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Holmes is ready to run in charity event
SALISBURY City boss Nick Holmes will be among an estimated 300 runners and walkers taking part in Sunday's charity event at the club's Raymond McEnhill Stadium. Holmes will join serious competitors and fun-runners and walkers in the ten kilometre multi-terrain
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Best foot forward
AROUND 300 runners are expect to take part in this weekend's 10k multi-terrain event at Salisbury City's ground. Whites boss Nick Holmes will be among those taking part in the In-Excess-sponsored run, which starts at 10am.
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Prince to remain with Romans?
SALISBURY City midfielder Luke Prince is expected to extend his loan stay with Blue Square South side Bath City for a further month.
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In training with...
PAUL Newell, 30, is a powerlifter competing at 100 kgs and trains with Salisbury Weightlifting Club. Unlike weightlifting, powerlifting doesn't involve hoisting dumbbells above the head, but it does involve immense strength and discipline with competitors
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mum@work
HERE we are in February already. My lovely son is seven months old and, having accepted the adjustment of ditching the routine to becoming a mum and not being able to follow any schedule whatsoever, suddenly I have had to regain some kind of order in
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Mind matters so much in life
Writing your own obituary might seem a morbid form of therapy, but it can be a creative way, says life coach Annabel Sutton, of focusing the mind on what you want to achieve in life. It's one of the suggestions in her book 52 Ways to Change Your Life
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We still swoon at Mills & Boon
THE road to romance rarely runs smoothly, although one stretch of the M6 is reportedly all the better for the 2.5 million copies of mushed up Mills & Boon books incorporated into the mix of asphalt and Tarmac when it was built. Pulp fiction of this sort
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Down to earth...with Anne Morris
LADY Cristl or Sharpe's Express? With more than 140 different varieties of potato laid out before me on trestle tables in the school hall, there was obviously going to be some serious potato scrutiny. I was attending the 10th Hampshire Potato Day, held
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Village has it in the bag
I SAW something rare in Tisbury last week - a plastic shopping bag. Actually, I saw two of them. One of them was produced reluctantly from beneath a counter for a young shopper who had just bought some groceries and - unlike the line of customers behind
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Residents debate new supermarket proposals
I WRITE to express my view, being pleased at the thought of a new food store in or around Amesbury. I live at Boscombe Down, on the Stonehenge estate, and we have signed petitions for such a thing to happen for the last ten to 15 years. My husband and
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16,000 new homes were not in the original plan
ROBERT Key's "View from the Commons" in last week's Journal throws up many employment and housing statistics but the final requirement of possibly 16,000 new dwellings by 2020 is indeed alarming when balanced against environmental impact and the quality
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Slaughtering badgers is never the solution
THE majority of the Wiltshire public who attended a debate held at Devizes Town Hall were not in favour of slaughtering badgers as a means of controlling tuberculosis. The debate, held on Thursday, January 31, was organised and chaired by Wiltshire
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Half-term fun
Hi everyone and welcome to the Journal Gang. Love is in the air today because it's Valentine's Day. Did you send any cards? Or did you receive one from someone special? Or maybe you have a secret admirer who just put a question mark on your card! The
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Don't miss the chance to see this Odyssey
SCULPTOR Robert Koenig will be adding another figure next week to the 29 carved wooden figures that make up his exhibition, Odyssey. On Monday afternoon, he will begin carving the "Salisbury" figure from a tree donated by the Wilton Estate and visitors
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Maggini Quartet returns
AVON Valley Concerts will be welcoming back the Maggini Quartet to Ringwood tomorrow night for a delightful concert of chamber music in the Trinity Centre. The programme features Haydn's String Quartet No 4 in D, Sun', Beethoven's Fugue in D for string
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Seventeenth Valentine will be staged on home ground
LOVE and the theme of relationships are given a comedic twist in Russell Mardell's latest play, The Seventeenth Valentine, now treading the boards at London's White Bear Theatre in Kennington. But for one night only, the play is being performed in Salisbury
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Blues-inspired workshops
MUSIC students from Wiltshire College (Salisbury campus) brought the blues to Year 10 GCSE music students at Downton's Trafalgar School earlier this month. The second-year national diploma students ran the two-hour music workshop with a brief to highlight
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Missing hospital patient found
Pensioner Gerald Freeth who triggered a police search after he went missing from Salisbury District Hospital last night, has been found. A passer-by discovered the 79-year-old lying down in a field near the hospital this morning and informed a nurse,
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Bluetongue alert in New Forest
THE NEW Forest has been included in a new bluetongue protection zone set up after a case of the animal disease was identified near Poole. The new protection zone set up by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs covers the whole of Dorset
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Emotionally draining but exhilarating trip
TWENTY-NINE Community Choir members joined representatives from choirs all around the world for a concert to mark Martin Luther King Day at America's prestigious Carnegie Hall. Composer Karl Jenkins was present to see them get a standing ovation after
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Larmer Tree festival is just the ticket
TICKETS for July's Larmer Tree Festival are now available by post and telephone. The festival is being held from July 16 to 20 in the picturesque grounds of the Larmer Tree gardens, near Tollard Royal, and this year is celebrating its 18th year. Jools
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Chinese circus syndrome
THE Chinese State Circus is one of those shows which has to be seen to be believed and is impossible to do justice in words. The audience at Salisbury's City Hall on Monday night was treated to a spectacular display of logic-defying feats which meant
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Crippled Chinese acrobat's ordeal
A YOUNG Chinese circus acrobat who fell from a high wire and broke her back is stranded in Salisbury District Hospital with no idea how she will manage to live in future. Xu Yan, 22, is paralysed from the waist down and unlikely to walk again. She
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NatWest raises £5,000 for Naomi charity
NATWEST Salisbury and eight of its neighbouring branches have raised more than £5,000 for Naomi House Children's Hospice. The money was collected during NatWest's Our Community Week by staff working in Salisbury, Romsey, Winchester, Totton, New Milton
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Waitrose named top retailer
WAITROSE, which has stores in Salisbury and Ringwood, has been named the top high street retailer for customer service in an annual survey by consumer magazine Which? The result follows the quizzing of a 10,000-strong panel of shoppers on quality of
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Public sector opportunities
THREE training events are being held in Wiltshire in March to assist firms on how to do business with the public sector. The free one-day courses follow the launch of buywiltshire.co.uk, the local business and public sector trading website. They are
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Thundering lorries a hazard in towns
HGV'S are thundering along unsuitable roads and through town centres causing a nuisance and making it hazardous for shoppers to cross the road. In Fordingbridge lorries rumble through the high street few minutes, according to shop staff and shoppers,
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Murder accused could face third trial
A DRIFTER from Salisbury who has spent the past four weeks in the dock at a Kent Crown Court in a re-trial at which he was accused of the horrific sex murder of a teenager in a Tunbridge Wells car park now faces the threat of a third trial. Last year
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Hunt for missing hospital patient
A POLICE search is being carried out for a 79-year-old Tisbury man, who went missing from Salisbury District Hospital last night. Gerald Freeth, a married man from The Paddock, Tisbury, has not been seen since 8.30pm when he left the ward where he had
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Salisbury & District League update
JORDAN Girling scored a double hat-trick as New Inn (Amesbury) had club historians reaching for the record books after a 17-3 victory against Winterslow. Girling's six-goal haul for the Sunday Division One side was closely followed by five from Steve