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  • City lead 2-0 at half-time

    WHITES made the perfect start to this evening's Blue Square Premier match at Forest Green Rovers when Marvin Brown netted after just two minutes. The striker, starting in place of Matt Tubbs, made no mistake from close range after an Ian Herring long

  • Holmes rings the changes for Forest match

    SALISBURY City have made a number of changes for tonight's televised Blue Square Premier match at Forest Green Rovers. Both Ian Herring and Scott Bartlett make their first start of the season with Matt Tubbs and Darrell Clarke named on the bench alongside

  • Youths at home in next round

    SALISBURY City will host Eastleigh in the first qualifying round of the FA Youth Cup. The tie is to be played at the Ray Mac on Monday, September 24 (7.45pm). Whites' youngsters won their preliminary round tie against Shaftesbury 11-0 in midweek. Manager

  • Minister promises to sort out Stones road problems

    MARGARET Hodge, Minister of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has promised to "sort out" road problems at Stonehenge as a matter of priority. She made her comments after a visit to the Wiltshire landmark last week to re-affirm the government's position

  • Newly-opened youth centre is facing the axe

    A YOUTH advice centre in Ringwood could be facing closure just a few weeks after it first opened its doors, under plans being laid out by Hampshire county council. The Connexions centre, at Monmouth Court, is among 13 such centres across Hampshire which

  • Police Authority will be the judge of performance

    IN recent editions of the Salisbury Journal, significant coverage has been given to some readers' concerns over the quality of service that Wiltshire Police provides in two areas - contact through the 0845 non-emergency number and the response made to

  • Wheelie bin panis is very premature

    I WOULD like to respond to two letters "Council's wheelie bin scheme lacks ambition" and "This flawed recycling initiative will harm both environment and taxpayer" which were published in the Journal on August 23. The first letter, from Cllr King, says

  • Top gundogs in the lead for championship

    SOME of best gundogs in the country will be battling it out in Salisbury to find the Best of the Best Scurry Champion. Twenty-five dogs with their owners will be travelling from as far as North Wales and Devon to compete in The Best of The Best Championship

  • Tisbury goes to town with folk

    FOLK music gets a welcome lift this weekend when the village of Tisbury hosts an exciting folk and acoustic festival. Some great folk performers are booked, such as Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, pictured, winners of the 2003 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for

  • So slick and an absolute delight

    NORTHANGER ABBEY, SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE CATHERINE'S 'fancy has trespassed', declares Henry Tilney. And indeed it has with far too much Udolpho. But what a delight Tim Luscombe's slick production is. A reworking of his own adaptation of Jane Austen's

  • Paint brushes at the ready...

    HI Gang and welcome to your page. This week we'll be getting all arty as we find out about a fantastic self-portrait competition. I know that lots of Gang members are very talented at drawing and painting, so this is a great opportunity to show what

  • Risk assessors look to Europe

    A COMPANY which helps businesses ensure they are operating safely has broken into two European markets with the help of Government organisation UK Trade & Investment, and is now planning further expansion. SE Validation, of Salisbury, assesses risk in

  • New blood at furniture retailer

    STURTONS & Tappers, the Wiltshire and Dorset furniture retailer, has appointed a new manager at its Salisbury store. Ann Chisman, who has more than 20 years' retail experience including 15 years in the furniture department of Beales in Bournemouth, takes

  • Fascinating facts come out of the blue

    REMEMBER the heroic rescue mission in south Helmand province earlier this year which made international headlines? Video footage of an Apache attack helicopter lifting off with two Royal Marines strapped to its wings in a desperate attempt to bring back

  • Journal sparks race crime clampdown

    POLICE are to launch a robust crackdown on hate crime following Journal stories of racism against foreign students in Salisbury. The Journal told in July how 14 students from the Gulf State of Qatar had been hounded out of the city by racist yobs. The

  • Family salutes 'joyful' Jenny

    THE family of the second victim of last Monday's horrific A36 crash has paid tribute to their "fun-loving and generous" sister and daughter. Jenny Humphries, 24, died at Southampton General Hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning after she suffered

  • FA charge update - club statement

    SALISBURY City boss Nick Holmes says the club have nothing more to add at this time to the statement issued earlier in the week following the post-match incident which left Tommy Widdrington nursing a suspected broken nose after an alleged headbutt by