Archive

  • "This is the night..."

    The services of Holy Week are for me the highlight of the liturgical year, and if you're someone who perhaps comes on Palm Sunday and then not again until Easter Day I strongly urge you to have a go at the whole week - it's amazing! The moment that

  • New head of finance

    Salisbury Cathedral has announced the appointment of Rob Allan as Head of Finance. Rob is currently the Director of Finance at Bournemouth University. He joined the University's predecessor, the Dorset Institute of Higher Education, as Chief Accountant

  • David Halls gives Alcock organ recital

    David Halls gives the opening recital in this year's Organ Recital Series performing the Alcock Organ Recital on Wednesday April 25 at 7.30pm. He has chosen a contrasting programme of music by German, English and French composers and, as ever, it includes

  • Art for adults - mosaic workshop

    Following two fully booked sessions of Calligraphy, the Cathedral Education Centre's next session of Art for Adults will take place from 9.30am to 4.30pm on Tuesday May 8. The workshop is An Introduction to Mosaic Making led by professional Joanna Dewfall

  • Singing together initiative reaches 1,000!

    The imaginative Singing Together initiative run by the Cathedral and the Cathedral School to promote singing in primary schools, has now involved over 1000 children. Children from Great Wishford CE Primary School and Durweston CE VA Primary School

  • Grant for external floodlighting

    The Executive Council of the Friends has agreed to make a grant of £130,000 to the Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral to provide new external floodlighting. This will replace the existing lighting which has been in place since 1973. The new floodlighting

  • Amnesty International: April

    Brahim Sabbar, human rights defender, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for assaulting and disobeying a police officer - charges he denies. The conviction appears to have been based exclusively on the record of a police interview with him, which

  • News in brief

    New Youth Group Salisbury Cathedral is very pleased to be launching a new youth group for ages 11+ (Year 7 onwards). If you or anyone you know is interested, please come along. Miriam Taylor will be organising the group and would love to hear from you

  • Son Volt - The Search

    Artist - Son Volt Album - The Search Label - Legacy This is the fifth album by Son Volt, and the second since the band was reformed. Son Volt's Jay Farrar was, it must be remembered, the principal driver behind the seminal alt-country band, Uncle

  • Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather

    Artist - Fountains of Wayne Album - Traffic and Weather Label - Virgin Fountains of Wayne are the masters of the sarky three minute pop song, a smiling sideswipe slice of sugar that hides edgy observational humour (or bemusement), who will be remembered

  • Grant Lee Phillips - Strangelet

    Artist - Grant Lee Phillips Album - Strangelet Label - Cooking Vinyl Grant Lee Phillips followed up the excellent singer songwriter Virginia Creeper with the really rather cool and laidback nineteeneighties, a take on his 'formative' songs from the

  • Stonehenge centre is given green light

    ENGLISH Heritage has finally been given the go-ahead to build its controversial £67.5m Stonehenge visitor centre. But angry residents and environmental groups opposed to the venture insisted this week the fight to stop it was "far from over." A two-week

  • Scouts in line for Swiss trip

    AVON Valley Scout Group will be taking part in the International Centenary of Scouting celebrations in Kanderstag, Switzerland this August. A group of at least 20 young people aged between 14 and 18, representing the New Forest District Scouts and the

  • Foundation for a better future

    TWO south Wiltshire mothers, falsely accused of killing their children, have set up a Foundation to prevent similar miscarriages of justice from happening again. The Angela Cannings Foundation will also be a memorial to Sally Clark, the former Salisbury