Wiltshire's roads shuddered with the roar of 10,000 bikes today as bikers from all over the country rode into Wootton Bassett to raise money for the charity Afghan Heroes. Policeestimated 15,000 bikers on 10,000 gleaming mahcines of all shapes
Publican Nigel Miller is hoping to create a boules league in Malmesbury to match the interest in the game at neighbouring village Sherston. Mr Miller has an underused eight lane boules piste with floodlighting at his pub, the Red Bull Inn on Bristol
A group who give up their spare time to train to go and search for anyone lost in the countryside had its new command and control vehicle officially launched by Assistant Chief Cons-table Patrick Geenty. The launch took place on Sunday in
The Castle Combe Circuit near Chippen-ham has been chosen as the venue for the country’s first ever women’s half mara-thon next month. The circuit will host the Better Half event – a 13.1-mile run in aid of two cancer charities – on Sunday, April 18,
Youngsters in Chippenham will be kept warm and off the streets when a new youth café opens on Saturday. Held in St Catherine’s Room, next to St Andrew’s Church in the Market Place, the café aims to provide a relaxed atmosphere for young people to hang
A group of Second World War military re-enactors have raised more than £2,800 for Help for Heroes and the Wiltshire Air Ambulance from a six-mile sponsored march in full uniform. Members of the Screaming Eagles Living History Group together with members
Town councillors in Marlborough are supporting plans for links with Marlborough in New Zealand following a visit to the town by Jeff Sewell, who runs a guest house there. Mr Sewell has just returned home after spending a couple of weeks in
Watch designer Simon Benney, who lives near Burbage, is training for one of the world’s toughest races to raise money for medics who looked after his son following a road accident. Mr Benney, who is one of the country’s top silversmiths with
Children at Burbage Primary School have been encouraging their parents to swap their usual brands of products for the Fairtrade equivalent to help producers in poorer overseas countries get a better standard of living. Children in Year 6, led by teacher
Delighted staff and parents of children at Cheverell Old School Nursery are celebrating an outstanding Ofsted report. The nursery in Great Cheverell achieved an outstanding grade in all 17 categories measured. Rhona Welham, the headteacher
A family's plans to convert a crumbling Grade II listed chapel in Seend Cleeve into a four bedroom home have been scuppered by the refusal of planning permission. Councillors on Wiltshire Council’s eastern area planning committee were split about the
Residents in Calne are urging people to join them in clearing the green lung of the town centre. At the end of last year, the environmental theme group of the Calne Community Area Partnership was awarded nearly £1,000 towards a community clean-up day
If there is anything you need to know about the history, architecture and archaeology of Devizes, there is now a website that will tell you everything. Retired teacher Alan Carter has spent the last seven months creating Devizes Heritage, a comprehensive
