Gillingham town council's planning committee lost four members when it came to discussing the application to demolish St Martin's House and build a retirement home. At the meeting on November 12, with two other councillors absent and 11 residents present, Cllr Von...

An attempted burglary in Shrewton is yet another incident of a break-in and the offender fleeing without stealing. The victims of the latest attempt, a couple in their 60s, were at home in Nett Road at about 6am today, Tuesday, November 13, when they saw a man in...

An 89-year-old widower was found hanging in the garage of his home, an inquest in Salisbury was told. Johannes Benjamin Frankfort from Downton was discovered by neighbour John Beever on November 4. The alarm had been raised after the widower’s son had been unable to...

Rotary Club of Wilton is inviting all elderly people living in Wilton to be part of the Cinderella panto audience at Coombe Bissett village hall on Tuesday, December 4. Buses leave the Michael Herbert Hall in South Street at 7pm. Register your place for the free...

Last month, Valley News revealed John Glen MP’s dream of a cultural explosion in Salisbury city centre: now Wiltshire's Cabinet Member for Development and South Wiltshire Recovery Pauline Church spoke of ‘culture, perception and growth’ to revive Salisbury's high...

Reeve the Baker supported the British Legion Poppy Appeal this year by baking and selling poppy cupcakes and giving the profits to the charity. “Armistice Day is such an important date in the calendar, even more so this year, marking 100 years since the end of WW1,”...

A break-in at a property in Pickernell Road, Tidworth at about 1pm, Thursday, November 8, yielded nothing. The suspect carried out a search of the ground floor of the address, before being disturbed by the homeowner and fleeing the scene and nothing was stolen. Police...

The Wessex Chalk Stream and Rivers Trust (WCSRT) Trust has moved into an office for the first time. The office, in Stratford sub Castle just a stone’s throw away from the River Avon, is opened by the Chairman of WCSRT, George Seligman, on Friday, November 16. The...

Local mum Sarah could not read stories to her twin daughters. Three years ago she started to learn to read with Read Easy, the charity dedicated to helping adults learn to read. In 2017, Sarah took part in Project Literacy and talked about her journey into literacy on...

An armistice parade on Monday, November 12 on its historical estate marked the centenary of the end of the First World War for Kingston Maurward College. Led from the Elizabethan Manor by Military Preparation students with horses and dogs adorned in poppies, the...

Lottery millionaires Nick and Zoe Hoare delivered a gold lottery playstation to the shop where they bought their £1 million winning ticket 18 months ago. The former owners of The White Horse, Quidhampton, unveiled the limited edition playstation at Waitrose &...

Children and adults from Amesbury-based Stonehenge Taekwon-Do School raised money for Children in Need on Remembrance Sunday. (November 11). White Belts, as young as 5, and senior Black Belts joined for a one-hour sparathon in which they swapped sparring partners...

Gillingham town council's planning committee lost four members when it came to discussing the application to demolish St Martin's House and build a retirement home. At the meeting on November 12, with two other councillors absent and 11 residents present, Cllr Von...

An attempted burglary in Shrewton is yet another incident of a break-in and the offender fleeing without stealing. The victims of the latest attempt, a couple in their 60s, were at home in Nett Road at about 6am today, Tuesday, November 13, when they saw a man in...

An 89-year-old widower was found hanging in the garage of his home, an inquest in Salisbury was told. Johannes Benjamin Frankfort from Downton was discovered by neighbour John Beever on November 4. The alarm had been raised after the widower’s son had been unable to...

Rotary Club of Wilton is inviting all elderly people living in Wilton to be part of the Cinderella panto audience at Coombe Bissett village hall on Tuesday, December 4. Buses leave the Michael Herbert Hall in South Street at 7pm. Register your place for the free...

Last month, Valley News revealed John Glen MP’s dream of a cultural explosion in Salisbury city centre: now Wiltshire's Cabinet Member for Development and South Wiltshire Recovery Pauline Church spoke of ‘culture, perception and growth’ to revive Salisbury's high...

Reeve the Baker supported the British Legion Poppy Appeal this year by baking and selling poppy cupcakes and giving the profits to the charity. “Armistice Day is such an important date in the calendar, even more so this year, marking 100 years since the end of WW1,”...