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Wiltshire News

• Bugs are having a ball

  INSECT enthusiast Ian Batten has managed to turn his passion for bugs into a hugely successful business. read more

• ‘It’s our lottery win’

  SIX new electric wheechairs will be given to people suffering from motor neurone disease - thanks to a donation by the Gazette's parent company. read more

• That winning feeling

  SIX months after being paralysed in a motocross accident, Martin Witt is a sporting winner. read more

• Drivers pay tribute to race track doctor

  MOTOR racing fans held a minute's silence on Monday in memory of Castle Combe's distinguished medical officer Peter Baskett. read more

• Prison 'like third world'

  CONDITIONS in some parts of Erlestoke Prison, near Devizes, are more third world than modern Britain, according to an independent report published this week. read more

• Bus driver is jailed

  A school bus driver who sexually assaulted two 15-year-olds after telling them he could help them get into the world of modelling has been jailed. read more

• Projects in line for Euro cash grants

  COMMUNITY projects in Devizes could be in line for European funding when the successor to the hugely successful Sustain the Plain comes in next year. read more

• Sexual health organisation offers new text and email service

  A SEXUAL health organisation is hoping its new text and email service will help reduce the numbers of sexually transmitted infections among young people. read more

• Hammer attack teen in drugs case

  A TEENAGER who helped plan the attack on Ridgeway schoolboy Henry Webster turned to drugs to ease his stress about the resulting trial, a court has heard. read more

• Justice for siblings urged on inheritance tax

  The Government today faced calls to reform the inheritance tax law to exempt cohabiting siblings. read more

On this day: Gazette Football | Swindon News | Chippenham News | Devizes News | Malmesbury News | Marlborough News | Calne News | Gazette Chippenham Town FC | Wiltshire News | Letters | Gazette Obituaries | Woottonbassett News | youthminorleague news | Gazette Sport Adie Mings Column | Stand Point Column | Robbo's Column | Cricket News | Motorsport latest news | Ray Burroughs' Racing Column | This summer at Bowood | In a spin | Badminton Horse Trials | An Editor's View Blog