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One of the joys of being an MP is the variety that each day brings. One of the hardest questions to answer is – and invariably I am asked it on a school visit:...

At Verwood Branch AGM and Spring Lunch today, Cllr Toni Coombs and Mike Castro presented flowers and an engraved vase to Lucy Clark to mark her retirement as...

Cllr Pauline Batstone welcomed Tosh and Cath Abbott to the NDCA Blackmore Vale Lunch Club today. Tosh and Cath gave a really interesting talk about their "Off...

‘Dropping litter isn’t just a nuisance, it is environmental vandalism…’ Many people forget that Margaret Thatcher was a keen environmentalist. She was the first...

Simon Hoare was readopted as our candidate at the next General Election at a meeting of the Association's Selection Council, following the process set out in...

As I write, we are approaching the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. An invasion which was, and remains, unwarranted, illegal, unjustifiable...

Cllrs Pauline Batstone and Graham Carr Jones at the opening of the Violet Cross development of affordable housing in Hazelbury Bryan. Graham Carr Jones...

REGULAR readers of my New Blackmore Vale column will know of the importance I place on education. The skills and learning our young people gain from the school...

I’m not sure whether it is physically possible for your spirits to soar while your blood runs cold? If it is then it happened to me when I heard our Prime...