Police take to Twitter to highlight problem drinkers

Knife raid on Chippenham newsagents

5:28pm Friday 24th May 2013

Wiltshire Police will be using Twitter to highlight the alcohol-fuelled crimes they deal with this weekend, as part of a national scheme.

Corsham on marks for festival of all things food

5:24pm Friday 24th May 2013

The quality, wealth and diversity of local food will be celebrated at this year’s Corsham Food & Drink Festival on June 15 in the town centre.

Young Corsham artists in the frame

Young artists Polly Vigas, Emily George, Celina Dalecka, Andrew Stott and Nathaniel Faulkner are helping to organise the Conscious/Subconscious exhibition at The Pound

5:00pm Friday 24th May 2013

A team of young artists from Corsham are helping organise a new exhibition, aimed at promoting the best young artists from across the south west.

Campaigners hope for share of £16.9m pot for Wiltshire transport schemes

Campaigners display information to drum up support for the re-opening of Corsham Railway Station in 2009, one of ten projects now shortlisted for funding

2:00pm Friday 24th May 2013

Wiltshire Council has selected the A350 in Chippenham and projects in West Wiltshire to be put on a shortlist for Government funding.

Duncan Hames, MP for Chippenham - Compensation is due if price fixing claim is true

12:00pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

The reports last week that big oil companies may have been engaging in price-fixing are shocking. It is claimed their alleged actions could have raised the price we pay at the pumps by eight pence per litre. In Parliament last week I raised this with the Energy Secretary, reminding him that if customers have been ripped off, they should be compensated.

Aliens land in sci-fi flick set within Box village

Director Jo Crow with actors John Ruddock, left, Sara Jobling and Albert Stacey in the community film project Brunel and the Aliens, which was filmed in Box

1:00pm Thursday 16th May 2013

A team of intergalactic explorers have boldly gone to Box as aliens landed ahead of the Box Revels on the Whitsun bank holiday weekend at the end of May.

Corsham husband's gift of life to wife

Michael and Pamela Hill side by side in hospital

8:00am Thursday 16th May 2013

Devoted husband Michael Hall saved his wife’s life after discovering they were a perfect match.

New chairman of Corsham Town Council elected

8:50am Wednesday 15th May 2013

Corsham Town Council has elected Councillor Ruth Hopkinson to serve as chairman for the next year, eight years after she first joined the council.

Box Revels takes on a sci-fi theme in salute to Dr Who

Box Revellers Nigel Ingledew, Lisa Creighton and Emily Knight mock up a scene from The Hunger Games in which Effie Trinket is apprehended by Men in Black

4:41pm Monday 13th May 2013

Residents of Box are gearing up for the annual Box Revels fun on the bank holiday weekend, May 24-27, including an outdoor screening of the futuristic cult film The Hunger Games.

Sea of support forCorsham teenager’s surfing dream

Sue Davies limbers up with Karen and Jess Reynolds (

10:00am Friday 10th May 2013

A seriously ill teenager could soon see her dream to surf come true, thanks to a fitness fanatic friend of the family.

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I refer to the article on Chippenham RFC seeking permission from the Rugby Football Union to allow their second team to be promoted to Southern Counties (level seven of the RFU league structure) should they finish top of Dorset & Wilts 1 North (level eight), (Gazette & Herald, February 28). The most interesting aspect of the article was actually what was not said by the club’s representative or was not mentioned.  − Colin Brockhurst, Corsham

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A newsletter hit my doormat on March 2 from ‘Nick Watts and the Lib Dem team’ headlined: Freeze Wilts council tax say Lib Dems. This document goes on to tell us that: “hard-working families cannot afford unnecessary council tax hikes in these difficult times” and so “Nick Watts and the Liberal Democrats have promised not to support any attempt by Wiltshire Conservatives to hit families by increasing council tax this year”.  − Peter Kemp, Chippenham

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