4 abandoned villages you can visit in the South West when lockdown ends salisburyjournal.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from salisburyjournal.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
TODAY we bring welcome assurance that the brighter days of spring are on their way in Wiltshire. Visitors are unable to visit the highly popular snowdrops display at Great Chalfield Manor because of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. So we thought we d bring you some photographs of the 15th century manor s beautiful snowdrop display in its Arts and Crafts garden now run by the National Trust. Robert and Patsy Floyd, who live at Great Chalfield Manor, says they are lucky to have a beautiful snowdrop display. Mr Floyd added: At Great Chalfield we are blessed with many snowdrops, or candlemas bells, as they were called in olden times.
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IT could take a town to raise a church, or at least to bring the longheld plans to rescue one to reality. A callout has been made to the people of Devizes to resurrect plans to transform the ailing St Mary’s Church, on Park Street, into a bustling community space to serve the town, bringing life back to an idea which has been a dream for some time. The church, which is not in a fit state for regular church services, is poised to become a community space for theatrical performances, dance shows, exhibitions and more. But the future of the plans rely on support from Devizes, from finding money to pay for the project to running it once it is fully open.
The vaccine effort from the East Kennet Primary Care Network is staying ahead of the curve, thanks to surgery staff and an army of volunteers. On Saturday around another 450 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine made its way into patients’ arms at the Kennet & Avon Medical Partnership. The PCN says that by Sunday (February 14) it will have inoculated all of the area’s over -70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable. According to the practice it was the first time they had given out the Astra Zeneca vaccine in Pewsey. In two months, KAMP has vaccinated 96 per cent of the over 80s, 92 per cent of 75-79-year-olds, care home staff and residents and frontline health and social care workers. The clinic in Pewsey was aimed at over -70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable.