SELWOOD Housing Group, a local housing association based in Trowbridge, has opened a new office in Melksham. The new office is located on the Bowerhill industrial estate and opened on August 12. The new and larger premises extend to just over
LIBERAL Democrat activists have urged party members in West Wiltshire to help elect Helen Belcher, the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Chippenham, as the constituency's next MP. At a rally in Bradford on Avon attended by up to 100 people
FOUR dropped shots in his final four holes saw a good opening day turn into a bad one for David Howell at the Scandinavian Invitation on Thursday. Swindon star Howell teed off on his 15th hole at Hills Golf & Sports Club in Gothenburg, Sweden, sitting
CALNE Skate Bowl has been host to demonstrations, lessons and competitions this school break, after the popularity of last year's summer series. The town council organised the packed schedule in association with ATBShop Skate Warehouse, who have
CENTER Parcs said it was "deeply saddened" by the death of the young boy on Saturday (August 17). The Nottinghamshire-based company said: "We are deeply saddened by the tragic news that a young guest passed away after becoming unwell whilst at
IMPORTERS and exporters from West Wiltshire have aired their fears of a no-deal Brexit impact on their business to a UK member of the European Parliament. Peter Shaw, managing director of Melksham-based C&P Medical, and his wife Julia import
A Bristol Neuro-scientist has paddled 90 miles from Reading to Bristol to help a small charity to plant more trees to combat climate change. Bristol University computational neuroscience lecturer, Rui Costa, kayaked along the Kennet & Avon Canal
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PURTON celebrated the life of former secretary Alan Eastwood in the most fitting way possible on the opening weekend of the new Wiltshire League Premier Division season courtesy of a 9-1 victory over Pewsey Vale Development. Eastwood sadly passed
RELATIVES of 17 residents at the Firlawn Nursing Home in Holt have been given just six weeks to find alternative accommodation for their loved ones. They were told this month that the home, which offers nursing and residential care, respite and
MORE than five new jobs are to be created in Trowbridge by a Hong King-based health, home and beauty company. C K Hutchison Holdings Group, which owns A S Watson, is to open a new Savers Health & Beauty store at 33-34 Fore Street, the former Lloyds
Stonar School pupils and staff are celebrating academic and personal achievements in last week's A Level results, with almost all pupils having gained places at their first choice of university. Although all pupils should be proud of their achievements
PUPILS from across the county opened those all important A-Level results last Thursday morning which determined their next steps in their education or careers. Head teachers have congratulated their pupils on what was an all round successful day
FORMER Devizes schoolboy Ed Smith is to take part in a challenge billed as the world’s toughest row in memory of his wife Anna who died from cancer just days after their marriage when their daughter Alba was still a baby. Mr Smith, 35, who grew
THE Russian State Ballet of Siberia returns to the UK in 2020 for a 22-venue tour from January 2 to March 15, including three nights at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon. It will be the company’s 18th UK tour and will feature exquisite performances
THE UK’s quintessential tribute show to Dire Straits DS:UK are making a stop-off at the Melksham Assembly Hall on Saturday, October 12 mid way through their UK tour. DS:UK played to a packed house at the Assembly Hall in 2018, and the theatre were
CHIPPENHAM Moonraker Gymnastics member Liza Clarke won a silver medal at the Adult Gymnastics British Championships in Lilleshall recently. Clarke and fellow Moonraker Julie Bright were both competing for the first time at the event and achieved
POTTERNE are five points away from becoming the first Wiltshire team ever to be crowned champions of WEPL Premier One. Barring a disaster of monumental proportions, Neil Clark’s side will likely pick up the required points against Bath when the
FEMI Akinbobola was Team Bath AC’s star athlete in the latest Avon Track & Field League meeting, writes KEVIN FAHEY. The Chippenham-based speedster notched up a sizzling hat-trick of wins in the senior men’s 100m (11.3secs), the 200m (22.7secs)
CHIPPENHAM Town and Spencer Moulton have endured mixed fortunes over the past eight days in the men’s top Wiltshire team competition – the four-rink league play-offs. Holders Chippenham, who were pipped by Holt for top spot this season in the South
ROYAL Wootton BASSETT men have continued their remarkable national titles winning run with another success at the English championships at Royal Leamington Spa. They became Wiltshire’s first winners at the 2019 Bowls England national championships
YOUNG Malmesbury rider Emily Irvine capped a splendid series of results with qualification for the Olympia International Horse Show later in the year. Competing on board her pony Bunbury Conquest at the British Showjumping National Championships
Cameron Warwick is about to become the new face of campaign to get more people to sign up for apprenticeships with tech firms. The 'digital apprentice' spent a weekend being filmed and photographed at Womad for a promotional video made by a team
ONE of the UK’s most successful comedians Miles Jupp brings his tour-de-force performance in The Life I Lead to Bath’s Theatre Royal next week directly prior to transferring to the London West End. Actor, comedian and writer Miles Jupp (The Durrells
A RECORD number of visitors flocked to the abandoned village of Imber on Salisbury Plain last weekend Saturday and Sunday August 17 and 18. They clambered aboard a fleet of 28 heritage and modern Routemaster Imberbuses to visit the remote village
HELPING the environment by not using single use plastic could become a whole lot easier in Trowbridge this Autumn after a local woman has set out to launch a zero packaging shop. Inside the town hall, Leyla Amba Bakali-laughton’s new venture We
VACCINATION numbers for children against measles in Wiltshire is below standards across the South West. Currently 95.1 per cent, or 5,582 children aged five have been given the MMR jab at least once by the time they were one and 89.1 per cent had
THE state of the grave of Lacock’s famous Fox Talbot family has led to calls for the National Trust to maintain it properly as a tribute to the family that gave the village to the charity. Peter Glen, who lives in Bowden Hill, is one of those frustrated
