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Julia Stevenson and fellow bikers at RAF Lyneham today

Bikers pay tribute to RAF Lyneham ahead of Wootton Bassett charity ride

Updated 5:46pm Friday 12th March 2010

Organisers of the 10,000-bike charity ride through Wootton Bassett this Sunday visited RAF Lyneham today to pay thanks to the air base on behalf of Afghan Heroes.

Organiser Julia Stevenson, says...

I think the people of Wootton Bassett are lovely and the majority of the people in the town do support us.

Chippenham friends rally for Jay

HEARTFELT: Jarid Clark, who wrote his own song about Jay, on stage with Connor Fox

Updated 7:00am Saturday 13th March 2010

Friends have raised more than £800 in support of teenager Jay Ryles-Jenkins, who fell into a coma just minutes after a rugby game last March.

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Chippenham woman's date with a killer

Peter Chapman who killed a 17 year-old girl

Updated 7:00am Saturday 13th March 2010

A woman from Chippenham has told how she met a confessed killer over the internet and arranged to meet him, not knowing that a month earlier he had raped and killed a 17-year-old he groomed on Facebook.

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Comic artist to visit Chippenham

Overall winner Dominic Kernan with Key Stage 1 winner Francesca and primary literacy consultant Sharon Hellyer

Updated 7:00am Saturday 13th March 2010

Pupils at Queens Crescent School in Chippenham will be paid a special visit by comic artist Kev Sutherland thanks to talented student Dominic Kernan.

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Will you please not refer to this a as 'industrial action'. It is nothing of the sort. It is 'public service action'. Industrialists seek alternative ways of resolving employment difficulties - ones that keep them in employment. − Getting it Right, Corsham

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Good luck to her. I was the second year into Abbeyfield, but the first year 7s in the building. Was my headteacher for 5 years, and to be fair, shes done the school good and helped it grow. Just hope whoever replaces her carries on the work. − Jesse Lake, Chippenham

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