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  • Where do you want dropped kerbs in and around Chippenham?

    Suggestions for dropped kerb locations in the centre of Chippenham and surrounding villages are invited from residents. Chippenham Town Council said it welcomed the Wiltshire Council review and would jointly fund dropped kerbs approved by the Area

  • £2k boost delights Devizes Rotary Club president

    The new president of Devizes Rotary Club has thanked the community for a good start to his year in office after £2,000 was raised at Devizes Beer Festival. Tom MacMeekin’s links with Rotary go back to his native America, when he was with the Ongar

  • Foxy riders support Wiltshire Air Ambulance

    A calendar featuring horse riders in risque poses has raised £12,000 for Wiltshire Air Ambulance. Photographer David Betteridge presented a cheque for the proceeds from the Foxy Hunters calendar, first published in 2010. The Trowbridge resident

  • Top honour for Corsham Cubs

    Cubs from 1st Corsham Scout Group were presented with their Chief Scouts Silver certificates at this year’s AGM, held at the boathouse by Corsham Lake. The Chief Scouts Silver Award is the highest badge that the Cubs can earn, and they have to

  • Stage 65 offers chance to act and develop theatre

    STAGE ’65 Youth Theatre, which has groups at Salisbury Playhouse with a satellite section in Trowbridge, has places in both groups available for youngsters for the new term, which begins in September. Members attend weekly workshops in which they

  • Review: Shake, ripple and roll

    THE audience was transported to fifties America for this short but sweet Wharf Youth production, a musical set in Angelo’s ice cream parlour in a little town outside New York, a popular haunt to hang out during the summer. When the owner, affectionately

  • Review: Singin’ in the rain

    THE scene everyone knows from Singin’ In The Rain is Gene Kelly splashing around in a deluge, light stepping it with an umbrella. It’s the song that closes the first act in the stage show – well, the crew need the interval to dry the stage. Stepping

  • COMMONWEALTH GAMES: Carlin into 400m final

    JAZZ Carlin progressed to the final of the 400m freestyle after finishing third in her heat this morning. The 23-year-old, who won 800m Commonwealth gold last night, clocked 4:04.3 as she came in behind Swindon-born Scot Hannah Miley and Canada's

  • Drugs in pants man fails to turn up to court

    A Londoner caught with heroin between his buttocks in Chippenham has failed to turn up for sentencing. And Daniel Perkins, 31, who has been warned he faces jail, could not get any friends or family to loan him the cash to get to court as they thought

  • Devizes garden party raises £750 for Ugandan orphans

    A garden party held at the home of Francis and Jill Chadwick, in Wickfield, Devizes, on June 29 raised £750 towards bursaries for orphans at Kasese Primary School in Uganda. The Chadwicks have raised more than £20,000 in the past ten years for