SALISBURY Racecourse is set for some sizzling top class Flat racing action as its new season kicks off this month. The ever-popular Netherhampton venue boasts 15 fixtures during 2013 – the first of which goes under starter’s orders on Sunday, [...]
A NINETY-year-old ‘devoted fan’ of the NHS slapped a ban on having a funeral when he died. Instead, NHS campaigner Donald Bealing’s ‘final bequest’ was for his body be used ‘for medical research’ at a showpiece hospital where grand-father Mr [...]
Tisbus members have an outing to Swanage on June 12, via steam train from Nordan, with pick-ups from 9.30am and returning at about 3.30pm. Enjoy the beautiful Dorset countryside while relaxing on a traditional iconic steam locomotive, before exploring the [...]
Nine Lions Clubs met at Gillingham Town Hall, as the GMS Lions, on Sunday, April 14, for the 31st area collection of used spectacles under the Lions ‘SpecTrek’ scheme. Yet again, another record was broken when 26,618 (24,657 in 2012) [...]
Wilton Community Carnival organisers say they have planned an exciting, different family fun day – free- at Wilton Shopping Village on Saturday, July 6. At the Shopping Village, the Fire Station will hold an Open Day with teas, two fire [...]
Villagers showed their overwhelming support for their parish council in a fight with play area trustees over funding the village asset. At a parish meeting on April 16, attended by more than 80 villagers, council chairman Glenn Gillott asked: “Do [...]
Shaftesbury carnival committee held its annual general meeting in March and donated £2,400 to local charities. Carnival Gran, ElaineBarratt, Princess Attendant Natalie Martin, Princess Daisy Mayall, Princess Attendant Marie Hardiman and representatives from two main beneficiaries, Mindful and Shaftesbury Town Silver [...]
A statutory patient watchdog has demanded that Salisbury District Hospital employs more nurses after a Care Quality Commission report claimed there was insufficient staff. The report stated the hospital was not meeting the standard ‘that there should be enough members [...]
Rotary Racers’ Michael Rowe, Steve Marriott, Bruce Smith and Kevin Flynn’ swam 105 lengths at the Rotary Swimathon on Saturday, April 6. They were joined by 157 swimmers and swam a total of 3,600 lengths in the ninth swimathon organised [...]
The Re-named ‘Laverstock Care Centre’ opened for an official renaming ceremony, led by Mayor of Salisbury, Councillor John Collier. Residents and staff at the London Road home, which provides residential, nursing and specialist dementia care for up to 80 people, [...]
THE LORD Lieutenant planted an English Oak on the cricket ground at East Farm, Fovant on Sunday, March 24, to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. It was recorded that the weather on Coronation Day ‘was bitterly cold – as cold [...]
Big food companies are dictating what we eat – and it’s not good, according to a leading campaigner for ‘real food’. Archers scriptwriter and author of five books on sustainable food production, Graham Harvey told members of Wilton and District [...]
Sport in the area’s primary schools is to receive a welcome boost as part of the legacy of the 2012 London Olympic Games. They will share in £1,725,100 being awarded to Wiltshire Education Authority – its part of the extra [...]
The government has accepted almost all the recommendations of Lord Heseltine’s October 2012 report ‘No Stone Unturned: the Pursuit of Growth’. This was a robust report, a call to arms for leadership and localism. But to my mind badly flawed. [...]
A free event will give motorcyclists an opportunity to have their riding assessed by a RoSPA Approved Tutor. The event, organised by Wiltshire RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders (RoADAR) group is called SkillShare and runs through the summer months from [...]
Mere Parish Council has taken over the town’s Salisbury Street and Castle Street car parks and toilets, and created one local job. The car parks are free, with help from local businesses. “A councillor from Salisbury at a full Council [...]
Wiltshire Council is to receive an average of £224 per head of population in government grant – almost £94 less than the English rural average of £318, according to Mere & Zeals Wiltshire Councillor George Jeans. “The council was given [...]
Wilton’s own Big Lunch event is on Sunday, June 2, between 12pm and 4pm in the Community Centre and the Parish Church, to raise funds for the Salisbury-based food bank, the Trussell Trust. Everyone is expected to take food and [...]
The Edward Heath Charitable Foundation Trustees chairman Lord Armstrong said: “There are no plans to re-open Arundells on April 1.” The Foundation, which has temporary planning consent to re-open the £7 million mansion in Salisbury Cathedral Close. The Foundation wanted [...]
The whole local community should benefit from a new planning deal for a large development site on the edge of the town, according to leaders of the Wilton Community Land Trust. The trust is a major player in the Redrow/OurEnterprise [...]
Progress on the extensive renovations of the Pembroke Arms, Wilton, were on view last month, when Hillbrooke Hotels invited guests to a preview. The Hotel was taken over by Hillbrooke Hotels last October and was closed for refurbishment. Nearly all [...]
THESE Kune Kune piglets were born on that Sunday morning while it was snowing! Usually, sows have more sense and farrow in nicer weather, but as this one, named Hollie, went so overdue she clearly couldn’t wait any longer! This [...]
They have had time to reflect – now they are up for auction. A pair of giant mirrors from a Salisbury asylum is to be sold at auction. The pair once belonged to the last private owner of Stonehenge Cecil [...]
Five Olympic hopefuls have received funding from Wiltshire Council. The young sports stars successfully applied for Wiltshire Council’s Future Olympians’ scheme which awards £1,000 grants to five applicants each year to help cover costs associated with their sport. On March [...]
By Frances Howard UKIP So, there’s horse meat in many prepared meals and the drugs injected into the poor animal when it was alive can give you cancer. Those families who are on the edge should be doubly alarmed at [...]
A small Salisbury-based online store is supplying niche children’s toys and accessories to parents, schools nurseries up and down the UK. Although www.happywitch.co.uk sends out orders on a daily basis across the UK, it attends various Christmas and school fayres [...]
SALISBURY law firm Bonallack & Bishop are working with Age UK Salisbury District throughout March offering anyone over 75 the chance to have a will, drawn up, free of charge. Tim Bishop, Bonallack & Bishop’s senior partner said: “Leaving no [...]
We are told that more and more people are relying on food banks to top up their meal needs. We learn also of more and more people falling into ‘fuel poverty’. At the rate things are going, those who can’t [...]
SALISBURY Stingrays started their 2013 Masters County Championships swimming campaign in style, securing numerous podium finishes at Trowbridge’s Clarendon Pool. Stingrays finished the event with a commanding lead, having secured 121 points – 29 more than rivals Swindon Dolphins. Warminster [...]
SALISBURY City’s Chris Giles says he is determined to play a key role in helping the club’s efforts to return to the top flight of the non league game. As the season enters its final phase, the influential central defender [...]
