Corsham High Street twinkled and shone as the town turned out in force to see its Christmas lights switched on. A festive market took over the town centre, with stalls decked out with gifts and treats, and fairground rides and attractions providing
SHELLEY Rudman claimed her second successive fourth-placed finish of this year's FIBT World Cup series in Utah today. Rudman, who finished just off the podium in the opening round in Calgary, Canada, last weekend, repeated the feat as home slide
A theatre group hit by regular flooding in Malmesbury needs £70,000 for a new flood-proof building and will launch a fundraising campaign at the town’s late-night shopping event next week. The Athelstan Players, who have been entertaining residents
Twenty-one youngsters from the Twynnoy Explorer Scouts will run a Christmas card delivery service in Malmesbury for the second year running to raise money for charity. The scouts, aged from 14 to 18, meet every other Thursday at St Mary’s Hall.
Family and friends celebrated Hilary Fortnam’s life at St Michael and All Angels in Highworth. About 300 people packed into the church to pay their respects and say one last goodbye to the mother-of-three and daughter of the Rev WV Awdry, the creator
Football fan Roy Webb, a well-known Devizes man, died on November 25 aged 72. Mr Webb was born in Sheep Street, Devizes, and moved to The Avenues with his family in the 1950s. He was one of seven boys and two girls, and leaves a sister and
Children at Sunny Days Preschool were fascinated to meet two war veterans who told them stories of their time in the forces and showed them artefacts last week. Veteran Andy Crocker, who was in the army at the time of the Northern Ireland conflict
Springboard Opportunity Group in Chippenham is the final good cause to receive £200 in our Sainsbury’s campaign. The store in Chippenham wanted to bring some Christmas support to five local charities by donating £200 to each of them. The money
A decade of hard work has paid off for landlord Leighton Davis with his Chippenham pub scooping the Gazette’s Pub of the Month award. The 40-year-old has owned the Gladstone Arms in Gladstone Road since 2004 and was ecstatic to pick up the accolade
Lord Cardigan appeared at Salisbury Magistrates court this morning charged with harassment. The 61-year-old, of Savernake Lodge on the Savernake Estate, appeared under the name of David Michael James Bruce. He is accused of displaying abusive
Councillors are asking people in Devizes what facilities they would like to see in a community campus. Wiltshire Council is behind the scheme, which aims to have a number of services, such as health clinics, internet access and community space
Police in Marlborough have launched Operation Dasher to target crime and anti-social behaviour associated with the festive period. During December, police will be working with partner agencies including: the fire service, promoting its Fire Stop
HEAD coach Danny Thomas remains confident that Chippenham can climb the National Three South West table after Christmas despite a rocky first half of the season. The Allington Field’s 37-15 home defeat by leaders Lydney last Saturday was their
Devizes youngster Morgan Denbury is whizzing about with a smile on his face again after receiving a new scooter to replace the one stolen from his garden in November. Morgan, six, was given a new scooter for his birthday at the end of October,
Eleven community projects are being awarded grants totalling nearly £327,000 in the second round of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s £1 million Innovation Fund. Forty-seven applications requesting grants totalling nearly £1.5 million were submitted
The Lions Club of Devizes is taking Father Christmas around the streets of Devizes to meet youngsters. He will visit on most evenings until December 20 from 5.30pm to 7.45pm. This is one of the club’s most important fund-raising collections of
Angus Macpherson, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire, found out more about a countywide scheme he has funded when he visited Devizes Boxing Club. The Wiltshire Police Outbox scheme received £22,200 from the Commissioner’s innovation
In September, I attended an event for Carer Support Wiltshire’s friends and supporters to hear about the free advice and assistance the charity provides to 8,000 unpaid carers across the county. The coalition government is introducing new measures
A Christmas Fayre organised by under-fives playgroup Derry Tots will offer shoppers looking for festive presents plenty of choice. The annual event will take place on Saturday from 2pm to 4.30pm at the Lansdowne Hall in Derry Hill. It will
The Point-To-Point Owners’ and Riders' Club (PPORC) meeting at Barbury Racecourse, near Marlborough, has developed a reputation as one of the most competitive meetings in the calendar – and that looks set to continue with a star-studded entry of 140
As the year draws to a close I find myself reflecting on changes locally and nationally. One big development is the reinforcement of Wiltshire’s position as the garrison county of Britain with Army changes that will see more activity, more investment
Was there not something deeply unattractive and worrying about the television scenes of people fighting with each other to lay hands on the best bargains during last week’s so-called ‘Black Friday?’ This is apparently an American-inspired effort to
DESPITE Town’s return to winning way last Saturday, it’s been the tug of war action in the boardroom that has made all the headlines. Just 286 days after completing a deal to takeover Swindon Town, Jed McCrory is leaving he club, to be replaced
Royal Wootton Bassett will light up tonight when the Christmas lights are switched on by Doc Martin TV star Felicity Montagu. The event will start at 6pm and visitors will be able to browse the High Street when it is opened for late-night shopping
DEVIZES are fourth in the table approaching the midway point of their maiden season in Netball South West’s Regional Division Three campaign after a closely-fought home victory over Old Chelts. In their penultimate outing before the mid-season
Support Adoption For Pets is celebrating after Pets at Home in Chippenham helped them raise £2,604. Throughout October, the Pets at Home store took part in Support Adoption For Pets’ autumn fundraising appeal, a nationwide charity drive to raise
Prices at the first Carter Jonas hay and straw sale of the winter season were down for at least one Wiltshire farmer. Bidders at the sale, at Newbury Rugby Club yesterday, were apparently reluctant to commit to hay and bedding straw because grass
Wiltshire's Local Resilience Forum is today working together to test its response in a major incident exercise with the Ministry of Defence at MoD Corsham. Agencies are working in conjunction with staff at the recently refurbished MOD site in Corsham
GYMNASTS from Chippenham Moonraker club ended their 2013 season with a bumper set of results over three hectic weekends of competition. Starting off the rollercoaster ride, club coach Jennie Christensen competed in the British Veterans’ Championships
People in Marlborough can have a say on how £2,225 of Tesco funding gets divided between five local charities. Friends of St Peter’s Junior School, Friends of St Mary’s, Kennet Community Transport, The Jubilee Centre and East Wilts Mencap were
MALMESBURY’S Joe Hughes will start as underdog for the first time in his pro career when he faces Mitch Prince at Swindon's Oasis Leisure Centre on Saturday night, writes DANNY HALL. But the former Senior ABA light welterweight champion hopes victory
Sharing the same bus journey has led to Bromham couple Peter and Betty Brown celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary. The couple met in 1942 when they travelled from Melksham, where they both lived, to work in Trowbridge. It took about 18
Police are warning of traffic delays following a two vehicle crash on the A3102 this morning. It happened near Compton Road at Hilmarton.
RUBBING shoulders with Paralympic heroes proved no distraction for youngster Lauren Booth as she smashed a world record at the Newport International Paracycling Cup event last weekend. The 12-year-old, from Chippenham, highlighted her credentials
Wadworth Brewery has asked for listed building consent to refurbish The Three Crowns pub in Maryport Street. The pub is grade II listed and the plans are to relocate the bar servery further back in the pub to stop bottlenecks forming at the front
Fears have been expressed by St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School and St Joseph’s Nursery over plans by neighbours Community First to sell their building for housing. Both the school and the nursery objected to Community First’s application to change
