Health & Wellbeing
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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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. The ‘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 has a vibrant arts scene and some great local pubs and restaurants. So if you want to know what going on in and around Dorchester, 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; South Street – Dodgson’s ironmongery and Mortimer’s bakery; Trinity Street – the Post Office, the Co-op, Shoetrees shoe repairs, Down to Earth wholefoods, the Plaza cinema; High East Street – Books Beyond Words and Autobitz; High West Street – The Horse with the Red Umbrella and The Old Tea House; and Tesco’s 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.
Some of you will receive a copy of the Voice through your letterbox – if you’ve already got one, please pass it on!
Events
Coming up this week:
Blurring the boundaries
Olivia Quayle and Jan Patzke of Anima are not only supremely talented dancers but also...Evening of classical guitar
Treat your loved one to a romantic evening of music this Valentine’s Day with one...Musical tribute to Noel Coward
Pianist and entertainer Peter Gill presents a tribute to the wit and song-writing skill of...Touching look at Alzheimer’s
Pip Utton’s award-winning performances of Adolf, Chaplin, Maggie, Churchill and Dickens have toured in more...Windborne harmonies
Northern Harmony graduates Lynn, Will, Lauren, and Jeremy share a vibrant energy on stage –...Wicked wizard and the bees
Albert lives alone with his honeybees on Dartmoor, a mysterious land where nothing is as...Cool sounds of Dave Brubeck
Let the Devon-based Neil Maya Quartet take you back to 1959 and the cool sounds...Magical tale of the Little Prince
See the incredible story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince retold with dance, theatre...
Latest News
What’s hot this week:
M&S to close in February
Dorchester’s Marks & Spencer store is set to shut its doors for the last time...Planners pushed for Garden Village
The huge proposed housing development on the downs north of Dorchester, sprawling down onto the...Huge solar farm planned for town
A huge solar farm could be built on the edge of Dorchester that would provide...Vet saves dog that swallowed 9-inch stick
A Dorchester vet has been hailed a hero after she saved the life of a...Dorchester one of UK’s happiest towns
It’s official! Dorchester has officially been named one of the UK’s happiest towns. Those of...Wolfeton House homes plan blocked
Plans to build a new housing estate just 300 yards from the Grade I listed...Students head for Big Bang
More than 2,000 students from schools across Dorset are booked to attend the Big Bang...What town do you want in 2050?
Residents have been invited to identify the major challenges facing Dorchester and what their ideal...