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  • How Gannett Foundation helped Wiltshire Wildlife Trust

    Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is one of the many charities to have benefited from the Gannett Foundation, the charitable arm of the Gazette & Herald’s publishers. It was awarded a grant of £7,678 in 2012 to help with its Wellbeing programme, which

  • Second defeat on the bounce for Vale ahead of Vase tie

    Pewsey Vale slipped to their second successive 2-0 defeat in the Sydenhams League Division One as they were beaten at Romsey Town on Saturday. Ricky Franklin shot wide from Ryan Banks’ cross early on before Wesley Clark made a great save to deny

  • Football: Melksham boss Perrin is happy with his strike force

    Darren Perrin says he wouldn’t swap strikers Gary Higdon and Dan Kovacs for any other partnership in the league after they starred in  back-to-back victories. Higdon failed to find the net in his first five matches but opened his account with a

  • FA Cup: Wall's double sends Bradford Town through

    Boss Paul Braithwaite said if his Wootton Bassett Town players had been more streetwise they might still find themselves in the mix in the FA Cup first qualifying round. Bassett were beaten 2-1 at Western League county rivals Bradford Town in the

  • Wiltshire League: Bassett boss delighted with defending

    WOOTTON Bassett development manager Mark Varney was pleased with his side’s defence as they held off a spirited Corsham Town reserves to win 2-1 on Saturday. Bassett had conceded 13 goals in three games, albeit they won two of those encounters

  • Residents' victory hope over intrusive housing scheme

    Residents appear to have won their battle with developers over a housing scheme in Sherston. Villagers gave their blessing to proposals for eight houses, including six social homes, at Easton Square. But they were alarmed after surveying work

  • Brain takes on brawn in military-style clash of the fittest

    Competitors from around the country are expected to head for Charlton Park, near Malmesbury, this weekend for a new Hunger Games meets Krypton Factor-style competition where, it is claimed, the smart can out-compete the fast. HQrecon is described

  • Bowls: Bassett bounce back from disappointment to make final

    Wootton Bassett's men bounced back from the disappointment of missing last year’s play-offs to book a place in the 2014 Wiltshire Four Rink League final. They thumped Swindon West End 94-60 in the quarter-final at Purton and had a 77-61 victory

  • Morrisons workers go ‘round the world’ for £1,000

    Staff at Morrisons in Chippenham have raised £1,000 for charity by helping colleagues in the region cycle the equivalent of the circumference of the Earth. Workers clocked up 223 miles over two days on an exercise bike to raise money for Sue Ryder

  • Bowls: Devizes play host to county finals

    Devizes Bowls Club host the Bowls Wiltshire men’s finals, BW mixed finals and BW ladies domestic finals this weekend on their two greens at Long Street. The host club will be represented early on by Sue Ochyra who meets Pewsey’s Trish Jarrett in

  • Blessing given to wedding at girl’s hospice

    Parents Richard Dicks and Louise Duman chose to have their wedding day blessed at the hospice where their daughter receives respite care. Five-year-old Ella suffers from a complex genetic medical condition and her mum and dad were anxious for her

  • Chippenham's blue bridge open after works

    The blue bridge between Baydon’s Wood and Monkton Park in Chippenham reopened last week. The well-used footbridge has been closed for maintenance since July 7 and was scheduled to reopen by July 28. The work was finished last Thursday, three weeks

  • Chippenham nightclub plan still on the agenda

    Buisness Paul Shayegan said he still intends to open up SN15 nightclub in Station Hill, Chippenham. The Persian, who owns BlueRooms nightclub in Bath, had hoped the new club – where Karma used to be – would be up and running last summer, but said

  • VIDEO: Market Lavington High Street shut as house burns

    The High Street in Market Lavington remained shut early this evening as Wiltshire Fire Fire and Rescue deal with a serious house blaze.  Crews from Devizes, Trowbridge, Westbury and Melksham were fighting a fire in the roof of a terraced house.

  • Judge 'wrong' to order boys removed from their Wiltshire mum

    A family court judge was wrong to order two boys to be removed from the care of their mother following a hearing in Wiltshire, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Three appeal judges suggested that Judge Katharine Marshall would have made a different

  • Cricket: Richardson makes telling derby knock for Marlborough

    Marlborough brought the curtain down on their Wiltshire Division campaign by battling their way to the derby spoils against Great Bedwyn. Tom Norris’ side notched up a 25-run victory in Savernake Forest to round off a fourth-placed finish in the