HALFWAY House reserves made it a magnificent seven wins on the spin despite falling behind to Deacon Alms reserves midway through the first half. Ronnie Weeks levelled just after the break with a deflected shot from the edge of the box and although
A GENEROUS benefactor has donated £1,000 to build the new graffiti wall in Ringwood. The wall, which stands on Carvers Field, was opened on Friday (March 8) after teenager Robert Moody campaigned for a space for his art. The anonymous benefactor
KEEN walkers are already signing up for this year’s Wessex Walks in aid of Save the Children. Taking place on Sunday, April 28, the six walks offer a choice for all ages and abilities. For those seeking a 15-mile walk there is also free transport
OUR scheduled speaker was unable to attend the last meeting due to illness. Instead we were delighted to welcome Beverley Barter from Beverley’s Creative Cakes. She is well known locally having had a shop in Downton for many years. She
THERE was double success for taxi company Value Cars and the company’s managing director Adrian Sainsbury at the Salisbury and District Chamber of Commerce’s Business Excellence Awards on Friday. Value Cars won the award for excellence in tourism
THE Salisbury Bonsai Society went on its annual trip to Holland on February 25. We visited three Bonsai nurseries and two garden centres during this trip which was enjoyed by all. We saw a large number of bonsai trees and pots. Most members returned
EIGHTEEN members of Dinton WI attended the March meeting held at Dinton Village Hall. Birthday wishes were expressed to Daphne Allington, Jane Baden- Fuller, Mavis Lockyer and Jan Moore. The secretary, Margaret Collins, informed members about
SALISBURY Motorcycle and Light Car Club present a cheque for £1,200 to the club’s chosen charity for 2012, Naomi House and Jacksplace. The money was raised at various club events throughout the year, and the presentation was held on Wednesday,
TENTERHOOKS, sixes and sevens, peppercorn rent, mad as a hatter - all phrases and sayings we take for granted today, and all originating with the great twelve livery companies of the City of London. Fenella Billington gave a most informative lecture
BEMERTON Heath Residents Association is raising its profile. At our last meeting the chairman, Stan Spreadbury, raised the need to reach out to younger members of the community. Members felt that people were unaware of the issues being raised and
THE president, Elizabeth Cutter, opened the March 11 meeting, which was also the annual meeting, by welcoming the members and guests and thanking Priscilla Mackay for her beautiful arrangement of cheerful spring flowers. Susie Appleford gave two
MINISTRY of Defence scientists have been recognised for their work alongside the military in conflict zones around the world. Staff from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), part of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), received Operational
BRIDES and bridegrooms flocked to the Guildhall in Salisbury for its first wedding fair of 2013. With more than 30 exhibitors showcasing the services they offer such as cars, photography and bridal wear, the event saw more than 500 people come
AN Italian restaurant in Salisbury is calling on all its customers to help raise money for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. ASK Italian is taking part in a charity Easter egg fundraiser, where one winner from each restaurant
WILTSHIRE Wildlife Trust is on the hunt for the county’s greenest businesses. The trust has opened nominations for this year’s Corporate Green Awards with categories for Sustainable Manufacturing, Construction or Design; Environmental Land Management
THE obsession of the “political classes” with regulation or nonregulation, of the press has not troubled my email inbox very much in the last couple of weeks despite how swiftly events have moved. My own prejudice is that the frightful abuses that
THE A36 from Southampton to Salisbury is a major route into the city for tourists. The view of Salisbury breasting Pepper Box Hill is stunning. The view of the cathedral three-quarters of the way along the Alderbury bypass is as fine a one as you
Am I alone or have others also received the Salisbury 2013/14 edition of The Phone Book from BT without the large magnifying glass necessary to read its contents? RON JOHNSTON, Salisbury
MY partner, Keith Alderton, was a patient at Salisbury District Hospital, on Downton Ward, for three months and finally left on February 28. He is now resident for rehabilitation in Fordingbridge Ford Ward. We both felt we would like to tell readers
I WAS shocked on Saturday morning to find that Salisbury market was half empty. It appears that a mixture of premature reorganisation by the market authorities and a protest about the heavy handed way in which the planned rebuild is being implemented
MALCOLM Winter’s letter (Postbag, March 14) raises concerns that Salisbury will not have enough parking spaces in the future. However, Salisbury currently is exceedingly well served with car parks. There are well over 3,500 offstreet parking spaces
REGARDING the article concerning the frightening escalation in food poverty in the UK (Journal, March 14), has it not occurred to anyone that this might be linked to the continuing human population explosion? Food production is struggling to keep
NOW there’s a surprise - errors by designers/ contractors carrying out the roadworks at Airman’s Cross mean it will take 49 weeks instead of 24 weeks as promised. English Heritage should tell the contractor to work 24/7 until the works are back
WEEK after week we read in the Journal of attempts to keep Arundells open. Do these people not realise that the reason the open days do not make money is because no one is interested in Ted Heath and seeing where he lived. He was one of our most
IN the midst of all the criticism currently being made about some of our NHS hospitals, I would like to say how very impressed I was with the care I received at every level at Salisbury District Hospital, and particularly the Amesbury Trauma Suite.
As the mayor of Amesbury, representing the town council and the people of Amesbury, I am pleased to say that we had a really good turnout at our recent election open days. Amesbury residents came along to see what the town council does, and to
Where have all the cuckoos, rather than flowers, gone? Many people may not realise that Petersfinger was famed for this much loved bird. Also, thinking of possible further development of the area, what about the Anglo-Saxon cemeteries? I read in
I HAVE yet to meet a single person who wants a hotel and drive-through McDonald’s squeezed onto the tiny wild space between Tesco and Southampton Road. Doesn’t mean it won’t happen, though. People who actually live here can see in an instant
HELLO everyone and welcome to the Journal Gang page. Did you dress up for World Book Day? I know that lots of you went to school dressed as your favourite book characters and there were plenty of fantastic costumes. I particularly liked this
LAST year, the village of Cranborne was selected as one of 12 communities UK-wide that would participate in a Vodafone pilot project to bring mobile telephone signal to rural “not-spot” areas. Having successfully fulfilled the technical criteria
TWO dog sled teams were out on a training “mush” on Salisbury Plain recently. The dogs are from Ludgershall and, even though parts of this area of the downs are badly flooded, it does not slow them down.
POLICE are trying to trace a man who attempted to sexually assault a woman in Tidworth last Tuesday. The 23-year-old local woman was walking along Wylye Road just after midnight on Monday when a man grabbed her and pushed her into a wall before
INTEREST in the traditional craft of hedge laying has been revived after free courses were run by the New Forest Land Advice Service (NFLAS) in late February and early March. A group of Commoners and land owners have been taught how to mark their
This week the news has been dominated by the government’s response to the Leveson report as well as the budget. At the time of writing the contents of the budget are not known; but it is clear that the Chancellor does not have much room for manoeuvre
THE British Army’s only surviving railway gun is about to become the centrepiece of a War and Peace exhibition at the Dutch Railway Museum in Utrecht to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht. This massive gun,
AN e-book written by a group of distinguished scholars has been published by the Afghan Appeal Fund to raise both awareness and funds. Afghanistan Revealed is an incisive view into a country that has held the world’s attention for more than a decade
HOST families are needed in the Ringwood area to give youngsters a home for the summer holidays. Growing numbers of students are attending the summer school at Ringwood’s Waldorf School between July 16 and August 4. This year the school expects
A SPECIAL ceremony to recognise people from Hampshire who have made a difference in their community will take place tomorrow night. The county council’s Good Neighbour Awards, which will recognise several people from the Forest, will be held at
HAMPSHIRE councillors have agreed to take emergency action to step up pothole repairs in the county. Roads in the New Forest are suffering a surge in potholes following one of the wettest years on record, leading to the highest ground water levels
PEOPLE aged over 50 are being invited to a free eight-week Thrive indoor gardening course at Fordingbridge Library. Activities will include seed sowing, windowsill containers for healthy eating and propagating plants. The course starts on Monday
CHILDREN in the Forest went red nose daft on Friday, raising thousands of pounds for Comic Relief. Three Year 7 girls from Ringwood were determined to do something to help raise money for Comic Relief. Scarlett Emery, Elizabeth Dadford and
SINCE tying the knot, LOML has been trying to become my knight in shining armour – flexing his masculinity muscles to protect his kin and kingdom. Last week, when we were unpacking on returning home from our honeymoon, we heard a tap-tapping on
A MAN from Salisbury has been jailed for six years for his part in an “appalling” and “horrific” knife attack that left the victim seriously injured. Martin Luke Mawson, 26, admitted aiding and abetting Jason Lee Thorne, who was jailed for ten
WILTSHIRE Police is running an awareness campaign encouraging victims of hate crime to come forward. The Challenge it, Report it, Stop it! campaign aims to raise awareness of hate crime, encourage victims and witnesses to come forward and deter
THE Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire joined the Bemerton Heath Street Watch team on Friday. Angus Macpherson went out on patrol with retired nurse Sheila Bevis and her group, as well as PCSO Gemma McIndoe and PC Simon Davies, to experience
FEARS that Salisbury Library may be moved out of the city centre when the Maltings and Central Car Park redevelopment goes ahead have been dismissed by Wiltshire Council. The concerns were raised at a Salisbury Area Board meeting on Thursday but
ANTISOCIAL behaviour at Bemerton Heath was top of the agenda at a police and community meeting yesterday. Hosted by the Bemerton Heath Neighbourhood Policing Team at St Michael’s Church, Salisbury Police Inspector Andy Noble and community beat
UNEMPLOYED young people in Salisbury and the surrounding area are being invited to apply for a 16-week work placement in Italy. The fully-funded Trans European project, which includes a job, an intensive Italian language course, cultural trips
DISABLED groups are fighting plans to force blue badge holders to pay to use councilowned car parks in the New Forest. Civic chiefs have angered campaigners by approving proposals to scrap the free parking currently enjoyed by more than 10,000
A DORSET police control room operator was “not in control” of a pursuit which ended in the tragic death of a Verwood teenager, a report has found. Steve Brown, 18, suffered fatal injuries on December 18, 2011 after his Volkswagen Golf crashed on
A WILTSHIRE Police operation targeting rural crime at the weekend resulted in a fine being issued. Operation Engage targets rural crime by using as many resources as possible to proactively patrol rural areas, including farms and isolated rural
A SALISBURY woman has been given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay back more than £2,000 in overpaid benefits after being found guilty of benefit fraud. Paula Cantillon, of Fairfield Road, failed to inform the Department for Work
A BUDDING stage star from Amesbury is about to take on the biggest role of her life so far. Eloise Tyler, 14, has been chosen as one of 3,000 children from across the country to take part in Britain’s largest ever performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber
THE number of parking permits being given out in a Salisbury residents’ parking area means drivers can’t park near their homes, according to people living in the area. And a review has been launched by Wiltshire Council after claims conditions
CHILDREN at Manor Fields Primary enjoyed making castles and crowns as part of a medieval day on Monday. The Key Stage 1 children and staff dressed in medieval clothing for the day, learned a medieval castle dance and made crowns and stained glass
A SALISBURY widower is taking part in Salisbury Hospice’s Midnight Walk for the second time to say thank you to a “fantastic” service. Roy Webb’s wife Stella spent her last few days at the hospice before she died of cancer in 2010, and Mr Webb
