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Salisbury City "bitterly disappointed" about appeal decision
Salisbury City officials say they are bitterly disappointed to have lost their appeal against the Football Conference’s decision to demote them. However, the club’s new board insist that the future of the club is secure and they will immediately
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Chiropractor joins diabetes fundraiser
A CHIROPRACTOR from Salisbury trekked up Ben Nevis to help a 13-year-old boy with diabetes raise money for charity. Dr Pauline Jones, of The Complete Health Chiropractic Clinic, joined Liam Spear and his family for the fundraising event at
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Salisbury City FC loses bid to stay in Conference
Salisbury City FC has failed in its bid to remain in the Blue Square Conference following a decision by the FA. The team was adjudged to be in contravention of the rules by the Conference Board at the end of the season after going into administration
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Fire service honours horse society
BRITISH Horse Society (BHS) Regional Welfare Officer, Sylvia Sullivan-Tailyour has received an award from Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service in honour of the work that the Wiltshire branch of the equestrian charity has done to train fire officers in large
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Dstl staff raise £3,031 for Naomi House
STAFF at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down have raised £3,031 for the Naomi House children’s hospice. They took part in activities including an assault course at St Edmund’s School, Laverstock, a treasure hunt, various shopping
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Poignant images show reality of war
EVOCATIVE and thought-provoking images of war by landscape painter and war artist Gordon Rushmer are currently being exhibited in the main gallery at Salisbury Library alongside a new acquisition to the John Creasey collection by Paul Nash. Paul Nash
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Evening's garden delights
THE garden of Mompesson House, pictured, is best enjoyed in the evening. As property manager Karen Rudd says: “When the sun is in the west it casts long shadows across the lawn and there is a very different atmosphere from daytime”. The National Trust
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Selaine in line for prestigious campaign award
SELAINE Saxby, owner of sports bra company LessBounce.com of Netheravon, has been nominated for her Outstanding Contribution to Breast Cancer Campaign 2009 after raising more than £150,000 through her Pink Aerobics event. Ms Saxby is the founder of Pink
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Joe paddles towards Olympic dream
ALDERBURY canoeist Joe Coombs has taken another step forward in his bid to represent Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics. The GB senior and Under-23 canoe slalom selection races took place in Nottingham last month and Mr Coombs was chosen for the Under
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Running for a worthy cause
PROJECT 65 is a veterans’ charity set up by Barry Tappenden, whose father landed in a glider at Pegasus Bridge in Normandy in the early hours of D-Day 1944. He was serving with the 52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (now The Rifles)
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Spotlight on The Royal Bath & West Show
THE Royal Bath & West Show may take place in Somerset, but there are plenty of exhibitors from south Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire who take part in the annual agricultural extravaganza at Shepton Mallet. As usual, the four-day event provided an excellent
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Farms fling their gates wide open
THIS Sunday is Open Farm Sunday, when anyone interested in food, farming or the countryside can visit a local farm to meet the farmers who grow their food and to see how they care for the countryside. It could include a tractor and trailer
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Heavy machinery and dust from Tesco site
IN support of Mr Robert Birchley’s letter regarding the forthcoming Tesco store in Amesbury (Postbag, June 3), I wish to add my indicative comments as a resident of the road adjacent to the site. I have voiced my justifiable concerns with the site manager
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Vision team still in early stages of redeveloping central parking plan
I WRITE in light of the recent correspondence in the Journal concerning the future parking situation at the Maltings and Central Car Park. The Salisbury Vision team is currently working towards the redevelopment of this site, but this is a long and complex
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Park and rides driving shoppers away from city
WHAT exactly does park and ride do for the people of Salisbury? The people that should matter the most seem to matter the least to the councillors hell bent on forcing this project on us no matter how much of our money it costs or how much
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Sun shines on half-term holidays
Hi everyone, welcome to this week’s Gang page. I hope you all been enjoyed your half term holiday – the weather has been lovely and sunny, so I hope you got up to lots of fun things. Did any of you go to the Big Play festival event held at the Greencroft
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Youth club under threat
A POPULAR youth club is under threat – unless volunteers step forward to save it. The Avonway Youth Club was successfully re-launched last autumn and now has 50 members, with 25 to 30 attending each week to participate in many different activities from
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Visitors pour in for Woodgreen Open Village
WOODGREEN came alive at the weekend as thousands of visitors poured into the rural idyll for its first Open Village. Scores of gardens opened their garden gates for the event, visitors were taken on woodland tours and horse-training events captivated
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Row over lantern parade funding
A YOUNG charity trustee was reduced to tears during a grilling over a grant application for Salisbury’s lantern parade. Now Salisbury Area Board member Paul Sample has accused his fellow Wiltshire councillor Richard Clewer of a “bullying, confrontational
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House building target could be cut
THE huge house-building target planned for Salisbury could be cut because of the change of government. Wiltshire Council said on Monday it is committed to reviewing the number of homes and the strategic locations for development put forward in its unpopular
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Boy tries to save telephone box
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy is fighting to save a piece of heritage in his village – a red telephone box. Jack Martin, who lives in Tisbury, wrote to the Journal to appeal for help to save the phone box outside his house, which has fallen into a state
