As always, we’re a mixed bag of biscuits for your morning coffee. We spoke to Stalbridge’s Ruby White after she won Commonwealth silver but her eight-year unbeaten run finally came to an end, while Jess Rimmer and Basil have also been wearing the Team GB logo for the first time.
Elsewhere, there’s a European champion barrel racer, the family story behind North Dorset’s tractor runs, the King of Smugglers and Jane Adams explaining why seagulls don’t exist ( your chips remain very much at risk).
We’re also asking some fairly serious questions this month about where Dorset is going to put thousands of new homes–and, rather importantly, whether the roads, schools, buses, GP surgeries and sewage systems are coming too.
Plus, we’ve got the full Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show guide (have you got your tickets yet?), farming, business, arts, community news, history, opinion, walks and some frankly unmissable readers’ photography.
