Police, fire and ambulance services will join up for next month’s emergency services show at Hullavington. After a year’s break due to the Olympics, the show is back with new attractions. An operational lifeboat and support vehicle is expected
Work has started to build five affordable family homes in Upavon. Three two-bedroom properties and two three- bedroom homes will be built on a brownfield site off Avon Square. The £620,000 project, which is being delivered by Aster Homes, got
Police, fire and ambulance crews were called to Corsham Children’s Centre on Wednesday, but rather than an emergency they were on hand for fun and games. The centre’s first emergency services fun day saw more than 260 people meet the emergency
THREE former John Bentley School students from Calne are preparing themselves for a 10,000-mile road trip across mountains and deserts in a well-used car after signing up to the Mongol Rally. During the annual Mongol Rally hundreds of motorists
A SCIENCE teacher has hung up her lab coat in favour of an arts and crafts apron as she offers children’s workshops throughout the summer holidays at her new craft shop in Chippenham. Krafty Monkey was opened in Borough Parade shopping centre in
Hilmarton Parish Council has sent a letter of objection to Wiltshire Council after discussing plans to redevelop RAF Lyneham and hearing concerns about noise levels. The concerns were raised after residents read a noise assessment paper included
A ball at the Springfields Academy raised nearly £7,000 for ten students who hope to climb to Everest Base Camp in October. The school in Calne, which cares for children with complex social and learning difficulties, will send the students up the
MORE people are being sought to help with the rehabilitation and resettlement of offenders after the success of using volunteer helpers at Erlestoke Prison. Since the visitor centre opened in the gate lodge at the prison two years ago, volunteers
Longleaze Pre-school welcomed local families to a fun day at which special presentations were made to children who will move on to primary school next month. Each was awarded a folder of work, a graduation certificate and mortarboard hat. Jack
5:26pm Bluebirds boss Nathan Rudge on today's 2-0 defeat at Banbury United: "At the end of the day, you've got to give 100 per cent commitment and today, we didn't. They scored a freak goal and to go and let another
There was ample cause to celebrate at Erlestoke and Coulston Cricket Club last weekend as they marked the purchase of the ground where they have been playing for the last 23 years. It took three years of negotiations with the Ministry of Defence
A warrant for the arrest of builder Jordan Blake has been issued after he was found guilty of assaulting a teenage boy – knocking out one of his front teeth – in an unprovoked attack off Marlborough High Street. Blake, 21, of Macneice Drive, Marlborough
Devizes legal firm Wansbrough’s last week lost five decades of invaluable experience when legal secretary Sue Cremin retired after 47 years with the firm. Mrs Cremin, from Estcourt Crescent, Devizes, joined the firm straight from school in 1966
MUM Suzanne Witheford has launched an initiative to encourage people to car share after becoming fed up with the amount of single-person traffic from Burbage. The 44-year-old has set up Burbage Lifts on Twitter and is in the process of setting
TROWBRIDGE swimmer Aaron Moores finished seventh in the SB14 100m breaststroke final at the IPC World Championships in Montreal last night. Moores, who claimed bronze in the S14 100m backstroke earlier in the week, clocked 1:11.38. MORE UPDATES
Members of Pewsey Bowls Club are over the moon after landing £50,000 of National Lottery funding which will be used to stop the club from sinking – quite literally. The cash injection is part of Sport England’s Olympic and Paralympic legacy programme
Giffords Circus rolls into Marlborough next week for its annual visit to the town. The circus was formed 13 years ago by Oxford graduate Nel Gifford and her husband Toti, a landscape gardener and has become a regular summer attraction. The
CHIPPENHAM Town have confirmed that U18s manager Nigel Tripp will take charge of the Bluebirds' first two matches of the season. Both Bluebirds boss Nathan Rudge and assistant manager Steve Winter are serving touchline bans during today's Calor
After her second stroke, plucky Editha Edith Westcott vowed she was going nowhere until she got her birthday card from the Queen. Now, after spending 100 years in Chippenham and surviving pneumonia four times, she has only another week before the
Devizes window cleaner Gary Smith drowned in the Kennet and Avon Canal after he jumped in at the end of a long drinking bout with a former girlfriend, an inquest heard yesterday. The inquest in Salisbury heard that Mr Smith, 46, who lived with
