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  • Train causes the strain

    We have a new blogger climbing aboard at the end of the week when Elizabeth Knights-Ward begins a daily diary of her commute to work. Not that exciting a subject you might think, but she commutes from Pewsey to Paddington every day and subsequently has

  • No legal action over sports centres

    Wiltshire County Council will not take back the White Horse Leisure Centre in Calne or Lime Kiln Leisure Centre at Wootton Bassett. The county's decision making body, the Cabinet, agreed today that the county council would not take on the leisure centres

  • Day centres to close

    Almost half of adults with learning disabilities who receive day support services from Wiltshire County Council will see their package of care change. Of the 181 users of adult social care so far assessed by the county council 57 per are the most severely

  • Mings tells players to stay focused

    CHIPPENHAM Town caretaker manager Adie Mings says the players will only be affected by the changes at the club if they chose to be - and continued to rule himself out of the full time job. It is thought the former Bluebirds striker will be offered

  • Boomerang number changed

    Users of a popular shared taxi service in the Wootton Bassett area will have to ring a new phone number to book their trips from Monday. The Bassett Boomerang is managed by Wiltshire County Council and gives people living in the Wootton Bassett area

  • Village plan updated

    The Pewsey Community Area Plan is currently being revised by the Pewsey Community Area Planning Partnership. The Community Plan sets out priorities for action to improve the quality of life in the Pewsey Community Area. It has been written with the

  • Perrin will not comment

    CHIPPENHAM Town manager Darren Perrin has refused to comment after being suspended by the club's board last week. Perrin was suspended on Thursday and his fate is to be decided at a board meeting tomorrow afternoon, where it is widely expected he will

  • Have a heart

    Whether you're cosily coupled up or a sassy singleton the British Heart Foundation is urging people in Wiltshire to get involved with its 2007 Valentine Appeal to make February 14 a date to remember for heart patients across the UK. The BHF urgently

  • Tycoon says his village will boost town

    Businessman Eddy Shah's dream of a holiday village at the Wiltshire Golf and Country Club is now becoming a reality. The former newspaper tycoon runs the club, just south of Wootton Bassett, with his wife Jennifer. Mr Shah received permission to build

  • See Bedwyn school in focus

    The Gazette's school spotlight this week falls on Gt Bedwyn village school near Marlborough. You can see a glimpse of many aspects of school life in two pages of pictures if you buy this week's Gazette out on Thursday, February 25. Pictures will be

  • Good work goes up in smoke

    The former Kennet and North Wiltshire Primary Care Trust was in the bottom half of trusts for the work it did tackling the problem of smoking. While 94 per cent of PCTs in the South West received either an excellent or good rating from the Healthcare