DOWNTON have a massive game in their Wessex League Division One promotion campaign this Saturday, whentey entertain leaders United Services Portsmouth. They were then due to play away at Bemerton Heath Harlequins on Tuesday night, but this game
SALISBURY United RFC took a strong side to Wimborne and came away with a good 34-26 win from a solid performance. Mike Dawaulder crashed over for a try, converted by Nick Wooton, in reply to an early score for the home side and Wooton then stretched
Three of the UK’s big four supermarket chains have announced that they are dropping their fuel prices. Asda is leading the way, announcing that it has dropped its petrol and diesel prices to its lowest for two years, with a 2p per litre reduction
HUMAN movement is a central theme inspiring this year’s Salisbury International Arts Festival. The festival features more than 100 events and runs over 16 days from Friday, May 22 to Saturday, June 6. Athletes, dancers, musicians and international
COUNCIL TAX in Wiltshire has been increased by 3.99 per cent. This means that once costs for fire and police are added in, the average bill will go up by around £80 a year This will include a two per cent ‘social levy’, which is ringfenced
MORE than 900 homes are set to be built in and around Salisbury over the next six years after allocation plans were given the green light. The proposals include 640 homes on Netherhampton Road, as well as 100 just north of this site, and another
THE LEADER of Wiltshire Council was branded 'undemocratic' and accused of operating like the 'politburo' after his budget setting speech. The Full Council, and a packed public gallery, heard Cllr Philip Whitehead claim that by not voting to approve
PART of the roof of a grade two listed hangar at Old Sarum Airfield has “fallen off due to the owner’s continuing neglect”. In an email to Sam Fox, Wiltshire Council’s director of economic development and planning, and Councillor Richard Clewer
AS part of National On-call Firefighter Awareness Week, a session to ‘have a go’ at being a firefighter will be held on March 7. Crews from Mere, Tisbury and Gillingham will be at Mere Fire Station from 11am until 2pm, giving visitors the opportunity
SARUM College Bookshop in Salisbury has been shortlisted for an award. The British Book Awards revealed its regional shortlists for the 2020 Independent Bookshop of the Year last week. A record 49 bookshops from nine regions are competing to be
AFTER Shrove Tuesday comes Ash Wednesday - which is offically the beginning of Lent. With Shrove Tuesday out of the way and the cupboard emptied of delicious, pancake-making things, many religious people will turn their attention to more serious
For those of us who love to sit by a log fire in a pub or at home, the announcement of a ban on sales of ‘wet wood’ (moisture content higher than 20%) from February next year, appears to have been most unwelcome and I have been inundated with complaints
WITH changes to our domestic waste collections just around the corner, I found myself wondering what actually happens to all that stuff once we’ve conveniently got rid of it. Wiltshire Council’s website is the place to find out. Under the heading
