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  • Sweet treats as Gazette staff bake for Julia's House

    STAFF at the Gazette and Herald put their baking skills to the test when they produced a fantastic array of treats for a Bake Off Challenge today (Friday) in aid of Julia's House, the charity which is benefiting from the paper's 200th anniversary appeal

  • Sainsbury's Chippenham food donations continue to be a success

    THE Sainsbury’s Chippenham store welcomed a visit from MP Michelle Donelan as the company continues to donate surplus food to good causes.The store donates food that is still healthy, nutritious and within its use-by dates to a number of places, with

  • GreenSquare staff walk for Chippenham charity

    IT was best foot forward from staff at housing association GreenSquare, as they took part in a charity walk to celebrate the company’s 150th anniversary and raise money for a Chippenham charity. Twenty-five members of staff left the company’s Chippenham

  • Site for houses is a real minefield

    PLANS to build 150 houses on top of a working mine in Corsham have been slammed by a Pickwick residents’ group. Mr David Taylor, chairman of The Pickwick Association, said that the Redrow plan to build directly over the live underground quarry

  • St Margaret's boys show clean pair of heels

    BOYS from a Calne school showed their talent for running and swimming when they took all three top places in their age category in a biathlon event. A total of 30 boys and girls from St Margaret’s Preparatory School took part in the British Schools’ Modern

  • Children's harvest gifts boost Devizes Foodbank

    SCORES of harvest gifts donated by children from a Calne school will help people struggling to feed their families.More than 70 bags brimming with a wide variety of tinned and packet food were brought in to St Margaret’s Preparatory School and have now

  • Science teachers in the making

    WOULD-BE teachers have started their training at Devizes School after it received Government approval to run its own courses.Six students from Bath Spa will be at the school three times a year to work with the science department as part of the School

  • Music festival helps Julia's House to rock on

    FESTIVAL goers have ensured the new children's hospice in Devizes can rock on by helping to raise £10,000 for Julia's House. Lucy Babb and Rob Challice from the Larmer Tree Festival visited the site of the hospice to hand over the money and see

  • Anger at homes plan approval in Sutton Benger

    RESIDENTS in Sutton Benger are angry that a development of 14 homes in the village, including six affordable houses, has been approved, especially after their local councillor, who asked that the application was decided by a committee rather than officers