Dennis and Joyce Rogers, of Redhouse, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary at the Angel Hotel in Wootton Bassett, where they held their reception. The couple, who attend St Bartholomew’s church where they were wed, are thrilled the Angel was re-opened
Watching and listening to these two supreme masters of the guitar is fascinating on several levels. The musical experience was stimulating and inspiring with John Williams on his classical guitar and John Etheridge on steel stringed and electric
Pupils at St Francis School in Pewsey raised nearly £600 for Red Nose Day on March 18 by dressing up on the theme of monsters and pirates. On the theme of helping other children, pupils were told at a special assembly about Kibera, a slum in Kenya
A Grist Group employee who looted items from a crashed car that was brought into the firm’s Devizes depot has been given a conditional discharge. Gary Jefferies, 46, of Shepton Mallett, appeared before magistrates in Salisbury last Thursday to plead
Adie Mings thinks that his side didn’t deserve to come away with nothing from Saturday’s trip to Stourbridge. After a largely even encounter, the hosts scored in the 89th minute to effectively end the Bluebirds’ slim hopes of making the play-offs
Pupils at Stanton St Quintin Primary School were flashing their whitest smiles last week when they were awarded the Happy Teeth Award. Reception and Year 1 pupils have spent the last two months working towards the Wiltshire Oral Health award. Teacher
The Tytherton Fun Ride, which is now in its 25th year, is being held on Sunday April 10, starting from Field Farm, Bremhill. The ride opens at 10am, and the last horse to go will be at 2pm. There are two rides, one of six miles and the other 12 miles
Everything from street parties to themed events are to be staged across Wiltshire by people who want to celebrate the royal wedding in style on April 29. Patriotic Chippenham will flock to the Market Place for a party organised by the Tourist
Businesses are being encouraged to become friends of what is described as one of Devizes’ most friendliest clubs, Sidmouth Club in Devizes. Mayor Pete Smith is supporting the campaign by by independent Wiltshire charity Alzheimer’s Support.
New speed bumps and a zebra crossing in Webbington Road in Chippenham have been welcomed after six years of campaigning. Town councillors Bill Douglas and Mark Packard have been fighting for the road improvements, to make the road safer for children
Footballing dads Leigh McCarron and Robbie White will be showing their sporting prowess on April 17 when they take part in the London Marathon. Mr McCarron, 36, and Robbie White, 39, who run a Chippenham U8s football team, thought their hopes of taking
After a nine-year-campaign by parish councillor Noel Maskell, work has started on a safe footpath for people living in Upavon’s Riverside Park which avoids the busy A345 Pewsey-Salisbury Road. Coun Maskell himself lives at Riverside, a park home estate
People of all ages who have thought about taking up tennis but have not quite got around to it have the chance of a free taster session at the Devizes Sports Club, in London Road, on April 9. Children of all ages will be welcome by Devizes Tennis Club
A woodland walk where generations of bereaved people will be able to reflect quietly on their loved ones has been planted in a disused part of Devizes Cemetery. Devizes town council worked with the Woodland Trust and the Royal Horticultural Society to
Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is calling on people to help them out with an unusual project – counting Calne’s butterflies. Volunteers are needed at Morgan’s Hill nature reserve, where projects have been carried out in recent years to expand the land available
The National Trust has organised a summer of events at Avebury to celebrate the 25th anniversary of it becoming a World Heritage Site. Visitors can attend a number of Time Travellers’ workshops, which sketch the history of the area from the early Neolithic
Devizes' CCTV system will continue to operate at least until September after a last-minute bail-out by Wiltshire Council. But after that Devizes Development Partnership will have to find other sources of revenue to keep the cameras running. Although
Police are hoping thieves who made off with bottles of Champagne will have nothing to celebrate if they can be caught, with the help of the public. Two bottles of Champagne, valued at £64, were stolen from the Co-op in Corsham’s Martingate Centre on
A team of RAF Police officers, based at Lyneham, completed a 37-mile march for charity, along with their trusty working dogs. They raised £14,000 and their task was all the more impressive as they did the whole hike wearing 20kg rucksacks and
Drugs courier Denzil Stewart has been warned he faces jail after being caught with cocaine while on a suspended sentence. The 36-year-old, of Waters Edge, Chippenham, was caught with the drugs in May last year. Stewart said he had been to London to
To Paulette Gilbert’s family she is the best mum in Wiltshire, if not the world. But now it is official. Mrs Gilbert, 62, from Hillworth Road, Devizes, is Wiltshire’s Best Mum in a poll organised by the Gazette & Herald. Mrs Gilbert
Villagers from Axford who are trying to prevent Sarsen Housing building five homes on land in the centre of the village claim Wiltshire planners will be going back on their own highway safety regulations if they give the scheme the go-ahead tonight.
Bromham Football Club has been granted planning permission to retain nine floodlights. The club was refused permission by Wiltshire Council last year to keep 11 floodlights because of light pollution to neighbouring residents. It submitted a revised
A ten-day festival of music, theatre, art, discussion and prayer will fill Malmesbury Abbey next month. The church’s Holy Week Festival will feature a concert by rising singer songwriter Luke Leighfield, nationally acclaimed theatre group Riding Lights
Roadworks have been blamed for spoiling a parade of 400 Volkswagens through Wootton Bassett. An estimated 700 VWs, or v-dubbers, took part in Dub Aid, a weekend festival which raised over £6,000 for Help for Heroes and other charities. But the organisers
Pupils at St Mary’s School, in Calne, have presented cheques to Wiltshire Air Ambulance and Wiltshire Mind worth a total of almost £1,500. The students raised £820 for the Air Ambulance which was their charity of the year. They also raised £650 for
Bandsman Lester Murphy had such a great time travelling across frozen lakes in the Arctic with TV’s daring Ice Road Truckers that he wants to go back – and take his wife Lin with him. The 50-year-old former lorry driver from Ramsbury has just
Staff and customers at Escape Salon in Calne have raised £3,000 for Wiltshire Air Ambulance in memory of the son of their boss. George Forester, 17, was killed in a car crash at Rowde on New Year’s Eve, along with Frankie Bowyer, 16, and Jamie
