Ernie Clark. Hilperton Division, Wiltshire Council.

Large convoys will operate in the area.

1 Mechanised Brigade will continue its operational pre-deployment training on Salisbury Plain until Sunday 3 March.

Exercise PASHTUN DAWN, will take place across the whole Plain and involve some 9000 troops, in excess of 550 tracked and wheeled armoured vehicles, and both fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

Large convoys, some in excess of 80 vehicles, will operate on the training area and there may be some disruption to civilian traffic at tank crossings.

For the period of the exercise there will be no access to the Larkhill Artillery Ranges and permissive stone tracks in the Tilshead / Chitterne / Shrewton triangle (Copehill Down area) will be closed in the interest of public safety.

Members of the public using Salisbury Plain for recreation during this period are required to keep to the public rights of way.

Military convoys leaving the Plain at the end of the exercise may cause some disruption from late afternoon on Sunday 3 March until Tuesday 5 March.