Football: AFC Bell's 48-goal hot-shot Craig Townsend picked up the golden boot award at tonight's Chippenham Sunday League presentation night -then claimed he's not even a striker. The 27-year-old player/manager was the convincing winner of the Gazette
Chippenham Sunday League Awards: FC Bradford manager Pete Collier says his star midfielder Mark Robinson would walk into any Sunday team after he was named the league's player of the year tonight. The 20-year-old scooped the Gazette & Herald-sponsored
So after all the fuss, the protests and the near-the knuckle hatred, North Wiltshire District Council has decided it doesn't want to be the one to make a decision over where to put gypsy sites in the district. Instead, after stirring up a hornet's nest
Police have arrested seven people in connection with sex trafficking in Swindon and South Wales. At 3.53pm on Monday 23 June, 2008 an anonymous telephone call was made to Wiltshire Police by someone concerned for the welfare of a woman known only
DEVIZES Beer Festival will this year support the local charity Charlotte's Chance of Life. The charity was set up by Wendy Bryant after her granddaughter, Charlotte Wakeham, fell ill with a rare form of cancer. Even four years after Charlotte died at
PEOPLE power has won out in North Wiltshire as the district council looks set to reject all of the six proposed publicly owned sites in the county. In a draft report to the Executive committee, who will meet at the Olympiad Leisure Centre on July 3,
This year the National Health Service (NHS) celebrates its 60th anniversary. To mark this very special occasion local NHS trusts and services have planned a variety of events all over the country, in order to pay tribute to its staff and volunteers
SWINDON Town will take on Champions League opposition on their pre-season tour of Austria. Turkish giants Fenerbahce and Romanian outfit Steaua Bucharest will be Maurice Malpas' side's opposition in what is shaping up to be a tough pre-season campaign
More top class big bike racing is scheduled for the 2008 season at Castle Combe with the announcement that the Wiltshire circuit will be once again hosting the now traditional Castle Combe Superbike Grand National on the weekend of the 16th and 17th August
Going up was easy but one-year-old cat Freddy from Amesbury found climbing down much more of a problem. Balanced precariously on an electricity cable for about 18 hours, one false move and Freddy would either have fallen 25ft or been electrocuted.
Cricket: Ross Crick took a wicket with his first ball in Minor Counties cricket as Wiltshire bounced back from their opening defeat of the season with a maximum points draw against Oxfordshire. The three-day game held at Challow and Childrey cricket
CAMPAIGNERS against the proposed gypsy sites in the county will only have to wait until the end of today to see the report outlining where or if the plans will go ahead. The draft report to the Executive committee, who will meet on July 3, will recommend
The Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is launching a campaign to stop litter spoiling your enjoyment of the countryside. Take a photo of a grot spot using your mobile or a regular camera - and send it in to the Trust. The Trust will then attempt to highlight
OLDER people in Wiltshire are being invited to put their best foot forward and take advantage of a free slipper exchange next month on July 30. Following the success of two previous events, Wiltshire County Council has organised another event where
PROTESTERS angry about a circus that uses horses, ponies and one elephant are planning to hit the streets. Swindon members of Captive Animals Protective Society are thinking about staging the demonstration outside at least one of the Marlborough performances
... the dirty, filthy, low-life scum who did this really have no place on God's clean Earth.
YOUNG cricketers were unable to shower after their matches because vandals targeted their changing rooms. Windows on the pavilion of Wootton Bassett Cricket Club were smashed in on Saturday. Club officials cannot bring themselves to repair the damage
SUPERBUG Clostridium Difficile is killing increasing numbers of patients at Swindon's hospital every year. Figures showing the proportion of patients who died at the Great Western Hospital after contracting the disease, known as C-Diff, almost doubled
UP and coming band Beatbullyz have taken the step from rocking Long's Bar to national stardom. The soulful Swindon quartet were beamed into the homes of millions last night as they appeared, in cameo, on Channel 4's teen soap Hollyoaks. The group gathered
AS the anniversary of last summer's devastating floods approaches the victims have been promised tax aid. The Government has pledged to help those who have still not managed to return to their homes, almost 12 months on. The 28 families in Swindon who
BRITAIN'S favourite bear turns 50 this month and to celebrate he is visiting Swindon's Brunel Centre today. And as well as greeting shoppers, he will meet children from three of the town's schools, whose pupils will sing Happy Birthday to him. Paddington
According to recently declassified files from the National Archives, scientists at Porton Down had been looking into new non-lethal weapons for Northern Ireland since 1971. And after Bloody Sunday in 1972, officials were even more interested in ways
Security at British laboratories handling some of the world's most deadly diseases is being put at risk by poor maintenance and under-investment, MPs warned today. The committee singled out the "ageing" Health Protection Agency (HPA) laboratories
