Waitrose Marlborough is once again supporting LitFest by donating a number of Marlborough Buns to the LitFest Café, in Marlborough Town Hall during the weekend of September 26-29 The Marlborough Bun is part of Waitrose's heritage regional recipe
AN AUCTIONEER from Chippenham will be whizzing up and down the country in a vintage car on your TV screen next week, as part of the BBC show Antiques Road Trip. Izzie Balmer, who has worked at Wessex Auction Rooms for the past 18 months, will appear
Parents, students and community leaders got a taste of the future for Calne education when they celebrated the launch of the town’s new Kingsbury Green Academy. The school, formerly John Bentley School, held a launch event last Thursday, September
The Friends of Chippenham Museum welcomed 130 guests to their special screening of documentary film Secret Spitfires on September3. The screening took place at the Neeld Community & Arts Centre on the 80th Anniversary of the declaration of the Second
CANALSIDE curate Reverend Joy Albone has dedicated a memorial bench to men from Semington who died during the First World War. She was joined by Semington parish councillors Steve Rimmer and Mike Kasasian, Royal British Legion representatives from
RESIDENTS from Trowbridge and the surrounding area are being invited to join the Explore Art Trowbridge (EAT) trail this Saturday September 14. The event offers special Heritage Open Days with free activities and events across Trowbridge town centre
DEVIZES school is preparing to launch a major facelift for its buildings and wants to hear from parents about priorities. The White Horse Federation said the schools record breaking exam results under head Phil Bevan this summer meant that more
DEVIZES School is getting ready to celebrate its golden anniversary in style with an open day to beat all others. The school regularly opens its doors for people to take a trip down memory lane but on October 12 they are hoping for something a bit
NORTH Wiltshire MP James Gray says that Boris Johnson had no option but to expel 21 rebel MPs from the Tory party. He said: “The people voted to leave. Theresa May proposed a deal to make that happen. The Commons on three occasions voted against
MARLBOROUGH LitFest has launched an outreach programme, as a way to give back on the year of their 10th festival. Every year Marlborough LitFest proudly offers free events with popular authors to invited local schools. Since its launch in 2010
MORE firefighters are needed for the Marlborough station, members of the area board were told. Station manager Dave Adamson told the meeting that a publicity drive was underway and called on members to help spread the word. He said there was
THERE is one thing that no-one can complain about in Wiltshire and that is a lack of village pubs. But that does not always mean that the food is very different from one place to another and they often need something more than just the menu to set
There is a wide variety of artistic workshops on offer at The Pound arts centre, Corsham, this autumn. From painting courses, to learning a new instrument, there is plenty to do. The series of workshops kick off on September 14, 21, 28, when
TO CELEBRATE its 10th year, Marlborough LitFest gave away £240 worth of books to each local primary school that entered this year's children’s competition. With the support of the White Horse Bookshop, who sponsor LitFest, school libraries have
MARLBOROUGH are the early leaders after the opening weekend of action in the new South West One East season after running in 10 tries amid a dominant 66-13 victory at home to Salisbury. The visitors opened the scoring with an unconverted try off
REVIEW RELATIVELY SPEAKING SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE Alan Ayckbourn's keen perception of personal relationships and foibles cannot fail to disappoint theatregoers, and this new production of Relatively Speaking, at Salisbury Playhouse until September
A CROSS-COUNTRY elimination wasn’t enough to deter reigning champion Tim Price from securing another top-10 finish at the 2019 Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, writes PETER WHITE. The Marlborough-based rider, 40, and horse Bango finished fifth
WILTSHIRE racer Tommy Bridewell took his first victory of the season in the British Superbikes Championship at Oulton Park at the weekend – capping a double podium finish at the round nine triple-header. After 11 podium finishes from the previous
A COUPLE, who have lived their entire married lives in the same house in Devizes, have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary. Marion and Peter Hughes of Cyprus Terrace got together when they were teenagers and were working at the Savage Transformer
WORK has started on turning Green Lane playing fields in Devizes into a football hub but some dog owners are unhappy they will lose a place for walks. Devizes Town Council put up a notice at the entrance to the playing fields saying the car park
STEAM enthusiasts were out in force across west Wiltshire on Sunday for the last sighting this season of the Torbay Express, a steam-hailed excursion which runs frequently throughout the summer from Bristol to the seaside resort. The route takes
ENTREPRENEUR Howard Spooner says he has been forced to close a village pub near Marlborough after he claims brewery Wadworth went back on a deal to lower his rent and charge him less for beer. Mr Spooner locked up The Outside Chance in Manton two
THE first balloons of Longleat's Sky Safari took to the skies above Longleat this morning. The pre-event launch was brought forward to today after a bad weather forecast for tomorrow, so the pilots could test their launch procedures and plan how
LAST season’s top scorer, Luke Murden, started where he left off last term as the new Trowbridge Windows and Conservatories-sponsored Trowbridge & District League season returned to action last weekend. Murden helped himself to four goals as Hilperton
MALMESBURY Victoria Development netted a great eight goals in a bizarre weekend in the Wiltshire League Premier Division, which saw the top four teams all drop points. The Vics headed into their home clash against Pewsey Vale Development having
Although we have had plenty of sunshine between the clouds over the past week , there has also been a cool breeze. Mid-week we did have a heavy shower, but this only amounted to 2 mm and there was soon little evidence of the downpour. Autumn seems
