Chain arrowing All aspects of gardening Stable Repairs

Telephone: 07884 955 597

R&W FENCING SERVICES: All types of fencing, agriculture and domestic.

01258 880892 / 07980 036250

GROW YOUR GARDENING BUSINESS: 01963 400186

(Established 1997)

Tree Surgeons

Professional and experienced tree surgery and landscaping services to residential and commercial customers. We also offer a range of equipment for hire.

Available 24/7 Free quotations Fully qualified team Full public liability insurance Safe Contractor Approved

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Rodents, insects and all other pests humanely dealt with.

Bees re-homed if possible.

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T: 01258 721462 M: 07379 405080 enquiries@spectrumpestcontrol.co.uk

DRYSTONE WALLING AND LANDSCAPING www.yenstonewalling.co.uk 01963 371123

TOOLS & DIY SELF DRIVE DIGGER AND DUMPER HIRE, 01258 861647 WANTED - Dave buys all types of tools. Call 01935 428975

TREEWISE Experts in all aspects of TREE SURGERY, HEDGECUTTING & STUMP REMOVAL NPTC qualified & fully insured No job too small, Friendly, personal advice and free quotations.

Make a wise choice and call David Merefield today on 01747 850906 / 07966 522361

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Local Services ARCHITECTURAL, BUILDING & ELECTRICAL

DORSET LIME General building Extensions/Renovations Loft conversions Oak frame buildings Groundwork/Landscaping All your property needs

Call 01747 229757 email: alanlewisaml@aol.com

Specialists in all external and internal lime work.

Lime crete flooring.

All aspects of traditional building.

Call Dave or Dan 07492 181788

Plumbing Painting & decorating Shed erecting & repairs Flat pack furniture Shelves & curtain rails

Door hanging & skirting boards Guttering and facia clearing and replacement Fencing Pointing etc...

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ELECTRICIAN: Small jobs to full rewires. Fusebox Upgrades. Testing & Certification. Prompt, quality service at reasonable rates (no VAT). Call Alan 8am-8pm 07388696147. Email alanaac@me.com

MIKE BOWDEN AND SONS For a free insulation inspection and upgrade quote – call Owen on 07800 554481 or email us at mikebowdenandsons@outlook.com

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Quantity Surveying Estimating Surveying Building Dispute Resolution

Oak Timber Framing Bespoke Timber Building Traditional Building Specialist inc All Building WorkGAll aspects of Lime External and Internal Rendering/Plastering/Repointing Lime Crete Flooring Chimney Rebuilds and Repointing

www.dorsetwood.co.uk Contact Dave Welsh 07838 654468

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B.LUCAS General builder

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FREE estimates, No VAT 01747 228827 07809 362919

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Tel: Wincanton 01963 202382 Mobile: 07881 504426 Email: maplepres@aol.com www.maplepreservation.co.uk

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Providing reputable electrical services for over 30 years.

From an extra socket to a complete rewire, Budget to high end jobs. Testing & certification. Fusebox upgrades. Electric heating solutions. Smart home controls. Garden lighting & much more.

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Call Alan 8am - 8pm on 07388 696 147 Email : alanaac@me.com Website : alancollinsltd.co.uk

Robert Chalke Associates www.rca-qs.com SW BUILDING & RENOVATIONS All aspects of building and plumbing catered for.

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FRANKS MAINTENANCE GROUP Installations, servicing and maintenance

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•Boiler Replacement •Boiler Servicing •Gas, Oil & LPG •General Plumbing •Bathrooms •Landlord Certification •Solid Fuel Stove Installation and Servicing

HEATING AND PLUMBING

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Our advice is always free

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Planning & Building Applications for New Build, Extensions and Conversions

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Call Alan Brown, C&G 2330, 2391,2382 on 01258 446258 or 07976 630 904 Email: alan@acbelectricals.org.uk

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Building Construction Specialists

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If Carlsberg did adverts... they’d do New Blackmore Vale adverts. Book yours on 07714 289409 (display) or 01963 400186 (classifieds)

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Cooking...

with Mrs Simkins

Mushroom Pudding

Here’s a tasty treat for darkening days. Lovely and comforting, it’s economical too: you can use one of those large punnets of ‘wonky’ or ‘ugly’ mushrooms available from most supermarkets now. Skip the bacon and use vegetable stock (or a teaspoon of Marmite) and vegetarian suet for a meatfree version.

Serves 2-3 Filling 1 medium onion, diced 2 tablespoons oil 125g bacon, chopped 225g (8oz) mushrooms, sliced Freshly ground black and ground white pepper, to taste 1 beef gel stock pot or favourite stock cube 3 tablespoons hot water Scant level teaspoon black treacle Suet Pastry 200g (7oz) plain flour 100g (3½ oz) shredded suet Pinch sea salt 3 tablespoons cold water to mix Preheat oven to 200C (180C

fan oven) gas mark 6, or equivalent You will need a greased 1.1litre pudding basin, foil to cover, string, and a roasting dish Fry the onions and bacon over a moderate heat with 1 tablespoon of oil. Add the other tablespoon of oil and the mushrooms and continue to cook, with a lid on, until the mushrooms are soft and succulent. Season with pepper and add the stock pot or cube. Stir until dissolved then stir in the water and the

Mum’s Kitchen...

treacle.

Allow to reduce a little over a moderate heat while you make the suet pastry.

Whiz the flour, suet and salt in a food processor. Add the water and whiz until large clumps form.

Press gently into a ball and roll approximately 1 cm thick.

Roll out the lid first, using the basin as a template. Roll out the rest and line the basin. Fill with the mushroom mixture and position the lid in place, pinching it gently round the

Method: Preheat the oven to 170C/fan oven 150C. Butter and line a 20cm spring-form cake tin.

Warm the whisky in a small pan, then remove from the

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Apple and Marmalade Cake Ingredients: 3 tablespoons whisky 100g sultanas 100g ground almonds 175g plain flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 4 apples, cored, peeled and chopped into thick slices 200g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing 200g soft dark brown sugar 3 large eggs 150g thick-cut orange marmalade 25g demerara sugar

edges to seal.

Cover the top with a loose tented lid of foil, secured with string.

Bake for 45 minutes in a roasting dish half-filled with hot water then remove the foil and cook for a further 20 minutes or until the top is golden.

heat and add the sultanas.

Leave to soak and cool.

Put the ground almonds, flour and baking powder into a bowl and combine.

Beat the butter and soft dark brown sugar until light and

fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a tablespoon of the flour mixture with each one, then fold in the remaining flour mixture.

Beat the marmalade to loosen it, and then fold it into the mixture followed by the sultanas and whisky.

Stir in chopped apples and turn out into the prepared tin. Sprinkle with demerara sugar. Bake for around 1hour 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Allow to cool in the tin before turning out.

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A warm pie at night?

It’s shepherd’s delight Warming keema shepherds pie Ideal for now the evenings have started to get a bit of a chill and you just want a little bit of “comfort in a dish’.

Ingredients 500g of lamb mince 2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil One large onion peeled and finely chopped 3 garlic cloves chopped Fresh root ginger finely chopped Two green chilies finely chopped 4 tablespoons of curry powder (depending on how hot you like it) 3 tomatoes finely chopped 1 to 2 teaspoons of white sugar 2 tablespoons of tomato purée

75g of peas Method In a pan cook the onions, garlic and ginger until lightly golden then add the chilies and curry powder and stir until mixed in.

Add the lamb and brown.

When the lamb is browned, add the tomatoes, sugar and tomato purée and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes on a low heat and add the peas.

For the seasonal root vegetable topping: Chop a celeriac, 2-3 carrots depending on size and half a Swede.

Boil until ready to mash.

Stir in some butter and apply to the top of your keema lamb. Place this in a preheated oven at 180°C and cook for a further 20 minutes until lightly browned on top.

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Celebrity chefs have teamed up with members of the military to create the Royal British Legion Centenary Cookbook Cooking with Heroes to celebrate 100 years of supporting Armed Forces communities.

Since May 15, 1921 when four veterans charities from the First World War came together to form an alliance, the Royal British Legion has been providing help and support to service men and women, veterans and their families.

To celebrate this milestone, more than 150 personnel from across the Military Family have come together to write this remarkable, hardback book, to raise money for the charity.

Led by retired Squadron Leader Jon Pullen RAF, Cooking for Heroes celebrates 100 regions around the world in which the RBL has operated, with each represented by an authentic recipe along with the profile of a local hero who deserves to be remembered for their valour, conduct and contribution to British defence.

Jon and his team joined one of the official sponsors, Hall & Woodhouse, at the Badger Chase at Wincanton races, where thousands of books were signed.

Jon said: “Having spent 37 years in the Armed Forces, the importance of charities like the Royal British Legion cannot be overstated, knowing that the RBL will be there when we need them allows our Forces to put their lives at risk to do their job.

The fact that so many military personnel volunteered to be part of this project is completely down to the esteem the charity is helping by members of the Armed Forces.”

Born in Tarrant Keyneston, Louis Arbon Strange,DSO,

INGREDIENTS: At Leadenhall Market with guest chef Cyrus Todiwala

RBL cookbook has recipes fit for heroes for centenary

HONOURED: Jon Pullen with the gravestone of his Great Uncle Private Leonard Langford of the Gloucestershire Regiment who fell at the end of the Battle of the Somme, the book cover and, right, Portland Pudding

OBE, MC, DFC & Bar, is our Dorset hero. Wing Commander Strange was a highly influential and decorated English Aviator who served in the First and Second World Wars, and is honoured for his pioneering work in air combat and bombing techniques during the First World War. Leading Catering Services Emma Keitch, Royal Navyho resurrected the ‘Portland Pudding’ - a favourite of King George III who, whilst visiting Portland, made the Portland Arms his

Headquarters and took a particular liking to the landlady’s famous pudding.

These stories of courage, determination and sacrifice cover 300 years and bring to light some astonishing individuals, many of whom have been forgotten and alongside each story, military and chefs including Jamie Oliver, James Martin and Cyrus Todiwala, have developed recipes that reflect the region’s food culture, often old and forgotten foods brought back in to the light of the 21st Century.

Jon said: “I’m absolutely delighted to be part of such a prestigious event and to be able to share with the Public a little about our book. The book has already raised more than £100,000 since May and with the support of companies like Hall & Woodhouse we have a great chance of reaching our target of raising more than £150,000 through our book.” n Cooking for Heroes is available from most online retailers including the RBL PoppyShop

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Super squash is an ideal substitute for spaghetti Rebecca Vincent is a nutritionist working in Wincanton and Yeovil

Seeing as squash season is in full swing, I thought we’d take a look at another member of the squash family this time, the spaghetti squash. Paired with creamy garlic mushrooms you could almost mistake it for proper pasta... almost!

Spaghetti squash is a popular, lighter, nutritionally dense, pasta substitute and a great source of vitamins C and B6, manganese, and dietary fibre. As with other winter squashes they are also a good source of antioxidants including beta-carotene. They take minimal preparation so make a great low-effort dinner option, which is satisfying but also provides one of your five a day.

Mushrooms are a source of dietary vitamin D which can be increased when exposed to UV light (either from the sun or a light box). They are also good sources of protein, B vitamins, potassium, magnesium,

phosphorus, copper, and selenium. As if that wasn’t enough, they also contain the soluble fibre beta-glucans which are prebiotic so help feed beneficial gut bacteria.

Spaghetti squash with creamy mushrooms (Serves 2) 1 medium spaghetti squash 200g mushrooms of your choice 1 garlic clove (finely grated) Leaves from a couple of sprigs of thyme 100ml double cream (or cashew

/ soya cream) 1 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil Salt and pepper Heat the oven to 180 degrees.

Slice the spaghetti squash lengthways and scrape out the seeds. Lightly coat with oil and a pinch of salt. Place both halves flesh side down on a baking tray and pop in the oven for around 40 minutes, until the flesh is soft.

Meanwhile, chop the mushrooms and gently sauté on a low-medium heat with a little extra virgin olive oil and a pinch of pepper. As they start to soften

The Undercover Diner visits...

After leaving the Spire Hill Therapy Centre, I was advised to drink plenty of water, which, let’s be honest, is not what you want to hear after having walked past the Thyme after Time Café before my appointment. I had spent the last hour thinking about dropping in for a drink before going home.

After a very pleasant treatment, feeling wonderfully carefree and not yet ready to return to the real world, I practically floated into the café. As I walked in, the smell of breakfast and the sight of scrumptious cakes filled my senses. Now I was regretting my decision to go chocolate free for October more than ever (I’d like to

add I lost no weight whatsoever through this successful yet incredibly difficult mission)!

I stopped for a leisurely cup of tea, along with the glass of water recommended by my therapist, and enjoyed yet another relaxing experience.

add the garlic and thyme, stirring regularly. Add the cream and leave to gently simmer on a low heat.

When the squash is ready agitate the flesh into spaghetti with a fork, working right up to the skin. Using the squash as a bowl serve the creamy mushrooms nestled in the squash and enjoy! n Rebecca Vincent BSc (Hons) BANT registered nutritionist 07515 019430 rebeccavincentnutrition.co.uk

Thyme After Time

After a rather foggy start, the sun was shining and I sat in the undercover courtyard on one of the many coloured chairs.

The staff were friendly and welcoming, the atmosphere calm helped by the owner’s gorgeous dog who kept me

company. Despite sitting on my own, I didn’t feel alone – the staff were attentive and the customers were friendly.

I’ve since been Instagramstalking the café and am now planning my return for Crunchie Tiffin cake for myself and the Spire Hill Grill for brunch as a treat for my dad, which includes a Cumberland sausage, 4oz rump steak and free range eggs from the farm next door.

So Thyme after Time, consider this my order and I will see you very soon!

Thyme after Time is located at Spire Hill Farm in Thornhill, Stalbridge, DT10 2SG. It’s open Monday to Saturdays 8am-2pm.

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Our duty to remember A few years ago I was sitting on a ‘rib’ on the Cromarty Firth in Scotland. Before heading out to sea our guide took us to a large, black iron buoy.

He told us it marked the spot where HMS Natal had exploded on December 30, 1915 as her crew and guests (from a nearby hospital ship, Drina) were enjoying a film party.

The explosion was caused internally rather than by U-boats and within five minutes she had capsized in those icy waters.

This story stayed with me and a bit of research back home led me to believe one of my great uncles was a survivor of this incident.

He was one of six brothers from one family to fight in the First World War and he survived to go to South Africa to live a full and rich life. I never met him but his story, or what I can pull together of it, stays with me and I have passed it on to my sons.

Remembrance Day brings together two key parts of our lives that can get overlooked. First, the value of passing on stories and second the value of roots, of remembering, of acknowledging with thanks.

Our own stories are intricately

linked with those of our ancestors and will go on to form or have an effect on the stories belonging to our descendants. We need only glance at the agenda for COP26 to see how each generation affects the next. But that is on an international level.

Staying with us as individuals, our lives are not standalone events.

They are part of an ongoing passage of human life. Therefore it is absolutely right we should stop once a year to acknowledge those who have gone before us with such immense bravery, fear and sacrifice.

And it is our duty not only to stop and acknowledge that with gratitude but to pass on the stories we know about our ancestors to our descendants in order to keep message alive.

The annual Act of Remembrance should never be allowed to decrease in value. For every one of us it has a different meaning and for some it is an unbearable reminder of a grief that must be carried always. But for others it is a chance to stop and learn about those who gave their lives for us and from whom we weave our own paths.

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A walk around...

MOTCOMBE Park by the church, which is usually open. After you have visited it (and maybe added to or used their food bank) walk south westward along the road, passing the school, which looks pretty old. I think my mother and her sisters and brother would have attended it as my grandparents were farming in Motcombe in the 1920s.

After nearly half a mile, you’ll find the start of a bridleway on your right, leading northwards. The route can get a bit muddy in places and some of the stiles appear to have been designed for the long-legged. There’s often a stream alongside.

You’ll pass on your right a line of very ancient trees along a hedge bank which must have been an important boundary centuries ago. Just before a gateway the path swings right then left through a woody patch then continues northward between a hedge and a fence.

When you reach some farm buildings, turn briefly left then right to continue northwards. At a junction of

with retired Dorset rights of way officer Chris Slade

bridleways you’ll enter Motcombe Meadows, an 18 acre estate with trees, allotments, grassland and paths owned by the parish council. You might like to explore it on another occasion or pause for a picnic.

Take the bridleway heading west for about a mile. There are some good views, especially towards Duncliffe Hill to the south. When you reach King’s Court Wood, join a footpath that leads you north eastwards. After a while look out for a stile in a hedge to your north and head for it. This leads you to a (not very!) level crossing across the railway line. Then carry on to Wolfridge Farm where you turn right and soon you’ll join the road which takes you south, through the village and back to your car.

Warming turmeric has a plethora of health benefits As we move into winter, the nights draw in and it gets colder, I start thinking about delicious warm soups and always like to use herbs, where possible, as a food. I will make soups with ginger (last edition’s article) and lots of turmeric or Curcuma longa. (This is the time when all my pots and mixer turn yellow – much to my family’s amusement.)

Turmeric is one of my most favourite herbs as it is so easy to use, it tastes delicious and is incredibly good for you – as testified by health food shops selling turmeric or curcumin supplements but you cannot beat just using a good quality fresh or powdered turmeric as a food.

It has so many health benefits. It is wonderful for digestion as it promotes the liver to produce bile which protects it from harmful toxins and helps to digest fats and proteins. This promotes absorption of minerals and increases metabolism which can aid weight loss.

It is an excellent digestive for the stomach and is used for problems such as wind, bloating and heartburn as it soothes and protects the gut mucosa.

Turmeric is antimicrobial and strengthens the immune system. It can lower cholesterol and therefore help with hardening of the arteries. It is used to protect against cancer and can also lower blood sugar in diabetes. It is hailed as a wonder herb and a super food.

I also think of turmeric as an anti-inflammatory. Many diseases are caused by inflammation – of the gut, the brain, the joints, the bowel, the skin and if left untreated this can cause serious problems. Adding liberal helpings of turmeric to your cooking is easy to do and will only be of benefit.

However, if you are using either fresh or dried turmeric, to activate all the curcuminoids that are in the herb, you need to use a good quality fat, coconut oil or

olive oil and black pepper. the allicin (the active Gently cook some onions in ingredient in garlic) and you the oil, add the turmeric and have an healthy and ginger, cook all this with delicious meal either used as some tomatoes (cooked a sauce for some fish or tomatoes are also very good blitzed up into a soup. for you and need oil and pellyfiona@gmail.com. black pepper to activate the lycopene in them, which is a 07742 453285 powerful anti-cancer antioxidant) add some coconut milk and chuck in some garlic Fiona Chapman is at the end of studying naturopathy the cooking and herbal medicine at process so the College of you don’t destroy all Naturopathic Medicine

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Addictions more prevalant than you think Society often shuns people with addiction problems – rather than try and comprehend why and how people end up with this serious and often tragic condition.

The media’s portrayal of addiction has spread stigma, shame and fear; rather than empathy, compassion and understanding. Many start as a result of feeling a sense of unease with themselves.

Whether it’s to relax, fit in, feel more confident, less anxious or sad, reduce worrying, overcome boredom, numb physical or emotional pain or to forget; most ingest mood altering substances or engage in certain behaviours to change their thoughts and/or escape uncomfortable feelings.

No one wants to become an alcoholic/addict/dependent because you essentially become a prisoner to your ‘habit.’

Addiction is a complex biopsychosocial disorder characterised by a compulsive obsessive need for a substance

or certain behaviour. Many people wrongly think it is a matter of willpower and don’t understand why people who indulge too much can’t just control it or stop. One can be addicted to gambling, drugs, alcohol, smartphone, internet, pornography, exercise, work, shopping, video games, sex, food – to name the common ones. The behaviours become a coping mechanism which can quickly become habitual and then one is powerless to control them, let alone stop. After a while the body changes physiologically and there becomes both a physical and mental dependency.

Experiencing withdrawal symptoms can be very unpleasant, even fatal in some cases; which is why many people can’t/don’t stop. As the guilt and shame increases, so does the denial; including feeling indifferent and kidding oneself it’s not so bad. There can be consequences that no one

likes; such as intoxication, financial problems, mood swings, dishonesty, anger, secrecy or even lawbreaking.

Addiction can quickly strip you of your dignity, morals, corevalues, self-esteem, self-respect and destroy your relationships with family and friends. The recent pandemic was a good example of where more people than usual were stressed, depressed, lonely, isolated, angry, scared, bereaved and so consumption of both prescribed and non-prescribed moodaltering substances, alcohol, on-line gambling, porn, shopping etc increased dramatically. Addictions rose exponentially during the lockdowns as mental health declined. Obviously it’s important to stop doing something that’s causing you harm, but recovery is also about understanding why one’s unhappy, learning how to heal that and how to cope with living life on life’s terms with new

healthier coping strategies.

Likewise, those who are close to someone with an addiction or dependency problem often need professional help to process their experiences and heal their hurt.

More often than not they are going to be part of the addict’s recovery network; so it’s essential they get emotional support and education on how best to help the recovering addict without enabling them. If left untreated addiction usually ends in one of three very unpleasant ways - jails, institutions or death. Recovery from addiction is certainly possible; but it takes dedication, determination and is far harder if you try to do it on your own. If someone you know needs help, please don’t shame or judge them; but encourage them to reach out for professional treatment and support. n David Stanton is a Senior Counsellor/Psychotherapist living and working in the Vale.

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Meditations in nature: Amid the cauldron of bubbling energy If you are a wild swimmer, there is no better place to swim than in the sea. For here, no two swims are the same. The ocean changes season-by-season, day-byday, minute-by-minute and inspires the imagination like nowhere else.

Although late October, the sea still holds the warmth of the summer sunshine; currently 17 degrees in Dorset and warmer than the air, although I must confess, at first it doesn’t feel like it!

But once you have braved a slow entry beyond the breaking waves and your body has adjusted to a full immersion, the cool water is nothing short of energizing.

The weather today is breezy and changeable, rain clouds come and go and are replaced by short bouts of autumn sunshine. In search of inspiration, I have donned my costume and headed for my favourite beach.

It is a bit of a trek from where I live but as winter draws nearer, I know the opportunities will lessen, and as soon as I enter the water, I am glad to have made the effort.

The lively,

boisterous waves send me bobbing as my hands cut a channel through the surface.

At first, I am on a pathless journey, my eyes as ever drawn to the horizon and the lines of light that demark sea and sky, but as the sun comes out of hiding, she casts a million mirrors across the

water; like a stream of consciousness that spans the ocean. I can’t help but follow just for a while, although mindful of tide, current and Come join the my proximity to shore.

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Beneath the surface of this beautiful Dorset bay lays a delightful reef adorned with a colourful garden of sea grass, rocks and ocean plants that provide habitats for our aquatic species. As I swim, I recall the long, free summer days exploring this secret underworld. In July, the deep emerald-green surface was smooth like glass, yet today it is a blue and grey cauldron of bubbling energy.

Once back on the beach, dry and warm, with a flask of hot tea, I feel soothed and refreshed, alive and well.

The sea has drowned my troubles. By now, white waves crash against a backdrop of a dark stormy horizon and an occasional sunbeam casts a brief ethereal yellowish light.

When the rain arrives and my view is lost, I will make for home but until then I am content to just be here and watch the storm unfold.

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Puzzles Arrow words Highest singing voice

Reply

Picks

Tinker

Crossword Botanical term for a grape

Idiomatic phrase

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Sudoku

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Jumbo 3D Sudoku

Cryptic Crossword 1

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Place 1 to 9 once each into every row, column and bold-lined 3×3 box. No digit may be repeated in any dashed-line cage, and each dashed-line cage must result in the given value when the stated operation is applied between all of the digits in that cage.

For subtraction and division operations, start with the highest number in the cage and then subtract or divide by the other numbers in that cage.

RESULT

Can you solve these brain chains entirely in your head? Start with the bold value on the left of a chain, then follow the arrows and apply each operation in turn. Write the result in the box.

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Across 1 Looked for a comedian to entertain American journalist (7) 5 Pull to restrain hard and violent ruffian (4) 10 US actor by right gets large yacht (7) 11 Approaches Arab among three bridge players (5) 12 Popular assistance backed for Asian country (5) 13 Heart of matter in military authority, it’s said (6) 15 Old man and jazz singer getting Spanish dish (6) 17 Have enough to pay for a car reportedly (6) 19 Curved instrument namely close to flimsy article (6) 20 Unspoken diplomacy touring Italy (5) 23 Greek character with a number quietly in bars? (5) 24 Ban English doctor on classic ship (7) 25 Mad heads (4) 26 Good opinion about fine ground (7) Down 2 Turned getting injury (5) 3 Large-scale art work shown by popular place for trains covering a pair of lines (12) 4 Regret over English knight with a brilliant discovery (6) 6 Paradisal place largely hot without time gets dismissal (5-2) 7 Game with desire for quiet producing surprised expression (4) 8 Is sparing holding money in share certificates (7) 9 A blueprint of work is disadvantageous (12) 14 Incitement to disorder first off in form of a book (7) 16 Tendency when parking’s missing for transport (7) 18 Harsh always within confines of submarine (6) 21 Some demonic or giant dog (5) 22 Put favourable slant on short ride (4)

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Pets

Ask the vet...

Chickens and Poultry Chickens are becoming ever popular pets with the added bonus of producing eggs for eating. Understanding signs and causes of disease can help them live longer and healthier lives.

Hens can be obtained from a variety of sources. You can hatch them from eggs, though you may end up with more cockerels than hens! They can be bought as point of lay pullets from a local producer. Ex commercial layers are regularly rehomed for ‘retirement’ and will often continue to lay regularly for a

with Lynn Broom

few more years.

Poultry are prone to developing a number of infections which can affect their short term and long term health. Commercial layers receive vaccines from hatching and these are often repeated throughout their ‘working’ life. Previously vaccinated birds may develop infections in later life as immunity from vaccination wanes.

Vaccination in backyard flocks is often problematic because the infections present in the environment need to be known to choose appropriate vaccines and many are given to day old chicks by an inhaled spray or intramuscular injection.

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arriving to reduce the risk of this.

Birds with respiratory signs such as sneezing, coughing, sore eyes and blocked nostrils often have a range of infections most of which are likely to be viral. Mycoplasma is a type of bacteria and is very common in poultry causing respiratory disease often in combination with viruses. The viruses cannot be treated but mycoplasma and other bacteria often can be although eliminating mycoplasma is difficult. Treating for internal (worms) and external parasites (lice, mites) reduce other drains on the birds’ immune system and, alongside supportive care, may enable the bird to fight off the infection.

Many of the infections that chickens get can cause scarring of the oviduct, causing birds to stop laying, produce abnormal eggs or develop egg peritonitis.

Symptoms of this can develop months after the original infection.

Birds are very good at hiding the symptoms of disease. Often, once they look ill, they are very unwell. Noting subtle signs such as changes in behaviour or appetite and loss of weight (identified by picking your birds up regularly and comparing individuals) can help identify disease earlier.

Everyone has a different approach to their own chickens. Some people keep birds purely for production and others become much loved family pets and options for veterinary care are wide ranging to suit each individual’s approach.

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Arts & Entertainment

New children’s book tackles speech issues Wolfstongue, a new children’s book published this year by Little Island, is a gripping story about Silas, a boy who is bullied at school because of his speech difficulties.

One day Silas makes friends with a wolf called Isengrim and discovers that there is a hidden world where animals speak. In the magic realm of the Forest, Silas learns that the tongue-tied wolves are being persecuted by clever, articulate foxes: if he is to help his new wolf friends, he will need to find his own words.

Author Sam Thompson teaches English and creative writing at Queens University, Belfast and has been nominated for the Booker Prize and Encore Prize for his previous novels.

His relatives have lived in Dorset for over 80 years and he has been to Blandford regularly where his parents now live.

Sam, who is currently working on a sequel, The Fox’s Tower. said: “I began writing Wolfstongue for my son at a time when he was having trouble with his language.

“He loved wolves, too, and I felt there was a connection between wolves and words – that a tale about the silence of animals, and about the timeless fantasy that animals might speak to us, could help us make sense of our struggles with words.”

The book is suitable for children of eight years or older, and according to The Times, ‘has all the makings of a modern classic … Not since Watership Down have animal dynamics felt so true and the political undertones so live’. The New Statesman says: ‘Gripping and profound, Wolfstongue may be for children but it is about being ANIMAL MAGIC: The cover of Wolfstongue by Sam Thompson human’.

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DATE: Sean Lakeman and Kathryn Roberts

Folk duo on Cornex date Award-winning folk duo

Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman will be performing at the Blandford Corn Exchange on Sunday, November 28 at 7.30pm.

Guitarist Sean Lakeman is a tour-de-force of modern folk music, producing music for The Levellers, Frank Turner, Billy Bragg, Imelda May, Bellowhead and Show of Hands.

Kathryn is held in the highest regard by peers and often lauded as one of the finest singers of her generation.

For more details go to artsreach.co.uk.

HISTORY: SOLD is at Halstock and Sturminster Newton later this month

Tales of slavery and freedom When one woman tells of her extraordinary journey to overcome the brutality of slavery, she becomes a beacon for the British antislavery movement. Born into slavery in the British colony of Bermuda, Mary Prince

went on to become an autobiographer and champion of freedom. Her book, SOLD, had an electrifying effect on the abolitionist movement helping to free many Africans in bondage.

The award-winning show

SOLD will be performed at Halstock Village Hall on Friday, November 26 at 8pm and in Sturminster Marshall Memorial Hall on Saturday, November 27 at 8pm.

For tickets go to artsreach.co.uk.

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WISHBONE ASH

The Rise of Rock and Roll

THE BLUEJAYS – RAVE ON

PLEA S KE E CHEC EP KI OU NG WEBSR ITE

CLIFF RICHARD THE GREAT 80 TOUR

(Recorded screening)

THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL

ANDY PARSONS: Healing the Nation

A tribute to Whitney Houston

Friday 12th November 7.30pm Tickets £26

Saturday 13th November 7.30pm Tickets £20

Monday 15th November 7.45pm Tickets £16.50/£15

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THE GOLDHAWKS

NO TIME TO DIE (12A)

CATFISH KEITH

UK PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE

VOODOO ROOM

THE WHO’S GREATEST HITS

Thursday 18th November 8pm Tickets £19.50

Friday 19th November 7.30pm Tickets £23

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20th, 22nd, 23rd & 25th November 7.30pm, Matinee 24th November 1.00pm, Adults: £8 eve £7 matinee U16s: £6 (Box Office bookings incur £1 booking fee per transaction)

Tuesday 16th November 7.30pm Tickets £25.50

Wednesday 17th November 8pm Tickets £15

Wednesday 24th November 7.30pm, Tickets £17 (Box Office bookings over £20 incur £1 booking fee)

Friday 26th November 7.30pm Tickets £23.50 (Box Office bookings incur £1 booking fee per transaction)

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BSO musicians will be turning up On Your Doorstep Artsreach and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra will be bringing their collaboration of recitals with the BSO On Your Doorstep concert to The Exchange in Sturminster Newton on Thursday, December 2 at 7.30pm.

BSO On Your Doorstep, an initiative made possible thanks to support from the Weston Culture Fund, will see a selection of BSO musicians playing in brand new chamber ensembles as the orchestra returns to the road, reconnecting with audiences across the southwest and bringing live music directly to local communities.

Artsreach co-director Yvonne Gallimore said: “Recitals by musicians from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra are always incredible to see and hear in our intimate venues, and Artsreach is delighted to be able to present such outstanding artists in our rural communities.”

RECITALS: BSO musicians at The Exchange in Sturminster Newton on December 2 For tickets go to artsreach.co.uk.

Old boys SongSmithS are having a blast The SongSmithS, one of the ‘oldest boy bands in Dorset’ have released their inaugural album, Pearl and the Cat, after recording it during the pandemic in less than a year of forming and within days of lead singer Pete Edwards being diagnosed with liver failure.

The five ultimate musos boast a combined age of 323 and play original songs influenced by everything from rock and roll to modern day creations, all embraced to wide acclaim.

Alan Mash, of the band, said: “Just as we started recording some of our 30 original songs, our lead singer and prolific writer, Pete Edwards was diagnosed with liver failure. He had limited time to get a replacement and obviously it would be touch and go whether, if a suitable donor could be found and then if his body would be able to accept it.

DEBUT LP: The SongSmithS are releasing their inaugural album Pearl and the Cat

“Luckily all went well but just as things seemed be getting back to normal, covid arrived. With at least three vulnerable members of the band, everything was put on hold again. Cutting a long story short, we managed to safe distance our

forthcoming album live at the new Mill Farm Studios in Bradford Abbas, Dorset.

“We wanted the album to be as live as we could with the odd bum note, being realistic and true to who we are.

“We played at the Fringe Shaftesbury in 2019 and

recently this year and had them dancing in the aisles, safe distanced of course.”

SongSmithS have received some great comments from the likes of Johnnie Walker and Chris Evans.

And most importantly, they are having a blast.

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Arts & Entertainment Durweston Choral Society presents

Vivaldi Gloria

IT’S A HIT, MAN The Hitman Blues Band visit Milborne St Andrew

Vaughan Williams A Celebration of Christmas

Bernstein Medley from West Side Story With seasonal music and some audience participation Choir, Ensemble and Soloists directed by Simon Twiselton Saturday 27 November 2021 7.30 pm Durweston Parish Church

Tickets Adults £15 Under 16s £10 Tel: 01258 472253 Email: margaret.peers@uwclub.net

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Milborne to be wild with US blues band Touring the UK this autumn, The Hitman Blues Band will be playing in venues as far flung as Glasgow, London, Cornwall and… Milborne St Andrew.

This seven-piece blues collective from New York City was formed in 1989 by Russell ‘Hitman’ Alexander and after previous successful UK tours, the band is now promoting their seventh and latest CD, Not my Circus,

Not my Monkey. A threeman brass section joins the classic blues line-up, supported by back-up vocals.

The band will pay at the village hall on Saturday, November 13. Doors and bar open at 7.30pm.

Tickets are £12 from Clive Rawlings on 07910 875184 and at the Londis store.

Profits from the event go to Milton Abbas Riding for the Disabled Group.

Rupert discovers friendship at the end of world in new book Blackmore Vale-based author extraordinary animals and Rupert Attlee has published an landscapes, and experiences illustrated children’s book, Lost their journey of survival, selfat the End of the World, aimed discovery and friendship. at nine to13-year-olds and Rupert said: “Patagonia is a inspired by real-life adventures. place dreams are made of – It tells the story of four children magical, mythical and at times who are shipwrecked while just plain weird. While it is going round Cape Horn. perhaps a place you would not Clinging to a life-raft, they are wish to be lost in, I cannot think swept onto the shores of of a better backdrop for a Patagonia, one of the most children’s book.” inhospitable places on earth.

But they soon find they are not alone…

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Artists on top of the world

dominated in the east. A productive painting session was followed by a hearty supper of Dal Baat washed down by some strong home distilled spirit in the smoke filled kitchen of a remote and delightfully unsophisticated guesthouse.”

The painters captured vivid and exciting paintings in mountainous, ancient and wonder-fuelled villages including Pisang, Braka, Gangapurna and Manang.

Tim said: “After (Manang) there are no roads and the climbing gets serious via Yak Kharta and Thorong Phedi. There were exceptional snows and rumours abounded about the pass being closed.

“A few years before a large number of trekkers and porters had died on the pass with a change of weather and the authorities were jittery. From Thorong Phedi the track, then snowbound, seems to snake up a near

vertical slope.

At four in the morning the sight of other trekkers with their twinkling head torches high above is somewhat daunting but almost mechanically one foot was put before the other, the crampons digging into the snow, and some two hours later as the sun rose in a clear blue sky a welcome cuppa was taken at the upper camp (High Camp).

Thereafter the climbing is easier and the scenery inspirational: a vast bowl of high snow-covered peaks.

The pass itself at 5416 metres was reached at about midday and the skies remained clear all day.”

The film was premiered at the Royal Geographical Society in September.

The exhibition runs between November 26 and December 3.

A reception and film showing will be held on Friday, November 26 and Saturday 27, 6-8 pm.

EXCHANGE

THE TH

Three painters will be hosting an exhibition and film on their expedition to Nepal at Summerleaze Gallery in East Knoyle on November 26 and 27 to raise money for Mere based charity, Seeds4Success.

Patrick Cullen, Tobit Roche and Tim Scott Bolton, from East Knoyle, spent three weeks painting in the Annapurna region, climbing over the Thorong La Pass, and creating dramatic and atmospheric depictions of the Himalayan mountains.

Filmmaker Jack Hextall who was brought up at Baverstock joined them and has made a beautiful and poignant film of the expedition.

Tim said: “Things started badly; luggage lost by the airline with some of the painting gear and a colossal storm which closed the Pokhara road just after they had left Kathmandu.

Beshishahar was reached 24 hours late and the baggage didn’t arrive until the next day.

“The ever-smiling guide Yam reacted to these frustrations with the greatest of calm.

He arranged jeeps, accommodation and porters where necessary, constantly adjusting plans to fit with the painters’ need. On reaching Dharapani the landscape was revealed, and above the fine old fir forests Manaslu’s lofty peak

Live a more eventful life Saturday 13th November The Carpenters: Voice of the Heart 7:30pm Tickets £20/ £19 –––––––– Thursday 18th & Friday 19th November Living Spit's Frankenstein 7:30pm Tickets £15/£13 –––––––– Sunday 14th November Sonia Sabri Dance Company Same Same...But Different 3pm Tickets £6/£5/£20 fam.

–––––––– Saturday 20th November Lollypops and Moptops 7:30pm Tickets £20 –––––––– Saturday 27th November Los Pacaminos 8pm Tickets £20

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Proceeds from the film and a proportion of picture sales will go to Seeds4Success, the charity which provides opportunities for personal and social development for young people in South West Wiltshire.

Get in quick to snap up tickets for folk duo’s RBL show Music lovers are being encouraged to buy early tickets to see singersongwriter Anthony John Clarke and Fairport Convention’s bass and mandolin player Dave Pegg at Blandford RBL on Friday, November 26. Tickets for tonight’s performance by Chris Leslie sold out fast.

These long-time friends have

an easy rapport and many humorous tales to tell between the fabulous songs and tunes and will be supported by Shaftesbury’s golden voiced singersongwriter Anne-Louise Richards.

Tickets are £15 each and available from wessexacoustic.co.uk or via the box office on 01202 732239.

RAPPORT: Anthony John Clarke and Dave Pegg are at Blandford RBL

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MADS are returning to the stage at last!

Mere Amateur Dramatic Society (MADS) is to stage a return – after the longest interval in its 73-year history.

The society will return to the stage of the town’s Lecture Hall from November 18 to 20 with their autumn production, comprising four short plays, both published and original.

The format was chosen so that covid advice could be observed in rehearsals as it will be for performances.

There will be shows at 7.30pm on all three nights, with a 2.30 matinee on the last day.

The featured plays are Day Tripper by Jean McConnell, Plaster from Visiting Hour by

Richard Harris, My Boy Jonah

by A. Howell, after which the audience are invited to ‘tune in’ to a radio comedy, New Year Resolution, by Dorothy Paterson.

The latter two plays are of local interest. The MADS awardwinning team of Adrienne Howell (writer) and Mary White (actor) join up again to present a new play, My Boy Jonah.

And Dorothy Paterson was the radio pen-name of children’s author Sheila Bishop, who retired to South Petherton. Her daughter is Rose Cox, a former resident of Mere, who will be returning to watch MADS perform her mother’s play.

CURTAIN UP: Members Les Manwaring, Lesley Love and Penny Allen - all of whom are performing in The Return of MADS this November.

This autumn there will be no entry charge for the performances although voluntary donations for MADS

are welcome. Audience numbers are limited so don’t miss out – book your seats by phone on 01747 861257 or 07539 329798.

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STORAGE for caravans, boats and cars at Enford Farm near Blandford. 01258 450050 / 07704 813025

LIGHTWEIGHT TRAILER, 5ft x 4ft x 18inch. Dropdown tailgate, lightboard, spare wheels and other spares. £135 ovno 01963 23680

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The coming frosts mean a testing time for your battery

08/08 JAGUAR X TYPE. 2.2 diesel SE Estate. Manual, Power Steering, Central Locking, Climate Control, Alloys.

Front & Rear parking sensors, Bluetooth, metallic blue with black half leather interior. MOT April 2022, 79K full service history. £2,950 – 01747 811199 UNWANTED VEHICLES BOUGHT FOR CASH ● Mot failures ● Nonrunne rs ● Unfinished projects ● End of life scrap vehicles.

Minimum of £150 paid for complete vehicles. Call Ryan on 07474 737577

PEUGEOT 207CC auto hard drop top. 2007 reg. 55,000mls, MOT, 1 owner. £1,000 cash only. 01935 873189 MOTORBIKES WANTED Non runners and unwanted Phone Keith on 07966 213344

With winter approaching many motorists find their vehicles have starting issues, often these are due to battery problems.

Every vehicle requires at least one battery, these are a BLUE consumable item and will deteriorate over time due to wear MERCEDES car and tear. Each time a battery is cycled, i.e. discharged and CLK convertible Mobile Caravan Servicing & Repairs charged, a small amount of the active material within the 2002 - semibattery plates is permanently lost. Over time this aging Please call deterioration will eventually result in the failure of the battery. automatic 2295cc 01747 853114 2 door - electric In cold weather the chemical reaction between the plates and or 07546 548017 roof - all working the electrolyte is slowed, at 0 degrees Celsius a fully charged £950 ONO Tel Keeping you on the move... battery can lose up to 30% of its starting/cranking performance.

01985 844894 If the battery is older, this loss may take the battery below the level of cranking performance needed to start the engine.

Over 30 years experience WANTED - Car In cold weather the cranking requirements are increased due to the engine oil being more viscous or thicker and also the Trailers all types engine components have a higher resistance to rotation. bought & sold.

Best prices paid please call: All these factors can have an effect on your vehicle’s battery.

Wilts & Dorset Even hot weather can reduce the life of your battery, hot area- Call 07736 www.kpcleisure.co.uk weather can cause the break-up of the negative plate material 871092 and can increase the evaporation of the electrolyte, and both of these issues can shorten your battery’s life and affect its performance.

When a battery is discharged a process takes place called Sulphation and when a battery is recharged the Sulphation reverts back into sulphuric acid. If a battery is left to go 昀at for some time, the Sulphation, slowly over time changes its form, to the point that it cannot revert back into sulphuric acid when charged. This is called Plate Sulphation and normally occurs in vehicles that are not used regularly or are under charged due to drive belts being slack or the alternator being faulty.

All Makes Servicing Internally a battery has a solution which is evenly mixed; Free vehicle health checks this is made up of acid and deionised water. If a battery has a stronger concentration of acid at the bottom of it, the battery MOT Tests £39 Air-Con Servicing will show a higher voltage and will not be able to supply Tyres and Exhausts enough current to start the vehicle. This is known as acid stratification and can be caused by short distance driving and Brakes and Clutches using other electrical components at the same time like the Batteries Suspension radio or the lights. Another reason why batteries fail in winter.

Many car batteries failed during lockdown as people were not Cambelts and Water Pumps using their vehicles as often. If you find that you are not using ODIS VW Audi Diagnostics your vehicle for a week or so the best advice would be to start it every few days and run it for a while, remembering to turn Generic Diagnostics (most makes) off all the other electrical components that could drain the battery (note: it is an offence to leave a car running unattended).

If you are in any doubt pop in to your local garage, most will perform a battery test for free.

Have a lovely autumn, and stay safe on our country roads.

Cann Common, Shaftesbury SP7 0EB

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CAR SERVICE COMING UP?

SUNRISE SERVICE & MOT CENTRE 15B Sunrise Business Park, Higher Shaftesbury Road, Blandford DT11 8ST. Tel: 01258 459798 Email: sunriseservicecentre@hotmail.com www.sunriseserviceandmotcentre.com

To book your service please call

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Stunning trio to go under the hammer

DVCA in Stalbridge has a rare offering in the form of a 1956 Lancia Aurelia B12 Pillarless 4 door saloon.

For any Lancia lover, particularly for one blessed with a loving family and needing four seat accommodation, the chic Fulvias are out, but here we have close to the ultimate, a four-door saloon with all the Roman romance in performance and handling of a true Lancia, clothed in a clever pillarless body beloved of the marque.

Any proper pre-Fiat Lancia should come with a Government health warning as they are truly addictive and this B12 Aurelia

should be no exception. There are those that will mutter ‘rust problems’ but let’s face it according to the current media, mankind has little time left and the Lancia may well see us out in this case.

On top of this DVCA have further delights already entered.

Three venerable vintage vehicles from a private collection (pictured) include: n A 1921 Sunbeam 16h.p. 4/5 Seat Tourer n A 1931 Sunbeam 18.2hp 2 door Drophead Coupe. n and a 1914 Talbot 15hp four seat Tourer.

The Sunbeam Talbot Darracq

Register will provide information and advice on all three. You can experience the magnificent over-engineering of the Sunbeams and the fleetfootedness of their cousin the Talbot. A truly lovely collection for those that appreciate the art of motoring rather than just driving from A-B with little real enjoyment. Even a trip to Tescos will be memorable in one of these.

DVCA also delight in the less exotic classics suitable for near daily use. Already consigned for November 25th are a 1938 Morris Eight Series One twoseat tourer enthusiast-owned and

ready to use, plus a 1968 Triumph Herald Estate in attractive two-tone livery for those looking for something practical but different from a Morris Traveller.

More entries welcomed as always by our experienced team, two of which can boast some 150 years between them of enthusing and dealing in vintage and classic vehicles. Such knowledge is precious and yours for the asking. Please call us on 01963 363353 or email at info@dvca.co.uk. if you would like help in selling your classic. n dvca.co.uk

You need your trucks and vans on the road We’re here to keep them there

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ETS TRUCK&VAN Shaftesbury Lane, Blandford, Dorset DT11 7FB

Tel: 01258 480404 Email: blandford@etstrucks.co.uk 6 Witney Rd, Nuffield Industrial Estate, Poole BH17 0GH Email: service@etstrucks.co.uk

Tel: 01202 669339

1965 Land Rover Series 2A 88” £11,500 – £13,500

Next Auction:

25 November 2021 Live and Online Please contact Brian Chant T: 01963 363353 E: info@dvca.co.uk W: www.dvca.co.uk Station Road, Stalbridge, Dorset DT10 2RH

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01747 854789 www.crewscars.co.uk

CAR SALES

2016 (16) Renault Twingo 1.0 Play 5dr. 70bhp, petrol, small car with low running costs, £20 a year road tax, upto 60mpg economy, air con, hill start assist, bluetooth, 53,500 miles ...................................................................................................£5250

CAR OF THE WEEK 2015 (65) Mercedes Benz GLA 250 2.0 4x4 Automatic Sport (Premium Plus) SUV 5dr. 208bhp, petrol, automatic, 4x4, sat nav, reverse camera, parking sensors, auto parking system, leather, heated seats, electric sunroof, electric tailgate, auto lights & wipers, cruise control, hill descent control, 49,500 miles ..............£19950

2016 (66) Dacia Sandero Stepway 0.9TCe Laureate SUV 5dr. 90bhp, petrol, robust looks, high ground clearance, £30 a year road tax, upto 55mpg economy, sat nav, parking sensors, bluetooth, cruise control, 56,800 miles.....................DUE SOON 2009 (09) Landrover Range Rover 3.6TD V8 Vogue Automatic 4x4 Station Wagon 5dr. 272bhp, diesel, automatic, 4x4, terrain modes, hill descent, leather, heated seats, heated steering wheel, sat nav, park sensors, reverse camera, cruise control, auto lights & wipers, electric sunroof, 109,000 miles ...............................................£9500 2015 (65) Mercedes Benz GLA 250 2.0 4x4 Automatic Sport (Premium Plus) SUV 5dr. 208bhp, petrol, automatic, 4x4, sat nav, reverse camera, parking sensors, auto parking system, leather, heated seats, electric sunroof, electric tailgate, auto lights & wipers, cruise control, hill descent control, 49,500 miles ...............................£19950 2013 (13) Mini Hatch 1.6 Cooper Sport Chili 3dr. 122bhp, petrol, air con, auto lights & wipers, hill start assist, bluetooth, 92,100 miles ..................................£6250

2017 (17) Toyota Auris 1.6D-4D Design 5dr. 110bhp, diesel, 65mpg, reverse camera, panoramic roof, auto lights wipers & auto main beam, sign recognition, hill start assist, lane aid, bluetooth, cruise control, 16,800 miles .........................£11450 2015 (15) Vauxhall Mokka 1.6 Exclusiv SUV 5dr. 115bhp, petrol, high seating, large boot, parking sensors, auto lights & wipers, cruise control, hill start assist, bluetooth, 57,900 miles ...................................................................................£8450 2019 (19) Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 SRi VX-Line Nav 5dr. 90bhp, petrol, Sat Nav, bluetooth, cruise control, auto lights & wipers, 19,900 miles .........................£10850 2013 (63) Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 SXi 5dr. 100bhp, petrol, very well kept car, air conditioning, alloy wheels, cruise control, only 60,800 miles .....................DUE SOON 2012 (12) Vauxhall Zafira Tourer 2.0CDTi Exclusiv 7 Seat MPV 5dr. 130bhp, diesel, high seating, large boot, flat fold 2nd & 3rd row seats, parking sensors, cruise control, 55mpg economy, 64,500 miles ...........................................................£6450

COMMERCIAL'S 2015 (15) Volkswagen Caddy Maxi 1.6TDi Highline C20 LWB Van. 102bhp, diesel, bulkhead, sat nav, park sensors, cruise control, air con, alloys, bluetooth, cambelt replaced, NO VAT to pay, 49,600 miles ...........................................................£14500

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We buy cars for cash so if you have something to sell, give us a call, we pay good prices & consider most vehicles.

We are looking for 1970's, 80's & 90's Ford's that we can bring back to life, please call with any information.

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2010 (10) Mini Hatch 1.4 First 3dr. 75bhp, petrol, ideal 1st car or low cost motoring, only 63,200 miles ............................................................................£3850

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Local Engineering Firm Launches MOT Service A local engineering firm with over 35 years of Automotive experience has recently expanded to provide their rural community with vital vehicle servicing and MOT facilities.

Brotherwood, an engineering company based in Beer Hackett, between Sherborne, Yeovil and Yetminster, have specialised in designing and manufacturing Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle conversions for over 35 years; serving the needs of wheelchair users and their families not only across the UK but further afield, exporting vehicles across Europe and as far away as Australia.

With a skilled workforce brimming with years of specialist engineering and mechanical knowledge, Brotherwood have long employed a team of manufacturer-trained technicians to prepare their new and used wheelchair-friendly vehicles for delivery to clients nationwide. With new investment in a dedicated service and MOT facility, carrying a range of the latest state-of-the-art workshop equipment, they are delighted to now be able to offer maintenance and testing for all makes and models of vehicle to their local community.

A dedicated new Aftersales management and administration team have also been appointed, to ensure a friendly, efficient service, with express appointment availability for routine servicing, MOT tests, computerised 4-wheel alignment, air conditioning servicing and more.

Managing Director John Daniel commented: “We are delighted to be able to offer a state-of-the-art servicing and MOT facility to our local rural community in Beer Hackett

and Thornford. With so much disruption to local services as a result of the pandemic, availability of testing and servicing is in huge demand, meaning long delays for people trying to book an MOT test. Our new workshop is open for business to help keep you on the road.” Brotherwood offer a free collection and delivery service for all MOT or Service bookings within 5 miles of Beer Hackett.

To find out more, and make an appointment, contact the Brotherwood Service team today on 01935 713515 or visit brotherwood.com/servicing

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A site for your eyes: Website set to boost tourism The new website makes it easy and It’s a sector which contributes intuitive for £1.8 billion to the Dorset the visitor to economy and employs more research and than 40,000 people. book a holiday And now, as part of Dorset’s to Dorset. covid-19 recovery strategy, It uses Dorset tourism has received an imagery important shot in the arm.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: The new Visit Dorset sourced site will attract visitors from across the world Visit Dorset, Dorset Council’s directly from tourism team responsible for 12 months. social media, keeping the site promoting the county, has The Visit Dorset team has now authentic and engaging, as well unveiled a new and improved launched its redeveloped and as dynamic content, which website to support the local redesigned website to support displays information specific to economy and generate more the recovery of the tourism the website visitor’s previous tourism visits and bookings. sector.

Despite a challenging 18 The improved website has been site use.

Cllr Tony Ferrari, Dorset months for the tourism sector, created by leading tourism Council’s Portfolio Holder for Visit-Dorset.com attracted more digital agency, Simpleview.

Economic Growth, said: “The than 2.75 million visits over the Visit Dorset is the first tourism sector contributes £1.8 past year, an increase of 15 per European destination to build billion to the Dorset economy cent compared to the previous on its US platform. and employs over 40,000 people.

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Dorset, a great place to visit.”

Rachel Symes, from the Visit Dorset team, said: “As the team responsible for promoting the county, we continually look to improve our business support to the industry so we can reach even more potential customers on their behalf.

“Our upgraded website is key to helping us to achieve this. As we head into the quieter winter months, it’s important that tourism businesses look for ways to attract visitors.

“Membership with Visit Dorset will allow businesses to extend their reach to thousands of potential customers who are actively researching a visit over winter and beyond.”

To coincide with the launch of the website Visit Dorset is offering businesses a 25 per cent discounted rate on its 2021/22 membership packages.

Packages can be purchased via visit-dorset.com or contact the Visit Dorset tourism team on 01305 252241.

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Armishaws operate a 昀eet of small removal vans throughout Dorset, Somerset and Wilshire catering for those clients who only need a small removal but still want the expertise provided by a larger removal company.

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Why ‘learning lessons’ isn’t always the best way forward

By Adrian Fisher MBE Award-winning maze designer from Durweston When I was a school pupil, lessons were taught in school, my grasp tested by public examination, and the specific yet finite scope of this process was recognised by society at large, including employers. What was not guaranteed was that the physical laws of nature would accommodate the rudimentary grasp of the examination candidates; they don‘t. Nor that Human Factors would accommodate any untested system; they don’t. What was not attempted by such exams were assessments of character, integrity, loyalty, clear-thinking, and leadership, when subjected to the pressure of circumstances; nor the candidate’s Systems Ability to examine, develop, devise, rigorously and imaginatively

test, implement, monitor and achieve effective results, right first time, ie: make effective things happen.

So when I hear any politician, police commissioner, health chief or eminent academic utter the words “Lessons will be learnt”, my heart sinks.

Teachers and trainers need to devise, prepare and convey their expertise. The school classroom, lecture hall, training centre or flight simulator is the right place for trainees to absorb and achieve mastery of such “Lessons”. Not after the event, from the statistics of smart motorway casualties or the unfolding rising costs of HS2.

Testing of any new system is crucial. First rigorously pretest it again a wide range of different types of intended user; then pilot-test it in one region, and only then roll it out. If there is not time to have a regional pilot test,

ensure you have deep experience in your senior project team to warn critically of most of the likely weaknesses.

But you must try it out on a wide range of intended unfamiliar users, with all their unpredictable misunderstandings.

The wrong place to discover the failings of a system is after you have launched it.

Moreover, you must make it easy for people to provide feedback in the early days, before serious weaknesses manifest themselves in the thousands, and any manual response is by then overwhelmed.

By these criteria, the world’s aviation industry and its No Blame culture has got it right; it even encourages whistleblowers. Similarly, Kate Bingham and the eightstrong team she selected beat the rest of the world in getting millions of jabs into British arms.

By these criteria, British

newspapers will still be quoting the government that “Lessons will be learnt” for a long time yet.

Because unfortunately since the civil service reforms following the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan report, the corporate DNA of the civil service increasingly flounders to evolve to everfaster circumstances.

The best thing that ever happened to American aviation was the demise of PanAm, thus freeing consumers from its high costs, lack of productivity, stifling of choice and its effortless sense of entitlement. One-off instances such as the Kate Bingham project team sadly do not, on their own, change the corporate DNA of the British Government one iota.

Recruitment Sturminster Newton High School are seeking to appoint: Teaching Assistant 21.33 hours PW term time Closing date: 1st December 2021 interviews TBC

Cover Supervisors We are looking to appoint several people to our bank of Cover Supervisors.

Work will include the supervision of whole classes during short-term absences of class teachers under the guidance of teaching/senior staff, delivery of pre-prepared exercises, managing student behaviour and assisting students in relevant activities in line with school policies and procedures. The hours are variable.

Closing date: 1st December 2021 interviews TBC The successful candidate will be required to have an Enhanced DBS check in line with the Government’s safer recruitment guidelines. Sturminster Newton High school values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

For further information, please go to the school’s website www.mysnhs.net ‘vacancy’s’ or apply via the Dorset for you / Jobs.

Please note that we cannot accept CV applications for any of the above positions

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Registered Veterinary Veterinary Nurse Registered Nurse Required Required Friars Moor Veterinary practice has a new and exciting opportunity for a Registered Veterinary Nurse to join our independent, forward thinking, busy first opinion veterinary practice in North Dorset with clinics in Sturminster newton, Shaftesbury and Blandford. Further education is encouraged within the clinical team and nursing skills are well utilised.

We are looking to expand our nursing team and pride ourselves on having a friendly ethos both within the clinical environment and socially outside of work. To continue providing a high standard of care we hold regular meetings within the team to review protocols where new ideas are welcome. We maintain good relationships with all members of the practice, we’ve previously won the best place to work at the Blackmore Vale Business Awards.

This is a full-time position of 37.5 hours a week with 1 in 6 Saturday mornings Monday to Friday, you will be predominantly based at our Sturminster Newton Branch with 2 days of the week at the Blandford branch. Part time candidates will be considered. We are looking for a caring, supportive, organised, and professional individual who works well as part of a team.

The right candidate should have a passion for animals and be able to provide gold standard nursing care with the willingness to continue training in all aspects. In return we will offer a rewarding career where CPD is funded and encouraged, a competitive salary, a friendly working environment, holiday benefits and promote a good work life balance with no out of hours.

The successful applicant will need to hold a full driving licence and be prepared to travel to any of our three clinics.

If you are interested in this position or have any questions, we would love to hear from you,

please contact Lucy Jones Head Nurse by email lucyjones@friarsmoorvets.co.uk For more information please also visit our website www.friarsmoorvets.co.uk

EXPERIENCED WELDER & FABRICATORS WANTED!

Full-time, Permanent positions available!

Newton Forge Ltd is a market leader in historic restoration of traditional metalwork along with the fabrication of new and contemporary designs. We are looking for experienced Welders/Fabricators to join our busy and well-established company. Having been trading for over 40 years, the company has expanded considerably and is now looking for new team members to join our skilled workforce. We are looking for people with fabrication and welding experience.

Workshop Hours, Monday-Thursday: 8am-5pm, Fridays: 8am -2pm If you have an interest in welding, but don’t have the experience, get in touch, as we welcome applications from beginners with the enthusiasm and interest to learn.

OTHER POSITIONS AVAILABLE: To find out more information, please visit the website below - PROJECT COORDINATOR - SITE SUPERVISOR What you will receive: In addition to a competitive salary, you will also receive 28 days holiday (including public holidays) and the opportunity to work on prestigious projects with some of the UK’s largest construction companies.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR CV TO BEV COOPER AT: WWW.NEWTONFORGE.CO.UK/VACANCIES 01258 449933 | OFFICE@NEWTONFORGE.CO.UK | UNIT 20C, BUTTS POND INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, STURMINSTER NEWTON, DT10 1AZ

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Recruitment MAINTENANCE AND GARDEN ASSISTANT A full time maintenance and garden assistant with a flexible approach is required for this large family home on the Lulworth Estate. Duties will include decorating, small building jobs, garden / landscaping work and other tasks as they arise.

Subsidised accommodation to rent may be available.

A driving licence is a necessity.

CV and covering letter to sue.raywood@lulworth.com or phone for a chat and more details, 01929 400 352.

Sandroyd

Co-ed Boarding and Day Prep and Pre-Prep School

Part Time Domestic Assistant Required January A cheerful, energetic and hardworking individual is required to be part of the School’s cleaning team.

Term time only. Weekdays late afternoon/early evening. Meals provided during working hours.

For further details please contact: Chris Stewart, Sandroyd, Rushmore, Tollard Royal, Nr Salisbury SP5 5QD Tel: 01725 516329 bursar@sandroyd.com www.sandroyd.org Closing date Friday 19 November Interviews the following week Sandroyd is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children.

Applicants must be willing to undergo the appropriate child protection screening before appointment.

VISITS SALES ASSISTANT

To run the prison visitor’s tuck shop HMP Guys Marsh, Shaftesbury.

We’re hiring!

Do you want to make a real difference to people’s lives?

Join the Care South at Home team in

West Dorset • We’re looking for caring and compassionate people, whether experienced or just starting your career • Roles available include Home Care Assistants and Specialist Care Assistants • Full and part-time contracted positions

£500

Welcome bonus!* Call us now on

• Full face-to-face training provided and a ‘care buddy’ – so you’ll be fully supported • Must hold a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle • RAC breakdown cover • Ongoing training and career progression

01202 712448

careers.care-south.co.uk

We have a vacancy in the near future for a person to run the prison visits canteen. You will run the small kitchen selling drinks, snacks and confectionary to visitors. We anticipate the hours to be 1.30pm – 4.30pm every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The hourly rate is currently £9.00. All posts are subject to security clearance/DBS checks.

You will need to be confident with excellent communication skills and have an outgoing personality. You must be selfmotivated, organised and flexible.

If you are interested in this role please email expiamanager@gmail.com

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BURFITT & GARRETT

Established in the early 1980’s Burfitt and Garrett are proud to provide high quality personalised local building services We now seek the following personnel to join our team: Bricklayers, Carpenters, General Tradesmen and labourers For a variety of interesting, local projects Phone 01747 830 635 or email cv to sophie@burfittandgarrett.co.uk 5 Whitebridge Industrial Estate, Semley, Shaftesbury Dorset, SP7 9JT

GENERAL FARM WORKER REQUIRED on a dairy farm nr Sherborne.

Weekly day off and alternative weekends. For enquiries please contact 07956 966440.

WHEATHILL GOLF CLUB REQUIRE A FULL/PARTTIME COOK. Includes a weekend shift, approximately a flexible 30 hour week.

Please email wheathillgc@btconnect.com with your CV or call 01963 240667 option 3.

PART TIME SEWING MACHINISTS REQUIRED. Can work from home.

Please call The Wheat Bag Company 01747 840499 for information.

EXPERIENCED CARER required to join small team.

Blandford Area.

Please call 07540 633981

PART – TIME MILK RECORDER required for Henstridge area must have own transport and enjoy early mornings. For more information 07970 009142.

LOOKING FOR SELFEMPLOYED BLOCK LAYER for several jobs, near Mere mostly internal block work on barn project. Call 07540633126

POST OFFICE WORKER Child Okeford Independent transport important. Previous Post office experience helpful.

Good communication skills, work ethic and teamwork essential. Part time 16 - 20 hours per week. Pay £9.38 per hour. Email andrew@thecrossstores.co.uk

TIPPER DRIVER CLASS 2 wanted: quarry work, permanent position, immediate start 07850 429058

NEEDED LIVE IN CARER for lame elderly person +middle aged dog mid December onward. Rural.

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We are on the hunt for an experienced TEAM LEADER to manage our small team at Hawes Arborists, based in Shaftesbury. To be considered for the role you must have at least five years’ experience and a proven record in the technical side of difficult tree surgery operations. You will lead a team that are continually involved in a variety of challenging arborcultural situations and will receive an excellent salary up to £35,000.00 DOE. You must hold all relevant tickets for the role.

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To work with our installation teams on our local Water, Drainage & Civil Engineering projects.

Experienced in drainage installations including underground tanks and pipe laying, concreting, kerbing, etc You will be confident working from plan and understand levels.

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Excellent pay and conditions for this permanent position.

Please contact for an application pack Closing date will be Friday 17th December 2021 Mrs Jules Simmons M J ABBOTT LTD, Bratch Lane, Dinton, Salisbury SP3 5EB Email: jules.simmons@mjabbott.co.uk www.mjabbott.co.uk M J Abbott Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer

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Machine Operator Monday–Friday, 8.00am–5.00pm This role will involve binding carpeting. Duties would also include driving (delivery and collection). No experience required as full training will be given. Candidates must hold a full clean driving licence and be able to work well with others in a professional and friendly environment.

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Wasps buzzing after classic matches Western League Div 1 Nov 6 Wincanton Town Oldland Abbotonians

Western League Div 1 Nov 6 Sherborne Odd Down

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Wincanton started strongly against a team which were lying fourth in the table and, on the stroke of halftime, Town took the lead.

A Dan Wise free kick was helped on by Jamie Irwin and headed in by Cam Vere. There was a let off when Cash went through for the visitors but missed the target – and relief when on 80 mins, skipper Wise put Connor Williams through to cross to Dan Quirke for a tap in.

Williams struck again to make it 3-0, finishing off a great team goal involving Cam Vere, Cam Allen and Louis Irwin and there was an injury time penalty from Wise after Williams was brought down in the box.

Wincanton manager Chris Wise said: “A great week.

“It’s been a tough start to the season for multiple reasons but seven points from three tough games feels good.

“It should have been nine as well, throwing a twogoal lead away against the league leaders.”

Wincanton are now exactly mid-table in a league of 21.

CLOSE SHAVE: Wincanton FC players have come clean with a target of raising £250 in Movember to support men’s health.

In a remarkable comeback, Sherborne saved a point with three goals in the dying minutes. Brett Cotterill started the comeback and Henry Lawrence Napier made it 2-3 in injury time.

Anthony Herrin scored a penalty to grab a point. Man of the match was Sherborne keeper Josh Atwood, whose double save kept the Zebras in the game, their fourth draw in six to keep them fourth in the table.

Sending off changes game in derby clash Western League Div 1 Nov 2 Wincanton Sherborne

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After drawing 2-2 against unbeaten league leaders Welton Rovers, Wincanton were fired up for a midweek clash against Sherborne before a bumper crowd of 180.

But it was Sherborne who made all the early running with Alex Murphy scoring on four minutes.

The Zebras then missed a penalty and hit the bar before Henry Lawrence Napier

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Wessex League Premier Shaftesbury v Hythe

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slotted home a second on 20 mins.

But the game changed dramatically on the half hour when Brett Cotterill was sent off.

Sherborne boss Wayne Jerome claimed Cotterill was pushed in the back and accidentally hit Town’s Harry Turner on the head, drawing blood. “It was a poor decision by the ref. He red-carded the injury, not the incident,” he stormed.

Wincanton sub Connor Williams, on for the injured Turner, made a immediate impact, scoring one and having two chances to

equalise before half-time.

On 55 minutes, he did make it 2-2, smashing in from a corner. Sherborne had a header cleared off the line before Town stole the game, a cross from Gary Chapman superbly headed home by Tom Richardson.

Wincanton manager Chris Wise said: “It was a great game, a proper local derby.

Four unbeaten now and good value for it.” But the last word went to Jerome: “A game with only one outcome written all over it from the start, only to be spoiled by a rash decision from the referee.”

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Bashley v Shaftesbury

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Shaftesbury were forced to play for 85 minutes with 10 men after Nick Swann was sent off early but Town dug in and Greg Peel put them ahead on 17 mins, with an assist from debutant Louis Moore.

Bournemouth were soon level but Aiden Shepherd put Shaftesbury back in front shortly after half-time.

Peel was causing havoc and hit the post before Ash Phillips scored again to make it 1-3.

Skipper Louis Kellaway then played in Luke Delaney to complete the scoring. Shaftesbury joint manager Ollie Cherrett said: “Proud of my side today.

“We dug in and showed togetherness and quality.

“A massive three points.”

Town are four unbeaten in the league, scoring 14 goals, and move up to seventh in the table.

Tomorrow they face league whipping boys Hythe & Dibden, who have taken one point from 19 games this season.

No play in Blackmore Vale Football League There have been no league games in the past fortnight due to the weather.

On Nov 21, Donhead Barbarians play TGR with Bradford Abbas v South Cheriton Comets, Stur Rovers v Team Gryphon.

THREE APIECE: Elliot Bevis and James Boyland receive awards from chairman Pat Fricker

Hat trick heroes lead rout as Gills demolish sorry Devizes Western League Div 1 Nov 6 Gillingham Town Devizes

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Gillingham emphatically turned the corner after a poor run of results by thrashing basement team Devizes.

It was easily the Gill’s biggest win of the season and their first win in six, to move them towards midtable and

relative comfort.

Devizes have won only three games all season and, after this result, have a goal difference of minus 40.

It was the match that Gillingham needed to restore confidence and they were three up within 15 minutes.

From there, it was a goal scoring spree for Elliot Bevis and James Boyland, Town’s highest scorers, who each bagged a hat-trick.

Aaron Rodriguez, Andrew Holmes and Aaron LaneLeney completed the rout.

Gillingham have now completed half their league fixtures, lie 13th of 21 teams in the table and will look to use this result as a springboard.

Their next two games are against teams below them, Portishead and Bristol Telephones.

Stur go joint top as Swanage hit for five Dorset League Premier Nov 6 Sturminster Newton Swanage & Herston

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The Cherries went joint top and six games unbeaten.

As manager Nick Squires told The New Blackmore Vale, his team is able to go out and play with no pressure and it showed.

Stur were 3-0 up at halftime, Will Guppy scoring twice and Nick Thomson

contributing his 12th of the season.

Swanage pulled one back before Buddy O’Shea and sub George Coleman wrapped things up, the last goal created by Guppy.

The win followed an excellent 2-0 victory away to Balti Sports, with goals from Coleman and Ashley Clarke.

Stur join Hamworthy at the top on 34 points: the top four teams are separated by only three points but Stur have played two games more.

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Blandford’s poor run continued with their fourth defeat in five.

Shaftesbury went in front through Tasiah Moss on the half hour and Zach Smith added a second on the hour.

Blandford hit the woodwork twice, however, and the game was generally even.

In their previous game, Blandford went down 4-0 at home to Holt Utd.

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North received the kick-off and immediately fly-half Robbie Sampson put them into Puddletown territory, turning the hosts over in their 22.

Scrum-half Sam Jones darted blind, with a lovely show and go, and scampered over the line.

North were imposing themselves on the Puddletown pack.

The pressure told twice in quick succession, Jones knocking over two penalties.

North kept Puddletown pinned in their half.

Marcus Randall then made a break from the 10m line, trundled free like a rhino on the charge – and dropped the ball two metres short. At the resulting scrum, Brandon Ward broke and ran hard at the Puddletown defence who gave away a penalty.

Randall made up for his mistake with a quick tap penalty and passed to winger Tom Rose, who crashed over in the corner.

Before half-time, North managed a third try thanks to a good break from Tom Bridger-Chilvers finished by Henry Barron under the sticks.

HT: 0-23.

From a scrum, North overpowered Puddletown and Ward marked his return to the team with a try.

As North looked to attack, loose hands in midfield resulted in a Puddletown RUGBY FIXTURES Nov 13 Dorset & Wilts Vase North Dorset v Minety Nov 20

LINE OUT: North Dorset attack the ball in the game against Puddletown

breakaway and try on the hour.

North now put pressure on the line and got their breakthrough when Gavin Weeks received a delightful offload from Hooper and crashed over.

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The game started with North Dorset attacking but Oaks had a quick tap penalty five metres out.

North replied, attacking hard multiple times but an intercepted offload took the pressure off and led to a prolonged period of defending from North before Oaks scored a penalty in front of the posts.

HT: 10-0.

The second half restart was not taken clearly by North, which led to Oaks scoring within the first minute after quick thinking by the scrum half.

South West Div 1 East Windsor v Sherborne Dorset & Wilts Div 1 South Puddletown v Swanage & Wareham II

Some significant phase play and management from flyhalf Robbie Sampson saw North creep back into the Oaks’ 22.

A scrum five metres out and a penalty try awarded. A few big runs from skipper Adam Trevis led the way backed up

by Henry Barron with some big carries.

North were camped in Oaks’ half and in the last few minutes, looked like they’d get more points on the board but didn’t have a finishing touch.

South West Div 1 East Nov 6 Sherborne Trowbridge

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Referee Stew Kilby said on Twitter: “A massive well done and thanks – a one score game, great banter. A real privilege to referee two disciplined, committed and high-skilled teams. A great day to be a rugby referee.”

Sherborne II v Blandford Weymouth & Portland v North Dorset Somerset Div 3 South Wincanton v Tor II

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Isabelle (r) and Tries Ridout

Well played Skip!

Isabelle Mace, new 2021/22 Lady Captain of Yeovil Golf Club, and partner Sally Bloomfield won the lady’s competition to see who will represent the Club in the national Daily Mail Foursomes competition. The ladies’ team of Isabelle and Tries Ridout, with Mavis Gibson and Jeni Monica, was then successful in the second round of the Dorset County Legg Bowl.

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Humphrey won’t be hump-free for much longer

The ewes have got condition back and are ready for the ram to go in.

It took a while for my Disney princess to stop looking like she was a barren wild sheep from the plains of Africa, but with some love and sheep cake she has got there.

We have given them access to mineral buckets and fresh grass to flush through so all systems are go.

We will fit a raddle on Humphrey and have gone for a yellow paint block as it shows up well on the black fleece.

Last year the coloured marks on the ewes were accurate to the day giving us the exact time to expect the lambs.

Next year the breed letter will be K, so start thinking of some grand pedigree names for us.

THE FIELD with Tria Stebbing The rain came, or should I say, a deluge of biblical proportions came to the field.

The sheep are still away in the neighbouring village happily, and luckily grazing on the hill.

We were woken on Sunday, having changed the clocks, to roads becoming rivers and silt being dumped everywhere. When the worst had gone, we made our way through the floodwater to check on the barn and field shelter. That turned into an adventure, passing abandoned vehicles and cars turning round and going back. The field itself was ok and it was a good result to see that the pond had filled up much higher than it had been in recent months, giving it a good clean through. It is a great time of year to spot the different kinds of fungi that attach themselves to bits of broken branch.

We are off at the weekend to pick up our new addition to the pedigree flock.

His name is Humphrey, and he is a northerner. Most of the breeders of our pedigree

flock are up north and it is a good opportunity to introduce a new blood line into our lot. It has been a bit like online dating. We saw his profile, he ticked all the boxes and after some negotiation we secured him as ours.

It will take three-and-a-half hours of boring motorway to collect him before driving him back.

It will be interesting to see how he gets on with our three other rams. I imagine there will be a lot of head banging, charging and generally territorial behaviour before the pecking order is established. It will be bonfire night that he goes in so as the saying says, ‘In with a bang and out like a fool’ …we will be lambing on April 1.

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by Ruth Kimber The last of our maize was harvested this week, but not for silage. This is a first for us, maize grain taken off the cobs in the field, much like wheat or barley.

Then back in the barn the crimper machine crushes the grains and treats them with an acid to preserve the crop before being ensiled under a sheet. The resulting maize grain will improve energy in the diet for the dairy cows.

I hitched a ride in the tractor with Tom and watched the combine cut the maize plants with a sixfingered header. It munched through the crop, stripping off the cobs, which it then separated the grain and stored it in the combines hopper ready to auger it across to our awaiting trailer.

The stalks etc. are chopped and returned to the field adding fibre and nutrients back into the soil.

Tom had under sown the maize with grass in July when the maize plants were established, to secure the soil structure at harvest time. This will also prevent soil loss and run off during the winter months and come spring, will be used as a green manure.

The yield was good at 4.4 tonnes per acre. We will be monitoring the difference it makes to the dairy, milk quality and yield, general cow health, ease of using

it and keeping it free from vermin.

Exciting to be trialling a new venture for us. I will keep you posted as to our findings.

The farm shop has been very busy taking orders for Christmas and lots of meat is being bought to stock up freezers for winter. There is certainly a shortage of some Christmas items, we took delivery of extra turkey poults in July and our order book is well up on last year. Growing and processing Christmas poultry is hard work and needs extra staff during December, I know of several farmers who have decided not to put themselves through the stress of finding staff and getting all the extra work done that it entails.

Geese are also short this year, mainly due to the French losing large numbers of their laying geese flocks to fowl pest, many fertile eggs are imported from France for hatching in the UK. We have geese and grow them at the farm shop, they are out by day in the field and by night are shut in away from the fox or badger. Just after eight one morning last week, I looked across and noticed a goose on its side with two crows pecking at it. I got over the electric fence and walked over to see what was wrong. I was horrified to see the goose had been killed, its head was completely missing and it was still warm, this was certainly a fox that had come in broad daylight only a matter of minutes from the geese being let out and only a few yards away from the busy carpark.

The old country saying of ‘If you have livestock, you also have deadstock’ came to mind.

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Taking steps to address farm safety Cornish Mutual launches new guide for farmers With farm deaths doubling in the last year, agriculture still has some way to go to improve its health and safety record.

In response to these alarming statistics, and to further its ongoing support for the farming community, Cornish Mutual has launched a new health and safety guide.

“The guide offers farmers a simple ‘DIY’ tool for creating a safer workplace,” says Cornish Mutual Loss Prevention Leader Dominic Jones. “It not only takes farmers through risk assessments, but equipment inspections, employee training and incident reporting in a clear and straightforward way, helping them with everything required to make the farm as safe as possible.

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by AJ Selby The summer sun is fading as the year grows old, and darker days are drawing near, Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn And so once again it’s the end of British Summer Time, the clocks revert to GMT and the early evening darkness is upon us. I have never quite understood why the clocks go forward one hour in the spring at the end of March, some 13 or 14 weeks after mid winter’s day (which is around

the 21st or 22nd December) but go back one hour in late October just about 8 weeks before mid-winter’s day.

Logic should dictate that the spring change ought to be in late February, which would give us all a lift at the end of winter.

The colourful autumnal leaf display seems delayed this year, writing this at the back end of October, and there is still an awful lot of green in the trees, albeit a sad and lifeless green. I hope that we still get a colour show this autumn – to view a stand of mature trees of many varieties and many more shades of

yellow, brown and russet is a sight to gladden the heart.

Sometimes, however, when colour change is late, we get a big storm that strips the branches and it’s winter before we know it. For many people, an autumn walk is in their favourite season and when the weather is benign with no wind, a slight chill so you can wrap up, and relatively dry underfoot, there is no greater pleasure. You can also choose many superb places to walk in this area from Stourhead, Duncliffe, and Pen Selwood to Mere Downs, Win Green and the Trailways; all offer something

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russet gladdens your heart and apart from the ubiquitous crows and rooks, you can count the species heard on two hands if not one.

The weak trill of the robin is a tonic on a gloomy day and is often joined by the dunnock, also known as the hedgesparrow. The blackbird will bang out his tchink tchink at dusk, especially when danger is near – often a fox, while the cock pheasant can be heard deep in the spinney. The noisiest, especially considering its size, is often the wren, and he will sing in low undergrowth or atop a bare shrub. And a delight it is too.

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In with a bang and out like fools

By Alice Miller BVSC DBR MRCVS Friars Moor Livestock Health As I write this many of us are busy preparing for bonfire night celebrations and are looking forward to local firework displays, however November 5 is also an important date in the farming calendar for another reason. Many shepherds put their rams in with the ewes on this day. With an approximately 145-day gestation period, this means lambs will start to be born on April 1. This period can be remembered by the old saying, “in with a bang, and out like fools!”

Sheep are seasonal breeders and during the mating period they will cycle regularly every 16-17 days. They will be most fertile during the autumn and winter, and this is because their cyclicity is controlled by day length. Other factors include sheep breed and temperature.

But for most sheep as the day lengths reduce, the internal release of melatonin will occur, which stimulates the brain to

produce hormones required for the reproductive cycle to start.

This also has advantages as lambs are born in the spring.

Most sheep will be able to largely rely on the new, nutritious grass growth to produce good milk to feed their offspring, plus temperatures should be much kinder and more suitable for the survival of newborns outside, at this time.

A ram maybe referred to as a ‘tup’, and this breeding period is therefore referred to as ‘tupping’. The time it lasts will influence the lambing period.

On average it should allow ewes to go through several cycles in that time, to increase the chance of a successful mating, but too long and your lambing period will be strung out. A mature ram will run with at least 50 ewes.

The breeding season can be shortened if all the ewes are already cycling when the rams go in. This can be achieved artificially with hormones or with a ‘teaser’ (vasectomsied) ram. One teaser is run with a group of up to 100 ewes for 14

days. The teasers are then swapped for fertile rams at a lower ratio of 1:20-30 to account for the natural synchronisation effect.

It is not uncommon for sheep to carry multiple lambs and it is helpful to know how many they expect to ensure they are supported nutritionally throughout their pregnancy. We advise abdominal, ultrasound, pregnancy scanning around 70-

80 days after breeding. Our scanner Alex is already getting booked up so if you would like your flock scanned then please get in touch with the farm office on 01258 472314. Alex will happily scan any flock size and our clients find the information obtained helps them to better manage the lambing period as well as help make decisions earlier on barren ewes.

Independent veterinary services for livestock in Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire Collection points for livestock medicines and supplies at Sherborne, Sturminster Newton, Blandford and Shaftesbury Please call the office on 01258 472314

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Sedgemoor Auction Centre

Telephone: 01278 410250. Email: livestock@gth.net SEDGEMOOR AUCTION CENTRE NORTH PETHERTON, SOMERSET, TA6 6DF (M5, J24) Monday 15th November at 11.30am The Dispersal Sale of

North Petherton, Somerset, TA6 6DF (M5, J24) Telephone: 01278 410278 www.gth.net TOTAL STOCK FOR THE WEEK 6887

70 DAIRY CATTLE * * * *

HERD AV: 6,000KGS. 4.70%BF; 3.52%P; SCC=183 HERRINGBONE Parlour; CUBICLE Housed CALVING: Oct-Dec (5); Jan – Apr (14); May-Aug (22) SERVICES TO: Aberdeen Angus & Limousin

For DP Wyatt & Co

(Removed from West Farm, Ilminster, Somerset for convenience of sale) **Live bidding on MartEye, please register in advance at gth.marteye.ie**

SEDGEMOOR AUCTION CENTRE Tuesday 23rd November at 10.30am with the Deadstock The Dispersal Sale of the Milking Portion of the NMR Autumn Calving Herd being

206 CROSSBRED DAIRY CATTLE Comp: 206 Dairy Cows & Heifers Inmilk &/or Incalf * NMR HERD AV: 8,360KGS. 4.14%BF; 3.47%P; SCC=199 * HERRINGBONE Parlour; LOOSE Housed * BREEDS: Brown Swiss X (90); Holstein X (64); Swedish Red X (50) * YOUNG COWS: 117 1st – 3rd Lactation * AUTUMN CALVING: Sep-Oct (169); Nov-Dec (31) * SERVICES TO: Fertility Plus Quality Calver Together with Herringbone Parlour, Bulk Tank & Associated Dairy Equipment & Machinery Auction will be held at 11:00am from the rostrum at Sedgemoor. Sale items located at Stoke Park Farm, Hampshire. Viewing by appointment.

(05) Case JX80 TRACTOR 2273 hrs; Honda QUAD BIKE; Maxiscrape Yard SCRAPER; (08) Bunning Dung SPREADER; Low Lander MK IV Dung SPREADER; (04) Warwick 34’ Bale TRAILER; (16) Amazone ZA.M 1201 Fert SPREADER; (16) Kuhn Primore 2060M Straw CHOPPER; (16) Smyth Field Master 18T Silage TRAILER; Omega Auger BUCKET; Storth Slurry STIRRER; Westfaila 24/24 Herringbone PARLOUR; Mueller 10,000L Bulk TANK; Collinson 24T Feed BIN; Mueller Heat Recovery UNIT; Crystal 5,000L Ice BANK; Mount Pleasant 34’ Backing GATE; AI FLASK c/w semen; etc.

For DB Dunford & Sons

(Removed from Stoke Park Farm, Eastleigh, Hampshire for convenience of sale) **Live bidding on MartEye, please register in advance at gth.marteye.ie** NOV Mon 30th SEDGEMOOR AUCTION CENTRE. The Dispersal Sale of the Autumn Calving (July–October) Dairy Herds being 250 Dairy Cattle for Shayes Farms LLP (Removed from East Lane and Lydford Park Farm, Shepton Mallet, Somerset for convenience of Sale).

DEC SEDGEMOOR AUCTION CENTRE. The Christmas Cracker Thurs 9th Show and Sale of Freshly Calved Cows, Heifers, Youngstock & Bulls.** Further Entries Invited **

Forthcoming Fodder Sales SEDGEMOOR AUCTION CENTRE Saturday 20th November at 1.00pm Collective Fodder Auction Entries to include: Hay 50 Round at Axbridge; 50 Conv & 55 Round at Taunton Silage 100 Round at Highbridge; 30 Round at Williton Straw 50 Conv & 30 Round at Williton Plus trailer/lorry loads of Straw and Hay to be delivered ** Further entries invited **

Forthcoming Deadstock Sales SEDGEMOOR AUCTION CENTRE,

WEDNESDAY 1st DECEMBER at 10.30am (Items to be delivered Tuesday 30th November between 9.30am-4.30pm)

WANTED TRACTORS, MACHINERY, HORTICULTURAL EQUIPMENT etc Live bidding on Marteye, please register in advance

Stock from across the West Country, sold to buyers from throughout the Nation

Returns for Saturday 6th November 2021

DAIRY CATTLE (55) Heifers to £1980. Others £1850. Cows to £1850. Others £1780. (1264) STORECATTLE & STIRKS - FORWARD STORES (863) Steers to £1495 (CHX). Others £1475 (LIMX) £1450 (BRBX) & £1425 (BRBX). Heifers to £1320 (LIMX). Others £1300 (CHX) £1260 (HF) & £1240 (CHX). GRAZING COWS (15) to £1095 (AA). Others £1045 (BAX). SUCKLERS (9) to £1160.

STIRKS (392) Steers to £905 (CHX). Others £895 (LIMX) £880 (SIMX) & £860 (CHX). Heifers to £915 (LIMX). Others £895 (LIMX) £865 (LIMX) & £830 (BRBX).

CALVES (419) - Beef Bulls to £465 (CHX). Others £460 (CHX) £440 (4x BRBX) & £435 (BRBX). Heifers to £405 (BRBX). Others £355 (CHX) £350 (CHX) & £330 (BRBX). Black & Whites to £245. (3850) SHEEP - STORE LAMBS (2353) to £131. Others £124 & £120.50. Overall Ave £89.67. CULL EWES & RAMS (1245) Ewes to £170. Others £164 & £158. Overall Ave £79.60. GOATS (21) to £125.00.

Overall ave £55.38. BREEDING EWES (192) to £108.00. STOCK RAMS (39) to £350 (Suffolk x Ram Lamb). Overall average £150. (98) PIGS – WEANERS (24) to £42. Overall average £29.58. CULL BOAR (1) to £24. STORES (19) to £70.

FAT PIGS (54) to £148. Overall average £112.

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Returns for Monday 8th November 2021

PRIME CATTLE (115) Steers UTM av 212.1ppk to 240.5ppk & £1,718.10. Others 238.5ppk, 235.5ppk & 235.0ppk. Others £1,711.71, £1,672.06 & £1,654.66.

Heifers UTM av 223.4ppk to 253.5ppk and £1,585.22. Others 249.5ppk, 249.0ppk & 246.5ppk. Others £1,541.91, £1,515.98 & £1,496.11. BARREN COWS (113) Continental av 124.4ppk to 139.5ppk and £884.26. Native Beef av 124.1ppk to 148.5ppk and £1,348.80. Dairy av 116.0ppk to 141.5ppk and £1,146.33. FINISHED SHEEP (973) Lamb ave 267.12ppk to 285.0ppk and £153.00. Others 282.0ppk, 281.0ppk & 280.0ppk (3x). Others £151.00, £150.00 & £149.00.

Forthcoming Special Sales For full COVID-19 rules on market attendance and up to date sales list please refer to our website https://www.gth.net/sedgemoor-auctioncentre NOV Sat 13th

***CANCELLED***Collective Catalogued Sale of Purebred Poultry 12pm***CANCELLED***

Saturday 13th November Monthly Catalogued Sale of 76 Suckler Cows, Calves, Heifers & Bulls

Sale commences at approximately 12.30pm in Ring 1 * * * * *

16 Bulls – 2 Angus, 3 Charolais, 6 Hereford, 5 Limousin 26 Continental Cows & Calves 24 Native Cows & Calves – 6 Ped Hereford Cows & Calves 6 Incalf Cows & Heifers – 1 Ped Charolais Heifer 2 Heifers – 2 Ped Hereford Heifers

** Online bidding available via marteye, please register in advance at gth.marteye.ie **

Sat 20th Sat 20th Wed 24th

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Fortnightly Sale of Pigs 10am Fodder 1pm Orange Market Dedicated Sale for bTB Restricted Cattle. Store Cattle – 15 Months & Over, Prime Cattle & Barren Cows. Stock to0be0booked0in0with0the0market0of昀ce0by0gnth0NovemberB0 Licences to be obtained from Truro Trading Standards on 03000 200301 or CSC.TBlicensing@apha.gsi.gov.uk Sale commences 4.30pm Monthly Seasonal Catalogued Sale of In Lamb Ewes & Ewe Lambs 4pm Monthly Sale of Native Store Cattle 10am Ring 2 Monthly Catalogued Sale of Organic Store Stock 10am Ring 2 South West Winter Fair 15 th Annual Christmas Show of Cattle, Lambs, Pigs, Lamb Carcasses & The South West Sausage Competition along with trade stands. Haltered Cattle Championship Prize of £1000 Kindly sponsored by Secanim & Court Farm Butchers Best Bred & Fed Haltered Beast £250 Kindly Sponsored by JG Animal Health Unhaltered Prize Fund of £1200 Kindly Sponsored by Bridgwater Agricultural Society For further information please contact either Adam Hayes or Louise Baker at the Market Of昀ce on 01278 410278

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By Karen Bate Frome Market Health Hub could help save the lives of busy farmers, their families and agricultural workers by giving free, confidential health checks, without the need to book.

Hundreds of rural workers attend Frome Livestock Market every week and the hub, launched by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (SFT), based in the market site, opens the second Wednesday morning of every month – the next clinic is on Wednesday, December 8, 9am to 1pm.

The SFT believes the hub will provide an important gateway for the farming community who are often the hardest to reach through traditional health service channels.

NHS operational manager for the Health Hubs, Jane Fitzgerald, said: “We recognise farmers and farm workers often put the health and welfare of their livestock above that of their own wellbeing and will often put off seeking help, when it could help to save their life. This is a great opportunity for those living and working in rural areas to access free health checks in a place and time which is convenient to them.”

Frome Market Health Hub will also be the base for independently run clinics for Auger bucket old but working £950. Heavy duty round cattle feeders £150, Round young stock feeders £100, 10ft 4 legged feed trough £100, potable 10ft heavy duty barrier feeder with trough £320, 25ft Ali cattle body on single axle trailer with good super single tyres, brakes all working £1,950.

All prices are plus VAT. Swanage 07714 907297 FLAIL HEDGE CUTTING please call 07810 540725

specialist problems on a rolling programme. Separately funded foot clinics will be held twice monthly, thanks to a grant from Somerset Community Foundation, again free of charge for farmers and with no need for appointments.

Health Hub clinics will rely on volunteers from farming and community-based charities like Farming Community Networks (FCN) and the Mendip Health Connectors, to give guidance on any long-term support farmers may need.

FCN’s Suzie Wilkinson, who has been involved in a similar health project at Sedgemoor market, said: “Farmers were grateful the nurses really understood their way of life, with all its daily stresses, and didn’t turn up their noses at dirty wellies.”

Lord Lieutenant of Somerset, Annie Maw, said the Frome project was only made possible thanks to businesses and organisations like Mole Valley Farmers and Frome Livestock Auctioneers (FLA).

She said: “Livestock markets are an integral part of the farming community. Not only are they a place of business but a place for farming families to catch up with friends and family, so siting a health clinic at these locations makes absolute sense.”

ROOFING SHEETS, new boxed profile, galvanised steel, heavy duty, extra wide cover, most sizes available also clear grp roof lights, ridging, fixing screws, Delivery possible. Please contact 01823 674414 or 07766 898886 MUCK AWAY SERVICES, Site clearances, Digger & Driver hire, Tractor & Dump Trailer 07711 98071

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ONCFARMCMACHINuRYC &CFODDuRCAUCTIONS ON FARM FODDER AUCTION Tuesday 16th November 10.00am Lower Carents Farm, Yeovil Marsh, Yeovil BA21 3QX 50 x (80 x 70) 8’ Bales Hay – barn stored & stacked on pallets.

Viewing by appointment – contact Rupert Loder: 07801 529859 10.30am Cowpool Farm, Stoford, Yeovil, BA22 9UY 50 x (80 x 70) 7’ Bales Hay – barn stored 11.15am North Broadleaze Farm, Chedington, Beaminster, DT8 3JA 300 x (120 x 70) Bales Wheat Straw – barn stored 11.45am Grenville Farm, Corscombe, Dorchester, DT2 0NP 150CxCQuadrantCealesCCer琀昀catedCOrganicCHayC–CbarnCstored Viewing by appointment – contact Ian Andrews: 07970 347426 12.15pm Southover Farm, Frampton, Dorchester, DT2 9NQ 200 x (120 x 90) Bales Wheat Straw – barn stored ViewingCbyCappointmentC–CcontactCAndrewCHalle琀:C07980C890572 1.00pm Field Barn Farm, Winterborne Whitechurch, Blandford DT11 0HT 100 x Round Bales Spring Barley Straw – barn stored 100 x Round Bales Hay – barn stored 100 x (120 x 90) Bales Spring Barley Straw – barn stored 200 x (120 x 90) Bales Wheat Straw – barn stored 100 x Round Bales Silage – not spiked, stacked on hard Also to be sold by sample at Field Barn Farm: Manor Farm, Birch Close, Blandford, DT11 9AJ 70 x Quadrant Bales Winter Barley Straw – barn stored Glebe Farm, Charlton Marshall, Blandford, DT11 9DE 50 x D4000 (80 x 70) 4’ Bales 1 st cut Haylage – not spiked, stacked on hard 1.45pm East Farm, Hammoon, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2DB 100CxCRoundCealesCCer琀昀catedCOrganicCHayC–CbarnCstored 100CxCRoundCealesCCer琀昀catedCOrganicCRedCCloverCSilageC–CnotC spiked, stacked on hard ALL LOTS TO BE PAID FOR IN FULL ON THE DAY.

ON FARM MACHINERY AUCTION Tuesday 9th December Hamwood Farm, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2RT Genuine Dispersal of 3 Tractors, Telehandler, Farm Machinery & Livestock Equipment, Dairy Sundries, Workshop Items, etc Valtra T214 Direct (20), New Holland T4.55 2wd (18), Deutz DX 4.50 2wd (86), Merlo 42.7CS 140 Telehandler (20), NC2500gln Vacuum Tanker c/w 7.5mCDribbleCearC(19),CRichardCWesternCSF14CHSCudi琀onCSilageCTrailerC(17),C JF VM24 Mixer Wagon (15), Maschio 4m Folding Power Harrow (09), Marshall 28’ Bale Trailer, Kuhn GF8702 8 Rotor Tedder (16), etc.

On behalf of Messrs JE & SE Jeanes & Son Contact Greg Ridout 07817 517467 or Rachael Holder 07772 310482

CONTRACT FARMING AGREEMENT An exci琀ng opportunity to share farm a sheep enterprise on a large grassland farm on the Dorset/Wiltshire border.

A candidate is being sought to run a sheep enterprise alongside the owners exis琀ngCPedigreeCeeefCHerd.CTheCpersonCwillChaveCaCgoodCknowledgeCandC understandingCofCsheep,ChighChealthCstatusCandCenvironmentalCstewardshipC schemes.CTheCfarmChasCmodernCfarmCbuildingsCandCequipmentCwhichCcanC beCmadeCavailable.

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Sturminster Marshall

Guide £2,200,000

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LIVESTREAM AUCTION 9 DECEMBER 2021 DORSET | DEVON | HAMPSHIRE | SOMERSET | WILTSHIRE | LONDON

Sherborne

Guide £45,000

Poole

Guide £275,000

A yard area, block of three garages and furtherCparkingCwithCpossibleCpoten琀alCSTPP, situated in the centre of Sherborne.

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Ilton

A Grade II Listed barn with full PP and listed building consent for conversion to a two bedroom dwelling.

A well-presented 2 bedroom apartment and shop within easy reach of the town centre and beach. EPC Shop C Apartment D

A nearly completed 3 bedroom detached house, set in a large plot with generous driveway space. EPC B

Wimborne 01202 849130

Axminster 01297 33122

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A secluded parcel of 9.88 acres of gently sloping pasture land with far reaching views.

Sherborne 01935 814488

Guide £160,000

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Winterborne Kingston

Guide £295,000

A charming 2 bedroom semi-detached property that has been extensively refurbished with garden, garage and parking in this popular North Dorset Village. EPC D

Marnhull

Blandford 01258 452670

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O昀ers Over £365,000

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Guide £495,000

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Sturminster 01258 473766

Blandford 01258 452670

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Blandford Forum

Guide £415,000

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Blandford 01258 452670

Yetminster

Kington Magna

O昀ers Over £475,000

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Sturminster 01258 473766

Guide £825,000

Pen Selwood

Guide £795,000

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Sherborne 01935 814488

Sturminster 01258 473766

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