SHELLEY Rudman goes into the mid-season break in the Skeleton World Cup season in second place in the standings despite a disappointing run in the second race of the weekend at Lake Placid in America today. Pewsey slider Rudman, who finished second
Parents were invited into Queen’s Crescent Primary School in Chippenham to see how maths is taught. The new curriculum is being brought in September next year, when calculators will be banned from the key stage two SAT. About 100 parents went along
Young public speakers, with an average age of 14, voiced their views in the senior Youth Speaks competition organised by Royal Wootton Bassett & District Rotary Club. Academy pupils, in four teams of three, addressed an appreciative audience
Pupils have staged Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical Into the Woods, a show in which several classical fairy tale characters learn the hard way that ‘happily ever after’ is not always so happy after all. Over five nights, an energetic and
Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service has been working in partnership with Marlborough College to support the college’s cadet force. Local firefighters have spent two afternoons with the cadets, working on skills that promote leadership, problem
A festive choral performance has been organised to raise money for the upkeep of Marlborough’s 17th century Merchant’s House. Marlborough Community Choir, Evolution Show Choir from Salisbury and H Club Octet will perform festive favourites in The
I’ve written about nuisance calls before but now the government’s Culture, Media and Sport committee is also calling for change to these dubious marketing practices. In its recent report it said the challenge is curtailing nuisance calls and texts
Like many parents of school age children, I was interested in the recent report which suggested the UK’s educational performance ranks poorly alongside other countries. Even as a journalist who has written many articles about education, I hadn’
The independent Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told the owners of Mayfield Residential Care Home in Devizes to improve staffing. The regulator made an unannounced inspection at the Nur-steed Road home on October 21 following a tip-off over staffing
When a 41-year-old single mum from Malmesbury received an official-looking letter about rent arrears, she worried about what it meant. But Anne, not her real name, had a bigger shock when she was told the letter meant she was being evicted from
Tickets are selling fast for this year’s nativity at Malmesbury Abbey and an extra performance has been organised after two shows on Christmas Eve sold out. The performance will see the nativity story told by four historically well-known figures
COUNCILLORS and the Royal British Legion are delighted that English Heritage has listed Devizes War Memorial. The memorial, close to St John’s Church in Long Street, has been given a Grade-II listing for its historic and architectural interest
THE time of year has arrived once again when I spend most of the days dressed as an elf at Roves Farm near Swindon. Here on Manor Farm most of the work is still milking, feeding, mucking out and bedding up. While all the cattle, apart from a few
