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  • Village pub punters raise hundreds for air ambulance

    PUBLICANS Mike and Megan Shaw have raised hundreds of pounds for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance with the help of their generous punters.They have held events from quizzes to bingo nights and fancy dress evenings at the popular The Inn with the Well pub in

  • Retiring headteacher leaving on a high

    HEADTEACHER Celia Hicks has announced she is retiring just weeks after helping Preshute Primary School achieve an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating. She has been headteacher of the school in Manton, near Marlborough, since 2010 after moving from Ogbourne

  • UPDATE: A346 reopens after serious crash near Marlborough

    POLICE, fire crews and the air ambulance were in Ogbourne St Andrew near Marlborough this evening after a serious crash involving a car which collided with a tree. Wiltshire Police were called just after 4pm to the incident on the A346 near Wet

  • Duchess is a treat in tartan during Marlborough visit

    CAMILLA the Duchess of Cornwall was a treat in tartan when she stopped in Marlborough to officially open Prospect Hospice’s new outreach centre. She arrived in good spirits having dashed from meeting youngsters at Forest and Sandridge Primary School

  • BOWLS: North Wilts men finish with a flourish

    SAVE the best to last certainly applied to the North Wilts men’s bowls team at the weekend. After an extremely disappointing campaign in this season’s Wessex League they turned up trumps on Sunday morning. They had only won one match this season

  • Corsham company steps up to pay employer's living wage

    A CORSHAM cleaning company has pledged to pay its employees £8.25 per hour by the time the government introduces the new Living Wage this April. Daren Vaughan, managing director of Direct Cleaning Services, decided to pay his 380 cleaners more than the

  • CROSS COUNTRY: Wiltshire's hopes stuck in the mud

    WILTSHIRE’S hopes of success at the 2016 South West Schools’ Cross Country Championships floundered in the mud of Pittville Park, Cheltenham, writes KEVIN FAHEY. The county’s young athletes returned home empty-handed from the event with leading

  • Gardeners needed to support Dorothy House

    KEEN gardeners in Devizes who want to showcase their efforts and raise money for charity are being urged to join a Dorothy House event.Zena Robson chairman of Devizes In Bloom said she was not organising an open garden weekend this year but hoped people

  • Couple's grand design for home in Devizes

    DEVIZES couple Richard and Sue Jackson want to embark on a labour of love to create a new house that would appear to be hundreds of years old. They have received resounding backing from Devizes Town Council for a project to build a new house on

  • Hardenhuish pupils get hands on with chemistry

    PUPILS from Hardenhuish School, Chippenham, had the opportunity to analyse chemicals using cutting edge techniques as part of the Royal Society of Chemistry Spectroscopy in a Suitcase programme. Admittedly, the instruments were large enough to fill several

  • Ex-Gazette reporter raises money for children in Brazil

    A FORMER Wiltshire Gazette & Herald reporter is heading to Brazil next month to support children from around the world taking part in the first-ever Street Child Games. On Saturday, Anne Saunders, 27, who worked for the Gazette under her maiden

  • RUGBY: Devizes 16 Keynsham 15

    DEVIZES produced a thrilling comeback to stun Western Counties North high-flyers Keynsham in the Bath Combination Cup. The Saddlebacks, fourth in Southern Counties South rested players for the tie, allowing the likes of Will Hine, Scott Martin,