Our first issue of 2025 picks up right where we left off – crammed with brilliant Dorset people doing genuinely interesting things.
First up, the story of the Santa who sacked Stur: after an ‘offensive and sacrilegious’ gonk nativity scene, he’s resigned as Sturminster Newton’s Father Christmas and even returned his recent Community Award.
On a lighter note, we meet Jeremy Walsh, the Dorset luthier who once held a £15,000,000 Stradivarius; dive into the century-old Blackmore Vale Motocross Club; and take a deep dive into local history. Welcome to the Museum of East Dorset, who join Barry Cuff’s postcards with stunning photographs by Wimborne’s own Royal photographer, Job Pottle, alongside the CPRE, who share some racy tales of Bohemian Studland in the 1930s.
Editor’s picks for January? Jane Adams’ enchanting wrens. The spicy barbs of the Dorset Insider, our anonymous local councillor. And Farming, where Andrew Livingston isn’t even pretending to hide his cynical pessimism, and spare a minute for James Coss
