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May '09, Massacre at Slapton Sands-the great Portland cover-up

May '09, Stalbridge’s historian

May '09, A schoolboy at Wimborne Minster

May '09, The Dorset walk-Purbeck heath and forest

May '09, Legging it in Dorset

May '09, The face of Dorset - The hills of West Dorset

May '09, In the footsteps of Treves -Trent

May '09, Back to the future

May '09, Dorset in spring and early summer

April '09, ‘A Long and Intimate Relationship’

April '09, Inspired To Learn

April '09, An Unforgettable Evening

April '09, Saturday Driver

April '09, Christchurch’s ‘fraught and dangerous business’

April '09, The Dorset Walk-Tarrant Monkton and Manswood

April '09, Defoe in Dorset

April '09, Dorset – a bird’s eye view

April '09, Eating out with Bertie

March '09, Curiosities of Dorset Churches

March '09, Bradford Peverell

March '09, In Another World

March '09, When Blandford Burnt

March '09, How Arne Saved Holton Heath

March '09, 'The Lively Old lady’

March '09, Rolling Out The Barrelhouse

March '09, Colin Varndell’s wildlife diary – March

March '09, An Uphill Challenge

March '09, The Dorset walk- Eype Down and West Bay

February '09, Some Lost Castles Of Dorset

February '09, In the footsteps of Treves - The road to Blandford

February '09, Dorset – a bird’s eye view - The Eastern Purbeck Hills

February '09, Decay or restoration?

February '09, Beaminster then and now

February '09, On the prowl

February '09, The Purbeck ‘volcano’

February '09, From baths to drill hall to cinema to theatre

February '09, Dorset pub stroll

February '09, Poole and Art Deco

January '09, Tennis for Real in Dorset

January '09, The Dorset Drive-Avon, Allen, Tarrant and Stour

January '09, Dorset pub stroll

January '09, Lady of the Palms and Paddy Fields

January '09, Dorset’s Rivers

January '09, Riding The Rails

January '09, Osmington

January '09, The (almost) Complete Guide

January '09, A Soldier of Dorset

December '08, Pimperne

December '08, A glorious way to spend a Sunday afternoon

December '08, The Home Front in Wimborne

December '08, Horizontal Apostles

December '08, The Clay Boats of Poole

December '08, Eating out with Bertie

December '08, William Barnes and me

December '08, ‘The sooner they get on with it, the better’

November '08, True Blue

November '08, To The Manor Re-born

November '08, In the footsteps of Treves-The land behind the Chesil Beach

November '08, Birds That Kill

November '08, The Flowers of Dorset’s Riversides

November '08, Libya to Lulworth

November '08, A Nation of Shopkeepers

November '08, Eating out with Freddie

November '08, The Dorset walk- Ashmore, Compton Abbas and Fontmell Magna

October '08, A Blandford Institution

October '08, "Vile Ministers" and "Poor Silly Creatures"

October '08, Dorset in Autumn

October '08, Sanctuary in Ferndown

October '08, Frampton Village

October '08, A Portland Success Story

October '08, Dorset Pub Stroll

October '08, Spellbound In Darkness

October '08, The Dorset Walk-Chetnole, Melbury Osmond and Melbury Bubb

September '08, Dorset’s rivers-The Stour: Blandford to Wimborne

September '08, Down to the hollow

September '08, With the ATS in Weymouth

September '08, A Dorset Love Story

September '08, Telling The Story Of Gillingham

September '08, Eating Out with Freddie

September '08, Dorset pub stroll

September '08, The Dorset walk

September '08, East Creech

August '08, ‘The wonders of my garden’

August '08, In the footsteps of Treves - Studland

August '08, The Hope Is Great

August '08, Unsung Hero

August '08, Planes For All To See

August '08, Legging It In Dorset - Compton Valence

August '08, Inn With Freddie - The Anchor

Aug '08, West Bay

July '08, Small but perfectly formed

July '08, Shaftesbury and the High House Press

July '08, A bird’s eye view - The Dorset coast from Gad Cliff to White Nothe

July '08, All change?

July '08, The Dorset Walk - Puncknowle and West Bexington

July '08, Bournemouth’s flying circuses

July '08, Legging it in Dorset - Portland

July '08, Eating out with Bertie - Rajasthan Restaurant

July '08, Inn with Freddie - The King’s Arms

July '08, Down to the sea in ships

July '08, Milton Abbas

June '08, Fiddleford Mill and Girdler’s Coppice

June '08, Piddlehinton

June '08, A chequered history but a secure future?

June '08, A happy band

June '08, Eating out with Freddie - The Old Granary

June '08, The Dorset walk - Cheselbourne and Bingham’s Melcombe

June '08, Roads to the Isle

June '08, Legging it in Dorset - Pentridge and Martin Down

May '08, Snakes alive

May '08, The Dorset walk-Durlston, Swanage and Ballard Down

May '08, ‘Leave not a rack behind’

May '08, Stranger than we can imagine

May '08, Legging it in Dorset - Netherbury and Oxbridge

May '08, Dorset’s rivers - The Stour, Sturminster Newton to Blandford

May '08, A boyhood in Sturminster Newton

April '08, One hundred acres

April '08, King Alfred’s legacy to Wareham

April '08, Legging it in Dorset- Silton and Huntingford

April '08, The Dam Buster in Dorset

April '08, Purbeck’s country park

April '08, The Dorset walk-Coombe Heath and Highwood

April '08, Edwardian bathing – with swearing

April '08, Bagpipes, bears and bands

April '08, Eating Out with Freddie-Corkers Restaurant

April '08, Inn with Freddie-The Angel Inn

March '08, The Bond family at Creech Grange

March '08, The man behind Bridport’s railway

March '08, The fall of the House of Stalbridge

March '08, Farnham

March '08, A cub reporter in Weymouth

March '08, Traditional perfection

March '08, The Dorset walk-Bettiscombe and Pilsdon

March '08, Eating Out with Freddie -The Langton Arms

March '08, On the country house trail

March '08, ‘Worth being sick for’

Feb '08, Boarding in Beaminster

Feb '08, Bailey Bridges

Feb '08, The Other Siege of Corfe Castle

Feb '08, Mrs Frampton’s bustle

Jan '08, ‘Dorset at its best’

Jan '08, The Stour: Stourhead to Sturminster Newton

Jan '08, Ferndown Zoo

Jan '08, The blizzard that buried Dorset

Jan '08, Which one would you choose?

Jan '08, The Dorset drive - The far west

Jan '08, Dorset’s first Labour MP

Jan '08, Inn with Freddie - Drusilla’s Inn

Dec 07, From farmyard into garden - Broomhill at Rampisham

Dec 07, Askerswell village

Dec 07, Christmas at Wimborne Minster

Dec 07, Lawrence facts, fantasy and films

Dec 07, Dorchester - The county town at war

Dec 07, Milestones - ‘How far is it to…?’

Dec 07, Inn with Freddie - The Fiddleford Inn

Nov '07, Purbeck landscapes

Nov '07, Rushing on the River Stour

Nov '07, In the footsteps of Treves - West Dorset

Nov '07, The charge at El Mughar

Nov '07, Not so sleepy Chideock

Nov '07, Cut Mill

Nov '07, Murder most foul

Nov '07, The Dorset walk - Lydlinch and Stock Gaylard

Nov '07, Inn with Freddie - The West Bay

Oct '07, Wealth, a martyr’s bones and dissolution

Oct '07, A lost mansion of Dorset

Oct '07, Bygone Bridport

Oct '07, Dorset’s lesser-known parish churches

Oct '07, ‘Rejoice and Do Well’

Oct '07, Melbury Osmond

Oct '07, Legging it in Dorset - Halstock and Sutton Bingham

Oct '07, Eating out with Freddie - Gilbey’s Restaurant

Oct '07, The Dorset Walk - Ackling Dyke and the Dorset Cursus

Sep '07, 'No ordinary garden’

Sep '07, A night at the Opera House

Sep '07, Cerne Abbas

Sep '07, Dorset’s last line of defence

Sep '07, Dorset’s rivers

Sep '07, The Dorset walk - Hardy Country

Sep '07, Keeping the old skills alive

Sep '07, Eating out with Freddie - The Crab House Café

Jul 07, Abbotsbury

Jul 07, One hundred years of Arts and Crafts in Dorset

Jul 07, Isaac Gulliver – the Ferndown connection

Jul 07, Legging it in Dorset - Studland and Old Harry

Jul 07, Wareham Forest and Bloxworth

Jul 07, When Wimborne could have burnt

Jul 07, Inn with Freddie

May 07, The Dorset walk - Behind the Fleet

May 07, The oldest inn in Dorset

May 07, In the footsteps of Treves - Between Hambledon and Bulbarrow

May 07, Children of the light

May 07, Dorset – a bird’s eye view - Canford School from the south

May 07, Eating out with Freddie

May 07, A Dorchester schoolboy a hundred years ago

May 07, Around Milton on Stour

May 07, Dorset’s rivers - The River Frome from Evershot to Dorchester

Apr 07, ‘Portly and strong’

Apr 07, Winfrith Newburgh

Apr 07, The Dorset walk - Wimborne St Giles, Monkton Up Wimborne and Gussage All Saints

Apr 07, Bridging the gap

Apr 07, The Marshwood Vale – through the lens

Apr 07, Gribble treasures revealed

Apr 07, Bridport’s Electric Palace

Mar07, Langton Matravers

Mar07, Serles House, Wimborne Minster

Mar07, East Dorset

Mar 07, Wynford Eagle and the Tollers

Mar 07, Eating Out with Freddie

Mar 07, ‘A Mediterranean lounging place’

Mar 07, Hammoon House

Feb 07, Portland re-captured

Feb 07, Shaftesbury and the Grosvenors

Feb 07, Stalbridge before the National Health Service

Feb 07, Going shopping in Beaminster a hundred years ago

Feb 07, Eating out with Freddie

Feb 07, Photographing listed Dorset

Feb 07, In the footsteps of Treves - West Lulworth and Lulworth Cove

Jan 07, The Dorset drive - Up hill and down dale

Jan 07, Dorset’s little rivers-The Lydden and the Caundle Brook

Jan 07, ‘Mr Swanage’

Jan 07, Historic port and seaside resort

Jan 07, Dorset thoughts from abroad

Jan 07, Eating out with Freddie

Jan 07, The invasion that wasn’t

Jan 07, Purbeck’s clay railways

Dec 06, Icons at Athelhampton

Dec 06, Christmas with William Barnes - Keepen Up O’Christmas

Dec 06, Christmas with William Barnes - Grammer’s Shoes

Dec 06, Kington Magna

Dec 06, Natural gifts

Dec 06, Through the heart of Wessex

Nov06, A history of Bridport hospitality

Nov06, Christchurch’s St Catherine’s Hill

Nov06, Dorset Lives-A sort of magic

Nov06, Bicycles to BMWs

Nov06, The Dorset walk-And now for something completely different

Nov06, Turnpikes, tolls and tunnels

Oct06, Child Okeford

Oct06, Standing up for Gillingham

Oct06, Sylvester Jourdan of Lyme Regis

Oct06, A childhood dream come true

Oct06, The Dorset Walk-The Piddle and Cerne Valleys

Oct06, Wimborne has their bones

Oct06, By Royal appointment


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