TWO Ringwood firms and one in Fordingbridge were among six businesses from Hampshire fined tens of thousands of pounds after being caught employing illegal workers. The Indian Tree, in Market Place, Ringwood, was fined £25,000, after being raided
SALISBURY Concert Band (formerly Salisbury Community Band) will give its spring concert on Friday at 7.30pm in the Walker Hall at Leehurst Swan School. The theme is music from the theatre and will include Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Gershwin’
CLASSICAL music fans can enjoy a new piece from Salisbury Chamber Chorus on Good Friday. The group will perform Simon McEnery’s Requiem, which features the traditional Latin Requiem texts interspersed with poems by Walt Whitman, Henrik Ibsen and
THEATRE and circus arts combine to tell the story of immigration at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton this week. The Arrival, which is based on a graphic novel by Shaun Tan, tells the story of Dele as he leaves Nigeria and embarks on a voyage
WORK by more than 75 artists is on show in the ArtCare open exhibition at Salisbury District Hospital. The winning artwork was by Maureen Davies, with a mixed media painting Sun at Cow Bridge, which was awarded £200. The exhibition runs until
The Salisbury Symphony Orchestra promotes itself as an orchestra of accomplished amateur musicians. Indeed, they were on good form in their recent concert with engaging and highly creditable performances of music by Bizet, Mozart and Schubert.
A SPECIAL two-set Live Lunch gig is taking place at Salisbury Arts Centre on Sunday. Guitarist Rob Johnson, who is originally from Salisbury but now based in London, will be performing new material especially for the date and exploring the horizons
A WATERCOLOUR painting by local artist Lynda Appleby has been selected for the annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour. Appleby’s painting was chosen from more than 800 entries and will appear alongside paintings by
YOUNG people will be rehearsing and performing a production of Godspell during the Easter holidays. The POW theatre company is giving 10 to 18 year olds the chance to experience the fun of being part of a musical theatre production while building
AFTER an incredible first year of engagements which included singing at Buckingham Palace and recording with Gary Barlow, the women of Salisbury Plain Military Wives Choir have continued where they left off in 2012 and have already appeared at Bristol
A TOURING exhibition that challenges perceptions of disability has come to Salisbury Arts Centre. People Like You is a partnership between LinkUpArts, Disability Arts Online and the Arts Centre and features work by a number of artists in film,
WHEN classical actor Edward Petherbridge suffered a stroke two days into rehearsals for King Lear, he thought he would never get the chance to play Shakespeare’s tragic monarch. But in this fabulously funny two-man show he gets that chance – sort
ENTERTAINING Angels by Richard Everett opens at Codford’s Woolstore Theatre tonight. This sharp comedy is set in an English vicarage garden and tells the tale of the late vicar’s wife Grace who converses with her dead husband as he haunts their
LEGENDARY singer/songwriter Van Morrison has been confirmed to headline this year’s Larmer Tree Festival. Van the Man will be performing on the first night of the five-day festival, which is held near Tollard Royal, on Wednesday, July 17. It
FESTIVAL organisers are looking for breakthrough music acts to perform at this summer’s Larmer Tree Festival. Bands and musicians can compete for the chance to play in the same line-up as Van Morrison, Dexys and KT Tunstall and get four-day tickets
THE line-up for the End of the Road Festival 2013 has been announced. The festival takes place at the Larmer Tree Gardens, near Tollard Royal, from August 30 to September 1 and the confirmed artists include Warpaint, Dinosaur Jr, Belle and Sebastian
THOM Belk catches up with Brit-award winner Kate Nash, whose third album Girl Talk has just been released with a band including Salisbury bassist Emma Hughes. TB: Has leaving your previous label and setting up your own record label allowed you
EACH week Will Kozak of Gazibo and Altar Club Resident DJ gives a rundown on the tracks that should be on your playlist this week. Five for the week: 1, OTTER SPOTTER – You’ve Been Spotted. 2, LITTLE LEONARDO – Off Sailing. 3, DUCKY
This weekend at The Winchester Gate will mark the first Cider Festival of 2013. Playing on the Friday is the popular former King Prawn member Babar Luck who will be ably supported by Robb Blake, Luke Hall and Tom Stokes. Saturday Isobel Thatcher
STONE Donkey Pilots have yet another achievement to this year’s collection. It has been announced they will perform at this year’s Larmer Tree Festival. The weekend of music will see the local blues band share a stage with The Beat and Dexys
THE senior judge for this year’s Mere Literary Festival poetry competition will be Rose Flint, who lives in Somerset. Flint is a prize-winning poet and author of four collections including Blue Horse of Morning and Mother of Pearl, as well as a
THE Salisbury Christmas Market is set to run for 24 days this year – six days longer than last year. Organisers said the event, which was held in the city for the first time last year and attracted 94,000 visitors, is being extended after positive
Grab the rabbit's foot - the DVLA is now selling personal registration plates that contain the unlucky age identifier “13”. Why tempt fate? Because 13 graces the bumpers of new cars registered between March 1st 2013 and August 31st. Sounds perfect
NEW Forest Wildlife Park, Southampton, is offering free entry to schools and learning institutions in Hampshire, Dorset this Saturday at its Education Open Day led by expert guides. There’ll be free admission to the park for up to two adults and
A FILM producer from Salisbury who worked with some of the biggest names in the industry has died at the age of 65. Tim Hampton, a former pupil of Bishop Wordsworth’s School, worked his way up from being a runner to working with directors such
JUNIORS from Verwood Pantomime Society presented £800 to Ernest and Marilyn Whatmore of the Active Games For All group collected from generous audiences who saw Jack and the Beanstalk in January. The money completes fundraising for the MUGA (multi
THE funeral of Ringwood teenager Jade Clark will be held tomorrow. Jade, 16, who was killed as she rode her scooter along the A31, will be remembered at Bournemouth Crematorium at 3pm. Mourners are being encouraged to wear a combination of
THE Highways Agency is to review speed limits on a notorious stretch of the A31 near Ringwood. A campaign to reduce the speed limit to 50mph between Picket Post and the Ashley Heath roundabout was launched last year by two Ringwood Town councillors
A CYBER criminal nicknamed the Black Dragon has been jailed for three and a half years after being caught trying to pull off a £6.5million heist against the UN. Matthew Beddoes, 32, who advertised his hacking services online, created a rogue computer
SARUM Academy is moving in the right direction in improving the learning and achievement of its pupils, according to Ofsted inspectors. The school, in Westwood Road, Salisbury was visited by an inspection team in February and has been given a rating
A COMMUNITY farm in Laverstock has been forced to pay out thousands of pounds to protect a conservation project that is being destroyed by dog walkers. The River Bourne Community Farm is also facing not being able to deliver its educational facilities
THREE architects concerned about the loss of Salisbury Bus Station and its impact on the city have teamed up to design a plan for its redevelopment. Under the proposals put forward by Greg Condliffe, Paul Stevens and Patrick Wilson, there would
A DINTON-based business says a scheduled disruption of its electricity supply to allow for maintenance work will cost it more than £65,000. Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) is switching off the electricity in the Dinton area to carry out maintenance
BUSINESSES in the South are now offering a further £10,000 reward as police continue to investigate a fatal road traffic collision on the A31. Officers are still trying to trace the driver of a Volvo XC90 involved in the crash that killed Jade
THE managing director of Wilton Carpets has assured people that he has no intention of moving the business out of the town. Peter Le Count said rumours had been circulating that there were plans to move the firm, which employs 130 people, to Andover
CUBS and Scouts from 6th Salisbury, Laverstock and 2nd Bulford helped heave some new stones into place at Stonehenge on Tuesday morning. The stones spelled out The Croods, the name of a new DreamWorks animated adventure film for children, which
A DRIVER who was killed in a road accident in Wilton wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, an inquest heard. Father of five Barry Lewis, 51, and his family were travelling home to Little Hampton in West Sussex after a day out at Longleat when their Vauxhall
