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Mulching can help your garden flurish – and has many benefits, including reducing the amount of time you spend weeding

Spring has arrived! Mulch in March for a healthy garden

Spring has finally arrived, and with it comes the excitement of starting a new gardening season. As you get…

Healthcare assistant Emma Oldershaw

Get a helping hand into a career in health and social care

In partnership with The Prince’s Trust, we are running a series of job skills workshops to help young people…

Chefs are required at Worthy Farm from May Picture: Glastonbury Festivals

Chefs wanted at Glastonbury Festival

JOBS at the Glastonbury are being advertised – with people being warned it is not just an ‘easy way…

Close up on a petrol pump

Concern over diesel prices

DRIVERS are paying 20p per litre more for diesel than petrol – despite there being little difference between the…

National Speed Limit Sign

Rise in drivers who admit to speeding

THERE has been a significant rise in the proportion of drivers who admit to speeding on 60mph rural roads…

John Samuelson (left), last year’s Jurassic Singles runner-up, and winner Kaiese Brown

Tennis ladder set to get under way

The Jurassic Singles Tennis Ladder, now in its sixth year, will start at the beginning of April. The competition has…

Laura Beddow

So, where does all my rubbish go?

PART of my job as cabinet member for Culture, Communities and Customer Services at Dorset Council is waste. I’ve…

Chris Bradey

Refugees: Teacher’s example to follow

MY two grandsons will be visiting over Easter. They love Swanage. I took the opportunity, therefore, to look at…

Nick Ireland

Public transport: Home and away

ONCE upon a time I lived in London, having gone there for university, then working and starting a family…

Jeremy Clarkson

‘You don’t have to like Clarkson. Or Piers Morgan. Or me. Just turn the page or switch channels’

Not a day goes by without finding myself astonished by the national news headlines and the level of importance…