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. 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; Books Beyond Words, High East Street; South Street – Dodgson’s ironmongery and Mortimer’s bakery; Trinity Street – the Co-op, Shoetrees shoe repairs, Down to Earth whole foods, the Plaza cinema; 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:
Classics at Cerne Abbas
In 1990, Richard Hosford, leader of the Gaudier Ensemble, had a vision of a music...Celebrating the best of Dorset fare
Dorset Food and Arts Festival 2019 is back again to champion the best of Dorset,...Moonbury festival – it’s rocket science!
Fifty years ago man went to the moon and Dorchester is celebrating with a weekend...Catch vivid world of printmaker
Dorchester artist Paul Cleden is one of three printmakers whose work is being featured in...Fun-filled family fete
All welcome for a fun-filled family day out at the annual Piddlehinton Village Fete on...It’s Dorset Show time
The Dorset County Show returns this year with a range of attractions for people of...Steam fair set to wow crowds
If you’re looking for an action-packed day out for all the family, don’t miss the...Visit Milton Abbas Street Fair!
The villagers of Milton Abbas will be staging their famous biennial street fair on 28...
Latest News
What’s hot this week:
M&S to close Dorchester store
Marks & Spencer is to close its Dorchester store as part of a major restructuring...Get running to raise funds for county hospital
The charity team at Dorset County Hospital is encouraging hospital staff and the local community...Dorchester prison site is put up for sale
Dorchester prison has been put on the market by property developer City & Country. The...Cerne Abbas celebrates being sold
Villagers in Cerne Abbas have been awarded a grant of £6,700 by the National Lottery...CPRE backs Dorset National Park plan
Dorset CPRE has officially backed support to create a Dorset National Park, incorporating the existing...More direct trains to Corfe this summer
Train services will once again run from Dorchester and local villages through to historic Corfe...Crowds flock to first Victorian Fair
Dorchester’s first Thomas Hardy Victorian Fair held to celebrate the author’s 179th birthday drew big...Fury at Garden Village plan for downs
A MASSIVE row has erupted over a decision to designate the controversial scheme for 3,500...