Stonehenge
A unique set of animal themed giant Chinese lanterns are set to be sold this week in a live online auction with proceeds going to The Duke of Cambridge’s African wildlife conservation charity Tusk. Longleat is to put up to 19 items for auction, all especially made by a team from China as part of […]
A sun dog was spotted in Coombe Bissett on 20th January 2015 at around 9am. A sun dog can also be known as a parherlion or mock sun and it is caused by ice crystals bending sunlight by different amounts creating the rainbow colours. Light refracts from the hexagonal ice crystals from cirrus clouds which are the […]
Almost 5,000 residents and businesses have had their say on Wiltshire Council’s parking review, which came to an end yesterday (January 19). Wiltshire Council started the comprehensive public consultation in October last year to hear people’s views on its car parking policy. The council is committed to reviewing the policy every four years, and the […]
Julia’s House is to build a children’s hospice in Wiltshire. The children’s hospice charity, which already offers home-based community care in South Wiltshire, is now looking to extend its support to other families with life-limited children by building them a small, dedicated hospice from which to roll out a county-wide care service. Thanks to private […]
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 […]
Drivers are being urged to keep safe on the roads this winter by slowing down and following precautions for the cold weather conditions. The total number of people killed or seriously injured annually from collisions on roads in the county has fallen over the past five years from 264 in 2009 to 165 in 2013. […]
Longleat’s Festival of Light is set to have a starring role on CBBC’s Blue Peter Christmas special on Thursday 18th December. The popular children’s programme followed the build process for the spectacular illuminations which are spread over 30-acres of the Wiltshire attraction. During filming presenter Lindsey Russell helped out with a number of the structures […]
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 […]
