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  • Win tickets to watch Bath from the best seats in the house

    BATH continue in European rugby action this weekend and you could be there to see the Aviva Premiership side continue their bid to reach the Amlin Challenge Cup quarter finals. We’ve teamed up with Bath Rugby to offer one lucky reader the chance

  • Wiltshire businesswomen's group marks first anniversay

    Forty ladies from Wiltshire attended the first anniversary celebration of I Am Woman Swindon, a club set up to empower women in business across the county. The group met at the Marsh Farm Hotel, Royal Wootton Bassett, and toasted the success of

  • MOTOR RACING: Combe unveils 2014 programme

    A REVISED Sports and GT championship, a few small tweaks to the rules and a packed programme of race meetings are on the calendar for the Castle Combe circuit in 2014. With another ten-race season still some months ahead, the circuit's race day

  • Corsham firm's award for Victorian project

    BA Corsham construction firm scooped two prestigious national gongs at the British Woodworking Federation’s annual awards last month. Oakwrights Bath Ltd, of Leafield Way, won for technical excellent and innovation in joinery manufacture and for

  • Pewsey mum goes online with crafty gifts

    Mum Kerry Jones has launched an online luxury gift boutique to celebrate her love of great craftsmanship. Dimity Fayre offers homewares, prints, ceramics, jewellery and textiles and came about after the pair spent years discussing setting up their

  • Motorcyclist hurt in A3102 crash near Hilmarton

    A male motorcyclist was taken to hospital with a broken collar bone and pelvic injuries after a crash on the A3102 at the Hilmarton to Compton Bassett junction last week. The man, believed to be in his forties, was driving a red Honda motorcycle

  • High praise for Corsham care giver

    A Corsham care provider has been given top marks in a client survey, with 100 per cent rating it as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’. Home Instead Senior Care, which provides care workers throughout Bath and west Wiltshire from its office on Pickwick Lane

  • FOOTBALL ROUND-UP: Barnes hat-trick sets up Devizes triumph

    DEVIZES Town stretched their unbeaten run in the Toolstation League First Division to four matches with victory at county rivals Warminster Town last weekend. Mark Barnes hit a hat-trick for Justin Webster and Darran Walters’ side, with Jack Fisher

  • TRI-COUNTY CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS

    Wiltshire and Somerset results only REPORTS, REACTION & PICTURES SPECIAL FROM SUNDAY'S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THIS WEEK'S GAZETTE & HERALD AND WILTSHIRE TIMES U11 boys: 1 Justin Davies (Team Bath AC, Somerset) 06:50; 2 James

  • Chippenham bridal firm marks 20-year anniversary

    Amelia Hanratty has provided wedding dresses for about 5,000 brides since setting up in business in Chippenham 20 years ago. This year Amelia Classics won an award for best independent business, at Cherish Chippenham’s first business awards, and

  • MP's all aboard for improved TransWilts rail service

    MP Duncan Hames greeted commuters on a train from Trowbridge to Swindon this morning, as part of the launch of the new TransWilts service. First Great Western’s draft timetable now has an additional six trains a day in each direction from Monday

  • Ambulance service in Wiltshire misses its response target

    The South West Ambulance Service has failed to achieve its emergency call out response targets, according to a new report. In October, the service which covers Swindon, achieved the eight-minute response time for 71.68 per cent of the most urgent