A MAN who ran a meditation centre in the heart of the Avebury stone circle and had been accused of running a multi-million pound cannabis factory in a Cheltenham house committed suicide before police could charge him, a judge was told today (Thursday)
A HGV lorry has struck a gas main in Colerne on Tutton Hill near the Six Bells Inn. The incident happened just after 3pm today and one fire crew from Chippenham attended to make the scene safe but has now left. We are currently in attendance
The Army's new state-of-the-art armoured reconnaissance vehicles are being used on Salisbury Plain as part of Exercise Wessex Storm. The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, who have just moved back to the UK after 40 years in Germany, are changing roles
MORE than 70 people walked a mile from the centre of Devizes to Hillworth Park to raise awareness and money for a charity that provides support to bereaved parents. Teresa Steele, who runs the Devizes branch of SANDS to help families who have suffered
A Sherston pub which has been fighting a council planning order for the last two months is near completion and will open to the public this week. For the last six months Pete Brock has been renovating The Carpenter Arms on the edge of Sherston
A DERELICT 18th-century Grade Listed II chapel in the heart of Malmesbury has been bought for the town for more than £150,000, almost a year after campaigners thought they had lost the chance to own it.Thanks to unexpected offers of extra money, The Friends
CHIPPENHAM Town manager Mark Collier is more than happy with his pre-season preparation as he looks ahead to the new Evo-Stik League Southern Premier Division season. Collier’s squad has resumed summer training following their narrow failure to
ARMIES of Vikings and Anglo Saxons fought it out in a Wiltshire village over the weekend to commemorate 1,000 years since the Battle of Sherston. Actors from Britain’s oldest and largest Dark Age re-enactment group The Vikings plunged Sherston back into
CALNE Library has re-opened to the public following the completion of refurbishment works last Saturday. The work was being carried out to prepare for the relocation of the Calne Community Hub, which is taking place in the week beginning Monday
The UK's largest department store group John Lewis has donated £1,200 to assist schools in Malmesbury with their WOMAD project. John Lewis has donated the sum to help Malmesbury School, Malmesbury Primary and Brinkworth Earl Danby with their creative
CHIPPENHAM toddler Jacob Withers remains in hospital, after undergoing a second operation to remove part of a brain tumour, while his family works to raise £150,000 to fly out to America for life-saving treatment.The 19-month-old was diagnosed with a
AFTER nearly a decade at an award-winning pub, a fifth generation landlady is settling in nicely to her new surroundings at Bromham’s Greyhound. Tara Adams, 46, and her chef husband Danny, 41, took over the pub in the High Street in mid-May and
BARBURY is the perfect venue to give the new Event Rider Masters series its big television launch, according to the competition’s chief executive Chris Stone. The series is new for 2016, bringing together six of the country’s top CIC*** events
A MOTHER from Rudloe claims discount retailer Poundland ignored her warnings about a faulty phone charger which burned her daughter's fingers and could have set fire to her home. Ann Hazell, of Club Row, bought the iPhone 5s charger from Poundland's
CRICKET can be immensely frustrating when things are not going your way but with the potential of my England debut on the horizon I have to keep focused on the positives. We were massively up against it again against Somerset in our four-day County
CHIPPENHAM MP Michelle Donelan has called on the Prime Minister to stamp out racial hatred, after one of her former staff members was racially abused. Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Ms Donelan explained how an ex-member of her staff, who
A LITTLE bit of history was made last week as Corsham Primary became the first primary school in Wiltshire to earn a Healthy School Gold Award. After years of working their way up from bronze and silver, on Monday representatives from the school
RISING star Tom Alsop is riding the crest of a wave at the moment and is savouring every second of his blossoming senior career at Hampshire. After progressing through the south coast club’s academy, the 20-year-old left-hander, who hails from
THE MANAGER of a Lockeridge pub with a reputation for good food says he is disappointed that poor paperwork let down his pub to the extent that it scored zero in a recent food hygiene rating.The Who'd A Thought It in Lockeridge was handed a zero rating
A COMEDY performance from 'boyband' 2Fat4That took Market Lavington Music and Comedy Club by storm, raising over £300 for the Hair Raising campaign which is helping Devizes mum Abi Jeffries and her daughter Rae.2Fat4That pulled in over 100 people
PUPILS from Devizes School’s Year 11 dressed in their finest and danced the night away at their end of school prom. Arriving in a wide variety of extravagant cars and carriages, the Year 11s pulled out all the stops to look their best for their
IT was lovely to see so many people enjoying the Wiltshire Armed Forces and Veterans’ Weekend held in Trowbridge Park. The military parades, the Warminster Military Wives Choir, to name but a few, the stands and side shows and especially the Walwayne
I WOULD like to take this opportunity to say a big thank-you to the excellent doctors and nurses at Green Lane Hospital. After my recent admission on the 136 Suite on Saturday, in which I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, the nursing staff
I AM writing this to my European friends in anger to try and explain why we Brits have turned our back on Europe. You have probably been watching Sky news or CNN about the impending disaster which I fear is going to happen in the UK. Well,
BUSINESS owners are angry and upset after the sudden closure of Chippenham’s The Gym UK forced their own businesses, which they had invested thousands of pounds in, to close.The three companies, CK Clinic, Compass Cuts and Netspin, all located at Bumpers
IT was interesting to read Claire Perry’s column in your paper dated June 23. She commented on the tragic and untimely death of Jo Cox which united people across the political spectrum with disbelief that this could happen to an MP going about her
COMMUTERS travelling through Marlborough faced a three-mile queue of traffic when a lorry became stuck. The Hungarian articulated lorry was making its way into Herd Street from The Green junction on Tuesday when it became stuck between two houses
WHAT a difference a week makes! Last Thursday a majority of North Wiltshire’s voters rejected our Brexit MP, James Gray’s advice and joined me in voting to remain in the European Union. A fact confirmed by the deputy returning officer at the end
PEOPLE living near the Station Road car park in Devizes are starting to lose their patience with the 'boy racers' who meet in the car park every evening.The residents of houses that back on to the car park have made complaints to the police about
I DECIDED to attend Stonehenge this year to witness summer solstice after missing sunrise from summer solstice last year. I wanted to experience the atmosphere people have only talked about at Stonehenge. As a result, I wanted to capture the moment
ON SATURDAY, June 18, we held a fundraising garden party in aid of The RUH Bath Forever Friends Cancer Care Appeal and also in memory of our daughter Nicola who died of cancer in March 2013. Following a week of very changeable weather Saturday
PEOPLE have voted for change. It is understandable: many people are angry with the way things are. The economy is not working for everyone and austerity has hurt. I believed that remaining in the EU would have created employment and protected workers
WE read with interest your news article about the problems the council had in getting the postal votes organised for the EU referendum. This is because we have had an additional very questionable problem that has yet to be resolved. We were going
THE comments of James Gray MP last week that he would be “prepared” to accept a Remain vote in the EU referendum only if it was by “a reasonable majority (say 60/40)” received national coverage. I wonder if Mr Gray could now clarify whether he
I CAN only agree with MP James Gray’s opinion (Gazette, June 23) that a reasonable majority in the recent Referendum would need to be around 60/40, particularly for such a momentous decision. The result, having been 51.95 per cent for leaving the
WE have learned several hard lessons from last week’s referendum. Above all we have learned that millions of people have a deep anger about the situation they find themselves in, about politicians, about the EU and about what they see as the problems
WILTSHIRE men thumped Worcestershire last weekend to keep alive their hopes of winning their Middleton Cup west group and reaching the quarter-finals for the six successive season. After the disappointment of losing their first inter-counties championship
MARLBOROUGH-based Jonelle Price and Jock Paget were this week named in New Zealand’s four-strong eventing team for Rio. They are joined by two-time individual gold medallist Sir Mark Todd, who will be appearing at his eighth Olympic Games, and
EMERALDS’ Jaden King may have been to Hull and back but it was a trip that was laden with gold. The 14-year-old headed north with Emeralds head coach Liam Lathbury to take part in The Hull Box Cup, which saw competitiors come from all over the
GOATACRE captain Ed Wilkins admits the club’s eyes are inexorably turning towards the home of cricket again after they booked their place in the last 16 of the National Village Cup. The villagers’ love affair with the competition - they were champions
THE 2016 West Country League opened at the Wiltshire School of Gymnastics in Melksham on Sunday, where Chippenham’s Moonraker club sent a party of competitors. Following success in the 2015 League, the Moonraker club earned promotion into Division
