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BBC News
24-04-2025
- General
- BBC News
Protecting Old Sarum Airfield is about 'protecting our heritage'
Protecting the hangars on an historic airfield after one was gutted by a huge fire is a matter of safeguarding "our national heritage," according to the proprietor of a collection of vintage blaze destroyed the Grade II*-listed hangar three and the neighbouring cafe at Old Sarum Airfield in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on the evening of 17 Sharpe, of the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, said his first response to the news was "absolute panic" followed by sadness at the loss of people's collection is housed in a neighbouring hangar, but he warned all of the buildings are of the same World War One-era design and could be vulnerable to fire. Speaking to BBC West, Mr Sharpe said: "My immediate reaction was absolute panic."(Colleagues) calmed my down by saying its hanger three, so I suppose my reaction was considerable relief, but then also a certain amount of sadness - people's livelihoods were going up in smoke."He continued: "They are old buildings, we all know the problems with them, but also the number left in the UK now are reduced by another pair and that's really sad.""It's really concerning because the building that we occupy is exactly the same as the one that went up in flames." Mr Sharpe said he and colleagues are now debating whether or not the fire safety systems are sufficient to protect the collection."(We have) a lot of aircraft that are one-offs and if they go they can't be replaced, it's as simple as that."We have to do what ever we can to protect what is effectively our national heritage." Gordon Blamire, founder of Go Skydive, which has the site adjacent to Hangar three and the cafe, was driving back from Heathrow Airport when he heard the news of the said his initial feeling was one of "helplessness"."I got here just as the last of the fire was burning," he said."We just went straight into 'how do we resolve things' - no one was hurt and that's a great starting place." Some of Mr Blamire's staff were still on-site when the fire broke out and were able to rescue some of the Blamire said the business was fortunate because "we are in a place where we've got aircraft and we've got parachutes and we are in a position to carry on operating"."Resilience is a key part of this business, we are going to rebuild and will be open again by Friday," he fire broke out just a week after developers - Old Sarum Airfield Ltd - were given the go-ahead for up to 315 homes to be built there following a battle for permission. Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service has said its investigations "are likely to carry on well into next week".
BBC News
18-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Northampton hold-off Falcons comeback for victory
Gallagher PremiershipNewcastle (10) 34Tries: Blamire, Doherty, Hearle, Stevenson, Pepper Cons: Connon 3 Pen: ConnonNorthampton (28) 35Tries: Wright, Green, Smith, Glister, James Cons: Hutchinson, Smith 4 Northampton Saints kept their slim Premiership title defence alive with a five-try victory at fell behind to Jamie Blamire's try but responded with four tries before half-time from hooker Craig Wright, prop Luke Green, Fin Smith and Will Glister, who both came off the Connor Doherty replied for Falcons just after the break before Saints scrum-half Tom James went over to push the visitors out to a 35-15 they were Saints' last points as Newcastle got back into the game with tries from wingers Alex Hearle and Ben Stevenson to take a bonus point, before Max Pepper's try four minutes from time earned them a losing bonus as to follow. Newcastle: Obatoyinbo, Hearle, Doherty, Clark, Stevenson, Connon, Stuart; Brocklebank, Blamire, McCallum, Hawkins, de Chaves, Lockwood, Neild, Chick (c)Replacements: Fletcher, Rewcastle, Palframan, Baker, Leatherbarrow, Pepper, Arnold, SpencerNorthampton: Ramm; Litchfield, Odendaal, Hutchinson, Seabrook; Charlie Savala, James; West, Wright, Green; Munga, Lockett, Scott-Young, Pearson, Walker, Haffar, Millar Mills, Mayanavanua, Augustus, Mitchell, Smith, GlisterReferee: Luke Pearce
BBC News
28-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Newcastle & Bath reach Premiership Cup semi-finals
Newcastle will host Bath in the Premiership Cup semi-finals after both sides came through their quarter-final were 21-0 down against Harlequins at the Recreation Ground but rallied with the help of a very experienced bench to score six tries and win selected a first-choice XV and a hat-trick from hooker Jamie Blamire helped see off a largely second-string Gloucester entertain Sale and Ealing travel to Northampton in the other quarter-finals. Bath had a far less experienced starting XV than Harlequins and quickly found themselves three tries Tyrone Green scored in the first minute before centres Will Joseph and then Ben Waghorn saw Quins three tries up after only 14 15, Tom de Glanville, got them on the board with their first try and although Argentina winger Rodrigo Iscro went over to extend Quins' lead, scrum-half Tom Carr-Smith scored for the hosts to make it 28-14 at the break. Bath then unleashed a platter of experienced replacements to take control of the game and tries from hooker Tom Dunn, number eight Arthur Green, flanker Jaco Coetzee and centre Louie Hennessey's superb diving finish in the right corner saw them comfortably through. Falcons see off Gloucester Newcastle dominated the first half at Kingston Park and Blamire's first try, from a rolling maul, and a Brett Connon penalty saw them lead 8-0 at the Louis Hillman-Cooper scored for Gloucester six minutes into the second half but another maul soon after led to Blamire's second Atkinson landed a 48-metre penalty to bring Gloucester back to 15-10 down but again the Falcons extended their lead as another driving maul brought Blamire's Wilkinson was sin-binned for the hosts for a deliberate knock-on and winger Matty Ward took advantage to go under the posts to keep Gloucester in touch but it was as close as they got.
