WILTSHIRE riders Andrew Nicholson and Laura Collett both moved into contention in the top class on day two of the Barbury Horse Trials today. Marlborough-based New Zealander Nicholson and Avebury, the horse on which he won last year's event, were
Police visited Malmesbury School last week to educate youngsters on the risks of alcohol and drug abuse. PC Steve Harvey spoke to Year 8 students on Monday and Tuesday last week, building on the work they have been doing in science and ilearn lessons
Police were called to a pub in Malmesbury on Saturday after a man was reported to be carrying a knife. Staff at The King’s Arms, High Street, alerted police at 11.30pm after a man was apparently seen at the bar with a builder’s knife. Sergeant
ANDY Beal (Salisbury and South Wilts) ended on three over par to win the 33rd Hills Wiltshire Professionals Golf Championship for the fourth time in the last 22 years at Marlborough GC yesterday. The 36-hole event saw 17 professionals teeing off
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is launching a new telephone reminder service to help patients who may have forgotten their appointment and make it easier to cancel or rearrange. From August, all patients with an outpatient appointment
CHIPPENHAM TOWN will be away from home in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup after the draws were released today. Nathan Rudge's men will take on Yate Town, Cowes Sports or Fawley on Saturday, September 14, while Frome Town will be at home
Horse-drawn carts, military vehicles and a range of vintage cars were all used to transport students from The Corsham School to their prom in style last Wednesday. Year 11 students from the Tynings school held their annual end-of-year celebration
Fire engines, a JCB and even a wheelie bin were some of the novel forms of transport Hardenhuish students used to get to their prom night. Their end of Year 11 celebration was held at Grittleton House on Thursday evening last week. The umbrellas
Staff and students at Malmesbury School took to the dance floor as part of their farewell celebrations held at Cricklade House Hotel on Friday. More than 100 students attended what was to be a mixed evening of emotion and merriment as they came
Abbeyfield School’s year 11s dressed to the nines to say goodbye after five years of classes together. Just over 100 Chippenham students got together for the last time as a year group on Friday for their prom night at Manor House Golf Club, Castle
Primary schools from across the Pewsey Vale were buzzing with ideas when they were given the challenge of creating a wheelbarrow garden with a bee theme. Woodborough Garden Centre invited schools from Marlborough, Pewsey and Devizes to enter the
The Environment Agency is appealing to the public for information about a pesticide that has polluted the River Kennet between Marlborough and Hungerford. Environment Agency officers have been investigating the source of the pollution, believed
CARNIVALESQUE excitement returns to Malmesbury this month with a packed programme of events planned up until September. Everything from professionally staged theatre shows and wine tasting, to a top UK bluegrass and folk act, a teddy bear show
Bus passenger Tina Cross has received an apology from Stagecoach after a driver failed to take action to stop four men drinking alcohol and swearing. Mrs Cross was returning home to Devizes from Trowbridge on the 1.35pm Number 49 service last Saturday
Around 80 people attended a meeting in Corsham when plans were presented for a 150-home development off the A4. Gladman Developments hosted the public consultation at the Corsham Community Centre last Thursday while residents opposed to the plans
CHIPPENHAM sprinter Elaine O’Neill returned to championship-winning form with two gold medals as last weekend’s Welsh Championships in Cardiff. On Saturday, the 23-year-old, who represented Wales in the 2012 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, was first
NOW that the Twenty20 competition is underway, we’re in to the most hectic part of the season – but it’s exactly what we’re used to. This week we’ve got a massive Twenty20 game down at Sussex tonight, then a championship game in Cardiff starting
WILTSHIRE golfer Matt Swales is hoping his first-ever professional tour win will be the first of many. The 24-year-old, who plays out of Cumberwell Park in Bradford on Avon, became a Jamega Tour champion for the first time last week after tasting
MORE than 300 competitors tackled the inaugural triathlon held in the grounds of Bowood House on Sunday. The EventsLogic-run triathlon saw competitors swim 750m in the estate’s lake before completing a 21km bike ride and 5km run around the grounds
A bull mastiff has been destroyed after a horrific attack on five-year-old Jordan Routledge in Chippenham. Jordan had to have plastic surgery on his face after the nine stone dog, three times the child’s body weight, bit into his cheek. The
Plans for more housing off London Road, Devizes, have been submitted to Wiltshire Council. Devizes firms Gaiger Brothers and Cross Manufacturing have applied for outline planning permission for 38 homes on land off Hambleton Avenue. The overgrown
The Environment Agency is investigating ‘serious’ pollution in Marlborough that campaigners fear could result in ecological disaster on the River Kennet. Conservation workers from Action for the River Kennet have been monitoring the river over
BOWOOD golfer Jordan Smith hopes winning the English Strokeplay Championship will boost his chances of a spot in the Great Britain & Ireland team for this year’s Walker Cup. The 20-year-old amateur star, who lives in Derry Hill, became a national
A grant of £33,000 from Viridor means building work for a new community corner at St Laurence Church, Hilmarton, can start seven years after planning for the project first began. The project, to cost an estimated £50,000, will provide the 12th-century
Mayor Pete Smith has come to the rescue after Devizes Carnival committee axed the baby show. Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts (DOCA), which runs the carnival, wrote to baby show organiser Jeanette Von Berg earlier this year to say it no longer
