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• Crisis talks to discuss closure

  THE 75th anniversary of Westbury Hospital will be marked not with a celebration but a meeting to discuss its imminent closure. read more

• Sandy Balls judged best place to work

  SANDY Balls Holiday Centre, near Fordingbridge, is celebrating winning another top award. The Godshill business, which has 180 employees, has scooped the Best Place to Work award in the Hampshire Life and Wave 105 Business Awards 2005. read more

• Dorset awards

  JUDGING is about to begin for the Dorset Business Awards, which recognise the outstanding skills, achievements and innovations of Dorset's successful businesses. read more

• ACA changes

  CHARTERED accountants in the south are being given the chance to have their say on the future of the professional body's ACA qualification. read more

• Payroll training

  TRAINING company Partners in Training is introducing the International Association of Bookkeeping's computerised payroll level 3 to its range of courses. read more

• Franchise show

  VERWOOD company Spirit Control is exhibiting at the National Franchise Exhibition on October 7 and 8 at the NEC in Birmingham. read more

• Customer care

  SALISBURY City Centre Management and Salisbury Tourism Partnership are joining with the Institute of Customer Service to celebrate National Customer Service Week, beginning on October 3. read more

• Camera courses for digitally challenged

  FOR anyone who has bought a digital camera and doesn't know how to use it, help is at hand. The Wessex Digital Photography Centre has been set up in a converted barn on the Fonthill estate, in Berwick St Leonard, by Peter Booth. read more

• MODEL OF THE YEAR

  THE Wiltshire Times has teamed up with The Shires shopping centre to help put one young man or woman on the road to success in the modelling world. read more

• WESSEX IN BUSINESS

  Wessex in Business is a new-look monthly business supplement from the people that brought you Chamber Pot. read more

• Ex-pupils relive school days

  Pupils show their predecessors around and right, brother and sister Hugh Sawyer and Gill Cook recall their school days during the 1950s (30980/1/2)CHIPPENHAM NEWS: A 96-YEAR-OLD woman who started school at the beginning of the First World War was among former primary pupils who took a trip down memory lane on Friday. read more

• Cricketer joins staff to focus on teamwork

  Wiltshire cricketer Jason Searle with staff at Lloyds TSB (17663)CHIPPENHAM NEWS: WILTSHIRE County cricketer Jason Searle helped staff at a Chippenham bank bowl over customers with their attention to service. read more

• Hameur time

  IFFY Onuora has restored the French connection at the County Ground although the manager is prepared to consider a temporary 'au revoir' for Jamie Cureton and Tony Thorpe in order to trigger the Fallon effect in the two strikers. read more

• Drains stop play

  Trevor Rawlings and his four-year-old son Aiden at the gates to Stanley Park, which has been closed due to drainage problems (17668/4)CHIPPENHAM NEWS: DISAPPOINTED footballers were forced to stay away from a £2m sports complex after sections of the pitches began to collapse just a year after they opened. read more

• 'Conned' couple appear on Watchdog

  Samuel and Melody Barker with some of the correspondence from Cavendish Black (17636/4)CHIPPENHAM NEWS: A WINDOW cleaner who claims he was conned by a magazine company ad scam has appeared on TV show Watchdog. read more

• The transport of the future?

  Stephen Adams with one of his monorail models (30993/3)CHIPPENHAM NEWS: MONORAIL tracks would circle the skies above north Wiltshire if the dream of a train fanatic comes true. read more

• Anger as thieves steal beloved bike

  Sean Kirk has had motorbikes and tools stolen from his garage (30994/1)CHIPPENHAM NEWS: THIEVES have swiped a motocross racer's beloved bike in a £20,000 garage raid, as well as a shirt given to him by his biking idol for his 18th birthday. read more

• Officer to help out with cadets group

  WESTBURY'S air training cadets have had a reprieve after fears the group would have to fold when the commanding officer resigned. read more

• Arsonist's jail term is halved

  AN ARSONIST who dropped a burning cigarette through a footballer's door had his sentence halved on Wednesday at the Appeal Court in London. read more

• Tenant wins £830 pay out

  WEST Wiltshire Housing Society had to fork out £830 to a motorist over a car-parking blunder. Desmond Osborne, 39, of Brecon Close, Melksham, took the society to court after they removed and damaged his car, which was parked outside his rented garage. read more

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