THE Friends of Chippenham Museum have almost reached their £1000 target for the restoration of a Roman bowl discovered in a back garden off St Mary Street . The Samian Ware bowl was discovered in pieces during an excavation in 2017 and 2018 by archaeologists
VILLAGE shop owner Richard Walker has said he will carry on running a small store and Post Office near Devizes but there are hopes a new owner will soon be taking over. He had hoped that Seend Post Office, which had a guide price of £240,000, would
LAST season’s runners-up, Box Rovers, remain on course to reach the AM Print & Copy-sponsored Knockout Cup final in the Chippenham & District Sunday League following a 4-1 quarter-final triumph away at Westbury Rangers. Box broke the deadlock
RETIRED brewery worker Richard Townsend has been on a trip down memory lane to visit a site where his father's airship crashed in Holland in 1917. The story of Arthur Townsend and the rest of the crew of the Coastal C26 airship was told in Devizes
A CHURCH owned building in Devizes, which was at the centre of a planning row, could now be turned into a community hub. St James' church wants to buy part of an old school in Estcourt Street owned by the Diocesan Board of Education which last year
TALENTED local artists submitted their work to scrutiny in the recent Royal Wootton Bassett & District Art Society competition, organised by its president, Phil Flowerdew. The pictures were judged by special guest artist Bill Mather from Burbage
FORMER Malmesbury firefighter Roy Evans, a man described as "a real Malmesbury hero" by Malmesbury watch manager Chris Harvey, will be carried on a vintage fire engine, with an escort of other fire vehicles, in a family procession to his funeral on
ILLEGAL scrap collectors in Wiltshire are being told to stop operating in the area after a woman was prosecuted and fined £1,856.28 for collecting scrap metal without a licence. On December 17 Ann Antoni of Lynden Close, Marlborough pleaded guilty
CATS Protection is asking cat owners across Swindon and Wiltshire to nominate their furry friends in this year’s National Cat Awards. For over a decade, the awards have celebrated the difference cats make to owners’ lives by highlighting heart-warming
ONE of Britain’s best live bands, Stereophonics, have announced they are to play at Westonbirt Arboretum in June as part of Forest Live, the summer concert series promoted by the Forestry Commission. The Welsh group, plus special guests, will perform
WILTSHIRE Council has promised to improve mental health services for young people to stop teenagers missing care as they move into adult services. An investigation into how children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) work in Wiltshire
