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• Pub's closure brings misery

  AFTER experiencing one of the "most miserable and unhappiest Christmas and New Year periods for more than 200 years", villagers in Fovant are pressing for their one and only pub to reopen. read more

• Revival gathers steam as Whites stun the leaders

  SALISBURY City caused one of the upsets of the season when they humbled runaway Ryman Premier Division leaders Yeading on Saturday. read more

• Achtung! One of our councillors is missing

  A SALISBURY district councillor has been condemned by his constituents after he moved to Germany but didn't give up his seat. read more

• School plans for uniform anger parent

  PROPOSED changes to the uniform at the Stonehenge School have been labelled undemocratic and expensive by an Amesbury parent. read more

• School celebrates national ICT award

  UPPER Avon School, at Durrington, has become the first secondary school in Wiltshire to receive the nationally recognised Naacemark award. read more

• TiC forced to close by yobs

  YOBS hanging around Amesbury tourist information centre are intimidating staff and disrupting their work. read more

• Figheldean Fairies reach for the stars

  TWO local teams of youngsters swept the board at the Young Eagles skydiving competition at Netheravon. read more

• Ladies celebrate 21 years of holy dusting

  ALL the best houses have ladies who come in and do the cleaning - and the house of the Lord is apparently no exception. read more

• Out and about in a tourist's paradise

  Avebury's stone circles lie within half an hour's drive of MarlboroughVISITORS basing themselves in Marlborough and Pewsey find themselves surrounded by so much history and so many places to visit that it's hard to know where to start. read more

• Help them out

  ONCE again you have reported about gangs of youths making life hell for traders and residents. read more

• Hard working

  IT appears that many elderly people do not claim for help with their council tax. I have today asked whether I am entitled to any help with that. read more

• Dangerous?

  A QUARTER of all seven to ten year olds now own a mobile phone (Evening Advertiser Too much too young, January 20). read more

• Can I come to sing for you?

  A LETTER sent by world famous singer Paul Simon appealing for work from a Swindon folk club has surfaced. read more

• It's time to think clean

  GREAT Western Hospital has welcomed a new 10-point code asking all NHS patients to provide their own soap and toiletries as it will help fight infection. read more

• I feel like a real star in Mel's dress

  75772-170TSUNAMI ACTION: A SWINDON woman was delighted to discover she fitted into Melinda Messenger's dress after a friend bid for it in the Evening Advertiser's tsunami auction, which ended on Friday. read more

• Tasty way to help funds for victims

  75778-55TSUNAMI ACTION: OWNERS of Indian restaurants in Swindon joined forces to cook up funds for the tsunami disaster appeal. read more

• 'Don't close our school'

  75750-13PARENTS whose children attend a pre-school which is threatened with closure are devastated by the news. Westlea Pre-School could close by 2007, if a proposal to shut Westlea Primary School goes ahead. read more

• Danger fear over mopeds

  A SENIOR police officer fears it is just a matter of time before another pedestrian is badly injured by a stolen moped. read more

• College stages muscial mayhem

  75778-32BUGSY Malone and his mob of pint-sized gangsters are to wreak havoc in Dorcan. Young actors will be transforming Dorcan Technology College into 1920s New York, where a turf war rages between rivals Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. read more

• Anger voiced

  MIKE Squires tells us how railways have changed but missed some of the worst examples (EA Letters, January 21). read more

On this day: Wiltshire Archive