Flo the Falcon by Rose Newbold
Flo the Falcon, one of the peregrine chicks that fledged from the Cathedral Tower in 2021, has been spotted 90 miles away from home as the crow flies, in Hertford, Hertfordshire. British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) ringer, Nigel Jones contacted the Cathedral peregrine team to let them know that Flo (named for Florence Nightingale to […]
Salisbury-based national charity Horatio’s Garden, which creates and nurtures beautiful, accessible gardens in NHS spinal injury centres, will create its first Main Avenue garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023. Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg of award-winning landscape designers Harris Bugg Studio will design the garden, which is sponsored by Project Giving Back. The vision […]
This winter, The Festival of Light at Longleat will bring Roald Dahl’s much-loved stories to life. Launching on November 5 and running throughout the festive holidays until January 8, ‘The Wondrous Worlds of Roald Dahl’ features a host of the acclaimed authors most iconic characters, including the BFG, Willy Wonka, Matilda and Fantastic Mr Fox. […]
Works to improve the public realm and road network at the junction of Church Street and Union Street in Trowbridge will start on Monday 31 October 2022 for approximately 12 weeks. During this period, temporary traffic signals will be installed to manage traffic safely. The works will predominantly take place during the daytime and are […]
Royal Photographic Society Documentary Photographer of the Year 2021 Touring exhibition can be seen at Chippenham Museum until 12 November. The RPS Documentary Photographer of the Year is an international competition attracting exceptional visual storytellers from across the world. Documentary photography is a unique medium that communicates the human condition seen through a moment in […]
HM Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire and Swindon, Mrs Sarah Rose Troughton, paid her deepest personal respects and said her final goodbye to Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, at the historic monarch’s funeral in Westminster Abbey yesterday (19 September). The Lord Lieutenant was a guest alongside her husband Mr Peter Troughton CVO CBE, joining world […]
Longleat Sky Safari 2022, 9-11 September
Wiltshire Council has completed work to improve and protect the natural and historic environment along a byway that follows the Fosse Way, a Roman Road.
Over 100 hot air balloons are set to take to the skies above Longleat in Wiltshire as part of its spectacular Sky Safari (9-11 September). Now in its fifth year, the three-day festival features daily mass launches, night glows set to music and a host of other fun activities including model balloon flight demonstrations, street […]
The Vanity of Small Differences, an exhibition of six huge tapestries by the celebrated contemporary artist Grayson Perry, is now open at Salisbury Cathedral. Each of the 2m x 4m tapestries, inspired by William Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress, charts a stage in the ‘class journey’ made by young Tim Rakewell (a wry reference to Tom […]
