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  • Calne police keen to reunite stolen bikes with owners

    Police are looking for the owners of a road bike and a mountain bike which were recovered from an address in Calne last week and are believed to have been stolen. The bikes were found by police at an address in Lidbrook on Saturday at 4.45pm. They

  • Champagne celebration for Chippenham museum award

    Staff at Chippenham’s museum and heritage centre brought out the champagne to celebrate after receiving national recognition from the Arts Council. The museum has been awarded accredited status by Arts Council England, acknowledging the quality

  • Caterers guaranteed trained and legal at WOMAD festival

    WOMAD festival organisers have made a commitment to improve standards even further this year by only employing caterers who are guaranteed to be fully trained and legally compliant. Outdoor and event catering comes with risks, mainly from untrained

  • Royal delight as Marlborough Jazz Festival founder honoured

    Tiwice Marlborough mayor Nick Fogg said the Queen was on top form when she made him an MBE at Windsor Castle. The town councillor, who lives in Oxford Street, was named in the New Year’s Honours list for services to the Jazz Festival and the community

  • Man made off with shredder in Chippenham

    A trickster duped an 83-year-old Chippenham man into handing over his garden shredder for free. John Truckle had a shredder for sale at his back gate in The Hamlet. He said a man claiming to live in Greenway Lane came to his door on Saturday

  • Bingo night and car boot for Devizes Opportunity Centre

    Organise anything from a cake stall to getting your friends to sponsor you for some weird and wacky trial, such as sitting in a bath of beans. Or go down the tried and trusted route of raising money by running a half-marathon, cycling 50 miles

  • Pupil’s parting gift to help others

    Headteacher Lorraine Colquhoun is delighted her school has boosted the coffers of our Give Us A Chance appeal by more than £130. Rowde Academy teaching assistant Jo Harper and Year 5 pupil Evie Harcourt-Cooze worked together to put on a cake sale

  • Devizes Opportunity Centre was real lifeline

    DAD Lee Coe is to get on his bike to help raise funds for Devizes Opportunity Centre to thank it for helping his two sons. Mr Coe, 32, and his brother Danny, 30, are to cycle from the opportunity centre in Belle Vue Road, Devizes to Chessington

  • Life transformed by Devizes centre

    Little Freddie Scratchley knew exactly what he wanted to do when his mum told him his friends at Devizes Opportunity Centre needed cash. Freddie, four, who attends a special unit at Wansdyke Primary School, told her: “I want to get money for my

  • RUGBY: Points machine

    MARLBOROUGH’S Nathan Morgan celebrated a record-breaking performance after scoring a whopping 81 points as his side clinched the Dorset & Wilts Two North title last weekend. Fly-half Morgan (pictured right) stole the show with nine tries and

  • Chance to get £5k community grant

    The Devizes-based Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon is keen to hear from community groups and charities that could do with an extra funding boost this spring. The main grant round is in early May and the closing date is April 17.

  • CHIPPENHAM TOWN: Hard work pays off for Phillips

    STRIKER Lee Phillips was delighted to get back on the scoresheet last weekend and insists his confidence has not been dented by his 13-match goal drought. Phillips struck a brace to help the Bluebirds notch up a comfortable win at struggling Bedford

  • Annual Marlborough science fair has got the right formula

    Budding scientists will descend on St John’s next Saturday for the fifth annual Marlborough Science Fair. The fair is run as part of the school’s Engineering Week and offers everyone the opportunity to experience exciting scientific worlds in a

  • RUGBY: We’re not doomed just yet

    CHIPPENHAM head coach Danny Thomas has no intention of throwing in the towel on the Allington Field side’s survival battle despite them slipping to the bottom of National Three South West. Saturday’s 28-5 defeat to fourth-placed Brixham left Thomas

  • High praise for Worton pub pint

    Worton pub landlords Keith and Margaret Green have been recognised for the quality of their beer. They passed a rigorous inspection to be awarded the prestigious Cask Marque. The couple have run the Rose and Crown in the village for the past

  • Get pitch perfect with my 'three-quarter swing'

    I GET asked a lot about controlling the distance that the ball flies, particularly from inside 100 yards. Many players will be able to hit a shot with their pitching wedge about 100 yards but then get stuck if they have a smaller distance to travel

  • TV man commends Chippenham café boss

    The manager of a roadside café in Chippenham has been praised on television as a shining example of efficiency. The Pit Stop Café was highlighted on BBC TV show The Restaurant Man last week. Catering manager Ali Hutchison, who has worked for

  • HOCKEY: Point is enough for champions Bassett

    WOOTTON Bassett were crowned champions of the Davis Wood League's East Central One despite dropping their first points of the season at local rivals Swindon A. Bassett, who had won all of their 18 matches until Saturday, were held 3-3, but wrapped

  • Great Cheverell village unable to take more homes

    A plan to build up to 25 houses on a field on the edge of Great Cheverell has been refused by Wiltshire Council – to the delight of residents. Gladman Developments applied for outline permission to build homes on land off Garston Lane on the eastern

  • RUGBY: A day to shine at Chippenham

    TALENTED youngsters from across the South West descended on Allington Field on Sunday for the first of Chippenham RFC’s minis rugby festivals, writes Carl Field. The U8s, U10s and U12 age groups took centre stage, with the event accompanied by

  • CYCLING: Lauren sets her targets

    LAUREN Booth brought the curtain down on 2013 by setting a new world record but the Chippenham para- cyclist believes she can go even faster still this year. The final weekend of November saw Booth compete on her home track for the Newport International

  • Fundraisers in memory of mother in Devizes

    Friends and family of Margaret Hall, who died of cancer last month, are raising money for two charities. Mrs Hall was 57 and lived in the Quakers Walk area of Devizes. She died on February 12. Mrs Hall worked at B&Q in Devizes. She and

  • CHIPPENHAM TOWN: At long last, it’s away the lads

    CHIPPENHAM Town’s Ben John paid tribute to a fine performance from his side as they finally began to address their away form at Bedford Town last weekend. Lee Phillips found the net twice while James Guthrie was also on target as Mark Collier’s

  • CRICKET: Vince century in Hampshire friendly

    WILTSHIRE ace James Vince scored an unbeaten century as Hampshire's first pre-season friendly in Barbados ended in a draw. Against UWI, former Chippenham and Warminster player Vince, from Steeple Ashton, scored 111, including 15 fours and a six

  • FOOTBALL ROUND-UP: Nando chases a top-six finish

    MARLBOROUGH Town chief Nando Rossi thinks that a sixth-placed finish in the Premier Division would represent a successful campaign for his side this season. Marlborough, who have finished well outside the top six in recent years, got their league

  • BOXING: Johnny is the best in the west

    SUTTON Benger teenager Johnny Ward was crowned Western Counties 50-52kgs Schoolboy champion after earning a unanimous decision in Exmouth on Saturday. The 13-year-old, a member of Chippenham’s Emeralds Boxing Club, outpointed Jack Silk, of Lympstone

  • Calne runner aiming to be niftiest nurse in world

    Nurse Emma Satchell is hoping to earn a place in the Guinness Book of World Records by becoming the fastest ever marathon runner in a nurse’s uniform when she takes part in the London event on April 13. Miss Satchell, 36 of Lansdowne, Calne, is

  • GOLF: Driving towards a new year at Ogbourne

    OGBOURNE Downs’ new captains teed off their tenures at the club’s Captains’ Drive-In event New club captain Geoff Sparrow was joined by ladies skipper Shirley Soloman and seniors and juniors counterparts Tony Hales and Alex Tellwright at the event.

  • WILTSHIRE ROAD RACE LEAGUE: Chalking up a win at Combe

    ENGLAND international Amy Chalk clinched victory in the ladies’ race at the Castle Combe Half-Marathon as the 2014 Wiltshire Road Race League got under way on Sunday. Bristol & West AC runner Chalk, who lives in Stanley, near Chippenham, finished

  • Schools echo concern on Coalition’s free meals policy

    HEADTEACHER Andrew Marsh-Ballard has joined the national chorus of complaints from schools about a Government decision to introduce free meals for all infant pupils from age four to seven. Mr Marsh-Ballard, head of Priestley Primary School in Calne

  • New safeguards in place, says Army after shell goes astray

    The Army has issued a statement following a meeting with Patney Parish Council after a shell went astray saying that 'additional safeguards' are now in place. The shell flew over a busy main road and an entire village before landing just 300 yards