STAR-studded guests will be in attendance at the Journal Sports Awards.

Apart from Olympian Iwan Thomas compering the event, diver Peter Waterfield, England netball player Mia Ritchie and England lacrosse star Ruby Smith will be present.

Southampton’s Waterfield is a British diver whose specialism is the 10m platform, in which he won silver at Athens 2004. He later went on to partner Tom Daley, and the pair just missed out on a medal in London 2012.

Ritchie, from Lymington, represents Team Bath and England at netball as well as being a teacher.

And Smith represented England for the first time in 2008 at the European Lacrosse Championship in Lahti, Finland. She went on to be selected as the captain for Team England Under 19s.

Editor Bill Browne said: “The Salisbury Journal Sports Awards 2016 has come out of the blocks flying. We are delighted with the line-up of local sporting stars who are giving up their time to support this great event.

“To have Olympian medal winner Iwan Thomas MBE as our host for the evening is great news and be sure we will be putting our other sporting VIPs to work in presenting some of the top awards.

“The ticket hotline has been busy as this is a sporting night not to be missed.”