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  • Corsham Festival: Pluck, The specialists

    These three madcap musicians are a splendid means of easing young people into classical music. For while one set of senses is revelling in the buffoonery, another will inevitably be absorbing the music. But they great entertainment for

  • Teenage boy dies in Devizes incident

    A 16-year-old Devizes boy died in the early hours of today in Broadleas Road, Devizes. It is understood the boy was trying to climb a fence when he fell and hit his neck. After he fell and was unconscious his friends tried to give him CPR.

  • Corsham Festival: Festival Walk along the Ladbrook

    An increasingly popular festival fringe event is the Sunday morning walk with expert guides. This year about 35 walkers, and two dogs, joined the trek alongside the Ladbrook in glorious weather, from Corsham to Lacock, and learned how the landscape

  • Steam up in Adlbourne

    These two impressive traction engines attracted a crowd when they stopped at The Green, Aldbourne, yesterday. They were snapped by Wiltshire Council representative Chris Humphries.

  • Lacock burglar remanded in custody

    A man who repeatedly burgled houses in Lacock has been remanded in custody for psychiatric reports. Leroy Wynter was caught on camera as he burgled King John’s Hunting Lodge, the oldest house in Lacock, for the third time in a month. Police installed

  • Horse society sponsors Wiltshire fire and rescue

    The Wiltshire Branch of the British Horse Society has sponsored basic horse handling training for the Wiltshire Fire Service Large Animal Rescue Teams. The Large Animal Rescue project was started in the county in the autumn of 2008 when it was