ENGLAND Futsal captain Luke Ballinger has rejoined Chippenham Town for the 2014-15 season. Ballinger, who left the club during last season, subsequently joined Paulton Rovers but will return to Hardenhuish Park to link up with Mark Collier for
BOX'S Katy Curd is the new women's 4x world champion after claiming victory in Leogang, Austria, on Saturday. Curd, 25, clinched victory in a thrilliing final, seeing off the Netherlands' Anneke Beerten, Germany's Steffi Marth and Helene Valerie
The plans for St John’s new sixth form campus in Marlborough have been approved by Wiltshire Council. The funding is secured. The development can go ahead. As part of the discussions with the planners the school has agreed to drop its out of date
Mr Conley of Derry Hill (letters, June 5) may be 79, but he is obviously ignorant of the fantastic work done by Doorway in Chippenham. As I assume he is retired, perhaps he would like to volunteer his services to Doorway for a few sessions so that
I would like to communicate my support for the suggestion made in last week’s edition of the Gazette & Herald on the letters page made by one of your readers. The idea of a financial contribution towards the international Chippenham Folk Festival
The life, colour and sound the folk festival brings to Chippenham for the weekend is nice. I have never bought a ticket because it’s not my thing. I just happen to live here. I’m sure it brings the local traders in town extra revenue but I’m sure
I was horrified to read in your paper last week (June 5) Mr John W Conley’s letter regarding funding for the folk festival. Yes we all appreciate how much this annual event does for our town, but please do not forget Doorway. Nobody knows when
Having spent almost five years as media and communications manager with Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS), I am clearly one of the spin doctors decried by John Craig in his latest column (June 5). Unfortunately, his comments about South Western
I am searching for information about or living relatives of Stanley Hillier, born about 1897 at Wexcombe, Fyfield near Marlborough. Stanley lived until about 1907 at 33 Brown Buildings, Lower Fyfield. His parents were Alfred and Elizabeth (
Several months, ago Wiltshire Waste had a very large fire. Several weeks after the fire, I contacted the local environmental team at the council as I was concerned with the very strong smell still coming from Wiltshire Waste. My main concern was
Mr Cooper (June 5) clearly didn’t read my previous letter (May 29). What I said was: “.... such as when a cyclist exits from a side road without stopping at the junction, accelerating round him/her may well avoid the collision which would be inevitable
Whilst I have long shared Mr Holt’s frustrations and anger at the lack of health services in the Devizes area (letters, June 5), there are some points that need clarifying about what remains an immensely complicated situation. As was reported in
It would appear that your correspondent last week has little appreciation of what Bob Geldof and his contemporaries achieved in the 1980s. He and Midge Ure organised Live Aid in 1985, a global phenomenon that raised millions and saved countless lives
On May 30, Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, stated that he wanted smaller community hospitals to be used more, as patients, especially the elderly, would be treated nearer to their homes. Devizes hospital is a small community hospital
On Friday I visited Staverton Primary School, where I saw their excellent ‘numbers count’ booster classes, in which a specially-trained teacher gives children who find maths particularly challenging the extra help they need to keep up with their classmates
I was interested to read your editorial in My Word (Gazette and Herald, May 29). I think that you were fortunate to wait only ten days to see your GP. I rang my surgery in Marlborough at the end of last month to ask for an appointment and was informed
Last Saturday was the third and most successful Concert at the Kings so far, held in the garden of The Kings Arms in All Cannings. The concert also provided the opportunity for up-and-coming performers and bands to perform. These included Will
On the eve of Wimbledon, families across the county have the chance to get involved in the excitement and build up. The second in a series of four free Great British Tennis Weekends comes to the county on June 21 and 22. Wiltshire Lawn Tennis
Ramsbury charity Action Through Enterprise has helped to build a new teaching block for children in the Ghanaian town of Lawra. ATE worked with the District Education Office in Lawra to construct the fully equipped two-classroom facility for 101
Retired dentist Clive Power his has flown out to East Timor to share his expertise with a new generation. Mr Power, from Neston, is spending 18 days in the south east Asian country with a group from the oral heath charity Dentaid, which trains
Sainsbury's in Chippenham has raised more than £3,800 for Dorothy House in the past year. The hospice, which supports people with a life-threatening illness, was voted by Sainsbury’s customers as their favourite charity, and has received a year
Youngsters from the 6th Devizes Scout group have made the Devizes White Horse tidier. Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, leaders and some parents gave the White Horse on Roundway Hill a clean-up as part of Scout Community Week. The Beavers picked up any
Good weather and a record number of entries helped boost the funds of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. The association’s companion dog show on The Green, Devizes, on June 1, was one of their best ever and raised just over £800 for the
THE popular stream-side walk at Drews Pond Wood has re-opened after a storm that brought down 20 trees. The walk was closed for more than three months as money was raised and 20 volunteers carried out repair work. Volunteers were devastated by
LACOCK’S newly-refurbished Fox Talbot museum had an extra visitor when the Culture Minister stopped by on a tour of the region. Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate Michelle Donelan showed Sajid Javid round the museum, which honours
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) has praised the staff at Erlestoke Prison near Devizes but remains concerned at the number of prisoners who remain there beyond their tariff date. For the third successive year the IMB’s annual report said
Claire Barnfather and Lisa Scrannage have made the cut for the finals of the L’Oréal Colour Trophy. On June 23 the duo from Essensuals hairdressers in Marlborough High Street will head to Grosvenor House Hotel in London to battle it out with the
DEVIZES School students who performed on stage at Disneyland Paris impressed the organisers so much that they have been invited back. The 50 students were chosen to perform after auditioning for the Disney Performing Arts Outreach Programme.
Always a topic of conversation, the weather over the last week has not helped the flow of tasks on our farms. We have had everything including overcast with rain, chilly breezes, torrential downpours and periods of warm sunshine. Most of the
Twelve-year-old Jake Bray stunned his mother when he was the first junior to complete the Race for Life event. It was the first time Jake, of Brickley Lane, Devizes, had run a major event and he came sixth out of 3,000 runners at Lydiard Park,
I have been at war! Slugs and snails abound – they are not normally too much of a problem in my garden but the wetness and the mildness of last year has meant that they are abundant. Not only that, they are hungry! It has become obvious that my
As we embark on the rollercoaster ride that follows the predictably unpredictable trajectory of the fortunes of the England football squad, is there enough time or space given to the wider implications surrounding the staging of what must surely be
Baker Giovanni Campanella will be joining forces with Devizes chef and restaurateur Peter Vaughan to teach Italian cooking. Mr Campanella, owner of Dolcipani bakery and coffee shop in Old Swan Yard and who was a regional finalist in the search
