Historian Sir Anthony Seldon, has hit back at the disgraceful claim that Winston Churchill was no better than Adolf Hitler at the Daily Mail s Chalke Valley History Festival outside Salisbury.
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Before that, he worked in London as a marketing/management consultant. He moved out of London to help his parents run their school, Sherborne House Prep School in Chandlers Ford as Bursar. After they sold the school, he says he didn’t fancy moving back to London so started a business importing and manufacturing wargames figures (basically toy soldiers for adults). Before university, he took a gap year serving with the 17/21st Lancers on a Short Service Limited Commission based at Tidworth. It was during that time he decided that the Wiltshire/Hampshire border, particularly around Salisbury was where he wanted to settle.
STAYCATIONS are now back on the table as people across Wiltshire enjoy their newfound freedoms while England eases out of lockdown. From Monday, April 12, overnight stays away from home were given the green light under Boris Johnson s roadmap out lockdown. The rules stress people who are staying in self-contained accommodation must not share bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens or entrances to the building with another household in a bid to stop coronavirus spreading. The roadmap also states until May 17 at the earliest, international travel is banned, meaning more people have been searching for the perfect UK getaway. But, what if you want to stay closer to home and cut out the hours of driving across the country, while still getting away from your usual surroundings?
A SIXPENNY Handley nurse has retired after a career spanning 51 years. Caroline Catchpole has worked at the Sixpenny Handley Surgery for 25 years where she has held the posts of district nurse and later practice nurse. She retired on Wednesday, March 31, and had a “lovely” send-off from colleagues at the surgery, which is part of the Sixpenny Handley and Chalke Valley Practice. “It is the patients that make it they are just amazing. If you can do something to make them better it is fantastic. It is also a tremendous privilege to look after sick people and to do that job. I’m going to miss it terribly, said Caroline.