Police are appealing for witnesses after a burglary in the Penn Hill farm area of Calne between 9pm on November 30 and 9.10am on December 1. A black Canon IXUS 220HS camera, with a crack in the viewing screen, was taken. Call Wiltshire Police on
Pewsey Vale Amateur Dramatic Society is performing Beauty and the Beast the Pantomime at the Bouverie Hall on January 16, 17, 23 and 24 at 7.30pm. There will also be matinee performances on both Saturdays at 2.30pm. Tickets cost £8 for adults
CORSHAM Neighbourhood Policing Team has launched its Community Messaging service updating residents on crime in the area. Messages are sent via email, text or voicemail and will deal with topics such as community policing news and events, appeals
AFTER spreading festive spirit among elderly residents in Marlborough for more than a decade, Joy and Nigel Kerton are hanging up their aprons and stepping down from organising the Christmas Day lunch. They have run the event for 11 years but have
ABOUT 100 Christmas trees were snapped up in Malmesbury over the weekend in aid of the beleaguered country where Christmas has reportedly been cancelled. Charity worker Kim Findlay raised nearly £1,800 for Sierra Leone selling the festive firs
CHRISTMAS has officially arrived in Corsham as families flocked to the town’s cobbled streets to watch the lights being turned on. Thousands of people descended on the town to soak up the festive atmosphere, watch artificial snow fall, ride donkeys
A TEAM of Wiltshire Police officers are shaving their heads in support of colleague Mel Neal, who will have brain surgery next month. Miss Neal, 31, who is a police officer in Chippenham, is nervous about the eight-hour operation which will remove
MARLBOROUGH postman Samuel Dixon has been suspended after a court found he had been unlawfully claiming Disability Living Allowance. Dixon, of Kitchener Street, Gorse Hill, Swindon, was warned he could be jailed when he appeared at Swindon Crown
The achievements and bravery of military personnel have been recognised in a ceremony at the Royal Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. Great British Bake Off star Mary Berry, Jeremy Clarkson, Mark Wright, Greg Rutherford and others chat about
CAMPAIGNERS say their unsuccessful attempt to stop a 28-home development in Studley has at least brought the village together. Last Wednesday Wiltshire Council’s north area planning committee approved an application by the site owners, the Trustees
WILTSHIRE Council has defended its decision to scrap its lowest housing band of bronze and to remove some people from its silver category. The council this week claimed that most of those on the bronze level had no housing needs and should look
Insulation sheets have been stolen from the Springfield Community Campus, Corsham. A member of the public saw a white van with a trailer close by just before 8pm on December 1. .... Friends of Chippenham Museum will present A Winter Wassail
Wiltshire will not have a dedicated air ambulance in New Year until the new helicopter gets full safety clearance, it was revealed today. Originally it was expected that the new helicopter, a Bell 429, would go into service on January 1, following
A BABY hedgehog named Van Gogh is recovering after emergency surgery on an ear. The critter was found in distressed condition by a man in Malmesbury who contacted the Oak and Furrows Wildlife Rescue Centre of Somerford Keynes. The centre’s
A man arrested in Devizes early on Friday morning in connection with threatening an officer with a bladed article has now been charged with an offence and remanded in custody. Luke Smith, 29, from Salisbury, was arrested in the early hours of Friday
