Category: Community (Warminster)

Topics about organisations and activities in Warminster.

How Dangerous/Safe Is Warminster Compared To Other Towns In Wiltshire And In All Of The UK?

Friday 31st December 2021

Information on the Crime Rate website:

Warminster is among the top 5 most dangerous small towns in Wiltshire, and is the 41st most dangerous overall out of Wiltshire’s 272 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Warminster in 2021 was 57 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Wiltshire’s overall crime rate, coming in 6% higher than the Wiltshire rate of 53 per 1,000 residents. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Warminster is the 385th safest small town, and the 2,632nd most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages.

https://crimerate.co.uk/wiltshire/warminster

New Warminster Ambulance Station Unveiled

Thursday 16th December 2021

From the website of the South West Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust:

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has officially opened its new Warminster Ambulance Station.

The station, on Warminster Business Park, was officially opened at a ceremony led by Sarah Rose Troughton, Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire.

Jane Whichello, SWASFT Deputy County Commander, said: “This has been a key project for the organisation during a period of significant and sustained pressure and we are incredibly proud to be able to showcase this new station. Local colleagues helped to design and equip a modern, professional workplace for staff in Warminster and the surrounding areas.”

In addition to the Lord-Lieutenant, the event was attended by Sir Charles Hobhouse Bt., High Sheriff of Wiltshire; Councillor Denis Brett, Deputy Mayor of Warminster; Will Warrender, SWASFT Chief Executive; Tony Fox, SWASFT Chairman; Jessica Cunningham, SWASFT Executive Director of Operations, and operational colleagues.

The station has been fully operational since March 2021, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trust has been unable to arrange an official station opening ceremony until now.

The station provides paramedics with the latest facilities to best deliver local emergency care needs. It is the base for two double-crewed ambulances – one of which runs 24 hours a day. 

A team of 16 crew members work from the new site, which provides good road access across Wiltshire. It is a well-equipped base for the start and end of crews’ shifts as they spend the vast majority of the day on the road responding to the needs of patients across Wiltshire and beyond.

Will Warrender presented a long-service and good conduct award to Gerald O’Connor as part of the opening event. The local lead paramedic received his 20-year award for “making a huge difference to the lives of many’. As part of his committed service to the community of Warminster, Gerald has been a sole paramedic with a rapid response car and has a role in a double-crewed ambulance team.

The new station was created after the former station in the town had to move from a building owned by the police authority, now required for a new use.

https://www.swast.nhs.uk/welcome/latest-news/new-warminster-ambulance-station-unveiled

Speed Checks By Police At Woodcock Road, Warminster

20th July 2021

From the Facebook page of Warminster Police:

At 0855 hrs on Tuesday 20th July 2021, Pc HOWICK and PCSO HUNT from Warminster Neighbourhood Team carried out speed checks on Woodcock Road, Warminster at the request of local residents, as concerns had been raised regarding vehicles speeding. After twenty minutes four vehicles had been stopped three drivers were given words of advice and the forth was issued a ticket for excess speed. All drivers spoken too were from the local area and all took on board the advice given.

If there are any areas where you feel we should be looking to carry out speed checks within Warminster please let us know and we will be in touch.

Alternatively if anyone would like to start a Community Speed Watch Scheme in your local area please have a look at the force website for details as we are always looking to increase the schemes in the area.

Grace Hinton Design For The Anatomy Clinic, Warminster

Wednesday 23rd June 2021

Grace Hinton has produced a superb design for the Anatomy Clinic, Warminster.

Grace writes: “I hope you like a recent commission I’ve done Anatomy Clinic. They are located in the foothills of the Salisbury Plain, which is where I took inspiration from. The flowers  are a selection of wild meadow flowers found on the Salisbury Plain  featuring Lady’s Bedstraw Galium verum, Catsear Hypochoeris radicata and Stitchwort Stellaria sp. If you are in the Warminster area, go check the Anatomy Clinic out. They offer a range of treatments, including chiropody, beauty, holistic and massage.” 

The Anatomy Clinic is at Regency House, 28 East Street, Warminster BA12 9BN. Telephone 01985 219122. www.facebook.com/anatomyclinic/

Grace Hinton Designs has a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/gracehintondesigns

and a website: gracehinton.com

There’s also an Instagram page: www.instagram.com/gracehintondesigns/

Drew Mulholland & Adrian Utley – “Warminster UFO Club” (2021 Re-Issue) Castles in Space (Released 21st April 2021)

Drew Mulholland & Adrian Utley – Warminster UFO Club (2021 Re-issue) Castles In Space now available – £22.99

Renowned psychogeographer, hauntologist and all round counter-cultural hero Drew Mulholland returns to Castles in Space for a reinvestigation of the Warminster UFO flap of the sixties and seventies. Warminster, a small town in Wiltshire on the edge of the Salisbury Plain became the centre of a UFO panic during this period and lasted as a UFO Mecca for many years afterwards. UFO groups and interested truth seekers still hold regular sky watches in the area from atop Cradle Hill and Starr Hill.

Interestingly, the Warminster phenomenon began not with UFO sightings but with “hearings”. This could possibly be why the phenomena resounds so strongly with Drew. His work is so often related to specific places and events, and in this interpretation of what came to be known as the Warminster “Thing”, he displays his genius for creating unsettling widescreen soundscapes which prickle and crackle with a vivid sense of something monumental and unknowable happening just out of reach.

The centrepiece of the album is the side long track “Warminster” which was written and recorded with Portishead’s Adrian Utley and was originally released on CD by Ochre records in Summer 1999. The version here has been remixed and remastered and this release is expanded with a whole new set of recordings unique to this album.

The record is housed in a beautiful sleeve with an accompanying double sided insert, all designed and illustrated by Nick Taylor.

Released 21st April 2021.

“Mulholland’s music hazes the contours between psychogeography and hauntology, exploring his reaction to memory and place, both physically through field recording and figuratively, through his often abrasive manipulation of the sounds. Accordingly, his work can be as witty and expressive as it is caustic, but each one reveals something different and quite personal about the artist.”
-Spenser Tomson, The Wire 

All tracks Drew Mulholland except “Warminster” by Adrian Utley and Drew Mulholland.
Artwork by Nick Taylor at spectral-studio.co.uk
Mastering by Antony at RedRedPaw.
Special thanks to archives at the Mitchell Library and the Norwood Institute.

Tracklisting:
The Incident At Five Ash Lane.
From Dilton Marsh To Corsley Heath.
On Cradle Hill.
A Visit From The Cambridge UFO Society.
Invisible Fingers Of Sound.
Broken Windows At Battlesbury.
The Mill Pond Near Norton Bavant
Wailing, Whininh, Droning – Frightening.
The Skywatchers Are Here.
Norridge Woods.
Warminster (with Adrian Utley)

Digital album on Bandcamp (buy for £7)
drewmulholland-cis.bandcamp.com/album/warminster-ufo-club

National Day Of Reflection

Tuesday 23rd March 2021

Words from Cllr. Chris J. Robbins, Mayor of Warminster:

Today marks the anniversary of the pandemic lockdown start date. This year has passed so quickly and although there is light at the end of the tunnel, we are still enduring restrictions necessary to keep us safe. This day has been chosen a National Day of Reflection where all are called upon to mourn those lost to this dreadful disease. Everybody knows somebody whom has been affected by this suffering, whether family or friend.

We should take a moment to consider and reflect upon this year and if possible offer a helping hand to those persons struggling with their loss. 

We should not forget our front line workers, the NHS and medical services and all groups whom have helped this year.

If you have ever read the book Fifty Days That Changed The World by Hywell Williams, any addition will include this pandemic for I think our lives will be slightly different from now on socially and at work.

Our condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones, please continue to follow government guidelines, get the vaccine and stay safe.

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