THOUSANDS of starving dogs and cats could benefit from a fundraising walk this Sunday – and several hounds who have already been saved are set to join in the fun. The Strays of Greece annual charity dog walk will set out from the Forestry Commission
VOLUNTEER vets and their helpers were overwhelmed when £612,000 worth of donated supplies turned up. The team at the Cranborne-based Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS) received 17 pallets of treatments that will help thousands of animals, donated
A TEAM from Fordingbridge will be among those competing in this Sunday’s Spartan race to raise funds for charity the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). Nicola Arcedeckne-Butler, Tim Parsons and Simon Jones will be running in the race
SMALL business owners are being warned about a scam being operated in Wiltshire. The police, along with the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) have been made aware of people fraudulently offering to sell advertising while claiming to represent
A SALISBURY motorbike business has taken on its first apprentice. Rico Squeglia will be learning about all aspects of motorcycles on site at VP Motorcycles, which is based at Sarum Business Park. He will also be attending college once a week
SALISBURY’S BTR networking group, members and guests had presentations from two local firms – J&S Accountants and Bourne Valley Electrical Services – this month. Lyn James and her electrician husband Neil, run Bourne Valley Electrical, undertaking
CYCLISTS of all abilities are encouraged to sign up for a charity bike ride in the Forest in aid of the orthopaedics department at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. The annual charity bike ride is on Sunday, October 6, with four routes to choose
A PLAN to create shops and homes on the former district council offices in Ringwood has been turned down, to the relief of residents. But district councillor Michael Thierry says he fears the plan from CurrentAsset Ltd, which sparked “anger and
WILTSHIRE Police are warning of the dangers of carrying blades of all sizes after a 21-year-old man was fined for carrying a small knife on a key ring. The man was stopped and arrested for a separate offence but the arresting officer discovered
CINE film dating from 1909 to the 1960s has been set to music for a performance exploring life in Salisbury and south Wiltshire through the last century. Those Were The Days My Friends! uses film clips accompanied by traditional Wiltshire folk
A THREE-and-a-half tonne stone sculpture has been moved into place ready for Salisbury Art Trail next month. Sculptor Henry Gray had The Angel and Wretch moved from Project Workshops in Quarley, Hampshire, to Stratford-sub- Castle at the end of
SALISBURY’S period instrument ensemble Salisbury Baroque celebrates the works of Corelli and his contemporaries in its concert at St Thomas’s Church on Sunday at 3.30pm. The concert will feature works by both well-known and lesser known composers
SALISBURY Playhouse will be presenting its first captioned performances in October, with Ibsen’s Ghosts and an adaptation of Emil and the Detectives. Captioning converts words into text that appears on a screen at the same time as they are spoken
BRASS band fans will get a rare opportunity to hear one of the best at Salisbury City Hall on Sunday. The award-winning Grimethorpe Colliery Band was catapulted to world-wide recognition through the 1996 hit film Brassed Off and is still regarded
STORIES highlighting the importance of a second CT scanner at Salisbury District Hospital have been captured in a poignant new video launched this week. Made by Radiquip Productions, the emotive eight-minute film contains interviews with patients
SONG For Whoever, Rotterdam and Perfect Ten are just some of The Beautiful South’s hits you can expect to hear in Salisbury next month. The South, formed from the ashes of their predecessor group, who split up in 2006, will be taking to the stage
VICTOR (Colin Farrell) is a henchman for crime lord Alphonse Hoyt (Terrence Howard), working with his friend Darcy (Dominic Cooper). Victor returns home to his apartment, stares into a neighbouring block and makes eye contact with a young woman
SEXY vampire Clara (Gemma Arterton) arrives in a rundown seaside resort with her fanged daughter Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan). They hit the jackpot when they encounter a lonely misfit (Daniel Mays), who lives in the decrepit Byzantium guesthouse, which
ROCKBOURNE indie duo Eyes For Gertrude are set to release a clutch of new tracks produced by Ben Mink, who has co-written tracks with singer-songwriter kd lang. Hannah Dean and Chantelle Pike have just returned from Mink’s Vancouver studio where
THE British Heart Foundation (BHF) has launched an appeal to raise £30,252 for a piece of life-saving equipment for children being treated at Salisbury District Hospital. The charity aims to raise the money for an echocardiogram machine, which
