AN Army officer died after he swerved to avoid a huge pothole while cycling home from work and was hit by a lorry, an inquest heard today. Captain Jonathan Allen, 29, of 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was cycling towards Burbage
ENVIRONMENT Secretary Caroline Spelman last week called for a new focus on preserving the countryside’s vitally important natural assets. A new Defra White Paper focuses on endangered animals, cleaner water and other aspects of the natural environment
PRINCE Charles has launched a major new charity to give a boost to the UK’s most vulnerable farmers and small communities. The Prince’s Countryside Fund is expected to raise tens of millions of pounds for depressed rural areas in the next decade. The
Hi everyone and welcome to this week’s Gang page. I have some breaking news for you from Gang member Amy Peachment, aged seven. She wrote me a very lovely letter in pink, sparkly pen telling me there are some tadpoles which are living in their sandpit
STEPHANIE Cole’s current role as Professor Higgins’ mother in Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is just another example of the expansively eclectic career this much-loved British actress has had, spanning some 50 years
MORE than 350 young people aged between 13 and 21 had the opportunity to sample cultural delights from film, music, dance and drama workshops to singing in a band or sampling the skills of parkour (free-running). YNM Creative Juice was held at Salisbury
LUNCHTIME recitals are being held in St Thomas’s Church in Salisbury throughout August. On Saturday, Richard Cook, organ scholar at Salisbury Cathedral, will give the recital. Other recitals will be given by David Power, organist at St Thomas’s Church
THE Tidworth Bowl was packed last week in scenes reminiscent of the old Tidworth Tattoo as 514 soldiers from 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery received their Afghanistan medals in front of a huge crowd of families and friends. Prior to the parade, in
At last the folly of the Petersfinger park and ride has been exposed (‘New park and ride flops’ Journal, July 29). Jim Flux has revealed that, what many warned would happen, has occurred. To put such a facility on the most congested road into Salisbury
Those of us who recall the austere beauty of the Cathedral Close only 40 years ago will feel little sympathy with Patricia Smith, speaking on behalf of today’s Residents’ Association, when she criticises the reduction in the number of constables on the
I am writing to thank your reporter Annie Riddle for her piece in last week’s Journal on the public unease at the way in which the community Area Grant scheme is working. I was not at the area board but a highly respected trustee in the voluntary sector
THREE members of staff at Moore Stephens in Salisbury have entered a team for the Great South Run in October, as part of the firm’s Corporate Social Responsibility pledge. Senior partner Robert Newman, Sarah Pearce and Jonathan Green will be taking part
AMBASSADORS, the Salisbury business networking club, and the Salisbury Breakfast Club, run by Salisbury solicitors Bonallack & Bishop are getting together for breakfast tomorrow at the Grasmere House Hotel in Harnham. The meeting is at 7.30am for 7.45am
WILTSHIRE Council’s leader has reacted with fury to news that the Health Protection Agency (HPA) board of directors favours moving Porton’s Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPR) to Essex – six months after the Journal first reported
THE last thing you expect when you pop into a changing room of a shop is to come back out and find it has closed for the day, leaving you trapped inside. But this is exactly what happened to Joanne Bolla, 38, when she went shopping in Wilton on Thursday
