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• Melksham Town 1, Welton Rovers 1

  MELKSHAM made it four points from six when they picked up a handy draw against Welton on Monday night. read more

• Online treasure hunt helps history lessons

  PUPILS at schools across Wiltshire are being invited to dig up the county's past in an online treasure hunt. read more

• Watchers on water

  NARROWBOAT owners and people running businesses along the Kennet and Avon have got together with the police to re-form the Canal Watch scheme. read more

• Calne Town 1, Hallen 1

  A STIRRING second half performance from Calne saw almost them come back to beat high-flying Hallen. read more

• Animal cause of huge black-out

  A BADGER or some other small mammal is thought to have caused a power cut which affected 60,000 homes in central Wiltshire last Wednesday. read more

• Old Woodstock Town 0, Malmesbury Victoria 1

  MALMESBURY picked up their third win in four games with an impressive away triumph in Oxfordshire. read more

• Check up on blanket safety

  Spring may be in the air but the evenings are still chilly, and many people are still using electric blankets. read more

• Join our happy band

  Ref. 29964-03SHIRLEY MATHIAS discovers how retirement can be a time to learn fresh skills and make new friends read more

• Welcome for abbey vicar

  Ref: 12832/2THE Reverend Neill Archer was installed as the new vicar of Malmesbury Abbey on Tuesday night. read more

• Rider's safety alert after girl's accident

  GAZETTE & HERALD: Mother Sarah Campbell has called for drivers to show more consideration to horse riders using local roads after her daughter was knocked off her horse only a year after she suffered a similar accident herself. read more

• May ball backs Prince's Trust

  GAZETTE & HERALD: PLANS are under way for a glitzy fund-raising May Ball in aid of The Prince's Trust, being held in the ballroom at Hartham Park. read more

• Home Goal

  TOMMY MOONEY wants to stay at the County Ground and admits he would be 'very disappointed' if he found himself anywhere else for the 2004-5 campaign. read more

• Shop thieves evade pursuer

  GAZETTE & HERALD: THIEVES who walked out of a clothing store in a set of new clothes managed to shake off a former employee who attempted to pursue them. read more

• Inquiry after boy hurt in hit and run

  GAZETTE & HERALD: POLICE are trying to trace a car involved in an accident, which left 13-year-old schoolboy Danny Stiles with serious internal injuries. read more

• Man took credit slips from bins to get cash

  GAZETTE & HERALD: FALKLANDS veteran Timothy Harker, who embezzled hundreds of pounds from people's credit cards, has been jailed for nine months. read more

• Journeying Jack is missed by the family

  GAZETTE & HERALD: A marauding moggie with a taste for travel has hit the high road again. read more

• BNP sets sights on Wiltshire

  The far-right British National Party has no chance of success in the upcoming Euro and local elections, North Wiltshire MP James Gray said this week. read more

• Youth exposed himself to nine-year-old on bus

  POLICE want to identify a young man who exposed himself on a bus in front of a nine-year-old girl. The three men were also abusive to the bus driver who felt so threatened that he defended himself with a screwdriver. read more

• Hospital plan spells worse care for town

  NORTH Wiltshire MP James Gray has strongly attacked proposals that spell the virtual shutdown of Malmesbury Hospital. read more

• Records book founder dies at 78

  Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, died aged 78, whilst playing tennis at his family home in Kington Langley. read more

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