A MULTI-MILLION pound golf course and 20 luxury holiday cottages in Oaksey have gone up for sale. Oaksey Park and the nine-hole golf club, set in 65.5 acres, has been put on the market with agents Strutt and Parker. The sale of the club and 20 holiday
THE mother of a 12-year-old girl hit by a car in Wood Lane, Chippenham, last week said her daughter is lucky to be alive. Abbeyfield student Jessica Brimble was with three friends when she was hit by the car, shattering the windscreen with her head and
LORD Lansdowne will tonight chair a public meeting as members of the campaign group Calne A4 – Say No More look to win public support for their bid to stop the Hills Group expansion at Lower Compton. The group, headed up by a number of town councillors
CALNE based artist Chris Dunn is celebrating after he scooped the £6,000 Bath Prize for his painting, Magpie. The Bath Prize is an annual competition in which artists are allocated a location in the city to paint, before a winner is selected. Entrants
AFTER months of delays, Wootton Bassett Rugby Club is on the move. The sale of the club’s site at Stoneover Lane is complete and contracts signed with property developers Taylor Wimpey. The money made from the sale of the land it co-owns with Wiltshire
SHOEBOXES full of presents and seasonal messages to underprivileged children throughout the world have begun to arrive at the offices of the Gazette & Herald. The newspaper is acting as a dropping-off point for boxes completed as part of Operation
Olympic champion Tessa Sanderson relived the moment of her golden throw when she visited Devizes to launch a new sports charity. Ms Sanderson told the audience in The Bear Hotel on Saturday she was delighted to help launch Bag4Sport Charity Foundation
MARLBOROUGH heralded its first Apple Day with a collection of Wiltshire varieties. Organiser Philippa Davenport said there were occasions when the hall and the adjacent St Mary’s Church, where some events took place, were both packed on Saturday
More than 150 people turned out on Tuesday for the funeral of popular Calne runner Ken Shaw, who died last month. Mr Shaw died aged 71 at Royal United Hospital, in Bath, on October 16 following a short illness. He was a familiar face around Calne and
Breast cancer survivors Nina Rack and Helen Fisher have joined scores of campaigners lobbying their MPs to fight for improved treatments and detection rates. The two friends, who are members of the Chippenham Breast Cancer Support Group, descended on
Vivienne Gregory, the Calne woman who has terrorised her neighbourhood for years, has finally been locked up after yet another breach of a court injunction – 19 days after a judge spared her jail. Gregory, 52, has been a constant nuisance to her neighbours
A community bank scheme was launched in Wiltshire today providing people with a range of useful financial services. Wiltshire Council working in partnership with The Wiltshire Credit Union, South Wiltshire Credit Union and West Wilshire Credit Union
The foundations of a part-built bungalow were ripped apart by a Calne builder on a digger in an apparent dispute over payment. Kevin Mayo, 48, of Chaveywell Court, Calne, was arrested by police after he and a group of about 20 friends, family and fellow
Family and friends have joined the search for missing Chippenham man Richard Maher, who has not been seen since Wednesday night. The 44-year-old had been out with friends in the town during the evening and was last seen leaving The Brunel pub
FORMER Swindon Robins boss Alun Rossiter has left the Coventry Bees after two years as team manager Rossiter, who was team boss at Swindon for six years before switching the Midlanders announced his departure following the takeover of the club by businessman
AN exhibition set up by Sainsbury’s, detailing the plans for a new store in Malmesbury, starts in the town hall today. The supermarket chain is one of two retail giants looking to open new stores in the town, with Waitrose having already shown its plans
Electricity engineers have been asked to investigate why dozens of street lights in Pewsey, in an area where a lot of elderly people live, have been out of action for weeks. Wiltshire Council is responsible for street lighting but it said that as a
