Community groups are getting ready to help celebrate Malmesbury Youth Football Club’s 25th anniversary this month. Numerous groups, including the Guides, the tennis club, Malmesbury Marlins and Athelstan Players, will be taking part in the fundraiser
FRANCIS Whittington flew the British flag on a wet and windy opening day of this year's Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials - but overseas domination is already a major threat. Sussex-based Whittington, a former equine dentist who is ranked
Patients at Savernake Hospital had to be moved while firefighters tackled a small fire last Wednesday. A crew from Marlborough attended the hospital at 6.30pm where an electric motor in a waste disposal unit had caught fire. The situation was
Wiltshire is gearing up to vote in the 2014 European Elections this month. The county is represented by the South West constituency which is comprised of Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gibraltar.
Assurances have been given that plans for a new rail link in Marlborough will go to public consultation before a final decision is made. The £30 million plan, drafted by Transition Marlborough, to extend the London rail link to Marlborough, has
Former Bradford-on-Avon housekeeper Connie Smith, who had just celebrated her 100th birthday on April 26, died on Tuesday night. Mrs Smith was born in Birmingham, where she met and married her husband Ben in 1934. She worked in a munitions
Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service crews were called to a house in West Street, Great Somerford, after a fire broke out in the chimney at 4.15pm on Sunday. Firefighters used chimney rods, brushes and a stirrup pump to deal with it.
Visual arts and artists are being promoted across Wiltshire this week as part of Cloth Road Arts. The free nine-day event runs until Sunday and showcases artists’ work through open studios and galleries. The art trail is in its sixth year,
Prime Minister David Cameron gave assurances that the rail improvements in the south west were not being eclipsed by HS2 when he visited Chippenham today. He was in Wiltshire to launch the Conservative’s poster campaign ahead of the European elections
Malmesbury's ‘sitting monk’ statue was officially unveiled to the public this week. The statue, which sits on the corner of Oxford Street, was made by sculptor William Lazard, also known for the ‘sitting Cistercian monk’ at Abbey House Gardens.
GYMNASTS from Chippenham’s Moonraker club had a busy two weekends of competition, achieving success at both events. The West Country League opened for 2014 at the Forest of Dean Gymnastics Centre with CMG entering teams into the Division Three
THE story of Canon Andrew White, dubbed the Vicar of Baghdad, will be told in Devizes tomorrow evening to highlight the plight of Christians living in Iraq. David Post will give a presentation at Sheep Street Baptist Church at 7.30pm on Mr White
Campaigners fighting for safety improvements on the A3102 at Mile Elm suffered a setback after Wiltshire Council’s cabinet member for highways said the cost would not be justified. The residents’ battle began after the death of 43-year-old mother-of-three
Town and Wiltshire councillor Simon Killane has spoken out after a petition calling for his resignation was signed by nearly 150 people and an official complaint was made against him. Town councillor Julie Exton said she submitted an official complaint
AFTER waving goodbye to the 2013/14 season last Saturday, it’s time to take a look back at Mark Cooper’s squad, and how they performed over the campaign. Wes Foderingham – 8 (out of 10) ANOTHER superb season – and it would be a surprise if he was
Prime Minister David Cameron said today that Chippenham needs more houses and the planning process could not be suspended until after Wiltshire Council allocated new sites. But he said he wanted local people to have a say, and that in the absence
David Cameron came to Chippenham this morning to launch the Conservatives’ poster campaign for the European elections. The Prime Minister pulled up to the rugby club in a Jaguar with blacked out rear windows, and was met by Michelle Donelan, the
THE Sangster family has put the Manton Estate on the market with a whopping £26million price tag. The 2,000-acre estate on the edge of Marlborough was owned by millionaire racehorse owner and breeder Robert Sangster, who died in 2004. It includes
The BBC’s Two Greedy Italians will be in Marlborough this Saturday, for the town’s first Food and Drink festival. Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo are the headline chefs at the event and will share their wisdom, humour and passion for good
WE all want to hit our short shots around the green nice and high, landing softly so that you get ultimate control. To do this you need to have a solid base so that you can control the strike and get a nice sweet crisp strike. Do this by having
People enjoyed real ales and live music at the 14th Seend Beer Festival on Saturday. For the second successive year the 500-ticket event, at the community centre in Rusty Lane, sold out. Richard Todhunter, one of the organisers, said: “It went
Green-fingered schools across Wiltshire are being offered a chance to get their hands on some free compost as part of Compost Awareness Week (CAW) which runs until May 11. The Warrior Compost is being provided by Hills Waste Solutions and is limited
The Gazette’s Give Us A Chance appeal is raising money to make up for the shortfall of grant from Wiltshire Council for Devizes Opportunity Centre. This year the centre must raise £50,000 to cover its running costs – up from £40,000 last year,
THE Gazette’s Give Us A Chance appeal will help not just children who attend the main opportunity centre in Devizes, but also the satellite nursery in Tidworth. Out in Tidworth there is never a dull moment as four specialist members of staff spend
Police were advising drivers to avoid the A350 West Cepen Way, Chippenham, early this afternoon due to two-vehicle accident on the roundabout at the entrance to Morrisons. The road was partially blocked because of the accident, which has caused
Plans to increase car parking at Bedwyn Station are causing more tension between commuters and residents. First Great Western says there are 17 car parking spaces at the station and it has submitted an application to Wiltshire Council to increase
I got the chance to show cabinet minister Danny Alexander an example of Wiltshire’s engineering excellence recently, and I am keen to make sure he does not forget how important it is to building a stronger economy. So, in the House of Commons last
Everyone of my generation and above has heard and read Dylan Thomas’ poetry and prose poems, whether it’s Do not go gentle, the Child’s Christmas or bits of Under Milk Wood. He died 60 years ago, aged just 39, and at the time was at the top of the
THE BADMINTON Horse Trials crown is one of the few top prizes to have so far eluded Andrew Nicholson during a glittering career but the Marlborough-based star isn’t putting any extra pressure on himself to finally fill the space in his bulging trophy
Of all the ancient ‘Rotten Boroughs,’ Wiltshire had the most. Until 1832, a total of 34 MPs were elected in the county, (it is seven today), the electorate was tiny – and largely restricted to male property owners – and the gift of the seats were effectively
Developers are said to be “running riot” as they eye up Chippenham’s green fields to build 2,545 new houses. Countryside campaigners are anxious Chippenham may be turned into a “mini Swindon” as major planning applications are prepared in the wake
Prime Minister David Cameron met Conservative Party faithful including Wiltshire Council leader Jane Scott at Chippenham Rugby Club today. He was spending the day in the region campaigning for the European elections, to be held in two weeks on
WILTSHIRE Olympian Jonelle Price has been waiting a long time for her second appearance at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials but is set to bring that decade-long hiatus to an end this weekend. The 33-year-old, who was part of the bronze
A respite care home for children with learning disabilities is appealing for help to tidy up its overgrown sensory garden. The garden at Canon’s House in Devizes was built in 2002, in a campaign led by BBC Wiltshire Sound, but time has taken its
A Calne school groundsman who went missing on Tuesday has been found, safe and well. Richard Forty, 24, was last seen on Tuesday at about 10am at St Mary’s School in Calne, where he was worked for three years. The school grounds were searched
4:48pm Campaigners fighting for safety improvements on the A3102 at Mile Elm suffered a setback after Wiltshire Council’s cabinet member for highways said the cost would not be justified. The battle began after Tracey
Road sweepers were told this week that their numbers would be cut as part of efforts by Wiltshire Council to save £1million. There are 18 road sweepers in the county but this will be reduced to 10. However, a spokesman for the council’s highways
Prime Minister David Cameron will be in the south west today campaigning for the European elections, to be held in two weeks, on May 22. He is expected to say that the Conservatives are the only party which can offer a choice on Europe by offering
HARRY Meade will never forget Christmas Eve 2013 and the horrible sleepless hours caused by a nightmare realisation that his riding career was all but over. A dreadful competition fall four months previously when Meade, in his words, "was speared
BECKHAMPTON trainer Roger Charlton admitted to feeling "mixed emotions" after welcoming multiple Group One winner Al Kazeem back into training after he was found to be sub-fertile at stud. The six-year-old was retired following a fantastic campaign
WILTSHIRE-TRAINED horse Toormore has been given a clean bill of health after his run in the Qipco 2000 Guineas. Richard Hannon's colt was crowned champion European juvenile last season and won the Craven Stakes on his return, but connections feel
Goughs Solicitors raised £1,500 for Wiltshire Air Ambulance by fielding a team of runners in the Corsham 10k. This was the first year the firm has competed and more than 20 staff took part in the race on Sunday, April 27. Goughs solicitor Phil
Wadworth said the decision to cut the jobs of long-serving horsemen Vince Minty and Barry Petherick had been a difficult one. Mr Minty had been a horseman at Wadworth for ten years. He is now driving milk tankers. Mr Petherick had been a horsemen
The shire horses were reintroduced at Wadworth in 1974 by then managing director Major John Cairns Bartholomew, father of Charles Bartholomew. Initially there were two shire horses but the brewery increased them to four in about 1979. In May 2004
