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SimpliSafe offers guidance on protecting your home from Neighbourhood Watch - Read here
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Local News January 2025 - read here
NHS Dorset Newsletter July 2023 - read here
Neighbourhood Policing Newsletter January 2025 - read here
Home Flood Warden summer newsletter 2024 - read here
Neighbourhood Planning Newsletter July 2024 - read here
Rural Crime Team Newsletter - read here

Pension Credit Poster - read here
Cost of living help for older people - read here
Hedgehog Highway - read here
Home Library Service - Poster - Leaflet
Dorset Council Summer Fire Warning Advice - read here
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The results are in for this year's Star Count with a total of almost 4,000 counts!
This was a truly nationwide count with results submitted from all over the UK!
Here's a look at the headlines:
  • 75% counted stars in areas with the worst three categories of light pollution.
  • 51% counted ten stars or fewer, indicating severe light pollution.
  • Just 5% counted more than 30 stars, indicating truly dark skies.
Read about the results in full on our website, take a look at the counts on our interactive map and see how your area compares.
Faster broadband is now available to some properties in the Whitchurch Canonicorum area through Fibre To The Premises or FTTP.

The properties are in the postcode DT6 6NL (although not all properties in those postcodes necessarily have access). Anyone who would like a better internet service should call their preferred internet provider from the list on the Openreach website (https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fttp-providers) and choose a package that suits them.  Although the high-end speeds offered by full fibre are more expensive, you only pay for the speed you order, regardless of technology.  Once they have chosen a package, the provider will arrange for their faster service to be installed.
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News from around Dorset...

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  • DOGS - We are blessed to live in a beautiful and friendly community. The world feels like an increasingly fragile place with political extremism, climate change, injustice and mounting rage and anger about so many things. Please, please, please can we do our bit to keep life in the Char Valley civilised. If you do clean up after your dog (thank you for doing that), please take the bag home or dispose of it in a suitable bin. Please do not hang it in a tree or bush or hedge outside somebody's house. What would your mother say if she saw you?  
  • Latest information from the Forestry Commission on Ash Dieback
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Message from Char Valley Parish Council

The Coronavirus epidemic has brought our community together in many unexpected and supportive ways. Even now 2 years after you may need help or support related to the epidemic - or simply because of other health or practical needs. 
If you can offer help or need it, please contact any of the people listed below, preferably by email, otherwise by telephone.  Please also urge those who have email access to sign up to our email list for future communications. 
 
Ryall: 
Rachel Coney  [email protected]  
01297 489825  
and Eddie Hall [email protected] 
07971 225873 
Fishponds:
Jeanne Coates  [email protected]
01297 678303
Monkton Wyld:
Sarah Drewer  [email protected]
01297 560342
Stanton St Gabriel:   
Andrew Carey  [email protected]
01297 560057 
Whitchurch Canonicorum:
Carolyn Peck [email protected]
01297 489185
 Wootton Fitzpaine: 
​Debbie Snook [email protected]
01297 561395 

In the Upper Marshwood Vale Parish Councll area, please contact Matthew Bowditch - [email protected]  01308 862758]


Road damage and other highway issues can be reported online. These enquiries are passed on to our community highway officers who will assess the damage and arrange for any defects to be repaired, and recommend the area for any further action if necessary.