Primrose Festival in Dorset will celebrate pretty tough plant
To celebrate one of the toughest winter-flowering and colourful plants, Stewarts Garden Centres in Dorset are holding a Primrose Festival between 18 and 24 February.
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Consultation on land at Horton Heath
People are being asked for their views on a site earmarked for quarrying.
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Dorset smallholder banned from keeping poultry and pigs for 10 years
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Rescued circus lions take their first steps on grass
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30 fire crews attend fire at Upton Heath nature reserve
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First southern migrant hawker dragonflies seen in Dorset
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The RSPB calls for more kindness to gulls
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New Forest life celebrated in Channel 4 TV series
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