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Wiltshire road closed by police after 'serious collision'
Police have closed off part of the A360 near Shrewton on August 17 after a crash. In a facebook post made by Wiltshire police they reported a 'serious collision' which has resulted in the closure along the A road. The collision was first reported
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When will storm hit Salisbury? Met Office issues yellow warning for thunderstorms
A YELLOW weather warning has been issued by the Met Office with the risk of thunderstorms across Salisbury. The warning is in place from 6am to 12pm tomorrow (Friday, August 18). The Met Office says that "there is a good chance driving conditions
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Sir Michael Parkinson's connections to Salisbury and South Wilts Cricket Club
Acclaimed broadcaster and television personality Sir Michael Parkinson, who died at his Maidenhead home yesterday aged 88, played cricket for South Wilts in the mid-1950s during his National Service spent at the Southern Command signal station based
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Salisbury District Hospital patient wait times up but A&E visits down
Figures released by NHS England have revealed that 28,342 patients were waiting for non-urgent elective operations as of the end of June, up from 26,702 in May. Average wait times remained at 14 weeks, 1,272 patients (four per cent) had been waiting
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Fisherton Street is going to be beautified and our library is to be transmogrified
Salisbury has a lot going on now. The central car park resembles a large open-cast mine. Fisherton Street is going to be beautified and our excellent library is to be transmogrified. In short we have our own HS2 project. I recently made a tour
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Twilight Dancer gives Olivia Tubb seventh win of burgeoning career
THERE are diverse routes to get into racing but Olivia Tubb's must be unique - learning on a wooden horse her father constructed at their Chandlers Ford home! Her parents could not afford to buy a pony and faced with a four hour trek to the nearest
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Royal Air Force scramble during exercise over Amesbury - here's how you can see them
MILITARY aircraft scrambled above Amesbury this week as part of a training exercise. Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons took to the skies this week for Quick Reaction Alert exercises over the North Sea. Royal Navy F-35 Lightning IIs were
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The buzz of being back on stage to raise money for the Stars Appeal
On Saturday, I swallowed my first night nerves and played my first gig for decades. I’ve played in bands for as long as I can remember. That started at school, back in the late 1980s when my first teenage group was called The Pulse: ‘nothing
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Man arrested on suspicion of drink driving after crashing car into a ditch
A MAN has been arrested a man on suspicion of drink driving after crashing his car into a ditch last night. The crash occurred near Petersfinger at around 8pm on Wednesday, August 16 after a car crashed into a ditch along the A36. The driver
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Primark officially announces opening date for new Salisbury store
Primark has officially announced that it will be opening the doors of its new Salisbury location before the end of next month - - with a live DJ to welcome shoppers through the door! The official opening of the 29,700-square-foot store in the
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LIVE: A-level results day across Salisbury and Wiltshire - updates
2:33pm Salisbury 6th form College S6C has posted this on Facebook
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Four Harvester employees to jump out of plane for defibrillator drive
Harvester Old Castle has teamed up with AEDdonate in an effort to have a defibrillator installed in the restaurant’s car park. Danni Newman, assistant manager at Harvester Old Castle, said the business has wanted a defibrillator for about a year
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Bygone: A coffee house, a chemist and a dark secret
Some years ago I had the opportunity of looking over the old premises of Messrs. Higgins (later Lloyds) the chemist, and these premises must be some of the oldest on the Blue Boar Row. Here there stood The Parade Coffee Tavern, the Blue Boar then
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'I just want some dentures' - NHS dentistry crisis worsens in Salisbury
A STAGGERING number of people across Salisbury are still unable to access NHS dentistry treatments leading to serious dental needs and for some, it means their self-esteem plummets. In 2022, the Journal investigated the number of dentists in
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Man tells of horror mistreatment in hospital as carers 'forgot' to feed him
A MAN has lost trust in Salisbury Hospital after staff "forgot" to feed him twice and mistreated him during a five-day stay. Stephen Dugdale, who lives in Tidworth, was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday, August 8, for an operation to have two
