THE name of a Marlborough school was dragged into a debate on building a relationship with it at Monday night's town council meeting. Cllr Noel Barrett-Morton clashed with the mayor Cllr Lisa Farrell when he said cannabis used in Priory Gardens
MARLBOROUGH’S answer to a future Annika Sörenstam or Tiger Woods may have been found when the town’s golf club issued three nominations for the junior award for 2018. Jennifer Almond, 13, Finlay Mulvey’ 12, and Oscar Oliver, 12, were put forward
FIVE trolleys laden with groceries and toiletries were handed over to the Chippenham Salvation Army food bank by the local Morrison's superstore. Morrison's Chippenham community champion Sarah Vardakis said head office gave their charity fund a
TWO companies have launched an investigation after a taxi driver found a shard of glass or hard plastic in a pot of natural yogurt he was tucking into for his lunch. TV chef Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s River Cottage business near Axminster and
GENEROUS Amber Kilmister had her incredible long blond hair chopped off on Saturday as a gift for the Little Princess Trust, which provides real hair wigs free of charge to children and young people who have lost their own hair due to illness. Amber
GREEN Square's Laurence Clarke came under fire from all quarters as questions were fired at him over the Rabley Wood development. The public meeting in Marlborough Town Hall on Monday night was the first chance for locals to study the plans that
BOLLYWOOD hit Pad Man will be screened at the Reel Cinema in Chippenham on International Women’s Day to raise money to combat period poverty in India. The charity Women and Girls was founded in 2017 by Kathryn Crosweller. She said around 23 per
A GROUP of ex-service veterans have graduated from a course designed to set them up in a new career in the construction industry. The nine graduates were the third cohort to graduate from the Building Heroes skills training course at Wiltshire College
A 23-year-old man from Royal Wootton Bassett has been arrested in Trowbridge on suspicion of multiple driving offences after a police pursuit this morning. He was taken into custody at Melksham Police Station on suspicion of theft of a vehicle,
PLANS to allow a timber palisade and rubble guard already built around the Lansdowne Monument to stay for up to five years have not been welcomed by Calne Town Council's development and planning committee. The prominent 38-metre stone obelisk, at
ARTISTS and craftspeople are invited to take part in this year’s Peacock Arts Trail, a week-long celebration of art and creativity in and around Corsham. The arts trail runs from Saturday, October 5 to Sunday, October 13, and organisers have announced
Thieves filmed LOCKERIDGE: The film King of Thieves will be screened on Sunday (February 24) in the Kennet Valley Hall at 7.30pm. It features the story of the Hatton Garden heist in 2015 and stars Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Charlie
LOCAL people who fancy working as extras on the latest Steven Spielberg First World War film being shot on Salisbury Plain are being sought by a crowd casting company. Two 10 Casting is looking for young men to be ‘supporting artists’ for major
PUPILS took over the running of Corsham Primary Broadwood on Friday, with a curriculum all about recycling and cleaning up plastic waste. The Resilient Recyclers Party won the vote in a mock election in May, and earned the chance to set the agenda
THE board of trustees of the Theatre Royal in Bath is looking for new members with an interest in the arts. They want to recruit people with a keen interest in the theatre, especially those with expertise in one of human resources, business management
THRILL seekers take note - entries are now open for Chippenham's third Soap Box Derby. The mad dash down the High Street will take place on Sunday May 19 from 12noon to 4pm, when hand-made, non-power assisted karts will manoeuvre the course past
NO more tea and cakes for Lilies Tea Room, which will be closing its doors for the last time at 3pm on February 28 after three and a half years. Hazel Dean opened the tea room in Chippenham's Borough Parade in August 2015, as an independent eaterie
A STREET row which broke out after a a pedestrian was struck by a car in the dark at around 10pm at night in Pewsey ended with two people being assaulted. Policeconfirmed that the pedestrian was part of a group of people walking along Ball Road
A CANCER charity has launched an appeal to allow it to continue to run its mobile cancer care units in Wiltshire and the UK. Hope for Tomorrow are the largest provider of Mobile Cancer Care to the NHS, but they receive no government funding.
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CALNE'S secondary school will be reborn in September with a new name, Kingsbury Green Academy - but not everyone is delighted by the choice. "We could have had a far better name," said local historian Nick Baxter. He believes this was a missed opportunity
A MILESTONE pantomime opens tonight (Thursday) with the 40th production by Seend’s Fawlty Players. The group is taking to the stage with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Scriptwriter Tessa Doe said the show is now a big community event, saying
STEAM train trips through Wiltshire will head to three destinations this spring: Bath, Bristol, or The West Somerset Railway. On March 7, the B1 steam locomotive Mayflower, which returned to the tracks earlier this year after a three-year refurbishment
WHAT a spring-like week! A dull start gave way to days filled with plenty of warm sunshine. The days started on the chilly side with frost and or fog, but it really felt that we needed to be out enjoying 'spring' while it lasts.The early flowers in
WHEN Pip Barker first began to forget things 13 years ago, it was a frightening and confusing time for him and for his wife Maggie. The former senior civil servant was aware that something was very wrong and the couple, who live just outside Trowbridge
DAMIAN Hall opens his 2019 racing programme this weekend – and is happy to be starting the Transgrancanaria Ultra beneath the radar. While the Box international trail star enjoyed the best year of his career in 2019, rising to seventh in the world
IN JUST his second race on the comeback trail, James Wright raced to a confidence-boosting victory in the final Gloucestershire Cross Country League race. The 17-year-old Chippenham Harrier has been finding his feet again after ending 2018 with
TALENTED teenagers Peter Adeosun, Ransford Ako Nai and James Gordon are all Bucharest-bound after being selected to represent Great Britain on the world athletics stage competing for the Catholic Schools Sports Federation (CSSF) Great Britain Athletics
CHIPPENHAM Town manager Mark Collier will continue to look up and not down after his side broke the 45-point mark when beating Hungerford at Hardenhuish Park on Saturday. The Bluebirds sit five points short of the play-off frame with 11 fixtures
HE says he doesn't have a cunning plan but Tony Robinson does have a plan to fill the Cheese and Grain in Frome for his show An Evening With Sir Tony Robinson, on Sunday, June 9. Best known for his roles in Blackadder as the hapless Baldrick and
