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  • Parrots to star at Lacock wildlife and pet weekend

    Meet parrots at a wildlife and pet weekend from noon-4pm on Saturday, October 18, and 10.30am-1pm on Sunday, October 19. The event will take place at Whitehall Garden Centre, Lacock, and entrance is free.

  • Youth choir concert at Malmesbury Abbey aids foodbank

    Malmesbury Abbey welcomes The Modellschule Obersberg Youth Choir from Bad Hersfeld, Germany, to perform on Friday. Tickets are £10, £8 for concessions, from the Tourist Information Centre and abbey bookshop. Proceeds go to the choir and Malmesbury

  • Royal Wootton Bassett pupils awarded on their fun run

    More than 160 children ran a mile in Noremarsh Junior School’s fun run to raise funds for an outdoor classroom and pupils’ cookery equipment. Vicky Lawrence of Wootton Bassett School of Dance led warm-up sessions prior to the start. The course,

  • Jesus Christ Superstar, Theatre Royal Bath. Until October 4.

    Bath Light Operatic Group have kept to a mainly classic form in performing the Andrew Lloyd-Webber/Tim Rice musical Jesus Christ Superstar. The mass dancing and, in particular, a slightly fussy set and old-fashioned costumes have the feel of the

  • Oh What a Lovely War, Swindon Arts Centre

    The Phoenix Players’ able 26-strong cast conveyed the horror and tragedy of the First World War in a stirring production last week. Director Daphne Breakspear ensured that the immensity of loss was revealed in a graphic cavalcade of sombre statistics

  • Model rail fans chuffed at turnout for Chippenham show

    Bentley Model Railway Group are optimistic it will be full steam ahead for Chippenham’s Model Railway Show after a successful exhibition on Saturday. The organisers were worried that rising costs and poor attendances would signal the end of the

  • Your Memories

    Anyone who has to contend with modern levels of traffic in Wiltshire town will take a wry look at these photographs of the Causeway in Chippenham, the first one being taken in about 1870. However, photographer Diane Vose found a quiet moment when

  • RUGBY: Fairford 25 Pewsey Vale 19

    PEWSEY mounted a last-quarter surge that made the final period of this game the most exciting of the season so far before coming up short in Dorset & Wilts One North. Fairford were first on the board with a penalty, but Vale responded as a

  • Chippenham shop stars in TV show Antiques Road Trip

    An antiques shop near Chippenham stars in TV show Antiques Road Trip this afternoon. Kington Antiques & Interiors in Kington Langley are expecting a surge in footfall after the screening of the BBC series, which attracts audiences of up to

  • RUGBY: Marlborough 48 Chippenham 2nd 7

    MARLBOROUGH returned to winning ways as they claimed a bonus point from their Dorset & Wilts One North clash at the Common. The first score arrived as debutant Liam MacDonald made a good break down his wing. Prop Tim Aldridge took the ball

  • Macmillan mobile support service in Chippenham

    The Macmillan mobile service, giving free cancer information and support, is stopping off in Chippenham today, October 1. A team of information and support specialists will be on board to offer free and confidential advice, at the Buttercross on

  • First World War centenary: Corsham concert date set

    A concert commemorating 100 years since the First World War began will take place later this month. Songs, poetry and readings will be given and artwork displayed in as part of Corsham’s series of events marking the start of the war. Corsham

  • VIDEO: Gary tells his Wiltshire Air Ambulance story

    Gary Maslin, of Devizes, who suffered a heart attack, tells his Wiltshire Air Ambulance story here: The air ambulance charitable trust released videos of former patients for the first time, to tie in with National Air Ambulance Week. 

  • Video camera pervert, 49, gets jail warning from judge

    A 49-year-old man who set up video cameras to spy on a girl in a bathroom and bedroom has been warned he is facing a jail term. Kevin Wooldridge was convicted of five counts of voyeurism following a trial at Swindon Crown Court, he was cleared