A DRIVER died in the serious accident in Westbury this afternoon, police have revealed. Officers were called to the collision on Hawkeridge Road shortly after midday. A Volkswagen Golf had crossed the carriageway and collided with a lorry while
A motorist who killed a veteran after hitting him with his car on the A303 in Wiltshire has been given a 16 year prison sentence. Tarkan Agca, 24, of Crusader Way in Watford, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in December, admitting his role in the
HEROIC koala keepers from Longleat are jetting off to Australia to save wildlife from devastating bushfires. Longleat’s head of animal adventure Graeme Dick and fellow koala keeper James Dennis will use their experience and expertise of working
THE road leading to the West Wilts Trading Estate at Westbury from the Trowbridge and Yarnbrook direction has been closed following a serious road accident. It is understood a car and a light car transporter were involved in the collision, and police
FAULTY street lights in a Trowbridge road where a man was attacked on Tuesday have since been repaired. The man was assaulted near the Tesco Express store in Eastbourne Road and locals have blamed the lack of street lighting as one of the factors
CHIPPENHAM Town chairman Neil Blackmore revealed he has received five phone calls from coaches interested in the vacant first-team manager role at Hardenhuish Park. On Thursday night, Bluebirds confirmed on social media that Mark Collier had been
KIM Barnard, group marketing manager at financial experts Old Mill, which has offices in Melksham, has become the firm’s new head of office for Yeovil. The head of office role is to encourage collaboration and engagement among the teams and encourage
DIVISION ONE THE Trowbridge Windows and Conservatories sponsored Trowbridge and District Football League returned to action this weekend after the Christmas break and as the weather improved and pitches dried out a full programme took place.
TROWBRIDGE: Richard Jason Caswell, 37, of Gladstone Road, has been banned by Swindon magistrates from contacting a woman directly or indirectly and from entering Calne, after he admitted breaching a bail condition on Christmas Eve ordering him to stay
A VISIT to Bath, whether you’re shopping, on a night out or showing visitors the attractions of the city, isn’t complete without a meal. There are, of course, a number of gourmet destinations which can be the sole purpose of the trip, or you can
Breached limit WALON Ltd of Yeovil was fined £550 with costs of £200 by Salisbury magistrates on Monday, January 6, after admitting breaching the 18-tonne weight restriction on the Town Bridge at Bradford on Avon on April 11 last year. Fire in
CUSTOMERS of TK Maxx and Homesense are being urged to bring back some DW home candles with wooden wicks because of a risk of choking from an excessive amount of toxic smoke. They are model numbers 138160, 138666, 138677 and 138723, sold with different
WILTSHIRE Trading Standards has issued a product recall notice for four hot water bottle products being sold by Matalan stores. They are the Matalan Alphabet, Mermaid, Shark and Unicorn hot water bottles that were on sale from September 1 2019 to
TROWBRIDGE Town councillors are campaigning to declare a climate change emergency. Councillors will be asked to approve a carbon reduction recommendation at the council's policy and resources committee meeting next Tuesday (January 14). They
AS I reflect on 2019, it’s safe to say it was another busy year for policing. Here in Wiltshire, we continued to see demand on our police service grow with the complexities facing modern day policing more prominent than ever. We saw a number
Local politics will be the focus of a new TV programme which does to air for the first time on Sunday. Politics West, which will be on at 10am directly after the BBC's flagship Andrew Marr Show aims to put the local stories and issues at it's heart
A PERVERT tried to snap a picture beneath a woman's dress as she tied her children's shoelaces. The police report made by a 38-year-old woman last year was one of three received by Wiltshire Police in the first six months of a new law designed to
THE CLOSURE of two Wiltshire police stations this week could hit the force’s ability to respond in the county’s most isolated communities, a union has warned. Wiltshire Police Federation chairman Insp Mark Andrews hit out at the decision to close
