Stonehenge
The new motorsport season gets into gear again at Gurston Down Speed Hillclimb, Broad Chalke near Salisbury on April 18th and 19th with two packed days of exciting championship racing against the clock. As always the opening weekend will provide a real feast of speed as over 130 drivers in saloons and sports cars from […]
Wiltshire’s new High Sheriff has been sworn in this month in a ceremony which dates back to Saxon times. Lady Gooch undertook her declaration and acceptance at Salisbury Cathedral, taking over from Mr Peter Addington. She will be responsible for a number of ceremonial duties during her year of office. Lady Gooch is married to […]
Arundells, the home of former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath in Salisbury, has reopened to the public for the 2015 season. It’s an exciting year because the house will, for the first time, stage two exhibitions and inaugurate a new exhibition space. Exhibitions In July it will be 50 years since Sir Edward became the […]
Six Gold medals and a Silver-Gilt for Wiltshire-based exhibitors at the 2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Discovery Gardens Historic Wadworth Brewery in Devizes are exhibiting with Sparsholt College to tell the story of the hop. The winning combination of college and brewery has led to a Gold medal from the RHS. The garden includes many features associated […]
Now in their 15th year of celebrating business success the Federation of Small Businesses in Partnership with Salisbury and District Chamber of Commerce are proud to present The 2015 South Wiltshire Business Of The Year Awards Entries will be accepted from the date of the launch event this year taking place on Thursday 12th March […]
The 2015 Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival will launch with Market Songs, a large-scale music-theatre commission that will take over Salisbury’s Market Place and its surrounding streets for one summer evening. Composer Michael Betteridge is writing a new collection of market songs, rounds, choruses and cries that will explore the medieval trades around which the […]
The 2014 Winter Solstice is being celebrated at Stonehenge on Monday 22nd December. Thousands are expected to mark the shortest day and longest night at Stonehenge and Avebury. The solstice is just after 11pm on 21st December and so the sunrise on 22nd is the nearest to that key moment. The sun will rise just […]
Salisbury’s new Chorister Bishop, Jason Kellinger, spoke entertainingly in his sermon last Sunday, 7 December, about his high-speed promotion from newly baptised member of the church to ‘bishop’ – and revealed that next year the Chorister Bishop would be a girl. “You should know that I was only baptised here in the Cathedral in May […]
Elderly people in Wiltshire can access financial support and practical advice on how to keep warm this winter. The Surviving Winter Fund charity gives out grants of up to £200 to residents who spend significant proportions of their income on heating their homes. The council is also funding a free advice service which reminds people […]
A new temporary exhibition is coming to the Wessex Gallery of Archaeology. From 18th November to the end of February, a special case displays some exceptional objects discovered by members of the public in the Salisbury area. A husband and wife team, detecting in the Deverill valley near Warminster, have discovered many of the treasured pieces. […]
