Plain news (From Salisbury Journal)
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Plain news
3:56pm Wednesday 27th February 2013 in News By David Falcke
1 Mechanised Brigade will continue its operational pre-deployment training on Salisbury Plain until Sunday, March 3.
The exercise involves 9,000 troops and in excess of 550 tracked and wheeled armoured vehicles.
Large convoys will be operating on the training area and there may be some disruption to civilian traffic at tank crossings.
Military convoys may cause some disruption from late afternoon on Sunday, March 3 until Tuesday, March 5.
From March 4 to 31 normal levels of training will resume as armoured units from Tidworth and Bulford, and the Land Warfare Centre, deploy onto the area to conduct manoeuvre training.
Easter Opening of the Roads through Imber: The road through Imber from Warminster to Joan a Gore’s Cross and the roads from Heytesbury to Imber and from Bratton to Imber will be open from 6pm on Friday, March 29 (Good Friday) until 6pm on Wednesday, April 3.
