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While Spiez Lab advises the public to wait for a new statement by the OPCW following its meeting tomorrow, some public pressure may need to be brought on the OPCW itself to immediately release ALL the information it has from ALL the laboratories it has used in the Skripal case.  Without such public pressure — and it is certainly not coming from any Western MSM — the OPCW may again do what it did on April 4, when by a vote of 15 to 6, with 17 members abstaining, it rejected Russia’s propo...

PUNTERS flocked to Swindon’s pubs in droves to enjoy a pint in the sunshine and helped landlords take in four times more money than usual on the first day of reopening. Analysis revealed that Swindon boozers took in one of the largest average spends in the UK during that busy week where hospitality venues could finally serve people outdoors again after months of closure Card payment company Dojo’s data revealed that a customer who visited a Swindon beer garden during the week of April...

Castle Street, Salisbury A MAN has been arrested after a police chase through the city. On Wednesday, April 15, at around 1pm, officers attempted to stop a male who was "acting suspiciously", and driving a black Vauxhall Corsa. They were forced to pursue him through the streets of Salisbury when he drove off. The pursuit began on Western Way then moved onto Castle Street, into Millstream Approach, through the Central Car Park, onto Fisherton Street. It then continued onto Churchfields...

Saint Michaels Road, Inset: A Salisbury Reds bus A SALISBURY Reds bus has been attacked for the second time in a week, with windows being smashed by thrown objects once more. It comes after councillor for Bemerton, Caroline Corbin said the culprits responsible for Mondays attack should be aware their "reckless and dangerous" actions could have posed a "potential danger to life". At around 7pm on Monday, a tweet from the bus service said the R1 - which goes from Salisbury District Hospital t...

Businesses across the town will reopen their doors as the latest set of lockdown measures are eased. Non-essential retail shops will be able to reopen, as will leisure centres, hairdressers and beauty salons.  Restaurants and pubs will only be able to serve customers outdoors, with indoor drinking not set to return until May 17.  Shoppers in the town centre yesterday Picture: DAVE COX Overnight stays away from home in England will be permitted and self-contained accommodation can also...

STRATTON: Highway improvement works will close part of Oxford Road for six weeks. The temporary traffic order (reference STR000140) will shut the A4312 between Winchester Close and Evergreen Road, the junction with Sandgate including 20 metres from the junction, and the junction with Nythe Road, including 40 metres from the junction.  Traffic will be diverted via A419 southbound to Common Head Roundabout, A4259 Marlborough Road to Coate Roundabout, B4006 Dorcan Way to Greenbridge Roundab...

A Wiltshire pub which has adapted particularly well to the challenges of the pandemic has made more than £80,000 in one month alone.

Vehicles will be diverted via from Marlowe Avenue, Maitland Road, Frobisher Drive and Courtney Road. The traffic order (reference STR000151) is being introduced to allow works in connection to a highways agreement which will begin on April 5 and is expected to last until October 29 2021. WESTMEAD: Works associated with the Mead Way scheme will stop pedestrians and cyclists using the path between Westmead Drive and Rivermead Drive. People travelling by foot or by bicycle will be diverted...

A Wiltshire pub which has adapted particularly well to the challenges of the pandemic has made more than £80,000 in one month alone.

Liddington Manor Wroughton: The Science Museum, which has storage facilities for documents and artefacts in hangars at Wroughton airfield, has been given permission to demolish an old boiler house, and the brick-built air traffic control tower at the site. The boiler building is near the main entrance at Red Barn Gate on Devizes Road, and the traffic control tower is towards the western edge of the site near the hangar used by Swindon Karting Arena. Liddington: James Buchanan has put in a...