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  • Your joints

    Your joints are the places where bones meet. They provide support for your body and allow movement. There are different joint types but the most common and most mobile are the synovial joints which are lubricated by synovial fluid, such as the hip and

  • November Ask Nick

    Nick Holmes' response to your questions posed for the November 'Ask Nick!' feature will appear here shortly. Any questions for the December feature should be sent to mike.turner@salisburyjournal.co.uk, to arrive no later than noon on Friday, December

  • Government madness

    ARE any of our politicians capable of joined-up thinking? As we are about to be hit with punitive green taxes to address global warming, we have a situation where government policies result in parents being unable to get their children into their local

  • Bus users and passers-by beware

    WAITING outside the Odeon cinema in New Canal, I noticed one of our new bus shelters had been vandalised. Some clown has seen fit to remove all three fixing screws on one side panel, leaving three others to hold a six by two foot glass panel in place

  • Choose global issue film

    THE Odeon cinema in Salisbury screened the film An Inconvenient Truth just once in their Director's Chair series. This is the film produced by former US vice-president Al Gore (nearly president in 2000) and it is about climate change. I recommend the

  • Campaign for better train services

    I READ with interest the letter from Ron Johnston concerning the train service between Salisbury and Bristol. I recently had the misfortune of travelling on this route to Bath with my two small children and my mother. We caught trains we thought were

  • Drug firm has made a crucial find

    A PORTON Down drug research company has discovered and patented a new treatment for a potentially fatal tropical disease which affects millions of people worldwide. Morvus Technology, which is based at the Tetricus bio-incubation unit at Porton, specialises

  • Top award for chemistry head

    A CHEMISTRY teacher from a Salisbury school has received an award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for his excellent teaching and for engaging pupils with the subject. Phil Copley (55), who is head of chemistry at Bishop Wordsworth's School,

  • Replacement bridge 'is worse than the original'

    EXPENSIVE, disruptive and possibly dangerously flawed - that is one councillor's view of the new Avon Causeway bridge. Ferndown town councillor Lesley Dedman has hit out at the new bridge after crossing it twice just hours after it was opened on Tuesday

  • Fairytale cup run ends at City Ground

    TWO second half goals may have brought Salisbury City's gallant FA Cup run to a halt, but their players were saluted as heroes at the end of Tuesday night's replay at Nottingham Forest. Goals by Nathan Tyson and Nicky Southall had earned the former European