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Heads back schools’ responsibility for educating excluded pupils

8:00am Saturday 28th January 2012

Headteachers in Wiltshire believe that shifting responsibility for educating permanently excluded pupils to schools will lead to better outcomes for young people.

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Give ale a try for England

8:00pm Friday 27th January 2012

DEVIZES brewers Wadworth & Co are coming to the rescue of dispirited England rugby supporters with an early launch of its favourite spring seasonal ale St George & The Dragon.

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Band to aim high in contest

6:40pm Friday 27th January 2012

THE award-winning Ald-bourne Band, who are first section national champions, can possibly claim another record for performing at least one concert every year for almost half a century.

Aldbourne band

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Stage is set for a Bard showdown

5:20pm Friday 27th January 2012

ALL the world is a stage for student Emily Kamp who will appear on TV after beating 2,000 entrants to reach the final of a national Shakes-peare recital competition.

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Database of county’s war tributes set to mark WWI anniversary

4:00pm Friday 27th January 2012

ONE man has been tasked with finding all of Wiltshire’s hidden war memorials for documentation in a catalogue.

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Malmesbury traders fear for future if supermarket plans approved

3:00pm Friday 27th January 2012

AS Waitrose submits its planning application to build in Malmesbury, local traders fear it could be the ‘death knell’ for the High Street.

Rape case is sent to court

2:00pm Friday 27th January 2012

A Calne man charged with rape is to face a crown court hearing next month.

Probe after blaze rips through garages

1:00pm Friday 27th January 2012

FIRE crews from Devizes and Calne fought a blaze in two adjoining garages at a house in Little Horton, near Devizes, in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Show of pride from families and town as soldiers receive freedom of Chippenham

12:00pm Friday 27th January 2012

EMOTIONS ran high as soldiers from the 9th Regiment Royal Logistics Corps, based at Buckley Barracks, were given the freedom of Chippenham last Thursday.

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Row over 007 movie

11:00am Friday 27th January 2012

SCENES in the new James Bond film, which were apparently inspired by the repatriations in Royal Wootton Bassett, have divided opinion across the town.

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Urchfont Manor sale row erupts

10:00am Friday 27th January 2012

WILTSHIRE Council says it will work with the parish council to endeavour to protect community access to Urchfont Manor estate when it sells it off later this year.

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Jailed Marlborough teacher may keep job

9:30am Friday 27th January 2012

The career of Latin and classics teacher Eleanor Brown may not be over as St John’s School governors have not ruled out her return when she ends her 20-month prison sentence.

Marlborough nurse died after tragic fall

9:40am Friday 27th January 2012

Nurse practitioner Caroline Morley, 27, who was found dead downstairs at her Marlborough home while her three year old daughter Isabella slept upstairs had a tragic fall and then took codeine tablets because she was confused, an inquest concluded.