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Every month, we investigate the decisions affecting Dorset’s communities, report on local politics, rural life and farming, celebrate the people and places that make our county extraordinary and tell stories that might otherwise go unheard.

We’re independently owned, written and published here in Dorset, with no national media group behind us. We believe good local journalism matters – and that everyone should be able to read it. Producing it takes time, skill and investment.

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