Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is challenging everyone to take part in a food-waste free event this year. The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee coincides with the trust’s 50th anniversary, and it’s encouraging people to take part in a waste-free big Jubilee
The Wiltshire Air Ambulance has been chosen as the charity of the year by Sainsbury’s in Bath Road, Chippenham. For the next year, the charity will benefit from a year-long link with the superstore, during which time staff will organise fundraising
RIDERS from three local clubs are among the qualifiers for this weekend’s British Riding Clubs NAF Festival of the Horse at Aston le Walls in Northants. A young team from Swindon Riding Club will be action in the Junior Combined Training championship
LAURA Collett has conceded that her chances of making the London 2012 Olympic Games are over after she was eliminated at Saumur last week, writes SAM MORSHEAD. Collett, who is based at the Membury Estate near Marlborough, had an outside chance of making
A 57-year-old man was airlifted to hospital with head injuries he received in a parachuting accident in Everleigh on Sunday. The man, who has not been named but who is thought to be a member of the armed services, suffered the injuries in a parachute
A GREAT Bustard released in Wiltshire has been seen in northern France, the Great Bustard Group has announced. It is quite normal for the world’s heaviest flying bird to roam far and wide and it is not the first time that Great Bustards released on Salis-bury
A burglar was so sick and tired of living with paedophiles and drug dealers that he "broke out" of an open prison to make a point, a court has heard. Lee Marc Fitchett, 29, of Longclose Avenue, Rudloe, near Chippenham, walked out of HMP Leyhill because
WILTSHIRE riders Tom McEwen and Lucinda Fredericks finished in the money at the Subaru UK Houghton Hall International Horse Trials in Norfolk. Hodson’s McEwen, 20, who has won gold for Britain at Pony and Young Rider European Championship level
His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester is to visit Crofton beam engines near Pewsey on the Kennet and Avon Canal. The Duke is due to visit the attraction on June 16 in celebration of 200 years operation of the Boulton and Watt engine - the oldest
Although Chippenham has not been awarded Portas pilot town status, the team dedicated to improving the town is forging ahead with its plans. Cherish Chippenham, a group comprising independent traders, business owners, councillors and the public
