THE 12 Mechanised Brigade Skill At Arms competition held at Bulford was closely contested and, after four days of competition, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards were crowned as champions. Teams from all of the brigade’s units and HQs entered the event, consisting
PENSIONS and insurance giant Friends Provident, which employs nearly 900 people at its Salisbury offices, has achieved the platinum band in Business in the Community’s 2009 Corporate Responsibility Index. The CRI helps companies to improve corporate
BUSINESSES in south Wiltshire have the chance to tell the head of Wiltshire Council what they want - and need - in Salisbury. Louise Howard, president of Salisbury and District Chamber of Commerce & Industry, will be representing members at
USERS of the new park and ride at Petersfinger, on the Southampton Road side of Salisbury, may have noticed the swathe of green on the roof of the waiting area. The roof has been planted with sedums to create a ‘living’ roof, as has part of the roof at
PARAMEDICS were forced to call out the coastguard helicopter when they got into difficulties rescuing an injured woman near Burley on Monday. The Hampshire and Isle of Wight air ambulance had been sent to Wilverley Plain at midday to help a 63-year-old
WATER butts have been empty for weeks and the few light showers that have fallen on the plot have barely moistened the soil. Evening or early morning watering has become essential for vulnerable plants such as cucumbers, tomatoes and the plants in flower
Hi everyone, welcome to this week’s Gang page. Gang member Bryn Peachment sent me an email this week about his birthday celebrations, as it was his seventh birthday on Monday. He had a swimming party with all his school friends on Saturday, then enjoyed
MOUNTAIN bikes worth £20,000 have been stolen from a shop in Ringwood. The bikes were taken from a store in Christchurch Road overnight on July 12 after burglars broke in via a back entrance off Mansfield Road. A number of the stolen bikes were still
PEOPLE can sign a petition against sex trafficking in Body Shop in Salisbury from today. Stores across the country will be collecting signatures for the petition, which will eventually be presented to the government. Store manager Amy
POLICE have issued an efit image of a man they want to speak to in connection with a burglary in Breamore. An 83-year-old woman was in the back garden of her home at Upper Street just before 3pm on April 2 when offenders got into the house and stole
A CALLOUS motorist ploughed into a foal, leaving it for dead at the side of a road near Burley. The foal was left in agony with a broken back after the driver smashed into it on Pound Lane. Eventually the foal was found by a member of the public who
TWO young men were attacked and robbed by a gang of youths in a children’s play park in Salisbury. The men, aged 16 and 23 and from the local area, were in the park at the Greencroft at 12.30am on July 3 when they were assaulted by five men who stole
I am SO relieved. For the past few months I’ve been thinking I was on the brink of a mid-life crisis. You see, I developed my first celebrity crush in March. I had thought I was maybe a little old for such things, but then I set eyes
THE Bransgore Community First Responder team will be holding their annual street collection outside the shops in Ringwood Road, Bransgore this Saturday. The unpaid volunteers respond to 999 calls passed to them by the ambulance service so they can provide
SEA scouts from Sandleheath spent an exhilarating sailing day on the water at Blashford Lakes on Saturday when they competed in the annual Solent Regatta. Along with the Sandleheath Scouts, six scouts from across the south competed for the title, with
AN Army major from Salisbury has been named as one of three British soldiers killed by a rogue member of the Afghan army on Tuesday. Major James Joshua Bowman, 34, of 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, was shot dead while sleeping in his quarters
A MAJOR review of leisure facilities across the county is to be discussed by Wiltshire Council’s Cabinet on July 27. The council says it cannot afford to carry on with things as they are. It would cost £93million to maintain the existing 23 facilities
SPECIALIST centres for children with learning disabilities at three south Wiltshire primary schools have been earmarked for closure. The complex needs centres at Harnham Junior, Durrington Junior and Mere School are under-used, according to
YOUNG members of Forest Forge Theatre Company’s youth theatre performed an adaptation of the Kenneth Grahame classic, The Wind in the Willows over the weekend. The cast of 22 were all aged between 10 and 12 and the performance took place before family
A PENSIONER received a gas bill for a whopping £6,479.99 – for heating her mobile home. Barbara High, 68, from West Moors, said: “I told them, hang on, I’m not heating Buckingham Palace!” Barbara, who phones in her meter readings to EDF Energy under
CHILDREN and staff at Alderbury and West Grimstead Primary School are saying goodbye to their deputy headteacher. Sue Wyatt retires at the end of the school year after six years as deputy head. Mrs Wyatt was a teacher at the former West Grimstead
A PEDESTRIAN was killed after being hit by a car in an accident on Tuesday night. The woman in her 60s suffered serious injuries in the accident, which involved a Daewoo Nubira and happened shortly after 8.30pm in Stratford Road, Salisbury.
CHILDREN at Hyde School have been hitting the high notes with performances of Hyde School 1-2-5, a musical based on the history of the school. Weeks of practice culminated in two performances of their summer production staged at Ibsley village hall
PARKING problems in Ringwood high street are being tackled by New Forest District Council in a bid to stop congestion and make crossing safer for pedestrians. Traders in the town claim that illegal parking by drivers in loading and disabled
PARKING problems in Ringwood High Street are being tackled by New Forest District Council in a bid to stop congestion and make crossing safer for pedestrians. Traders in the town claim that illegal parking by drivers in loading and disabled parking
A WHITEWASHED cottage tucked away in The Friary is now the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of the Maldives. It is also the home of businessman David Hardingham, and an opening ceremony on Saturday saw an extraordinary gathering in the suburban street
PARISH councils have complained of being swamped by bureaucracy under Wiltshire Council’s area boards system. Steeple Langford and Bulford are among those who have protested that volunteer members and part-time clerks are asked to fill in too many time-consuming
THE famous white stripes of the humble badger seem to have been put to an unusual use lately, saving the taxpayer money for paint and council contractors a few seconds on their long days. Reader Kevin Maul was on his way home from work when he
