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In-depth features on health and wellbeing, alternative therapies, green issues – and much more besides!
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Your guide to local events and gigs, plus our previews of local music and drama.
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SAVE OUR TOWN!
There is still time to lodge your objections to council plans to build 3,500 homes on the downs north of the water meadows.
Respond to West Dorset’s ‘consultation’ exercise: https://tinyurl.com/ycpk34et
The deadline has now been extended to 15th October.
You can also email strategic@dorset.gov.uk
Sign the petition here (in addition to objecting to the council):
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stand-save-the-area-north-of-dorchester
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Dorchester is one of the most creative, switched on, environmentally-aware towns in England. The town offers a wide choice of alternative therapists, and independent retailers, including health food stores and gourmet shops selling fresh local produce – much of it organic. Dorchester also has a vibrant arts scene, both in the town itself and the surrounding villages – and some great local pubs and restaurants. So if you want to know what bands are playing and like to live a greener, healthier lifestyle, look no further.
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If you can’t get hold of a copy of the Voice (they go fast!) you can pick one up from the Tourist Information Centre in Dorchester Library, Charles Street car park; Owen & Simpson in Antelope Walk; Trinity Street – the Co-op, Shoetrees shoe repairs, Down to Earth whole foods, the Plaza cinema; South Street – Dodgsons ironmongery and Mortimers bakery; and Tesco in Weymouth Avenue. Other stockists include Adams Newsagents, Maud Rd; One Stop Shop, Kings Road, Fordington; Poundbury Post Office, Butter Market Square; many local cafés and independent retailers, and shops and pubs in local villages.
Events
Coming up this week:
Dorchester Drama needs your help!
The cast and director of Dorchester Drama’s latest production – Noël Coward’s delightful comedy, ‘Present Laughter’...Cakes and gifts at Chidren’s Society bazaar
The Children’s Society Annual Bazaar will be held on Saturday 13 October in the United...Kate Adie to talk at war art exhibition
Don’t miss the chance to catch some great art – including a talk by Kate...Top names set for Dorchester Literary Festival
Tickets have gone on sale for this year’s Dorchester Literature Festival, taking place from the...Tribute to the Men Who Marched Away
Created to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Great War, musicians Chris Green and Sophie...
Latest News
What’s hot this week:
RVS celebrates 80 years with exhibition
Knitted dolls made by RVS volunteers will be going on display at Dorchester Library as...Town vows to fight plans for 3,500 new homes
Dorchester Town Council has voted unanimously to object to the development of 3,500 houses north...It’s time to STAND up for Dorchester!
“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”, as the song goes. This is...‘Fight with every fibre’
By Town Crier Alistair Chisholm A planning application to develop north of Dorchester was turned...Retail park ditched, but market set to move
A bid to build a huge new retail park on the site of Dorchester’s historic...