Well, after the fiasco of last week, BT managed to get nearly everyone in the village reconnected to both telephone and broadband; though we did hear only yesterday (26th July 2017) that one poor...
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Winterbourne Stoke Cut Off From The (Digital) World: The Dark Ages Return
The irony of this post is not wasted upon us, as those it is of most interest to are the ones least likely to be able to read it at the moment. Over the last couple of weeks, BT Openreach...
Government Looking at Private Finance to Improve the A303 – Delays Seem Inevitable
Villagers may be very interested to made aware of the 2017 Annual Report on the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), published yesterday...
Historic England Research: Exploring the Landscape of Stonehenge
Villagers may be interested in the the sixth issue of Historic England Research. As Duncan Wilson, the Chief Executive of Historic England, says in his introduction: "Given the current, and...
Putting In The Ducting
Anyone who has been looking for signs of BT activity on the Shrewton road over the last couple of weeks would have found it hard to spot anything at all. However, today there were a few signs that...
The Village Events Committee
Thanks largely to the organisational efforts of Steve Fair, the Events Committee was given a new lease of life back in June, with the election of a new committee at a very well attended meeting...
Beating the BBC At Its Own Game
Blimey, It seems we have beaten the BBC at breaking a news story. Back on the 10th June, we published a story on the latest UNESCO/ICOMOS view on the Highways England plans for the Stonehenge to...
Broadband News: An Unfortunate Delay
The Wiltshire Online-BT plan to deliver fibre broadband to Winterbourne Stoke has, as mentioned in previous updates, hit some barriers to progress; particularly a crop being planted in one of the...
Mended Stile
We are delighted to be able to say that the stile into the meadow at the southern end of Church Street has now been mended, and very robust it now looks as well. For the first time in many years we...
A303: Latest Comments from UNESCO/ICOMOS On The Highways England Proposals
A second UNESCO/ICOMOS Advisory mission to consider the emerging proposals on the Stonehenge to Berwick Down Scheme occurred in February 2017. The mission report acknowledges the responses to the...