Swindon victory pleasure and financial institution vacation enjoyable

There has been an abundance of actions in Wiltshire because the summer time holidays are nonetheless in full swing – however there was additionally a quick return to highschool for youngsters selecting up GCSE outcomes.

Across this weekend there was lots happening, together with an open day at Salisbury fireplace station, and Swindon have loved success on the soccer pitch.

There was a really particular live performance at Salisbury Cathedral, and a long-standing charity volunteer celebrated a magical milestone.

Hippo quartet: Four new residents have been launched to new environment at Longleat. Hippos Matylda, Manon, Lola and Hodor have taken their first stroll beside Half Mile Pond.

Pipe desires: The Organ Prom at Salisbury Cathedral, performed by John Challenger and David Halls, included music from movies similar to Star Wars and Dam Busters, but additionally well-liked classics similar to Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Giacomo Puccini’s Nessun Dorma.

Fun with fireplace engines: Salisbury’s fireplace engine open day had good climate to expertise issues like a hearth engine simulator, airport crash tender and extra.

The large day: 1000’s of GCSE outcomes had been picked up throughout Wiltshire. The Deanery Church of England Academy in Wichelstowe, Swindon, had been celebrating their finest ever Grade 5 and above GCSE leads to English and Maths.

Time journey: The White Horse Military Show (WHMS) Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, had 1,200 reenactors and historians collaborating, with shows reimagining scenes from the Napoleonic period all the way in which as much as the Gulf Wars.

A star milestone: a long-serving volunteer for Stars Appeal, the Salisbury District Hospital charity, has celebrated her one hundredth birthday. Sybil Tucker has been supporting it for extra 20 years and nonetheless volunteers within the bookshop together with her daughter Nicola. They have raised over £65,350 for the Stars Appeal to this point.

In the pink: the climate has supplied some beautiful colors, similar to this pink sky captured by climate watcher Countrylad at Codford St. Mary close to Warminster.

Swindon summer time: A month-long freefestival of actions within the city centre is ending over the financial institution vacation weekend. Activities have to this point included a pop-up cinema, pop-up skate park, circus workshops, bubble magic and a pop-up planetarium. 25 August may have musical performances too and the hunt to search out Swindon’s subsequent city crier.

All aboard: 1000’s piled onto classic and new buses – many London routemasters – for Imberbus day. The annual event raises cash for charity because the buses take folks to the ‘ghost’ village of Imber, whose residents had been evicted in World War Two.

Lagoon library: West Swindon Parish Council has began a ‘free library’. A refurbished and painted cabinet has been put in by the lakeside at Peatmoor Lagoon, with a inventory of books that individuals can take with out having to pay.