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• Star of the show

  JETHRO Tull star Ian Anderson, will be opening a pets and petals day in Minety. read more

• Expect raucous night with Jo

  ONE of the country's most raucous comedians will be calling in on Swindon as part of her British tour. read more

• Councillors slam secret homes plan at school

  TOWN councillors in Marlborough have joined the storm over St John's School throwing in eleventh hour plans for 45 homes next to its proposed single-site school. read more

• Cycling bid to support Marie Curie charity

  RETIRED civil servant Jane Nicholson is setting out on another charity bike ride and will be cycling from London to Paris over the bank holiday weekend. read more

• Morris Minor racers suffer a major setback

  THE Morris Minor which very nearly got James Higgs and Damien Bottle to the end of a 8,000 mile charity car rally is now in the ownership of a villager in the Russian mountains. read more

• Sexy float all in good taste

  Ann Summers girls Becks Close, Dee Maslam, Leanne Middleton, Carla Boardman, Shelley Foster and Gemma Kington 17075/11THERE will not be a pair of naughty knickers or sex toy in sight when Ann Summers' party organisors strut their stuff on a float in the Devizes Carnival procession. read more

• Yellow lines to spread in rat run

  TOWN councillors in Marlborough have welcomed a proposal by Wiltshire County Council to extend the double yellow line no-parking areas in Frees Avenue. read more

• Human sewage proves a farm pong too strong

  THE putrid smell that hung in the air at the end of last week was due to composted human sewage being spread on fields in Rowde. read more

• Woman seriously hurt in crash

  The car which crashed through a hedge and turned over at Worton on Monday 17071/3A 45-YEAR-OLD Salisbury woman was airlifted to hospital with a suspected broken neck after the car in which she was a passenger came off the road and ended up upside down in a field. read more

• TIC could be moved into Corn Exchange

  DEVIZES Visitor Centre which opened in the Market Place seven years ago at a cost of £85,000, could be moving to the Corn Exchange. read more

• Attenborough to give lecture at Heritage Museum

  ACCLAIMED natural history broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is coming to Devizes to give a lecture in aid of Wiltshire Heritage Museum. read more

• Town is set for Image Festive

  SWINDON will be transformed for the town's second Imaging Festival. read more

• Party in park opens up carnival fun in style

  FAMILIES had fun in the sun as Devizes Carnival fortnight got off to a great start. On Sunday, Hillworth Park was thronging with people who went along to the carnival curtain raiser, Picnic in the Park. read more

• Winning community spirit

  Members of the Rowde community who have won the district round of the Calor competition (17084/04)ROWDE might not be able to compete with the picture postcard looks of some Wiltshire villages but when it comes to community spirit it is a winner. read more

• Man admits theft of meat

  A PENHILL man has confessed to stealing £40-worth of meat from the Co-op. read more

• Farm gets the taste of success

  VISITORS to Butts Farm Shop, South Cerney, can leave with a nice taste in the mouth. read more

• Water firm ignored leak that led to DJ's death

  Joseph Bryan with a photograph of his son TravisDISC jockey Travis Bryan died in a horrific car crash largely because Thames Water failed to repair a water leak, an inquest heard last Friday. read more

• Book club opens new chapter

  READING groups have been made popular by novels such as the Jane Austen Book Club and Richard and Judy and a Swindon group is celebrating its 50th meeting. read more

• Cancer agony made smallholder end his life

  SMALLHOLDER Jim Wicks took his own life when pain from cancer became too much for him to bear, an inquest heard on Tuesday. read more

• Walking down at Westonbirt

  NORTH Wiltshire's Alzheimer's Society is holding a sponsored walk on Sunday September 25 to raise awareness of the disease and similar dementia disorders. read more

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