RUBBISH and recycling will be collected as normal during Easter. New Forest District Council’s refuse collection teams will work on Easter Friday and Easter Monday, so rubbish can be left out on the usual days. The district council’s head of
A COMPANY that supplies water to parts of Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire has been awarded the prestigious Investors in People (IIP) gold standard. SEMBCORP Bournemouth Water (SBW), which supplies drinking water to half a million people, joins
AFFORDABLE housing is to be built in Coombe Bissett after a lengthy battle by parish councillors resulted in a Uturn by Wiltshire Council. The former depot site in Blandford Road had been earmarked for sale on the open market and plans for two
DOG walkers in Laverstock say they have been left with nowhere to exercise their pets after a field they have walked through for decades was fenced off for a conservation project. The field, just off Pilgrims Way, is being rented by the River Bourne
A very spacious four bedroom, two bathroom, semi detached house, situated in the sought after village of Sixpenny Handley with lovely gardens offering real seclusion. Accommodation on the ground floor comprises tiled entrance hall, cloakroom, study
BULFORD army officer Major Kate Philp is taking part in what is being billed as the largest modern day expedition to the South Pole. Three teams of war-wounded servicemen and women will race 330km to reach the most southern point on earth, battling
A NEW website to help service personnel with financial planning has been launched by the MoD in co-operation with The Royal British Legion. The new MoneyForce website includes an innovative budget planner, car cost calculator and credit card forecaster
TRAINING on the Plain is set to increase significantly during April with Warrior companies from 2 R WELSH and 3 YORKS on armoured manoeuvre training across the whole Plain in the first two weeks. From April 8 to 12 Royal School of Artillery courses
THE threatened two-year suspension of the use of three neonicotinoids for use on corn, oil seed rape, sunflowers and other flowering crops by the EC has been lifted, after Britain and Germany failed to lend their backing. It had been claimed that
LIVESTOCK farmers could see many more perennial weeds like docks and thistles in pasture this spring after last year’s torrential rain. While many struggled to get their silage harvested, those who had planned to keep on top of weeds by spraying
DEFRA has announced a temporary and limited emergency relaxation in driver hours to deliver feed supplies to livestock farms to make sure essentials get through during the current extreme winter weather conditions. This will apply until 11.59pm
As I set out last week, the Chancellor did not have much room for manoeuvre in last week’s Budget. The key challenge remains getting to grips with the largest peacetime budget deficit in British history. It has now been reduced by a third – but
HELLO everyone and welcome to the Journal Gang page. Did you all have fun on Red Nose Day? I know lots of you did all sorts of funny things to raise money. I’ve been sent this fantastic picture of Freddie who goes to Music Bugs in Verwood and went
THE sudden death of his beloved cat, reaching his half-century and his daughters leaving home led Madness frontman Suggs to embark on a reflective journey through his life. Now he is bringing My Life Story in words and music, a mixture of narrative
SALISBURY Cathedral’s prestigious Organ Recital Series 2013 features musicians from far and wide in a programme of concerts running from April to October. The season opens on April 17 with Cédric Bergulin, organist titulaire of the cathedral in
SALISBURY’S St John Singers will be performing Stainer’s Crucifixion on Good Friday for the 24th year running. This year the choir is travelling to the north of the county to sing in the village of Steeple Ashton where its church rises high above
PHOTOGRAPHER Clare Astbury is showing her Slice of Life exhibition at Waterstone’s Bookshop in Salisbury. The exhibition runs until April 21 and consists of dark room-produced black and white photographs. Astbury has had a life-long interest
A WILDLIFE photographer from Wilton held her first exhibition in the town at the weekend. Kate Ford, pictured, who has been a photographer for about three years, showed her work at The Greyhound pub on Saturday. “It was amazing,” she said.
BOOTLEG Theatre Company is returning to the Salberg Studio at Salisbury Playhouse after an absence of eight years, as part of the theatre’s Theatre Fest West festival on April 3. Tales from the Street is four monologues by new writers Gwynne Power
THE STRANGLERS, SALISBURY CITY HALL THIRTY-SIX years on from the release of their debut album Rattus Norvegicus, punk survivors The Stranglers are enjoying a deserved renaissance. The Men In Black’s career may have dipped in the 90s following
MADAME BUTTERFLY, WELSH NATIONAL OPERA, MAYFLOWER THEATRE, SOUTHAMPTON HAVING never seen an opera before I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the Welsh National Opera’s Madame Butterfly was a great introduction to this captivating art form. Giacomo
SALISBURY MUSICAL SOCIETY, CATHEDRAL JUNIOR CHOIR, BOY CHORISTERS, CHELSEA OPERA GROUP ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTED BY DAVID HALLS NOT FOR a long time has the nation longed for spring to arrive as much as this March with its persistent wintery weather.
FEAR OF MUSIC, SALBERG STUDIO, SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE THIS raw and touching play about the lives of two brothers took the audience on a memorable journey. Focussing on a struggling family living on a run-down estate, Salisbury writer Barney Norris
MY struggles with a new mobile phone struck a chord with many readers, and with women in particular. Now there’s a new challenger in the Riddle household for the title of Most Irritating Gadget. It’s called a YouView box. “Search our galaxy
I WAS delighted to see your headline Library move fears dismissed, but when I read on I saw it was no such thing. Just a few lines further on I saw: “If any relocation does take place, it would remain in the city centre, possibly moving to alongside
HOW can the three professional architects of Concrete Ideas assume the large number of bus passengers regularly to be found queuing for buses to Southampton, Bournemouth, Amesbury and Andover, as well as local villages, should be expected to stand
HAVING a pooch myself I share the Laverstock dog walkers’ annoyance at the access restrictions imposed by the River Bourne Community Farm in order to create a nature field. For many years the field in question, which incidentally is not adjacent
ON April 1, we will see the biggest changes to the NHS and public involvement since 1948. This month the Wiltshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) is abolished and the Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group, run by GPs, takes over. Public health,
A GARDENER from Three Legged Cross who sexually assaulted a customer in her bedroom has been jailed for three years. Peter Barney, 50, was found guilty of assault by penetration by a majority verdict from a jury of seven women and five men at Bournemouth
I totally agree with Graham Reeder’s letter (Journal Postbag, March 21) about the state of the approach roads into Salisbury from Alderbury. I turned right from Chipper Lane into Castle Street the other day noticed how shabby Castle Street is looking
SIX further cases of dogs dying from acute kidney failure are being investigated as vets pool information on a deadly toxin. The number of suspected cases is now 12. But they say no further cases have been seen since March 1 and are hopeful the
A NEW app has been designed for Salisbury showcasing the top ten reasons to visit the city. The Visit Salisbury App, which is being launched by VisitWiltshire and is free to download, features an interactive guide to the city, Stonehenge and surrounding
A 20-YEAR-OLD woman is recovering in hospital after being hit by a bus in Salisbury city centre yesterday afternoon. The woman suffered a head injury but it was not life threatening and she is expected to be released from hospital in the next few
POLICE are appealing for information following two incidents on the same night where items were stolen from vehicles. Overnight on March 9 to 10 the window of a pick-up truck parked in Clay Street in Whiteparish was smashed and landscaping tools
SALISBURY has been named the UK’s second least affordable city to live in. According to this year’s Lloyds TSB Affordable Cities Review, the average property price is 8.6 times the average gross annual salary. Only in Oxford is property less
