Local News from Thursday, February 26th, 2026

A Wiltshire teenager has spoken about the comfort, encouragement, and sense of normality that the Stars Appeal charity has brought her during a long and challenging period of treatment at Salisbury District Hospital.

Leading homelessness charity ALABARÉ is disappointed yet unsurprised by the Government’s latest Rough Sleeping Snapshot, with more people having to bed down in inadequate and unsuitable places.

The village community of Barford St Martin recently came together to plant a new traditional Community Orchard to help save a range of rare Wiltshire heritage apple trees.

Public meetings will start next week as part of the ongoing consultation into the potential closure of eight fire stations by Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service.