The free police messaging service will be available in Calne and Devizes from next week as the last five areas launch the scheme. Residents will be able to sign up to Swindon and Wiltshire Community Messaging which sends out free messages, by email
This week hundreds of wildflowers have been planted on four iron-age barrows at Normanton Down just across the A303 from Stonehenge. These flowers include the classic chalk grassland herbs; kidney and horseshoe vetch, common rockrose, wild thyme
AN 80-year-old man has been taken to hospital after an accident involving a car and a double-decker bus in Calne this afternoon. South West Ambulance services were called to the incident on the A3102 Oxford Road outside Build base just before 2.20pm
Resurfacing work totalling £1.9 million will start next week on the M5 in Gloucestershire improving journeys between Junctions 13 and 14 southbound. The work, starting on the night of Tuesday, February 3, will take place along a three and a half
The Met Office has issued a yellow warning of icy stretches on Wiltshire's roads tonight and on Saturday morning. Ice is likely to form on untreated surfaces on Friday evening, overnight and into Saturday morning while snow may fall on high ground
LOREN Bleaken is this week celebrating her first international call-up for the England senior team, writes Kevin Fahey. The 19-year-old former Hardenhuish School student from Marshfield has been selected for an England team to race the 400m indoors
A Chippenham family had a lucky escape after their tumble drier left to run overnight caught fire. There were no smoke detectors in the house on St Peter’s Close, off Lowden, but luckily someone had stayed up late on Wednesday night and heard the
Barnardo's Children’s Centre in Corsham is turning to Facebook in the hope of reaching more members of the community. The charity in Kings Avenue provides free support to parents and carers of under-fives and last year worked with more than 1,200
TRANSPORT chief Patrick McLoughlin felt the frustrations of Chippenham commuters yesterday. The minister for transport pulled into Chippenham station at 5.25pm and revealed he had been standing on his journey from Bath. “I stood myself from
DAUNTSEY’S School teacher Allister Sheffield clinched victory in Sunday’s Slaughterford 9 near Corsham. Geography master Sheffield stopped the clock in 56 minutes and 51 seconds to finish nearly half a minute ahead of Guy Woods, who also lifted
PLEAS have been made to help protect wildlife following the death of a duck which had been fed bread. At a Marlborough Town Council meeting on Monday evening Val Compton, of Kennet Place, asked the council to start a campaign encouraging people
THE long-held dream of a single-site primary school for Marlborough will finally become a reality next year. The long-running bid to amalgamate St Peter’s and St Mary’s Schools has now been approved by Wiltshire Council’s cabinet member for children
