There is more to Las Vegas than just gambling or weddings. If you want to dine in luxury (or on a budget), get the best factory and designer shopping bargains and catch gob-smacking attractions, I can unravel all the essentials to make your Las Vegas
Cape Verde is an Archipelago of ten islands lying like a jewelled necklace off the coast of West Africa. And how they sparkle. Until recently Cape Verde's beauty was largely kept a secret - the long beaches of endless white sand, lapped by turquoise
… it seems the new council has been warned that cancelling the Bourne Hill development would cost “upwards of” £6m in compensation to the 30-odd firms awarded contracts just before the election. Oh yeah, sez who? If I were a councillor, I’d seek legal
Dubai is the soar away tourism success story of the 21st century. It might not yet boast the raw visitor numbers of, say, USA or Australia, but no country can match its unprecedented growth over the past five years. Five airlines currently operate a
SILKEN cobweb structures covering hedgerows near The Beehive park-and-ride site on the Amesbury Road are spreading across south Wiltshire. Since publishing a photograph of the cobwebs a few weeks ago, Rural View has received an unprecedented response
DUE to an increase in demand ahead of Salisbury City's first campaign in the Blue Square Premier, existing seat season ticket holders, who have not yet renewed their season tickets, are being urged to do so as soon as possible. A club spokesman said:
WHEN Tommy Widdrington quit the Football League in February 2005 to become Salisbury City's player/coach, he openly admits he had never heard of the Isthmian League. But barely two-and-half years after helping lift the Whites away from its relegation
WATERSTONE'S in Salisbury has announced the long-list for the third Theakston's "Old Peculier" Crime Novel of the Year award, the only literary prize of its kind to be voted for by the general public. Won by Mark Billingham in 2005 and Val McDermid in
THE Fordingbridge Show has been cancelled due to problems setting up the new site at Midgham Farm. Thousands were expected to attend the two-day spectacular but it is not the first time that the popular country show has been axed - in 2005 it was cancelled
GROWING Salisbury website design company Unstuck Design has pledged its support to the District Hospital's Stars Appeal by providing its services to the appeal organisers free of charge on an ongoing basis. Visitors to the site can access the latest
YOUR new Liberal Democratic/Labour-run council faces some tough decisions. In 1991, it was a Lib/Lab administration which decided to centralise the council's offices. They chose Bourne Hill as the place to do this and set up a working group to carry
I AM appalled by the Government's last-minute U-turn over the introduction of home information packs. The original plans were ill thought through and lacked proper consultation. However, the Government's latest behaviour in postponing introduction of
MATT Tubbs always believed he could make the grade as a professional footballer. But the former Bolton Wanderers and AFC Bournemouth apprentice has to admit he never thought it would be with his home town club! The Salisbury-born striker this week capped
HI everyone and welcome to the Journal Gang page. I had a lovely day out at Cholderton Rare Breeds Farm recently. The animals were so cute - we saw baby bunnies, lambs and goats - and the best thing was that you got to feed them. There was also piglet
GIRL power in the truest sense of the word will be coming to Hudson's Field on July 1 as up to 4,000 women line up for the 2007 Race for Life. Whether they run, jog, power walk or plod around the five-kilometre route they will share one goal - to raise
LEARN all about Thai culture at Salisbury's Thai Festival on Sunday. Organised by Desy Walsh, who hails from Bangkok but has lived in Salisbury for the past five years, the all-day festival is taking place in the grounds of Godolphin School, Laverstock
FESTIVALS come in many shapes and forms, but one innovative woman from Tollard Royal is holding a rather special boutique'- style festival in her field in the village. Paddy Seymour came up with the idea last year and held a fairly low-key dance-based
A SALISBURY-born thespian is hoping his new role in the Dales will make his face a regular sight on television. Martyn Scott-Thomas, 25, has been filming in Leeds this week for his part as farmer Sid Tyler in the popular soap Emmerdale. He said: "It's
PAINTINGS and pottery, furniture and photography, sculpture and stitching were all represented on the 2007 Wylye Valley Art Trail, reports Katharine Lawley. The trail, which ran from May 26 to June 3, takes place every other year, alternating with Dorset
SHORT AND CURLY, SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE "WHAT an unlikely pair," my daughter commented, when I told her I was going to see Sandi Toksvig and Bonnie Langford in their two-women, one-woman show, Short and Curly, at the Salisbury Festival. Unlikely indeed
PACO PEÑA - A COMPÁS! PRIMAL PULSE, CITY HALL TEMPERATURES soared on Friday night in more ways than one, as master flamenco guitarist Paco Peña returned to Salisbury with his new show, Primal Pulse - an appropriate name, as it turned out, such was the
BELCEA QUARTET, WILTON CHURCH PASSIONATE and brilliant are two words that spring to mind after listening to the Belcea Quartet on Saturday evening in the beautiful surroundings of Wilton parish church. They came with the reputation of being one of the
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, SALISBURY CATHEDRAL WHAT a treat - world-class classical music on the doorstep, and such a delightfully contrasting programme. For Wednesday evening's concert, Vladimir Ashkenazy placed Dvorák's lyrical eighth symphony alongside
TWO bank managers, one from Barclays and the other from Lloyds TSB, have begun new appointments in Salisbury, and a third, from NatWest, has won a top award. Richard Smart has joined Barclays' High Street branch as the bank's rural relationship manager
HOTELIER Avril Owton is the new chairman of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight branch of the Institute of Directors. Ms Owton, a former Tiller Girl, Hampshire Businesswoman of the Year, professional speaker and winner of the tourism industry's SHINE Woman
By Kirsty Barton STUDENTS from Salisbury College were out celebrating on Sunday after taking part in Graduate Fashion Week in London. The third-year fashion and textiles degree students took part in the event at Battersea Park Arena, showing 11 fashion
A DESPERATE bid to pressure government ministers into funding long-awaited road improvements at Stonehenge was launched by Salisbury MP Robert Key this week when he called for the ancient monument to be removed from the list of world heritage sites.
SALISBURY City's star striker Matt Tubbs has ended speculation about his immediate future by signing a three-year professional contract with the ambitious Wiltshire club. Rumours were rife that Tubbs, who recently made his England debut for the National
