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SALISBURY City's Capital League fixture with Northwood, scheduled for Monday, January 22, has been postponed. A new date will be confirmed shortly.

It's tempting to describe January as a quiet month, a time to recover from the excesses of Christmas and to hibernate in the face of deep winter. The inhospitable January weather keeps most of us indoors, grateful for the comforts and shelter of our

The Cathedral's Epiphany Procession, a special service of words and music which commemorates the journey of the Magi travelling from the East to worship the baby Jesus and follows his life through to adulthood, takes place on Sunday 14 January at 7.00pm

The Very Revd June Osborne, Dean of Salisbury and Chairman of Governors at Salisbury Cathedral School, has announced the new Head Master for the school. She said: "It is with great pleasure that I am able to tell you that the Governors have invited Mr

The next Voice Trials for children in Years 3 and 4 who would like to join Salisbury Cathedral Choir will be held on Saturday January 20 (boys) and Saturday February 3 (girls). David Halls, Director of Music, would be very happy to hear from any children

The Revd Mark Bonney, Canon Treasurer at Salisbury Cathedral, joined the Bishop of Sherborne, the Rt Revd Tim Thornton, on a familiarisation visit to Sudan from December 5 to 19 as part of the long established link that the Salisbury Diocese has with

Friends' Chair Project Amazingly, it is nearly four years since the Friends launched the Chair Appeal. To provide 1800 chairs seemed a very daunting prospect at the time. We passed the 1000 mark in 2005 and since then we have added one or two most

The Mayor, Cllr Sheila Warrander, will be joined by the Canon Chancellor, Cathedral Curate and 250 other people sleeping out in the Cathedral's Cloisters on January 25/26 to raise awareness and funds for homeless people in the city. The date has been

Chen Guangcheng, a human rights activist, was sentenced to over four years in prison in August. He has appealed against his sentence. Charged with "damaging public property and gathering people to block traffic", he was convicted after a trial lasting

Broadwalk lights You may have noticed the Broadwalk Lights have been out of action again. They are being regularly vandalized, day and night. Ted Hillier, our Works Manager, has become a dab hand at fixing them but the constant repairs are wearing

Artist - Johnny Boy Album - Johnny Boy Label - Wild Kingdom Johnny Boy are Davo, on guitars, loops and vocals, and Lolly (ditto), and this is their debut album, two years after their debut single You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And

Artist - Dead Moon Album - Echoes of the Past Label - Sub Pop Echoes of the Past seems to be proof of the value of the Best Of compilation. Dead Moon have been about, and been underground garage rock's best-kept secret, for some 20 years now - and

Artist - Pavement Album - Wowee Zowee Label - Domino Wowee Zowee sounds like a band trying hard to not do what was expected. A couple of years before Radiohead tried the same, Pavement followed up their successful album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

THIS is the first glimpse inside the New Forest's brand new £36m community hospital, which opens this week. The 107-bed, three-storey building on the outskirts of Lymington will soon be filled with the bustle of patients and staff as it opens it doors

THREE south Wiltshire slimming consultants were kept in stitches by comedian Lenny Henry when they attended the annual Slimming World awards ceremony in Birmingham. Treena Gillo, Sarah Banks and Rachel Scarff, who run slimming classes at the Salvation

WATER bosses should be given a rocket for continuing to allow untreated sewage to be pumped into the River Wylye just yards from a nature reserve, claims a disgusted visitor to south Wiltshire. Christopher Collins said Wessex Water, together with the