DORSET Blind Association is warning it may have to cut essential services unless it can raise £40,000 before the end of the year. The charity’s chief executive officer Jonathan Holyhead is sounding the alarm bells as the Royal National Institute
A BUSINESSMAN based on Salisbury Plain is walking 100 miles to raise money for forces charity Combat Stress. Tim Shapland, business services director at Landmarc Support Services, launched Project Longstride earlier this month and hopes to raise
A CHILDREN’S charity has teamed up with a fire brigade to offer fun days out for sick children. Lucy’s Days Out, which organises trips for children with serious illnesses and their families, is working with Stuart Cundick of Boscombe Down Fire
A 41-YEAR-OLD bottle of wine and a champagne supper at a local restaurant went for £1,000 at a charity auction. Salisbury & District Chamber of Commerce held the charity auction as part of a wine tasting evening at Crane’s Wine Bar in Salisbury
BEANS, apples, pears, courgettes and marrows are among the surplus allotment goods that have been donated to the Salisbury Pantry Partnership Foodcycle Hub. The social enterprise, which has received generous donations over the past few weeks, transforms
THE Great Bransgore Beer and Music Festival takes place for three days from 5pm this Friday, September 27 until 6pm on Sunday. It will be held at the Three Tuns Inn, Bransgore and this year includes 40 cask ales and 15 ciders from all over the
POLICE are appealing for information following an attempted burglary in Salisbury. An intruder damaged a window at a property in Capulet Road between 10am on September 16 and 11am on September 18 in an attempt to force entry into the property.
SALISBURY and Whiteparish will be among the first areas in Wiltshire to benefit from superfast broadband. A £35.6m partnership project between Wiltshire Council, South Gloucestershire Council and BT, is rolling out fibre broadband to areas that
TWO cars crashed on the A303 at Longbarrow crossroads near Winterbourne Stoke on Sunday, causing long delays in the area. A silver Renault Clio and a blue Ford Focus crashed on the east side of Longbarrow roundabout at about 7.30pm. The female
A SERIES of events to mark national Purple Flag week are taking place in Salisbury this week. The city will soon be celebrating a year since it achieved Purple Flag status, an award which recognises excellence in the management of night-time economy
EMMANUEL Middle School in Verwood will be holding the official opening of its new sports hall and an open evening tomorrow, to mark its silver anniversary. Anyone who has had a connection with the school is invited to go along and help celebrate
A GROUP of lawyers have taken on a marathon trek to raise funds for spinal patients in Salisbury. The lawyers, from Blake Lapthorn’s injury team based in Southampton, trekked 26.3 miles to raise money for the Southern Spinal Injuries Trust, which
