By just about anyone's standards, 2016 has been a seismic and difficult year.
But even without Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and all the celebrities dying, there's been a great deal of upheaval just in Sherborne.
In choosing the biggest stories of the year, there was an awful lot that we had to leave out. There wasn't any room for the machete left in the taxi by two teenagers, or former Sherborne pupil Ben Hardy's appearance in X-Men: Apocalypse - and try as we might, we couldn't fit...
