PEWSEY Vale Gardening Club has brought back its annual Potato Day. TV gardener, Chris Smith, from Pennard Plants will be on hand to navigate the different varieties of potato on display. Chris has been on Gardeners World, and his nursery based at
The efforts of two volunteers behind the Wiltshire school triathlon have been recognised by the Prime Minister. Jim Sewell and Tessa Murray, the volunteers behind the Flight Centre School Triathlon Series, have been honoured with the 2020 Points
Pupils at Preshute Primary School spent two days learning about life in The Gambia. They also role played a journey to The Gambia where pupils created their own passports to go through Passport Control with Year 6 pupils playing the roles of Passport
AN 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of actual bodily harm after a 17-year-old girl was assaulted near the Hilperton Marina at Trowbridge. The attack took place after an altercation between the teenager and a man in the early hours
RECKLESS motorists are risking their lives by driving through the floods at Staverton. The foolhardy drivers are ignoring 'road closed' signs and cones on The Causeway near Nestle's Cereal Partners factory. They are driving through the flooded
A PEWSEY farming manager is being tipped for the top in agriculture. And he is now a poster boy for ex-military personnel finding alternative employment. Jonathan Kerr made the switch from the army to farming when he took redundancy from his
CARNIVAL stalwart Dave Buxton has produced a book to get even those who think they know Devizes well thinking and to raise money to keep everything from the Confetti battle to the International Street Festival running. Mr Buxton, who is a trustee
Wales and West Utilities has shut one lane of Wootton Bassett Road between Redposts Drive and Westcott Place. Drivers are still able to use the westbound carriageway from Old Town towards west Swindon. Traffic is being diverted eastbound down Redposts
A row between Wiltshire neighbours about an unsightly mobile home and shipping container has been filmed for Channel 5's The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door. A cameraman joined a busy public meeting at a community centre in Swindon to capture heated
RECKLESS motorists are risking their lives by driving through the floods at Staverton. The foolhardy drivers are ignoring 'road closed' signs and cones on The Causeway near Nestle's Cereal Partners factory. They are driving through the flooded
WILTSHIRE College & University Centre celebrated its 10th Apprenticeship Awards in style by making it the biggest and best yet. Since introducing the annual event a decade ago, it has always been held at the Arc Theatre in Trowbridge or one of the
FLOOD UPDATE. Marlborough Town Council has closed the path through Coopers Meadow until further notice. Priory Gardens is still open but water levels are being monitored.
POLICE have appealed for witnesses to a disorder at a pub in Warminster. On Saturday February 8 at 10.40pm, two men in their 20s were assaulted in The Anchor Inn in the Market Place resulting in both being taken to hospital; one man with facial
ONE of Wiltshire’s five MPs has been promoted and another has lost his job in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Cabinet reshuffle. Michelle Donelan, the MP for Chippenham, has been given a new job as the new Minister of State for Universities. In
ALERT police who spotted a car that had no tax in Devizes on Sunday morning stopped it on the Hopton Industrial Estate. Several police cars were called to the scene as one of the occupants was also found to be in possession of cannabis. A Devizes
An East Kennett blacksmith is turning his metal bending talent to the art world. He is now producing scultpures made from discarded horse shoes, nails and old gas cannisters. John O’Hara’s work is proving so popular that he is now expanding his
HISTORY expert Tom Strickland has combined his thirst for knowledge about the First World War with his love of teaching to create a book that does far more than just tell the story of battlefields. Mr Strickland, 41, who is head of history and the
Flooding is still causing traffic chaos. Malmesbury, by the River Avon, has been especially badly affected. As has Bradford on Avon. The A4 between Marlborough and West Overton was completely flooded for several hours yesterday. And the road
STORM DENNIS PROVES TOO BE A MENACE A week after Storm Ciara decimated the fixture programme of the Shoestrings-chargrill Chippenham Sunday League, Storm Dennis proved to be more of a menace as only one of this Sunday’s scheduled 17 league and cup
An East Kennett blacksmith is turning his metal bending talent to the art world. He is now producing scultpures made from discarded horse shoes, nails and old gas cannisters. John O'Hara's work is proving so popular that he is now expanding
A HARD-UP delivery driver was spotted by detectives delivering cocaine at a remote Marlborough drop-off point. When Ilir Hysa was stopped by police last month he tried to jettison around £2,000 of drugs. He claimed he had turned to couriering
