A ONE man show captures the thrilling chill of classic ghost stories on Tuesday. Storyteller Robert MacCall will be performing the stories written by MR James. The Cabaret style evening starts at 7.30pm and is being held at at Woodgreen Village
A TEENAGE girl found dead with burn injuries in Edmondsham has been named as Rebecca Berry – known as Rebe. Rebe's body was discovered at 9.18pm by a family member in the grounds of a property in the East Dorset village near Cranborne. The
DIRECTOR and manager of Salisbury City FC Steve Claridge insists the newly-formed consortium will do its best to run the club “sensibly and sustainably”. Claridge and fellow board members Jeremy Harwood, David Phillips, Graeme Mundy and Ian Ridley
STEVE Claridge is the new boss of Salisbury City Football club after a deal was struck with the administrator. The troubled club will see the ex-Pompey star team up with a group of avid supporters to build a new future. A bid launched to the
TWO hundred years ago this month Adolphe Sax was born in Dinant, Belgium. The son of a music maker, he went on to invent the instrument which is the only one to bear the name of its inventor: the saxophone. The society heard a programme of
SHREWTON United’s woeful form rolled on as they were on the wrong end of a nine-goal thriller against high-fliers Malmesbury Victoria at the Recreation Ground. The game started well for the hosts as a Craig Lewis cross was turned home by Dom Jackson
A 72-YEAR-OLD woman collapsed in the area of Salisbury Cathedral. The woman is believed to have collapsed after suffering a possible cardiac arrest and ambulance crews administered CPR at the scene. The casualty was taken to Salisbury District
AGATHA Christie’s masterpiece And Then There Were None has begun its two-week run at Studio Theatre in Ashley Road. The production, directed by Colin Hayman, stars ten guilty strangers trapped on an isolated island with no boat and no escape.
The Inbetweeners Movie 2 Cert 15. 92 mins. Comedy/Romance. Starring Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas, Emily Berrington, Freddie Stroma, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Tamla Kari. Almost a year has passed since socially
ST VINCENT Certificate 12A. 102 mins. Comedy/Drama/Romance. Starring Bill Murray, Jaeden Lieberher, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Chris O’Dowd, Terrence Howard, Donna Mitchell. A MODERN-day Scrooge is moved by the plight of a young
A KEEN cyclist from Fordingbridge will be pedalling his way around New Zealand to help improve the lives of diabetes sufferers. Peter Elbro has set himself the challenge of cycling around 850 miles from Auckland to Wellington in 18 days for Diabetes
A RINGWOOD pupil has been recognised for her outstanding achievements. Gracie Fox, of Poulner Junior School, received the Michael Harlick Outstanding Sportsperson award for cycling at the Hampshire Schools Sports Federation’s 25th annual Michael
Planes 2: Fire & Rescue Certificate U. 84 mins. Animation/Family/Adventure/Comedy. Starring Dane Cook, Ed Harris, Julie Bowen, Curtis Armstrong, Wes Studi, Dale Dye, Regina King, Danny Pardo, Stacy Keach, Teri Hatcher, Hal Holbrook.
SHOPPERS were crushed when a large hoarding collapsed in the heart of Oxford Street less than 24 hours after it had been erected by an Old Sarum firm, a court has heard. Four people were injured, three seriously, in the incident on March 7, 2012
POLICE say the sudden death of a 15-year-old girl in Edmondsham near Cranborne is not being treated as suspicious. The body of the girl was discovered at 9.18pm on Monday, December 1, by a family member in the grounds of the property. A spokesman
A BID for devolution by Hampshire county bosses has been discussed with Government ministers. They believe Hampshire can be better ruled if it has more control over spending on the economy, health and transport. County councillors have fully
GUESTS in Fordingbridge will be transported to France without having to travel too far. Fordingbridge Twinning Association will be hosting the French cabaret evening Ooh La La tomorrow, at the town hall, from 7.30pm. It will feature live French
TO mark 20 years since the straight-to-cassette release of Go Go Juice, the band Suicide King are performing the album in its entirety, in order, for the first time at The Music Box on Saturday. The band who formed in Salisbury in the early 90s
STUDIO 53’s open winter exhibition starts on Friday 5th December from 6pm to 9pm. Studio 53 is an artist-run gallery space that has held regular exhibitions over the last three years. It aims to promote local artists and source artists from
ALDERBURY Players proudly present their annual pantomime, Jungle Book. The production is based – very loosely – on the Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling. The wolf pack rescues Mowgli, the man cub, from the evil Shere Khan's clutches. Mayhem
SALISBURY Musical Society is set to join forces with London-based orchestra Chelsea Opera Group to perform a Schubert and Brahms programme. The Mass No 5 in A flat Major is the grandest and most ambitious of six settings of the Mass composed by
OMID Djalili brings his new engaging, insightful show Iranalamadingdong to City Hall on Saturday, December 6 at 8pm. The new show will see Omid discuss themes of overcoming fears, relationships, the perils of celebrity and getting older. Omid
EXPANDING Ringwood law firm Ellis Jones Solicitors has appointed three trainees. Luke Baldwin, previously a paralegal in the banking and finance litigation department since 2013, is now a trainee solicitor. The 25-year-old studied law at the
CHILDREN at Poulner School in Ringwood welcomed a special guest to get them into the Christmas spirit ready for this Saturday’s lights switch-on. Roger the Ringwood Reindeer along with one of Santa’s elves visited the school last week. He will
AVON Valley Concerts’ Christmas concert will be performed by six of Dieici Voices’ talented young singers on tomorrow at 7.30pm in the Trinity Centre in Ringwood. Dieci Voices are an a capella choral ensemble who have been performing regularly
FESTIVE spirit surged through the streets in Fordingbridge at the town’s Christmas light switch on event on Friday. The town was packed as hundreds of people came to celebrate the start of the Christmas countdown and take part in the festivities
A SOCIAL club for adults with disabilities that this year celebrated its silver anniversary is seeking new members after seeing numbers drop slightly in recent years. The Redworth Club in Amesbury caters for all adults with learning disabilities
KNIGHTON House School has started this academic year with Sarah Wicks as its new headmistress. Mrs Wicks, with her husband Alan, say the school, in Durweston near Blandford, has a “genuinely unique ethos”. Having been deputy head for ten years
LIFESKILLS came alive for the children of Year 4 at Forres Sandle Manor School in Fordingbridge, when the mayor Malcolm Connolly came in to teach them about his responsibilities. Teacher Jacqueline Parker said: “Prior to his visit, the children
THE new owners of Salisbury City are to be named today, the Journal can exclusively reveal. Two separate bids were launched to the in-charge administrators before last Friday’s deadline, both of which have been reviewed. One group hoping to
TRIBUTES have been paid after a teenage girl with burn injuries was found dead in a village near Verwood on Monday night. Paramedics rushed to save the 15-year-old, who attended Queen Elizabeth’s School in Wimborne, after she was discovered outside
I ADMIT it, I’m a convert. And like any new convert, I’m desperate to tell everyone how wonderful life now is and make redress for the time I previously spent in darkness. My conversion was a consumer one – I have just discovered the delights of
DORSET Police are investigating the sudden death of a teenage girl found with burn injuries in a village near Verwood. The 15-year-old's body was discovered outside in Edmondsham at 9.18pm on Monday this week, according to a force spokesman.
THE hunt is on for a piece of land in the city on which to build a wildlife community garden. Rebecca Twigg from the Bees Knees project has found a perfect spot in Salisbury for the project and is waiting for the green light from the council.
A SALISBURY musician had a lucky escape after ending up with a metal skewer through his finger – the day before he was due to start rehearsals for the city’s pantomime. Nigel Ellis, who plays the saxophone and clarinet, is performing in Mother
ROAD conditions in Dorset are continuing to improve, according to Dorset County Council. The county council was successful in bidding for an extra £9m from the Government to help repair the storm damaged roads, and the work is now nearing completion
A BURGLAR claiming to be a tree surgeon conned £600 from an 80-year-old woman in West Parley. This is the e-fit picture of the man who told his victim that the tree in her garden at Ellesfield Drive needed cutting back. He told her he would
GREENTREES Primary School has been given the go ahead to build eight new classrooms on a site 600m away from the school. It will house the junior section as the school plans on moving to two form entry due to increased demand for places in the
MORE than £4,500 was raised for the British Lung Foundation in memory of Salisbury man Rod Merrifield. The cruise-themed Ship Ahoy fundraiser was held at the Rose and Crown Hotel, Harnham. Rod’s wife Pam Merrifield said: “In September 1999,
PLANS for a 65-bedroom Premier Inn-style hotel and drive-through McDonalds near Tesco in Southampton Road are back on the agenda. A notice was placed in the Journal last week alerting readers to an imminent planning application for the site between
MAJOR blaze has razed a house to the ground, leaving a family without a home at Christmas. Villagers from the close-knit community of Woodgreen, near Fordingbridge, watched in horror on Tuesday evening as flames ripped through the large, detached
