On April 5, Wiltshire Police conducted a vehicle stop in Downton, resulting in the arrest of two men. The driver, aged 24, and the passenger, aged 19, were detained on suspicion of multiple offenses, including attempted theft, theft of tools, possession of an offensive weapon, and driving without valid insurance. Additionally, one of the individuals … Read more
By Our Correspondent in SalisburyDownton, Wiltshire – 11 April 2025 Residents of the quaint village of Downton, near Salisbury, are reeling after reports surfaced of a man walking through the high street on Tuesday afternoon without a dog. In a community where every household is believed to own at least one canine companion, the sighting … Read more
A secondary school just outside Salisbury has snagged the title of Wiltshire’s happiest school, according to some fresh data dropped by The Sunday Times. The Trafalgar School at Downton is one of five schools in the Salisbury area that got a shoutout after the newspaper crunched Ofsted numbers from 2020 to 2025 to figure out … Read more