DURRINGTON Dynamos beat Porton Sports 2-1 to maintain their lead at the top of the Premier Division. Two first-half goals from Ben Puling and Joey Weeks put them in the ascendency before Porton scored from a penalty in the last minute. In Division
INSPIRED by three members of Fordingbridge Rugby Club who raised £10,000 for charity in memory of a former president and his daughter who died just a year apart, Beverley Zuber is set to run the London Marathon. Paul O’Connell, Nigel Lunt and Chris
WATCHING a play in the back of an old post office sorting van is an interesting way to spend a Wednesday afternoon. And The Last Post, by Bath-based Kilter Theatre, was absolutely brilliant – a quirky, nostalgic look at the art of letter writing
TELLING the story of a novel of more than 1,000 pages in less than two hours with just three actors might sound like an impossible mission, but Company Boudin do it with aplomb. Alexandre Dumas’ tale of betrayal and revenge is a literary classic
A PACKED audience filled Salisbury Playhouse for the opening night of Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie on Tuesday. Narrator Lee, played by Richard Derrington, recounts his upbringing in rural Gloucestershire just after the First World War. Susie Blake
“A COMIC, anarchic, touching and heroic full mask adventure” is coming to Salisbury Arts Centre. Vamos Theatre’s Finding Joy follows the title character, who is creative, funny, loves to dance – and is losing her memory – and her grandson Danny
Five for the week: 1, Swans – No Words No Thoughts. 2, Do Make Say Think – A Tender Rust In History. 3, Metz – Headache. 4, Kevin Ayers – Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes. 5, Teenage Fan Club – The Concept.
DODGY, the 90s group whose infectious hits include Staying Out For The Summer and Good Enough, played at The Rainbow on the Lake pub in Steeple Langford on Friday. More than 300 people packed into the venue to hear the trio perform a semiacoustic
CITY Hall was bursting at the seams on Tuesday as Enter Shikari performed as part of their UK tour. The group are playing venues that are normally missed by established acts in a way to connect to fans more. And the evidence was that it’s working
ALL units deployed in Afghanistan have been busy completing the intheatre training package, which lasts seven days and has been carried out in steadily rising temperatures. It didn’t take long after the official handover for the soldiers of 22
THREE Salisbury Plain boxers were members of the army boxing team that beat the Royal Navy to win the Combined Services Championship held at HMS Nelson. The result was a win by seven bouts to two, with six walkovers as the navy were unable to fill
THE Army Families Federation (AFF) will be visiting Tidworth next month so families can ask army bosses questions on the issues important to them. The roadshow will be taking place in the Old Garrison Theatre at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth, on
ANDREW Poole seems to have been surprised that our MP did not accept his idea that the unemployed (I refuse to use the euphemism ‘jobseeker’ as they are not necessarily unemployed) should be made to pick up rubbish in Southampton Road (Postbag, March
ELECTIONS will soon be held to choose councillors to represent the people of Wiltshire. Soon after these elections four years ago, Wiltshire Council proposed the introduction of much higher parking charges in Salisbury. It would be interesting
SALISBURY planners have reached the ultimate in madness. Tesco in Castle Street has just had a makeover and was closed for several weeks, which customers found very hard. Now they are planning to knock it down and rebuild it with a hotel above
I WAS unfortunate enough to be on the 16.22 from Bristol to Salisbury recently, ‘provided’ by the Great Western Railway service. Work makes me a familiar traveller on the London underground, bus service and South West trains but I was enormously
THANKS to everybody who purchased my charity Easter knitted chicks. Special thanks go to the Amesbury Community and Visitor Centre and Porton Garden, Pet and Aquatic Centre for each making space for a basketful of chicks and collecting pot.
IN reply to R Hayes (Postbag, April 4). That Edward Heath was an able politician until he morphed into The Incredible Sulk when Mrs Thatcher’s star was in the ascendant is not in dispute. Nor was it my point. It is also true that he had a vision
AS the person most affected by the roadworks at Dinton, the subject of a letter from Gordon Heath (Postbag, April 4), I would like to set the record straight. This scheme has taken three years to come to fruition and is the result of research into
I VISITED the grave of my parents this week, at the cemetery in Devizes Road. It is difficult to say how saddened I was to see that yet again lead had been removed from their headstone. What sort of a human being would do this? The only
WITH reference to the possible spend on the A303 (Journal, April 4) and comments made by English Heritage and Jan Swindlehurst. It is not just dual carriageway past Stonehenge that is required, it is a bypass beyond and through Winterbourne Stoke
I HAD to visit the household recycling centre recently and was shocked to see so many trade vans getting rid of commercial waste. Why do the council allow vans in, as other councils such as Dorset and Hampshire don’t, and save thousands of pounds
I VISITED a friend in Fordingbridge Hospital last weekend. Ford Ward really is excellent now and the staff could not be more considerate or helpful. When you come out, however, you cannot avoid passing the old workhouse buildings. In this week
BUSINESSES are being asked to sign up to the Salisbury Purple Flag Charter to promote excellence in the city’s night time economy. Salisbury was awarded Purple Flag status, denoting the city as a safe, clean and entertaining place to be in the
RUSHMORE Golf Club in Tollard Royal has announced the appointment of Richard Harber as its new head professional. Richard joins the club after successful spells at The Kendleshire, Bowood, Lansdowne and Tewkesbury Park. General manager Declan
NEW look Stonehenge tour buses are on the road and ready to welcome new visitors. The Wilts & Dorset Stonehenge bus tour has three newer, more comfortable Scania OmniDekkas buses with new graphics. The tour, first launched in 2009, will
A NEW scheme is being created to support people who are new to work or returning to work after a long period of unemployment. Wiltshire Council is one of a number of local authorities and agencies to gain funding under the European Union’s Channel
HELLO everyone and welcome to the Journal Gang page. On the Gang page this week we are meeting the members of Winterslow Brownies who have been showing off their circus skills, and you could win one of two family days out to the LEGOLAND® Windsor
IT might be tempting to leave undrilled fields fallow this spring to keep crop rotations on track, but a better option financially is to sow a nitrogen-fixing break crop of red and crimson clover, and gain from free fertiliser, improved soil structure
FOUR EU member states are still not fully compliant with the welfare of the laying hens directive, despite the ban coming into force at the beginning of 2012. At a poultry meeting in Brussels last month a European Commission official confirmed
DEFRA’S Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) is looking for farmers to take part in a survey to find out how often badgers enter agricultural buildings and the reasons they do so. Surveillance cameras will be installed at 75
THE Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rejected complaints from farmers about an advertisement run by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) which showed a dish of lamb cutlets in a urinal. The FSA ran the campaign to encourage consumers to look
THE political agenda of late has been dominated by changes to the benefit system. Some have sought to link worklessness as a lifestyle choice with the tragic deaths of the six children of Mick and Mairead Philpott in Derby. I think it is critical that
The choir gave a very successful performance of JH Maunder’s Olivet to Calvary on Palm Sunday, when a considerable sum of money was raised for two charities. Preparations will begin on Monday, April 8 at Bemerton Methodist Church, Roman Road, Salisbury
THE past month has been a busy time for the Morgan’s Vale, Woodfalls & Redlynch Branch of the Royal British Legion. At the RBL county conference they were awarded second place in the Stillwell Cup for efficiency over this past year. Their
EVERY year, at our summer exhibition, the Salisbury Group of Artists (SGA) awards a trophy – affectionately known as ‘the chicken’ – to the artist whose picture is judged Best in Show. The trophy, more properly known as The Edwin Young Trophy,
EASTER Monday saw 84 players at Rushmore Golf Club in Tollard Royal take part in in a fun competition to celebrate the 90th Birthday of club member Baroness Sharples. “Her birthday was in February, but the House of Lords was in session then so
THE annual meeting of the Winterslow & Firsdown WI took place on March 21 at Winterslow Village Hall. The president, Pat Cudby, invited comment from members on the 90th birthday party held on February 21. It was generally agreed that it
A MEETING of Bulford WI was held Thursday, April 4, and 21 members attended. Our speaker for the afternoon was Stephanie Honeychurch, who prepared and demonstrated excellent recipes in a hour. Members appreciated the tasting afterwards.
THE Salisbury Bonsai Society April meeting was in two parts. Clive talked about picking a tree from a garden centre, from the wild or your own garden. He said we should look for a tree with movement and taper in the trees and trunk and how
1729 to 2013: a proud record for the Salisbury Journal. Bill Browne, the editor, recounted the lives of its owners, particularly that of Benjamin Collins, who set up the newspaper destined to become the fifth oldest in the country, to his U3A audience
From the moment the curtains opened onto Amanda Harris’s exquisitely designed set the audience was immediately transported into a vicarage garden in high summer. Director Karen Johnstone had chosen Richard Everett’s thought provoking and witty
FOLLOWING several social meetings – including a quiz and an evening of enacting French playlets, both organised by Jean Lunnon, and our annual lunch at the Wessex Restaurant in the college where we had an excellent meal cooked and served by students
I HAVE a phobia of flying. It has become such a problem that now I refuse to go anywhere if it involves a flight. My world has become very small. I know the Channel Islands and Cornwall like the back of my hand. This year, the problem has
A FORMER Ludgershall GP has officially unveiled a new housing development named in his honour. Dr Richard Wells, who worked at the Castle Practice for more than 30 years before his retirement in 2008, came back to the town with his wife, Lavinia
PEOPLE have four weeks to comment on a plan to turn New Forest District Council’s former offices in Ringwood into a retail and housing development. Currentasset Ltd has applied to demolish the three-storey building in Christchurch Road and build
AFTER leaving politics, Baroness Thatcher wrote autobiographical books charting her early life and days in Downing Street. In 1995 she came to Ottakars bookshop in Salisbury to sign copies of her book Path to Power. Long queues formed as supporters
MARGARET Thatcher’s impact on British industry might spark fierce debate, but in 1980 she received a warm welcome from staff at the Wilton Carpet Factory. Stephen Devlin, who joined the company in 1974, and is the company’s materials manager today
IN JULY 2005, Baroness Thatcher came to Salisbury to attend the funeral of her former boss turned political rival Sir Edward Heath. Accompanied by many of her former colleagues, Baroness Thatcher joined the 1,600 mourners in the cathedral for the
THE power of the press was something Margaret Thatcher was only too aware of, so a visit to Southampton in support of the local Tory candidate Chris Chope for the 1992 election included a tour of the Southern Daily Echo where I was deputy news editor
AN unexpected protest in Salisbury’s Butcher Row sparked up during Baroness Thatcher’s 1980 visit to Salisbury but she remained “immovable” according to the police chief of the time. Frank Lockyer, who was divisional police commander for south
FORMER Salisbury MP Robert Key was among the first to pay tribute to Baroness Thatcher following her death. Mr Key, who was Salisbury MP from 1983 to 2010, served in government under Baroness Thatcher, including as Local Government Finance Minister
A MAN has appeared in court charged with murder after his wife was stabbed to death in Amesbury. Roy Simister, 49, of Maple Way, Amesbury appeared before magistrates in Salisbury this morning and was remanded in custody to appear at Winchester
THE pavements of Salisbury is being transformed into a canvas today as part of an exhibition focusing on wheelchair users. Artist Sue Austin is using a specially-adapted paint wheelchair to create a trail from Blue Boar Row to Salisbury Arts Centre
YOUNGER Wiltshire residents aged 16 to 19 can now ‘like’ a new Facebook page called Wiltshire Next Generation and get entered into a prize draw with a chance to win a Nexus 7 tablet. To enter send a private message via the page with information
AS construction on a new 50-station gym extension at The Verwood Hub nears completion, staff and clients are celebrating news of a donation that will help pay for new equipment. Synergy Housing has provided funding of £3,500 towards activity dance
Blue Square Bet South Salisbury 1-1 Dover Athletic Salisbury City: Puddy, Wilson, J. Clarke, Dutton (c), Brett (Ademeno, 69), Lewis (Fitchett, 60), S. Sinclair, R. Sinclair (Frear, 76), Wellard, McPhee, White. Subs not used: Clark, Udoji
ACTORS at Studio Theatre in Ashley Road, Salisbury have handed over a cheque for £1,080 to The Alzheimer’s Society. The donation is the result of a special gala evening for the theatre’s production of Going Postal in February, a play based on Sir
A TEENAGE tapper is celebrating after winning another accolade. Rosie Howell, 15, beat tough competition from tap dancers across the country to win the senior section of the Marjorie Davies Tap Awards on Sunday. The South Wilts schoolgirl competed
HOSPITAL bosses at Salisbury NHS Trust have decided not to adopt controversial regional pay plans. Staff and unions at Salisbury District Hospital were angry the hospital had joined a consortium of 20 south west trusts looking at ways to reduce
STUDENTS at St Edmund’s School are putting on a hair-raising show this week with their production of Hairspray. The musical is set in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1960s where plump teenager Tracy Turnblad dreams of dancing on The Corny Collins Show
A MAN has been charged with murder following the death of a woman in Amesbury. James Roy Simister, 49, of Maple Way, Amesbury was arrested on Monday after police were called the road just before 10pm where they found the 45-year-old woman with
NEIGHBOURS have spoken of their shock following the death of a woman who was found with serious injuries at her Amesbury home on Monday. Police were called to a house in Maple Way just before 10.15pm where they found the 45-year-old woman, who
A 51-YEAR-OLD motorcyclist has died following a crash on Saturday afternoon on the A30 at Ansty Coombe, near Tisbury. The Shaftesbury man was travelling towards the town when he was in collision with a dark grey Mercedes that was turning from an
SOME 188 candidates will be standing for election at the Dorset County Council elections on May 2. Across the county, 45 council seats in 42 electoral divisions are being contested. Thirty-nine divisions will have one county councillor and
