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New Blackmore Vale, September 17, 2021
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A very happy first birthday to us...
From left, the NBV editorial team, Karen Bate, Steve Keenan, Miranda Robertson and Nicci Brown. Above, Ruth Armishaw. Right, business writer Andrew Diprose and New Stour and Avon Editor Steve Belasco with their wives.
Left, vet Alice Miller, Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show Secretary James Cox and colleagues. Right, New Stour and Avon writers Lorraine Gibson and Faith Eckersall.
Happy birthday to us! The New Blackmore Vale reaches an important milestone this week, and we thought we’d celebrate in style – inviting our wonderful columnists, staff and contributors to a kneesup in the sun. It’s been an amazing year, where this publication has grown and grown, thanks to the support of readers,
advertisers and contributors. We really feel loved – thank you. We never could have predicted our magazine being this much of a hit in such a short time, after warily launching during a global pandemic. We now have a pretty large team trying to assemble the words in the right order, the ads in the right places and
the 32,500 magazines in the right towns and villages each fortnight. When we started, the advertising manager and I, both with long newspaper careers and having seen the impact of the internet on newsprint revenues, did wonder if we and the Armishaw family were a little bonkers even trying to fund a free news magazine
with advertising! However your support has ensured the NBV’s future – and we’ve even launched a second magazine, the New Stour and Avon. We certainly feel like a family now, and most definitely part of the Blackmore Vale community. Thank you everyone. Miranda Robertson Editor
