A herdswoman living in Dorset has had her memoir published.
When Mary Buchan, from Marnhull, left school in the early 1950s, she went straight into the male dominated world of farming and applied for a job at Chapel Farm.
Now, her collection of fascinating letters to her mother, have been published...
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What is a refugee?
According to Article 1 of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, the definition of a refugee is someone who: ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of...
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward after a burglary where two vehicles were stolen near Dorchester.
Between 6pm on Wednesday 12 April and 9.30am on Thursday 13 April 2023 a black Ford Focus and a white Vauxhall van were stolen from the Enterprise Park...
One of the major issues with trying to simplify science is that by doing so one renders it immediately inaccurate. Science cannot be simplified if one is to maintain its reliability and validity. Humans are limited in their capacity, whereas scientific explanations demand complexities. If one does not understand...
Prior to biometric passport checks, the luxury train operator reduced services, forcing passengers to board in Paris.Passports were not required for British passengers when the Orient Express first ran in the 19th century; instead, they just needed a copy of the Thomas Cook Continental Itinerary.
Yet for modern travellers searching...
First, journalists lapped up Russian culpability. Now they peddle a preposterous James Bond-style story. Anything to ignore the US role
No one but the terminally naïve should be surprised that security services lie – and that they are all but certain to cover their tracks when they carry out operations...
Insects are on the decline.
Recently, scientists have been researching the speed of the decline of insects as it is crucial to understand due to their importance in ecosystem function and food pollination.
It is estimated the decline is 9-25% every 10 years... the variation is due to their global and...
50 of the Most Beautiful Places in the UK
50. Port Sunlight, the Wirral – England
Port Sunlight was originally built by the Lever brothers to house workers in the Lever’s Sunlight Soap factory (now Unilever) and is now a place to take in beautiful architecture, history, art, and nature. The...
I go on and on being amazed by 'Highway 61 Revisited'. How could someone that young have produced such images, feelings, sounds, cadences, ideas…? It's also taught me to swerve away from trying to analyse each word-use, each image, each sequence in terms of meaning but instead to focus...
Detectives have launched an investigation following the death of a man who sustained injuries during an incident in Dorchester – with three people arrested.
Dorset Police was called at 9.05pm on Saturday 18 March 2023 to reports of an assault at an address in Milford Road. A man aged in...
