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  • Record Store Day puts Chippenham music fans in a spin

    Magpie Music in Chippenham tripled its takings on the weekend’s Record Store Day compared to a normal Saturday. The shop in the Market Place stocked special vinyl releases made exclusively for the day and sold out of Johnny Cash’s With His Hot

  • Get drinks in at Calne festival

    A beer festival at the Woodlands Social Club in Calne will cater for those with a thirst for real ale and cider, with 20 different types of brew on offer. The club, owned by Nick and Kirsty Clifford, used to be the Harris Social and Welfare Club

  • Marlborough TH White staff get Easter treats

    The Gazette & Herald teamed up with Sainsbury’s to a give one firm or organisation free hot cross buns each week in the run-up to Easter. The final winner, TH White, based in London Road, Marlborough, took delivery of their buns last Thursday

  • Calne farmer killed ferret when it ran amok in chicken shed

    A farmer who killed an animal attacking his chickens discovered it was his neighbour’s escaped pet ferret. The man was rearing about 55 chickens in Oak Close, Calne, and entered his shed to find them in a flurry of feathers, ripped apart by an

  • ATHLETICS: Nominees named for Wiltshire awards

    WILTSHIRE Athletic Association will host a presentation awards evening at the Devizes Sports & Social Club on Friday, June 6. The event, supported by Wiltshire and Swindon Sport, will see awards for athletes, coaches, officials and others handed

  • RACING: Hughes poised to return

    RICHARD Hughes has been given the green light to return to race-riding at Sandown on Friday. The champion jockey has been sidelined since Dubai World Cup night at Meydan last month after suffering a fractured vertebra in a nasty fall from the Mike

  • BOWLS: Snell makes Wiltshire selection

    DAVE Snell, the Wiltshire Middleton Cup team manager, has named a squad of 31 players to represent the Moonrakers in this season’s inter-county championship. The squad is drawn from six clubs – Swindon Westlecot, Wootton Bassett, Holt, Chippenham

  • Kington Langley care home shows off array of pets

    From stick insects to donkeys, Greathouse care home’s extensive lawn was filled with all creatures great and small on Sunday. The home in Kington Langley, which provides services for adults with physical and learning disabilities, held a diverse

  • Devizes police pledge to keep The Green safe this summer

    Police are planning to mount an operation this summer to address the anti-social behaviour that plagues residents who live near The Green in Devizes. Each year The Green becomes a mecca for mainly young people to hang out, chat and play music during

  • Date set for Chippenham's first food festival

    A date has been set for Chippenham’s first food and drink festival. It is being organised for Sunday, July 13, by the same people who bring the farmers’ market to the town each second Sunday of the month. The High Street is to filled with food

  • Chance to give views at annual Chippenham town meeting

    Chippenham residents will get a chance to give their views at the annual town meeting on Wednesday, May 7. A parish meeting has to be held by ever English parish and is not a council meeting but is a meeting of registered electors arranged by the

  • Plea by police after car attacked in Malmesbury

    Wiltshire Police are appealing for information after someone dented a door panel and smashed a window of a Kia Picanto parked in Barley Close, Malmesbury, on Saturday night or early on Sunday.