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  • Tisbus celebrates 10 years of service

    A COMMUNITY bus scheme that helps elderly and disabled people get to the shops and hospital appointments, and takes them out for day trips, is celebrating ten years. The Tisbus service came into existence in August 2000 when the late Lord Clanwilliam

  • Rethink on house building targets

    CONTROVERSIAL plans to double the size of Salisbury with housing and business developments have been thrown up in the air. Wiltshire Council has announced a review of the targets for new building to be set in the South Wiltshire Core Strategy. It is

  • Years ago a senior BBC board member…

    … wrote an article in Pravda (aka Ariel, the Beeb’s in-house newspaper) proudly describing how she and the rest of John Birt’s new team had been on a TV programme-making course at Evesham. She enthused about how they’d operated studio cameras,

  • Mystery surrounds death of eminent inventor

    AN EMINENT medical researcher and inventor died after he was hit by a car crossing a Hampshire road on his way home. Mystery surrounds why retired Derek Myhill, 75, who had a 20-year international career, was in the Totton area where the accident occurred