STUDENTS from The St John's Academy Choir travelled to London yesterday to take part in the final of the Barnardo's National Choir competition at the Royal Festival Hall. The choir, consisting of 29 girls from Years 8-13 and directed by Max More
A FEMALE pedestrian has been involved in a collision with a car in Baydon. Several officers and paramedics are on the scene in Barley Fields, near Aldbourne Road, which has been closed. A spokesman from South West Ambulance Service said: "We
THERE may have been a few tears along the way but Jemima Duxberry is back dreaming of the Olympics after a sparkling return from injury. Not long after competing at the European Junior Championships in Bucharest in September 2014, the Devizes judoka
AFTER being refused service in Sainsbury's in Chippenham as they were deemed to be too drunk, three men took matters into their own hands and stole lager worth more than £60. Within the hour a fight broke out at Chippenham railway station and the
A MAJOR development of 175 homes and a 60-bed hotel in Marlborough has been given the green light by Wiltshire Council’s strategic planning committee – despite residents’ fierce objections over traffic fears. The Salisbury Road plans, opposite
HEALS of Malmesbury has launched its annual appeal and will this year raise funds for people with mental health issues and the homeless. The support group, which stands for Help, Empowerment and Local Support, was set up to help those in need and
A WEEKEND away visiting friends turned into much more than your usual spell of merrymaking for Liam Dawson as he received the breathtaking news of his first-ever England call-up. Seven months after he was farmed out on loan by Hampshire to Division
THIS week I held another of my Constituency Volunteers Days in Westminster which gives me an opportunity to say thank you to some of the people who give their time, energy and enthusiasm to a myriad of activities right across the Devizes Constituency
IF you mention England’s local government finance system to most people in the pub they will look at you with, at best, a vacant expression but, please bear with me, the funding of our local councils is enormously important to our lives as councils provide
PAUL Braithwaite’s Royal Wootton Bassett Town braved the elements as they recorded a 2-1 victory at bottom-of-the-league Wokingham and Emmbrook. Substitute Steve Olphert scored a late winner to move Bassett up to 10th in the Hellenic League Premier
A COMMUNITY choir which hit all the right notes when it performed in Chippenham has raised more than £1,000 for Julia's House.The All Sorts Community Choir held a concert at the Neeld Hall to raise money for the charity which expects to open a new children's
TWO Wiltshire firms are backing our efforts to raise money for Julia's House children hospice. Active Kitchens and Bathrooms, of Calne, and Banks BHG chartered accountants, from Swindon, have pledged to make Julia's House their charity of the year
THE political banter about Britain’s membership of the European Union is increasing as the time for the promised referendum draws nearer. For understandable reasons, much of the arguments at the moment focus upon migration and the economic threats facing
HUNDREDS of budding actors flocked to an open casting session at St Paul’s Church Hall on Monday for a new TV pilot.The opening shot of ‘Will’ will be set in Chippenham and the London casting agency 2020 Casting were on the hunt for local residents to
STORM Imogen caused upset in Devizes on Monday when its force split in half a flowering cherry tree in a prominent position in the town centre.Devizes Town Council's gardening experts examined the tree at Pennybank flower bed opposite the town hall in
CHIPPENHAM’S inaugural junior parkrun took place on Sunday as young runners braved the elements to complete the course. The organised event involved running two and a half laps of Monkton Park and a total of 62 juniors entered. Valerie Light
BATH & Wiltshire Romans will play all of their home matches out of Corsham RFC’s Lacock Road ground this summer. The Romans are aiming to build on their very successful debut season during which they won the West of England Challenge Cup, the
1.8 BILLION chicken wings were consumed by the 180 million people watching the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California last week. The following night we saw the tens of thousands of French and Russian soldiers in bloody combat at Borodino, and in the Retreat
A BACK pain expert is offering free advice to sufferers at an information evening. Almost 31 million days work days were lost in 2013 due to back, neck and muscle problems, according to the Office for National Statistics. Often we ‘put up and
OVER the last week we have seen the sun a little more than of late, although most of the time conditions were rather cloudy, with the air pressure remaining fairly constant and widely fluctuating temperatures. At last the ground is beginning to dry out
CALNE'S Liam Dawson is the surprise inclusion in England's ICC World Twenty20 squad to travel to India next month. The uncapped Hampshire all-rounder, who has also played for Goatacre, has progressed sufficiently with England Lions to convince
A WOMAN was been seriously injured and another hurt after the car they were travelling in collided with a tree on the A346. Police, fire crews and the air ambulance were all called to the crash near Wet Pits Lane in Ogbourne St Andrew just after
A PENSIONER who molested a girl when she was 12 years old has been warned to expect a jail term. David Harrod, 71, must now register as a sex offender after admitting groping the child in February last year. Harrod had been due to face trial
SCHOOL girl Athena Hopkins is to join her grandfather on stage as he helps raise money for Prostate Cancer Research. Athena, nine, will take to the stage in the ballroom of The Bear Hotel with her grandad Bruce, 68, who was diagnosed with the disease
