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  • Wiltshire enjoy big win over Cornwall

    WILTSHIRE won their second MCCA Unicorns Championship Western Division contest by an innings and 74 runs, writes ROY HONEYBONE. On day one of the contest, Cornwall won the toss and elected to bat first. This initially looked like a very good

  • Pre-season injury jinx strikes again for Whites

    SALISBURY'S pre-season injury jinx has struck again as the Whites are already searching for a goalkeeper. New signing Gerald Benfield kept clean sheets against Reading and Lymington has suffered a thigh injury and fellow goalkeeper Marcus Beauchamp

  • Police name victim of A36 crash

    The family of a woman who died after a crash involving a lorry on the A36 at Little Wishford say they have "lost a beautiful soul and a bright shining star in all our lives". Jade Collins, 26, of Bournemouth, was driving a Fiat Panda at around

  • Old Sarum Airfield planning appeal turned down by inspector

    AN INSPECTOR has turned down an appeal over plans to build 462 homes on Old Sarum Airfield. The inquiry was launched after an appeal was made by Grenville Hodge, Old Sarum Airfield Limited, against Wiltshire Council. The Planning Inspectorate

  • Milestone birthday for The Gruffalo at country park

    MOORS Valley Country Park and Forest near Ringwood hosted a 20th birthday party last weekend for The Gruffalo, the famous children’s book character created by Julia Donaldson. The special guest joined visitors for a birthday picnic and blew out

  • Village church broken into

    A CHURCH was broken into in Redlynch. Police were called at around 10.30am yesterday (July 10) to reports of a burglary at St Birinus Church in Morgans Vale Road. Crime scene investigators also attended the scene. A police spokesperson said

  • Prom season is here with pictures in this week's paper

    WITH prom season in full swing, around 50 prom night pictures have been published in this week's Journal. Proms have been taking place all across the county during June and July, and our eight-page spread shows the highlights from proms held for

  • PAPER PREVIEW: Man dodges death after wedding bust-up

    IN TODAY’S JOURNAL: A wedding reception punch-up led to a Salisbury father narrowly avoiding being hit by a train. A brand is launched in an attempt to "revive" Salisbury’s image following the Novichok poisonings. A father of two swam

  • MILITARY: Ramblers on the Plain

    A GROUP of disabled ramblers were taken on a tour of Salisbury Plain by James Nevitt, a senior access and recreation officer for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation. The visit by the Disabled Ramblers was to help them learn about the history

  • City father dodges death after wedding reception bust-up

    A WEDDING reception punch-up led to a Salisbury father narrowly avoiding being hit by a train, a court heard. On Saturday, 28-year-old Christopher Maguire, of Greyfriars Close, drunkenly trespassed on railway tracks in Tisbury after leaving the

  • OPINION: Let river flow into the heart of storywriters

    THIS week, as part of this year’s forthcoming Salisbury Literary Festival, sees the return of the Salisbury Story Prize. This has proved to be an incredibly popular part of the festival programme, garnering hundreds of entries in previous years from

  • HERITAGE: Malrenie envelopes and the ghost of Tranmere

    ONCE upon a time, many years ago, we were so proud of our empire that envelopes containing letters were engraved on the front to show Britannia sitting on her throne above a lion sending forth her winged messengers to her peoples in many lands.