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  • Accident near Morrisons causes traffic delays in Devizes

    A pensioner in a wheelchair was involved in a collision with a car outside Morrisons supermarket in Devizes this evening. Police received a call alerting them to an incident in Estcourt Street at 4.37pm involving a car and an elderly lady, believed

  • Cousin of Desert Orchid found starving in Wiltshire field

    A neglected horse believed to be the cousin of champion racehorse Desert Orchid is looking for a new home - after gaining more than 160 kg. Cressida was discovered starving and emaciated along with three other horses in a field near Salisbury.

  • King Alfred will take to Pewsey's streets for summer solstice

    King Alfred will walk the streets of Pewsey between 10.30am and 1pm on Friday to mark the summer solstice and celebrate the centenary of his statue being put in place in the village Market Place. Pewsey Music Festival commissioned the "living statue

  • Toots and the Maytals pull out of WOMAD festival

    Toots and the Maytals are to miss the WOMAD festival after Toots Hibbert suffered a head injury at the River Rock Festival in Virginia last month. Toots, who was hit by a bottle during the event, is still undergoing treatment and his doctors advised

  • Chudley Trial: Killer had a longstanding interest in shooting

    Michael Chudley had long been a keen shot, enjoying particularly clay pigeon shooting, visiting the Urchfont clay shooting club with his former girlfriend Carol Smith. He owned two expensive shotguns, valued at £7,000, which had to be sold after

  • Chudley trial: Builder guilty of murder

    Builder Michael Chudley has been found guilty on all counts by a jury at Salisbury Crown Court. After deliberations lasting little more than two hours, the jury rejected Chudley's manslaughter plea on grounds of diminished responsibility. They

  • MOTOR RACING: Will power at Combe

    CORSHAM’S Will Di Claudio took a fine pair of wins in his his Peugeot 106 Gti at the Castle Combe circuit’s Saloon Car championship race at the Wessex Chambers race weekend, writes JOHN MOON. The reigning champion and current championship leader

  • Chudley trial: Jury sent out

    The jury in the trial of Michael Chudley, who is charged with the murder of Devizes solicitor Jim Ward, has been sent out to consider its verdict. Judge Mr Justice David Bean spent the morning reviewing the evidence that the jury has heard over the

  • EQUESTRIAN: Nicholson reigns at Luhmuhlen

    MARLBOROUGH-BASED New Zealand international Andrew Nicholson claimed his fourth four-star title in just 10 months as he clinched victory at the Luhmuhlen Horse Trials in Germany at the weekend. Nicholson, already with CCI**** successes at Kentucky

  • Three cleared of false imprisonment charges

    Three men who were to face trial accused of false imprisonment have had the charges against them dropped. Richard Clarke, 62, Christopher Wilson, 24, and Christopher Williams, 21, were due to appear before a jury later this month. But after

  • WADWORTH 6X WEST OF ENGLAND PREMIER LEAGUE CRICKET RESULTS

    Premier One: Ashcott & Shapwick 191 18, Keynsham 154 7; Bath 135 5, Frocester 216-9 19; Bridgwater 186 20, Corsham 94 5; Bristol (5) v Downend (5) - match cancelled; Ilminster 137 6, Taunton St Andrews 188 18. Premier Two: Chard 278-5 (Rob

  • Town criers make their voices heard in contest at Calne

    Twenty-one colourful contestants bellowed out their speeches at Calne’s fourth town crier’s competition on Sunday attracting several curious spectators. The contestants, undeterred by a wet start to the day, rang their bells and doffed their hats