The children at Kennet Valley School in Lockeridge, near Marlborough, were all very excited today to be taking part in a super day of fundraising and fun, alongside their usual studies, to help raise money for Children in Need. Pupils and staff
MORRISONS in Devizes is opening its café to Christmas party groups of up to 20 people from local firms and other organisations. The supermarket retailer is offering £7.50 a head three-course meals including prawn cocktail starters, British turkey
WILTSHIRE Air Ambulance’s mission of saving lives is being extended to schools all over the county. Following a six month pilot scheme which involved school children being taught lifesaving skills, the charity has made its Emergency Awareness Training
CHILDREN and adults across Wiltshire are helping to raise funds for this year’s BBC Children in Need appeal. Locally, there’s a BBC Children in Need party at the Trowbridge Oak Care Home in West Ashton Road. Tonight, members of the Trowbridge
IT HAS no doubt been an extremely difficult and testing return to term for those at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham. Last week, sixth form student Thomas Griffiths was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 12-and-a-half years after
A man was arrested in Royal Wootton Bassett last night on suspicion of possession of a bladed article in a public place. Shortly after 10.30pm on Thursday, police received calls that a man had been seen in the High Street carrying a weapon. A
WILTSHIRE Police Chief Constable Kier Pritchard and Angus Macpherson, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire and Swindon, have welcomed the World Class Policing Award for the multi-agency response to last year’s Novichok nerve agent attacks
WARMINSTER: A planning application was filed to reduce the width of a hedge by 50 per cent at Bridge House, Tytherington Road, Heytesbury Warminster. Members of the public have been able to have their say on this application on the Wiltshire council
This week we brought you news that Thomas Griffiths will serve at least 12 years and six months for the murder of schoolgirl Ellie Gould. The 17-year-old girl’s family remained stony-faced as presiding judge Mr Justice Garnham sentenced Griffiths,
THIEVES have stolen £200 in a burglary at the Longs Arms pub restaurant in Trowbridge, it was disclosed today. Police said this morning they were called out at 6.45pm last night to reports of a burglary of the pub's office and staff area. Around
A Wiltshire Air Ambulance ‘ground crew’ fundraiser has presented a £1,130 cheque to the emergency medical charity. Anne Hooper presented the bumper amount to WAA pilot Rob Backus, paramedic Fred Thompson, and the charity’s community relationship
DEVIZES Lions are gearing up for their Christmas toy store with large numbers of donations flooding in. The volunteer group have managed to fill a warehouse with previously-loved toys and gifts that they will sell at their annual fundraiser.
ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT: A farmer has been fined for leaving black bin bags in the road. Jonathon Harley, 46, of Whitehill Lane, admitted depositing controlled waste on Whitehill Lane without having a council permit allowing him to do so. He was fined
TWO of Wiltshire’s rising teenage talents received a major boost this week when they were selected to represent Team GB at the 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games in Switzerland, writes KEVIN FAHEY. Will Scammell and Charlotte Longden, from Devizes
MALMESBURY fighter Joe Hughes says he is looking make a statement as he bids to become European champion for the second time next month. The 29-year-old won the EBU European super-lightweight crown when he travelled to Italy and defeated Andrea
WILTSHIRE Police has won a prestigious World Class Policing Award in recognition of its ‘outstanding’ response to the 2018 Novichok attacks in Salisbury and Amesbury. On March 4 last year, Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double
