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The Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival, Salisbury Arts Centre and Salisbury Playhouse, which collectively receive over £1m a year from Arts Council England, are in talks to combine their programme to attract "greater audiences in terms of numbers and diversity".

Figures released by campaigners Act for Change show that BME students make up 17.5% of final-year drama students, but only 1% are south Asian, compared with 8% in the population as a whole.

Construction delays meant the Glynn Vivian Gallery’s £6m revamp took two years longer than expected, with the gallery finally re-opening on Saturday.

A £3.6m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund will support the development of a performance space and new displays for the museum’s collection of historic instruments.

18 young people, aged 18 to 25, have been selected to form the Attic Collective. They will receive a year of free training and produce three main stage shows.

The decision by AQA - the only exam board that still offers the A level – to cut the subject from 2018 has prompted outcries from art historians, teachers and former students. 

The pop-up stage was created in just seven weeks by producer Robert Fox and King’s Cross Theatre to house David Bowie’s musical ‘Lazarus’.