Christopher Wain

Christopher Wain joined the Salisbury Journal as a reporter in 1960 following Army service in Cyprus during the EOKA emergency.
After reading History at Brasenose College, Oxford he worked for Southern Television’s Day by Day programme before joining ITN (and subsequently BBC TV News) as Defence Correspondent. He covered numerous conflicts, including Vietnam and the Yom Kippur war.
In 1987 he became the BBC’s Transport & Aviation Correspondent until his retirement in 1999.
Chris is a Cathedral Steward, an elected hospital governor, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and an active supporter of Salisbury Samaritans.
He and his wife Frances both belong to Salisbury Rotary Club.

Christopher Wain joined the Salisbury Journal as a reporter in 1960 following Army service in Cyprus during the EOKA emergency.
After reading History at Brasenose College, Oxford he worked for Southern Television’s Day by Day programme before joining ITN (and subsequently BBC TV News) as Defence Correspondent. He covered numerous conflicts, including Vietnam and the Yom Kippur war.
In 1987 he became the BBC’s Transport & Aviation Correspondent until his retirement in 1999.
Chris is a Cathedral Steward, an elected hospital governor, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and an active supporter of Salisbury Samaritans.
He and his wife Frances both belong to Salisbury Rotary Club.

Latest articles from Christopher Wain

In praise of potholes

Whilst being rushed to hospital from his home in Wilton, heart spasm victim Ray Lee had an extraordinary encounter with a pothole in the Netherhampton Road.

Reliving my time in war-torn Vietnam

It is one of the most searing images of the 20th century: a terrified nine-year-old girl runs towards the camera after being burned by napalm in Vietnam. Journal blogger Chris Wain, then an ITN news correspondent, on what it was like to return to Vietnam 40 years later.

Remember the old Southampton Road?

Before the so-called experts created largely unused cycle lanes and erected a potentially deadly central metal fence blocking emergency vehicle access?

News from CHAOS

The Community Highways Administrative Office (Salisbury) is making good progress with its 2011 winter disruption scheme.

Are you against sin, yes or no?

Strange things, surveys. I’ve just been glancing through the questions posed by Salisbury Vision in the one they’re conducting prior to tonight’s public meeting.

Watching an HGV driver struggling…

… to manoeuvre his 44-tonner into Fisherton Street and under the railway bridge to leave the city, it occurred to me that the Government’s proposal to stretch these monsters by another two metres will have a serious impact for planners.

Democracy inaction (cont'd)

Not knowing Danny Willis, I don’t know how accurately he reports events. But if his description of the recent Salisbury Vision open board meeting (Journal letters, April 21) is an authentic account, then SV owes us an explanation.