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  • FOOTBALL: Malmesbury Victoria launch urgent funding plea

    CASH-STRAPPED Malmesbury Victoria have lodged a desperate appeal for financial aid so that they can afford to finish the season. The Vics need to pay around £500 to cover the cost of their first team’s final two Hellenic League Division One West

  • Review: Blood Brothers, Bristol Hippodrome, until Saturday

    This has to be one of the most powerful stories on the modern stage: from the dramatic opening scene it pulls no punches and tugs at the heartstrings. That such a tragic story can also be great entertainment, full of humour, pathos, bravery and

  • RUGBY: Avonvale 3 Marlborough 50

    MARLBOROUGH completed their unbeaten league season as they dispatched top-three side Avonvale with another half-century of points. The champions, who dropped just one bonus point all season, looked to run the ball with centres Waisale Navunidakua

  • SWIMMING: Second gold for Jazz

    WILTSHIRE'S Jazz Carlin claimed her second gold medal of the British Gas Swimming Championships in Glasgow tonight. Former Wootton Bassett School pupil Carlin, 23, added the 400m freestyle title to the 800m event she won yesterday in a new Welsh

  • RUGBY: Pewsey Vale 56 Combe Down 2nd 12

    PEWSEY’s encouraging end to the season gave them a chance of avoiding the Dorset & Wilts One North drop. Bottom two Devizes 2nd and relegated Calne meet next week, with a Devizes win sending Vale through the trapdoor. Vale though rounded

  • RUGBY: Towcestrians 35 Devizes 0

    DEVIZES fell away in the second half of their penultimate game of the South West One East season The first half was a fairly even affair, highlighted by the match being scoreless until the 39th minute. The home side, who were after a home promotion

  • RUGBY: Old Centralians 41 Chippenham 36

    CHIPPENHAM bowed out of National Three South West with a heroic second-half fightback that narrowly ended in failure in Gloucestershire. Danny Thomas’ side hit back for a 24-3 ‘win’ after the break but the home side narrowly held on to keep their

  • EQUESTRIAN: Jessica excels in Italy again

    TOCKENHAM showjumper Jessica Mendoza enjoyed another good result at the Toscana Tour CSI3* Arezzo IV Grand Prix in Italy on Sunday. Riding Spirit T, owned by her mother Sarah Mendoza and John Roberts, the UK Sport lottery-funded World Class Development

  • RUGBY: Melksham 5 Minety 32

    MINETY concluded their Dorset & Wilts One North campaign with a bonus-point triumph that left them just short of lifting the title, but should secure them a promotion place. Entering the day level on points at the top with Supermarine and Bradford

  • County clubs given Sport England funding boost

    SPORTS clubs in Wiltshire have received a cash boost of more than £200,000 from Sport England to help them boost their facilities. The clubs have been granted a share of the £17 million Inspired Facilities Fund which has been helping grass roots

  • Devizes Canoe Club lands £50,000 grant towards its new base

    Devizes Canoe Club has received a massive boost towards developing its new base with the award of £50,000 from Sport England. A former depot owned by Wiltshire Council at Lower Wharf, off Northgate Street, is being transferred to the club under