Major Tim Peake is the first British astronaut to leave Earth in more than two decades. After 186 days in space for his Principia mission on the International Space Station, he returned to Earth at 10:15 on 18 June 2016, landing in Kazakhstan with commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA’s Tim Kopra in the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft. On landing, […]
Young people who want to take part in a national scheme that helps them make a difference in their community and pick up life skills along the way, are being offered support from a new opportunity in Marlborough. Each year more than 2,000 Wiltshire young people, aged 14 to 24, take part in the Duke […]
The Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival has unveiled a taster of the 2016 Festival (now in its 44th year) with a characteristically diverse cultural programme celebrating the very best of music, theatre, dance, circus, film, visual arts, literature and family events. Continuing a four-year journey inspired by Stonehenge and tracing the cardinal points of the […]
A new state of the art fitness suite which uses the latest technology to help people tailor their keep fit regime to personal goals is now open at Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre, Salisbury. Customers of all ages and abilities have been trying out the array of machines at the Wiltshire Council-run centre. The […]
Longleat is launching a nationwide competition to find two wild amateur photographers of the year to feature in a new exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of their safari park. In April 1966 Longleat hit the headlines around the world when it became the first place outside of Africa to open a safari park. To mark […]