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  • Fordingbridge student dies in zip wire accident

    A 21-YEAR-OLD student from Fordingbridge has died after smashing into a rock face on a zip wire in the Swiss Alps. Salisbury-born Andrea Watton, a student at Bangor University, was on an expedition in Saas-Fee with six other sports science students when

  • Salisbury student dies in Swiss Alps

    A student from Salisbury has been named by sources as the British student who died in the Swiss Alps after smashing into a rock face on a zip wire. Andrea Watton, 21, from Salisbury, was with six other sport science students on a trip to the village

  • Primary school children show they have talent

    CHILDREN at Pembroke Park Primary School demonstrated their skills at a Pembroke Park's Got Talent event to raise money for charity. The children auditioned for the event and then the final was held in front of a packed hall full of family and friends

  • Former Bulford soldier to tackle 100 marathons in 100 days

    A FORMER soldier based in Bulford has set himself a marathon challenge to raise £100,000 for forces charity Help for Heroes. Mike Buss has set himself the Hero 100 Challenge of running 100 marathons in 100 days on treadmills at various locations around

  • Chemical spill on A303

    A CHEMICAL spill caused the A303 near Stonehenge to be closed in both directions yesterday afternoon. Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service was called to the A344 junction shortly after 2.30pm after reports a 200-litre drum fell from a flatbed lorry and started

  • 90-year-old man robbed near Netheravon

    A 90-YEAR-OLD man was robbed while walking his dog near a tank crossing on the A345 south of Netheravon on Sunday morning. The pensioner was walking his dog in the area of the Bravo tank crossing at about 7am when he was approached from behind by two

  • Annual horticultural show for allotment holders

    TANGLED carrots in the odd-shaped vegetable class, along with the heaviest marrow and longest runner bean may have come under the umbrella of ‘fun’ classes. But they were just as popular as the perfectly polished and tied onions and the heady

  • Memorial bench to Rifleman Allen unveiled

    A MEMORIAL bench was unveiled in Verwood on Saturday in honour of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. The bench, placed on Ferret Green, will serve as a lasting tribute to the sacrifice of Rifleman Phil Allen, 20, who died in Helmand province