Latest articles from Sam Blanchard

Car stolen in Trowbridge burglary

Wiltshire Police are appealing for information after a car and two handbags were stolen from a house in Trowbridge in the early hours of this morning.

Plea to build in town rather than on fields

NEW homes should be built in empty town buildings and on already-developed land, a Trowbridge man has said, as open fields near his house and around the town remain under threat from planners.

Have your say on housing plans

WILTSHIRE Council wants people’s views on its plans for the future of housebuilding in the county and last month held exhibitions in Trowbridge, Devizes, Chippenham and Salisbury to show where new homes could be built over the next nine years.

Trader locked out after stall rent battle

A TROWBRIDGE shopkeeper says her life has ‘come to a standstill’ after she was locked out of her stall in Castle Place market hall by landlords who say she hasn’t paid the rent – a claim she fiercely denies.

Urgent appeal for Spitfire documentary

AS Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk takes the silver screen by storm this week, a documentary that looks at Trowbridge’s role in building the iconic Spitfire planes that helped win the Second World War is in dire need of funding so it can be completed.

Bypass path closure ‘madness’

A HILPERTON councillor is angry that Wiltshire Council has chosen the summer holiday to fence off and resurface a busy footpath between the village and Trowbridge.