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Marlborough News

• Tycoon killed after his helicopter buzzed bay

  AN inquest heard how dating agency tycoon Christopher Matthews died when his helicopter plunged into a lake in America after appearing to hit power lines. read more

• We must learn to live together says UN chief

  ONE of the most powerful men in world politics, the United Nations' new deputy secretary-general Mark Malloch-Brown, gave the Lent Lecture in Marlborough on Thursday. read more

• Sculpture show returns to farm

  SCHOOLS and community groups are to be given the chance of trying sculpture for themselves under the tutelage of some of the West's top artists. read more

• Villagers fight off plans to ‘swamp’ their hamlet

  COUNCILLORS have unanimously turned down plans for a housing development which would have doubled the size of a tiny canalside village. read more

• Memorial seat for pub garden

  FRIENDS of the late Denis Twine of Lockeridge who died in January are to put on a show to raise money to buy a seat in his memory. read more

• Cat owner seeks news of missing Moushka

  GRANDMOTHER Kate Leighfield is desperate for news of her Persian cat Moushka which ran off from her home in Marlborough on March 1. read more

• Business off to an early start

  DESPITE an early morning start, a business networking breakfast held by the Marlborough Area Development Trust was a great success. read more

• Couple lose the battle to have court case dropped

  KENNET has been given the go-ahead by magistrates to prosecute Axford couple Hamish and Susan Watson for alleged unauthorised alterations to their 16th century listed home. read more

• Police gadget helps pubs flush out drug users

  DRUG users only have to touch a flush handle in a pub lavatory or put their hands on the bar for minute traces to be picked up by a piece of gadgetry Wiltshire police took to Marlborough on Monday. read more

• Foxes and badgers blamed for sheep death

  FARMER John Burrows says that, for the first time in 25 years farming, he has had a number of lambs taken by foxes or badgers. read more

• Buck passing claim on cuts to off-peak trains

  ABOUT 100 people attended a meeting in Great Bedwyn on Sunday to continue the protest at proposed timetable cuts at the village's popular rail station. read more

• Pedigree mum’s top dog

  JUST four years after falling in love with a breed of dog she had never heard of before, Sarajane Rutherford has scooped a top Crufts award. read more

• College under fire for land clearance

  NEIGHBOURS are divided over the way Marlborough College has cleared an area of scrub and trees behind their homes on the Barton Park estate. read more

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