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• New office block is on the horizon

  As work progresses to demolish the old Tesco site in Trowbridge, just a few hundred yards away a massive steel framework is under construction, marking the start of redevelopment on County Way. read more

• Man admits cruelty to five-year-old

  DEPRESSION led Terence Heather to throw a five-year-old girl across a room in a fit of rage. read more

• Balloons fly for charity

  BALLOONS were released on Saturday in memory of stillborn and neonatal children. The launch was organised by Ann Lennon, of Bramble Drive, Westbury, whose baby son died five years ago. read more

• Movies and WI benefit from Co-op dividends

  TWO community groups are to benefit from cash donated by supermarket shoppers. Awards of £500 have been given to Bratton WI and the Westbury Area Cinema Club by the Co-op's Community Dividend Fund. read more

• Fly-tippers face £50,000 fine

  CHIPPENHAM NEWS: NEW laws have been brought in that could lead to fines of up to £50,000 for fly-tippers who dump rubbish illegally. read more

• Home sickness for Town

  TOWN fans will have to wait until the start of the new League One season in August to see their team play at the County Ground after the club failed to secure a home pre-season friendly this summer. read more

• Swindon have to ring changes

  SWINDON, top of Glos/Wilts One having won their first four games comprehensively, face a challenging weekend. read more

• Disabled man wins fight to travel by train

  Graham CoeCHIPPENHAM NEWS: TRIPLE stroke victim Graham Coe is celebrating after a ban which prevented him travelling by train was lifted. read more

• Bowls club's green dream

  Club director and coach John Brand, left, MP James Gray and Chippenham mayor John Scragg (30564/2)CHIPPENHAM NEWS: A £110,000 bowls green has opened at a club in Chippenham. The outdoor green at North Wilts Bowls, Westcroft, Chippenham, was officially opened by town mayor John Scragg on Monday. read more

• 'We are responsible for change'

  Justin and Rhian Temblett-Wood with daughters Lottie, left, and Lucy (30569/3)CHIPPENHAM NEWS: A FATHER-of-two is encouraging people from north Wiltshire to join him in a protest to encourage eight world leaders to change the lives of people in Africa. read more

• Celebrating 50 years behind the lens

  John Gaisford has taken photographs at Castle Combe circuit for half a century (17107/1)CHIPPENHAM NEWS: ONE of the country's most experienced racing photographers is celebrating half a century behind the lens. read more

• Downpours fail to mar fun at fete

  Volunteers Brenda Jones, Peggy Pearce, Dot Whitehead and Sandra Eden help raise funds (17143)VISITORS to Westbury Hospital fete braved the weather at the weekend to raise nearly £2,000. read more

• Youth jailed for street attack

  A WESTBURY teenager has been jailed for carrying out an early morning street robbery, after he punched his victim as he lay on the ground. read more

• Community rocked by death of sportsman

  John FordTHE loss of a popular sportsman and taxi driver, who died in a road accident last week, has touched many people. read more

• Advice for west Wiltshire carers

  LIBRARIES in west Wiltshire are to host a series of displays to mark National Carers' Week, which takes place from June 13-19. read more

• Firm aiming to lick Royal Mail

  A POST company is using Swin-don in the vanguard of its attack on Royal Mail. read more

• Mum gets teams kitted up

  A footballer's mum has started a business after hours of watching from the touchline. read more

• Breakfast on menu

  THE Swindon branch of the Federation of Small Businesses has a programme of breakfast meetings. read more

• Pizza ace delivers

  SWINDON franchisee Siggy Wilberg, has been named a Domino's Pizza Legend at an annual awards ceremony. Siggy was praised for 20 years of outstanding contribution to Domino's. read more

• Farmers fear spread of disease in cattle

  Trevor Guley with some of his Holstein Fresian herd (30568/1)FARMERS in Wiltshire could be facing another year of misery as disease threatens their cattle again. read more

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