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; 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:
Flying Scotsman visits Dorset
The daughter of the man who saved Flying Scotsman from the scrapyard is to wave...All At Sea with Casterbridge Male Voice Choir
The Casterbridge Male Voice Choir are presenting a special Concert with a Seafaring theme at...Nostalgia from Evergreens Cinema
The Evergreens Cinema will be playing host to an afternoon of memories and nostalgia to...Classic car show returns for 5th year
On Sunday 12 May, owners of classic & sports cars, motorbikes and all types of...Bringing Tolpuddle Martyrs to life
A new augmented reality artwork will bring the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs to life...Talk on Coldharbour Woollen Mill
“Coldharbour Woollen Mill” is the subject of Martin Halse’s lecture to the Dorset Industrial Archaeology...New take on Great Train Robbery
In the early hours of Thursday 8 August 1963, the heist of the century is...Dankworths hit town
Formed out of renowned bass player Alec Dankworth’s love of music from the Iberian Peninsula,...
Latest News
What’s hot this week:
3,500 homes bid ‘based on false figures’
There is no need to build 3,500 new homes on the downs north of Dorchester’s...Plan ‘would give Crossways vital facilities’
Developers looking to build a major new housing scheme at Crossways say it offers the...Damers pupils lobby Gove on littering
Pupils from Damers First School in Dorchester travelled to London to lobby Environment Secretary Michael...Dorset set to vote for new super-council
Voters in Dorset will go to the polls on Thursday 2 May to elect the...‘Time to vote independent at local level’
It was a case of standing room only at Dorchester’s Colliton Club as more than...Men’s Shed bridges the gap for college
Popular local woodwork club Dorchester Men’s Shed has done it again for Kingston Maurward by...Can you spare time to help kids read?
Can you spare an hour or two a week to listen to children read in...Turn Dorset into a National Park: CPRE
All of Dorset’s countryside should be turned into a National Park, says the local branch...