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• Calne Town 3, Chard Town 0

  TOWN boss Kelvin Highmore has his sights set on knocking Radstock out of the title race by winning their top of the table clash on Tuedsay night. read more

• Players quit Melksham

  MELKSHAM Town have been hit by a walkout after captain Carl Halfield and striker Owen Bryan quit the club. read more

• Ashamed Devizes turn down their pay

  DEVIZES Town players were so ashamed of their performance in Saturday's 6-2 drubbing at home by bottom side Clyst Rover, they decided they did not deserve their wages. read more

• 'My boys were the very best'

  A painting of Hercules 179 which crashed in IraqGAZETTE & HERALD: "I COULDN'T put together a finer bunch of blokes. They were my most trusted and respected crew and will be almost impossible to replace." read more

• Get a taste of fair trade

  A FORTNIGHT of events promoting Fairtrade food is taking place in Kennet. Fairtrade goods will be on sale and free tastings available at various events. read more

• Council tax set to go up by5 per cent

  COUNCIL tax payers in the Kennet district face an increase in their bills of five per cent. Kennet District Council set its budget and council tax on Tuesday and it will come into force in April. read more

• Novice farmers get support for mobile

  KENNET district councillors have backed a couple undertaking their dream of running a stock farm at Great Cheverell, by granting planning permission for a mobile home. read more

• Small villages to lose their polling stations

  FEARS have been expressed that voters, particularly elderly people, living in rural areas may not vote in elections after a decision by Kennet District Council to remove a number of polling stations. read more

• Surveys of traffic speeds on the way

  GAZETTE & HERALD: MEMBERS of Calne Town Council are campaigning for safer roads following a number of accidents and near misses in the town. read more

• Biotech teams meet

  THE development of the south west's fast-growing biotech industry has been discussed at a meeting this week. read more

• Cochran festival boss is declared bankrupt

  GAZETTE & HERALD: The organiser of the 10th anniversary Eddie Cochran Festival John Knight has announced he was declared bankrupt last Thursday, with debts of about £91,000. read more

• Pupils put best foot forward for charity

  15426/1GAZETTE & HERALD: FOURTEEN young school friends pulled on their walking boots on Tuesday and embarked on a 28-mile trek to honour friends and family who had lost their battle with cancer. read more

• Big guns join fight to reopen train station

  GAZETTE & HERALD: Corsham Station campaigners have acquired a new ally in their long-running battle to have the railway station re-opened. read more

• Eddy will ensure town gets a clean sweep

  15400/1GAZETTE & HERALD: CORSHAM litter buster Eddy Lodge will have her hours extended so she can continue to keep the streets spick and span. read more

• Pool needs vital repairs

  76209-18SWIMMERS in Highworth will have to look elsewhere for a dip this summer. The pool is likely to remain closed as its concrete floor is cracking and in need of £60,000 of repairs. read more

• Little angel needs you

  In the second week of the Gazette's appeal for the Springboard Nursery Zoe Mills looks at the help it has given one little girl who could now lose her place read more

• Search is on for eyesore

  PEOPLE in North Wiltshire are being urged to nominate their most hated buildings for a new Channel Four show called Demolition. read more

• Course on art projects

  A COURSE to help community groups run arts projects is on offer from North Wiltshire District Council. read more

• Town gets notification of royal wedding

  JUST days before the announcement that the Queen is to stay away from the marriage ceremony of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles a notice appeared on the board at Chippenham Register Office to announce the wedding. read more

• Campaign brings new speed limits

  The Gazette and Herald's Slow It Down campaign, which set out to make a dangerous stretch of the A4 a safer place to drive, has proved a success but there is still more work to be done. read more

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