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• Quick action averts school fire disaster

  Debbie Steven and St John's School caretaker Steve Sheen, whose prompt actions helped stop fire from spreading.A CARETAKER has been hailed a hero this week for stopping a fire from spreading out of control at St John's Primary School in Tisbury. read more

• Catering training fares well

  CATERING services at Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust are better than ever, thanks to training funded by Free2Learn, says its manager. read more

• Free events at Trade Week

  INTERNATIONAL Trade Week takes place from March 8-12 and businesses in Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight wanting to get involved in exporting can take advantage of a series of free events. read more

• Number one for Spire FM

  RADIO station Spire FM and its breakfast show have been judged number one in England by Radio Joint Audience Research when compared against all other commercial and BBC radio stations. read more

• Students have voice in politics

  Ref. 29052-39WHOEVER said young people are disinterested in politics obviously never met students from Wootton Bassett School. read more

• Secondary school set for move to estate

  ONE of Trowbridge's three secondary schools could be on the move as education chiefs try to tackle travel problems for hundreds of students. read more

• School calls for mentors

  Springfield School in Calne is looking for mentors to support its pupils. Mentors are volunteers who give a few hours of their time a month to meet with young people to listen and talk to them. read more

• Parents back in battle for schooling

  Father-of-four Justin Oliver is fighting to get his youngest daughter into the same school as her brothers and sister. read more

• School's new bid to get specialist status

  ABBEYFIELD School is making a second bid to achieve specialist status as a business and enterprise college.The Chippenham secondary school had its first application turned down by the Government last year due to what ministers described as 'significant weaknesses'. read more

• £1m work starts

  WORK on building Wiltshire's first centre of excellence for children begins in Warminster next week. The £1m centre at The Avenue Primary School will provide day care and education facilities for children under five. read more

• School calls for mentors

  GAZETTE & HERALD: Springfield School in Calne is looking for mentors to support its pupils. read more

• Campaign for broadband

  BUSINESSES and homes in Coombe Bissett and Homington are backing a campaign to get high speed internet access. read more

• Fitness studio looks to open longer hours

  A BUSINESS that has been in existence for only two months has had such a good start it is already looking to open longer hours. read more

• Designers sponsor rugby

  EDWARD Thomas Design & Display is now sponsoring the Wheatsheaf Cabin Crew rugby team's man of the match trophy. read more

• Aerosol causes explosion

  A COUPLE had a rude awakening after hot candle wax dripping on to an aerosol can eventually caused it to explode and blow out the bay windows of their home in Wain-a-long Road, Salisbury. read more

• Experts give evidence to inquiry inspector

  Inspector Michael Ellison at the Stonehenge inquiry at Salisbury Guildhall.EXPERTS in road building and its consequences have given evidence at the Stonehenge inquiry as the Highways Agency attempts to convince planning inspector Michael Ellison that the tunnel will benefit the environment. read more

• Improved Stonehenge environment "is an obligation"

  English Heritage has told the inquiry that Britain has an obligation to the rest of the world to improve the area surrounding Stonehenge. read more

• Brother "probably dead for 18 months"

  A PENSIONER who lived in a caravan while his brother lay dead in the next room for 18 months might have tried to ignore the fact he was sharing his home with a corpse, an inquest has heard. read more

• Delays at Skew Bridge

  A PENSIONER who lived in a caravan while his brother lay dead in the next room for 18 months might have tried to ignore the fact he was sharing his home with a corpse, an inquest has heard. read more

• Burma veterans gather at Odeon

  Members of the Salisbury branch of the Burma Star Ass. and members of Wiltshire Royal British Legion at the cinema to launch the new Projections - Classics season.LAST night, Salisbury's Odeon cinema screened the first film in its short season of classics. read more

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