MARK Collier was delighted to finally get his man after securing the signature of former Swindon Town striker Mark Francis this morning. The Bluebirds and local rivals Frome Town agreed a deal to bring the 19-year-old, who made two appearances
WITHOUT four of their regular strikers, Chippenham’s familiar failing of being unable to convert their chances again came to the fore. Midfielders Toby Osman and Alex Ferguson were handed the job of playing up front in Bedfordshire and manager
I’ve passed the Oliver Cromwell many times on my journeys around Wiltshire. It’s set alongside a busy main road passing through Edith’s Marsh and is a striking building with a past that stretches back far into Wiltshire history. Overlooking
The Remembrance Day ceremony at Devizes School will this year take on a special poignancy for many students who have been researching the background of First World War veterans whose names appear on the town’s war memorial. Just before 11am on
Pewsey will be taken over by the arts next month during a two-day festival featuring poetry, plays and puppetry. Pewsey Fringe Theatre is the brainchild of Nettie Baskcomb Brown, director of PVADS youth theatre, who was inspired by a visit to the
The Royal British Legion in Wiltshire launched the 2014 Poppy Appeal in spectacular fashion on Monday, with parachutists descending into the Stonehenge monument. Members of Jump4Heroes, the RBL’s parachute team, jumped out of a plane over the neolithic
On Remembrance weekend, The Invitation Theatre Company are bringing The Hired Man to Devizes. Acclaimed for its epic, nostalgic, funny book and rousing, romantic, award-winning score, The Hired Man is arguably the finest new British musical of the
Castle Combe’s Manor House Hotel has three of its staff in the final of the South West Chef of the Year competition. Dean Westcar, who has been a junior sous-chef for over a year, impressed judges in the Professionals category at the semi-finals
Eighty years ago, in 1934, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Rev St Clair Donaldson, arrived in Hilmarton to dedicate its new church hall. The ceremony came 20 years after Sir John Dickson-Poynder, an MP for the Chippenham seat from 1892, sold the
It could never happen today – at least, not in the official team photograph. But there he is, Charlie Wood, the skipper of Luckington village football team, brazenly smoking. “Like to see that now in a modern team photo,” said Malmesbury reader
100 Years Ago. PEWSEY: At the meeting of the Pewsey Poor Law Board and Rural District council held at the Workhouse, time was spent discussing the new Local Government Board Order relative to the composition of meals for tramps. The clerk reported
Patients will get a quicker response from the new Wiltshire Air Ambulance - a Canadian Bell 429 - as it has a top speed of 180mph, compared with the current helicopter's 161mph. Unveiled at a ceremony in Salisbury yesterday it goes into service
Teenager Poppy Gibson is taking on the Great South Run in memory of her father, who died in Iraq when she was just seven years old. Flight sergeant Mark Gibson was on board an RAF Hercules when it was shot down by suspected Sunni insurgents in
So it’s official – a walk to take in the seasonal colours of autumn is good for our wellbeing, according to new research by the National Trust. Indeed, now is the time for considering what we might want to plant to give us a blaze of autumn colour
Dinner lady Joyce Cox has hung up her apron after 46 years of service at Easton Royal Academy. To mark the occasion, the primary school put on a retirement tea for Mrs Cox and her family. Past headteachers Nicola Coupe, Vivian Swift and Judy
