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Sir Max Hastings (Photo: Press Association)Marlborough LitFest has announced that bestselling military historian Max Hastings, author and ex-MP Alan Johnson, and travel writer Lois Pryce will be joining 2018 Golding Speaker, Rose Tremain, at this year’s ninth Festival to be held over the last weekend in September.
The future of Marlborough's iconic St Peter's School building at the lower entrance to The Parade, was raised again last Monday at the Town Council Planning Committee meeting (March 19). The building and the land around it is owned by Wiltshire Council.
Mrs Jayne Baker addressing the Cabinet - on her right her husband & on her left Councillor Guy LoosmoreAt Monday's meeting of the Full Council Town Council (March 5), the Town Mayor, Councillor Mervyn Hall, made a point of adding his own appreciation of Councillors Stewart Dobson and Guy Loosmore and Mrs Jayne Baker for their addresses to Wiltshire Council's Cabinet which was meeting to agree the appropriation and sale for housing of amenity land off Rabley Wood View.
This was a very welcome return visit from Jessica Zhu, who had played for a Marlborough audience in the 2013 series of recitals by Brilliant Young International Musicians at Saint Peter’s Church.
The epithet in the title - ‘extraordinary’ - suggests something significantly beyond what one might expect to find in an artist’s sketchbook. That sketchbooks are wonderful things is beyond serious questioning, so I guess it’s a matter of definition.
Year 7 student, Beth, in the lead role as AnnieTickets for ‘Annie’ at St. John’s Theatre on the Hill on Feb 7,8 and 9 have been sold out for over a week. Produced by Head of Drama, Miss Matyla, the cast of over a hundred students from Years 7 to 12 and a dog are getting ready to entertain their audiences.
Work underway at Marleberg Grange, Salisbury Road - the Redrow Homes development that will have its full quota of 'affordable homes'The dire supply of really affordable homes in Marlborough was raised by the Deputy Town Mayor, Councillor Lisa Farrell, at last Monday's full meeting of the Town Council (March 5).
The road from the A345 to Wootton Rivers is one of the many roads in the area to be blocked on Friday morning (March 2) by drifting snow.
L to R: Madeleine, Tracy with Katie & Ellie SpantonMarlborough.news has reported on the local consequences of the nationwide shortage of nurses - made worse by the flow of nurses back to their homes in mainland Europe or to jobs in Ireland.
The Queens Head, St Martin's Marlborough.news has been reporting the comings and goings in the ownership - and sometimes the viability - of some of the pubs in the Marlborough area. 2018 seems to have started with a bundle of pubs seeking new ownership or landlords.
Rose Tremain (Photo copyright David Kirkham)Marlborough LitFest will return for its ninth year in 2018 over the weekend of September 28-30 and has announced that acclaimed author Rose Tremain will be this year’s Golding Speaker, opening the festival on Friday, September 28. She will be talking about her fiction and her latest book - which is a memoir.
