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Members of the Ogbourne parish, near Marlborough, are reminding the community and beyond that there are just days left to #SaveTheSilks by becoming…

Salisbury District Hospital. Inset: Danny Kruger MP and John Glen MP. MP FOR Salisbury John Glen has defended the proposed one per cent pay rise for NHS staff. Mr Glen said the pandemic had hit the economy hard, so savings needed to be made - which only allowed a modest increase for NHS heroes. But a Labour city councillor has insisted NHS staff and key workers "desparately need" a "tangible" increase in income. It comes after Sir Keir Starmer said the starting point for an NHS pay rise should be 2.1 per cent, but declined to express his backing for the 12.5 per cent raise demanded by...

It's not been a good year to be running a pub and despite the route for the country to get out of lockdown - and hopefully not go back into it - being mapped out, there are fears many pubs could close permanently.  The same is true for community hubs, theatres and sporting organisations, hit hard by people being ordered to stay at home and their doors being closed.  But there is a ray of good news. Chancellor Rishi Sunak's announcement of a £150million Community Ownership Fund in last week's Budget was a largely unexpected one.  It means communities have been given a financial lifeline to...

Picture from Holland Hacket THE team behind the petition to register Grosvenor and Riverside House as an Asset of Community Value have revealed more details about their plans. Pete Rushforth, 32, and Ben Whatsley, 42, have set up a community interest company called Rise, Resound, Rebuild (R3), and want to turn the former youth centre into a "cultural hub that reinvests profits back into the city". Both are from Salisbury, went to school here and have worked in the area for over twenty years. Pete is an engineer, and Ben is one of the founding members of Bass Connection, and runs his o...