Halesowen Town 2-1 Chippenham Town. Ten man Chippenham Town suffered play-off agony for the third time as they squandered the lead to lose 2-1 at Halesowen Town. After a tension wracked first hour the game exploded into life when substitute Sam Allison
After a particularly grim meeting in Swindon the other day, which was just a shade less uplifting than an undertakers' convention, I received the perfect antidote when I went to judge the area finals of the Young Enterprise competition. I went expecting
Halesowen Town 2-1 Chippenham Town. Please click refresh for the latest updates. IT'S ALL OVER. Final score. Halesowen 2-1 Chippenham Town. The Bluebirds players sink to their knees. They are drained and beaten. The trip back to Wiltshire
Little Cheverell-based Australian Clayton Fredericks impressed in the first day of dressage at The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials today. Despite blustery conditions and a heavy rain shower Nullabor remained focused on his rider, producing a
Football: Warm yourself up for tonight's live Gazette text commentary on the Bluebirds by watching highlights of their abandoned play-off semi-final clash with Halesowen. Chippenham were leading 3-2 on Tuesday in a thrilling start before the game was
Drinker Christopher Skinner, who left a woman with a badly broken leg after he punched her outside a pub, has walked free from court. Skinner, 24, of Queens Avenue, Highworth, lashed out after throwing paint about outside the King and Queens in Highworth
Management, staff, officials and supporters of the Castle Combe Circuit were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Peter Baskett, former Chief Medical Officer at the Wiltshire track for more than 40 years and an integral part of the medical team up
THE third Grafton Game Fair held on Friday and Saturday proved to be a huge success. The popular fair was enjoyed by around 2,000 people. Set in the field adjoining Wilton Water, with easy access and free parking, sporting visitors and many families
MORE than 70 dogs and their owners took part in a walk around Lackham Country Park and raised money for a Wiltshire based project to re-establish Great Bustard birds. Animal science and management students at Lackham College organised the walk on Sunday
RECORD number of runners helped raise £4,500 to fund research into dementia at Corsham St George's 10k race on Sunday. The run attracted 630 runners, an increase of 110 on last year. The race is organised by Corsham Running Club and Corsham Rotary Club
TRADERS have once again welcomed the boost likely to be brought by Badminton Horse Trials this weekend. Every year horse lovers flock to the area to go to the famous equestrian event, bringing extra cash to local businesses at the same time. Villagers
DESPITE nearing 70 and having rheumatoid arthritis, grandmother Cilla Labouchere will ride her beloved horse 250 miles through Wiltshire for charity. Mrs Labouchere, 69, from Kington St Michael, has set herself the challenge of riding her horse Gypsy
ROYAL Air Force pilot Tim Burgess walked around with a broken neck for six months without realising and even continued to play rugby for Pewsey. Now the Lyneham flyer is swapping his cockpit for a saddle for a charity bike ride. The RAF flight lieutenant
COMMUNITY minded volunteers are being sought for Wiltshire's neighbourhood policing teams. The teams are one of the county's big success stories, according to Assistant Chief Constable Andy Marsh, who launched a three-month awareness campaign at police
PC Georgina Calderbank of Wiltshire Police has definetely found her calling. During her first night on patrol accompanied by a professional Development Officer, PC Emma Reed, the rookie officer and her tutor were called to a report of suspicious activity
The Gazette will again bring you live text commentary from Chippenham Town's play-off clash at Halesowen tonight. The Bluebirds travel to The Grove again after Tuesday's washout, which saw just 32 minutes played before the game was abandoned due to a
These will be going on general sale from next week. They're £6 each and you can get them from Devizes Books, the British Lion or by post from: DBF Tickets 9 Walden Lodge Close, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 5BU (Cheques payable to 'Devizes CAMRA', enclose
THE queen still had ten years still to go to accede to the throne and men were paid shillings as opposed to pounds a week when Charlie and Yvonne Elkins were married. Last Thursday the couple celebrated their blue sapphire 65th wedding anniversary at
SUPERSTAR DJ and producer Mark Ronson will be treading the boards at Bowood this summer thanks to his friendship with local event manager James Walden. Mr Walden, 30, from Semington and his younger brother Nick, 26, have put together a two-day music
A school bus collided with a CS electrical van this morning in Marden at around 7:45 am. Paramedics. ambulance staff and two police cars attended the accident. Chris Mallet, who lives nearby commented, "Villagers have been campaigning about the
Stephanie Millward has had her place the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games confirmed by the GB team - and is celebrating with Pepsi. The 26-year-old Chippenham swimmer, from Cepen Park South, was expected to get the nod but has finally saw he place on the
WIDOW Julie Goss has paid tribute to her husband just weeks after an inquest recorded an open verdict on the death of the father-of-three. Businessman Steve Goss, the former owner of Swindon movie memorabilia shop Infinitely Better, died on August 24
DEVIZES art gallery owner Juliet Reid didn't know whether to be relieved or horrified when her blue VW Polo rolled away and into the front of a video shop. A classic motorbike was crushed in the incident, which happened in St John's Street, Devizes,
YOUNG tycoons showed off their business prowess at the area finals of Wiltshire's Young Enterprise competition. During the finals at Cumberwell Park near Bradford on Avon on Tuesday night seven school teams submitted reports, gave presentations and were
FEARS have been expressed that the Wiltshire Air Ambulance will not be shared with Wiltshire Police in the future and a new helicopter based near Bristol will serve the county. Bosses at the Great Western Ambulance Service met representatives from Wiltshire
HAULAGE company owner Michael Carpenter joined hundreds of lorry drivers in London on Tuesday to protest about rising fuel costs. Around 200 protesters joined forces in the capital to make a stand against the soaring cost of fuel, which they say is killing
SOME of the most expensive petrol in Wiltshire is for sale in Devizes and Marlborough. Yesterday Cannings Hill Garage in Horton Road, Devizes was selling a litre of unleaded petrol for 113.9p while Curry Motors in Bath Road, Devizes was selling a litre
A total of 81 horses came forward for the first horse inspection of the 2008 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials this morning. All passed and now go onto the official start list. The Ground Jury of David Lee (IRL), Marylin Payne (USA) and Judy
THE face of innocence can be seen in these regular soldiers, pictured in 1914 a few months before the outbreak of the First World War. The picture was found by David Hill, 89, who lived in the Devizes area for more than 40 years before moving to Trowbridge
SOME of the most expensive petrol in Wiltshire is for sale in Devizes and Marlborough. Yesterday Cannings Hill Garage in Horton Road, Devizes was selling a litre of unleaded petrol for 113.9p while Curry Motors in Bath Road, Devizes was selling a litre
THERE was no shortage of celebrities to carry out the formal opening of a new playground at Great Bedwyn - the children themselves. Storms had threatened to delay the opening on Thursday of the new children's play area on the village's Memorial Field
DIAMOND wedding couple Raymond and Pam Duveen were both soldiers in the Second World War. Mr Duveen, 86, spent the war, including a year in India, with the Royal West Kent Regiment and the Intelligence Corps. His wife, 88, was commissioned into an anti
A TEAM of eight women from Marlborough and Wootton Rivers are in training for the Moonwalk in London on May 17, raising funds for breast cancer research. The Playtex Moonwalk grossed more than £4.9million in 2007 and this year the organisers hope to
RESIDENTS and businesses are urged to spruce up their gardens and enter this year's Devizes in Bloom competition. Devizes Town Council organises the annual event and it hopes by getting maximum participation from people in Devizes and Roundway that it
DEVIZES Town Council is urging Wiltshire County Council to help stop motorists speeding in Bath Road, Devizes. The town council was contacted by James Bates, a resident of Park Dale Terrace in Bath Road, who thinks that reducing the speed limit from
DEVIZES Town Council could take on the running of markets in the town and other services when Kennet District Council is abolished next year. With the creation of one council for Wiltshire next April some services could be transferred to town and parish
Super successful Urchfont Primary School is set to be merged with failing Upavon. School governors have agreed to consult parents and the wider community on a collaborative re-start', to amalgamate Urchfont with Upavon Primary School, which was put into
VILLAGERS in Ogbourne St George fear trees planted by their new squire Andrew Tuckey may obscure their views to distant downland. They say Mr Tuckey, a City financier, was aware of their fears when he planted 5,000 trees on five acres of open meadow.
Last year's Badminton winner Lucinda Fredericks is taking a calculated gamble by not entering the horse trials this weekend. Lucinda, from Little Cheverell, has put her Olympic hopes first by not competing with Headingly Britannia as she looks
THE newly-formed campaign group, the Quakers Walk Protection Group, is holding a public meeting in Devizes on Tuesday to raise the profile of the endangered local bridleway. Developers Taylor Wimpey have plans to build 244 houses on land bordering the
Chippenham Town director Sandie Webb has moved to quell fears of a rift between the board and manager Adie Mings ahead of tonight's crucial re-arranged play-off semi-final at Halesowen. The Bluebirds board and Mings were at loggerheads before Tuesday's
Badminton 2008: Harry Meade is ready to embrace his nerves as he prepares for the Badminton Horse Trials this weekend. The 24-year-old, from West Littleton, will take Midnight Dazzler and Birthday Night into the event, which runs from Thursday
James Dyson is set to do his own version of a Chinese takeaway as he gets ready to move his testing division to the Far East. Dyson broke the news to employees in Malmesbury this week that it is considering relocating the testing division to China.
Wiltshire riders are preparing for the biggest stage of their careers when they compete at the Badminton Horse Trials at the weekend. The county will see a plethora of competitors desperate to take the coveted crown at the event, which starts today and
THE spectre of another 1,900 homes in Devizes in the next 20 years is haunting councillors as a consultation begins into the next district plan. As traffic along London Road crawls to a halt during rush hours and a planning application is awaited for
Chippenham Town: Kye Holly realises he sould have walked in Tuesday's abandoned play-off semi-final and is hoping luck will be on their side against Halesowen again tonight. The midfielder handled Stuart Pierpoint's header on the line after just five
Buoyant David Pratt believes Chippenham Town would have won Tuesday's abandoned play-off semi-final clash with Halesowen had it lasted the distance. The 20-year-old grabbed the Bluebirds' third goal to put them 3-2 up after just 22 minutes but, ten minutes
SCORES of people in Chippenham have signed a petition in a bid to stop a gypsy site being built close to their homes. Families from the Hardens Mead and Long Close area were outraged to learn that land at the back of their homes had been earmarked for
by assistant boss TOMMY CALLINAN I CAN'T remember seeing a game like Tuesday's wash-out at Halesowen. We were 1-0 up after a minute and then it was 1-1 after only three minutes. Then we were 3-2 up after about 20 so it was an awesome, awesome, start
BEING on crutches is doing my head in at the moment, I can't see any movement forward with my knee. I have done a bit of swimming and it blew up and I have done a bit of cycling and it ached. Maybe it is me being a bit too cautious but you can't help
There should be a great weekends racing at Newmarket with the first of the season's Classics, the Two Thousand Guineas, to be run on Saturday and the One Thousand on Sunday. Likely favourite for the Saturday showpiece is the Irish trained New Approach
Cricket: On the eve of the new season, former England cricket captain Mike Gatting says Corsham's youth system is one of the best he has ever seen. The 50-year-old was at the club's Station Road ground on Saturday to officially open their new £35,000
Cricket: New Devizes cricket captain Pat Legge is upset with the club languishing in the Wiltshire League -and is ready to let people know about it. The club avoided relegation from the Wiltshire League despite finish bottom after two Gloucester League
Cricket: Confident Chippenham captain Steve Silk is ready to combine youth with experience as he aims for an assault on promotion. The Glos/Wilts outfit are aiming for the title in their second year after relegation from Premier Two in 2006. Silk's
Wiltshire Youth Cricket League: Marshfield U13 welcomed Chippenham to Broadleys on Sunday for their opening league game of the season. Weather conditions were variable with the game commencing in sunshine, followed by showers and a distinct drop in temperature
Athletics: Under 17 athlete Heather Cumming smashed her personal best three times in the high jump on Saturday. Heather, from Box representing Team Bath, was competing in the Southern Women's Division 2 match at Bournemouth. She sailed over 1.63m
Voting has almost concluded to elect this season's player of the year, and with 17 men having made sufficient appearances to be in the running, for my money there are four in contention. Peter Brezovan might have been a certainty to win the award last
Great Somerford's Beanie Sturgis is hoping her horse Monarch's Rock will have overcome the problems he suffered at the tail end of the 2007 season at this week's Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials. The four star 3 day event, held over the
Great Somerford's Beanie Sturgis is hoping her horse Monarch's Rock will have overcome the problems he suffered at the tail end of the 2007 season at this week's Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials. The four star 3 day event, held over the
Georgie Spence is under no illusions of the challenge ahead but is heading into her first Badminton Horse Trials with an open mind. The former Stonar School pupil, from Foxham, will compete in the world famous three day event, which starts today
Very few men are rewarded with a new headstone 52 years after their burial and even fewer would have a service dedicating that edifice attended by senior clergy and an entire MCC team, in addition to famous cricketers, administrators and writers. That
Swimming: Stephanie Millward says she is living the dream as she sits by the letterbox waiting for confirmation of her Paralympic qualification. The 26-year-old from Cepen Park South, Chippenham, should receive official confirmation of her place in the
A WATCHFUL set of eyes could soon be trained on Cricklade. Proposals have been floated to install a CCTV camera system in the town - which could cost up to £57,000. A proposed system of nine cameras, at various strategic points around the town centre
Youth rugby: Chippenham's Under 15s won the Dorset & Wilts Cup for the second consecutive year in a bruising encounter with Bournemouth at North Dorset RFC on Sunday. The game was a re-run of last year's final and lived up to all expectations. Bournemouth
Touch rugby: Touch Rugby has come to Chippenham Rugby Football Club and has really taken off during the season. Will Wilkinson is the co-ordinator for Touch Rugby at Chippenham. He said: "We started playing Touch Rugby last summer and we meet each
Rugby: Chippenham made it through to the final of this year's Bath Combination Cup with yet another last-gasp win over Bath University. Bath led 25 -8 with eight minutes left on the clock but at the final whistle, Chippenham had snatched the win with
The father of a Malmesbury teenager who died after crashing his scooter into a skip has pledged to sue the hire firm he blames for his son's death. Alexander Grayson, 16, from Malmesbury, failed to notice a "minimally lit" skip as he rode his Peugeot
Prince William comforted the family of a dead soldier after accompanying his body home from Afghanistan, it was revealed today. William met relatives of Trooper Robert Pearson, 22, at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire on Monday as he returned from a secret
Unmanned flying saucers, tri-blade helicopters and moonbuggies are among the futuristic vehicles that could one day help UK troops search out enemy threats. The search systems, which are being developed by business and university teams as part
THIEVES used a three-year-old child as they swiped hundreds of pounds of clothes from an Old Town shop. The shameless duo - believed to be mother and daughter - took a toddler into Nine in Wood Street on Tuesday. Once they were inside shop owner Laura
Melinda Messenger and her husband Wayne Roberts have spoken to a celebrity magazine to end speculation into why they have separated. In what Melinda's agent Jaine Brent described as a one-off interview with Hello! Magazine, the couple, who started their
THE former husband of Princess Anne was in court today to hear a judge halt a prosecution against his eventing company Equiland. Captain Mark Philips firm and two of its directors, Timothy Clayton and Timothy Henson, were charged with failing to discharge
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a kitchen fire at a house in Chippenham yesterday morning. Crews from Chippenham, Calne and Melksham attended the house at 45 Oaklands, at about 11.34am after smoke was seen coming from the property. The fire stemmed
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw Theatre Royal Bath Forget the sugary glamour of My Fair Lady. This is Shaw at his sharpest, clearest and least sentimental. It's very funny, but with an ouch. For anyone unfamiliar with the story, Professor Henry
IMBER, the village seven miles from Devizes taken over by the Army in 1943 and never returned to its inhabitants, still rankles in the public mind after all this time. An exhibition at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum chronicles life in the village before
Wootton Bassett Light Operatic Society's Spring production, Nunsense, provided four fun-filled evenings at the Memorial Hall last week. Dan Goggin's hilarious musical, which offered an affectionately comic slant on Catholicism, concerned the fund-raising
An amateur dramatic society faces a massive challenge in tackling the stage version of a hit TV series. The Phoenix Players' absolute triumph last week, in The Darling Buds of May, H E Bates' engaging tale of the Larkin family, reflected this company's
