Bowood celebrates 300th birthday of Capability Brown

In a letter dated 2 November 1757, the 1st Earl of Shelburne asks his son, William: “What wou’d you give to know the Consequences of the Visit of the famous Mr Brown, & the fruit of the 30 guineas which I gave him? He passed two days with me, & eat & drank, at rather […]



Antiques Roadshow at Bowood

Antiques Roadshow at Bowood

Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow team were at Bowood House and Gardens near Calne on June 25, 2015.



Photos of Winter Solstice 2015 at Stonehenge



Photos of Amesbury Lantern Parade 2015



Tim Peake on International Space Station

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, […]



Photos of Longleat Festival of Light 2015



Photos of St Thomas’ Church Christmas Tree Festival 2015



Photos of Salisbury Lantern Procession 2015



New centre will help young people achieve DofE Award

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 […]



From ancient stones to Maori myths – Salisbury Festival 2016

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 […]