Health & Wellbeing
In-depth features on health and wellbeing, alternative therapies, green issues – and much more besides!
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What’s On
Your guide to local events and gigs, plus our previews of local music and drama.
News
Your guide to key local issues affecting Dorchester. It’s your town – keep in touch with the latest news.
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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. West Dorset’s ‘consultation’ exercise is over, but you can still sign the petition being raised by STAND – Save The Area North of Dorchester – a protest group made up of ordinary townspeople opposed to this massive scheme that would desecrate this landscape for all time.
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.
Where to find the Dorchester Voice
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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:
Beauty and the Beast sing-a-long
A special sing-along screening of Disney’s latest spectacular version of a “tale as old as...Lee Nelson comes to Dorchester Arts
Lee Nelson comes to Dorchester Arts for one night only! You’ve seen him sneaking into...This really is too much…
Raucous, provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, this genre- busting performance reveals the downright absurd realities of...Moving look at life with alcoholic mother
Playful and energetic yet moving and raw, Rum In The Gravy Boat is based on...HMS Pinafore drops anchor
Following last year’s marvellous performance of The Mikado, Opera Anywhere return with another Gilbert and...Denham’s SpeakEasy is back
Dorchester Arts welcomes back multi-instrumentalist Mike Denham for the second of his regular SpeakEasy nights....Hilarious take on Wilde classic
While others are preoccupied with cucumber sandwiches and railway cloakrooms, two minor characters from The...Don’t miss Mad Dog Mcrea
Mad Dog Mcrea return to shake the Corn Exchange with their unique mixture of folk...
Latest News
What’s hot this week:
Remembering the fallen of the Great War
The First World War – ‘the War to end all Wars’ – finished with three-quarters...Have your say on town centre plans
Dorchester residents and businesses are being given the chance to have their say on the...War Horse treat for Dorset’s young carers
Dorset’s young carers have been taken to see War Horse at Southampton’s Mayflower as a...Tomorrow’s museum starts road trip
Tomorrow’s Museum for Dorset has started its two-year county tour following the closure of Dorset...Local villages earmarked for nearly 300 new homes
Nearly 300 new homes are to be built in local villages in the latest round...It’s going to be a Christmas Cracker!
The date has been set, Santa’s been told and the magic will happen again for...Mini-brewery under fire from residents
A new ‘pico brewery’ in Brewery Square has come under fire from residents over plans...It’s 50 not out for John at Autobitz!
John Sherry is celebrating his 50th year as proprietor of Autobitz at his shop in...