NATIONAL charity Alabaré is asking local communities to help them support the increasing number of people at risk of being homeless this Christmas and winter. The Salisbury-based charity, which has homes and services for homeless and vulnerable
YOU'D better watch out, you'd better not...commit crime. Wiltshire Police is to launch Operation Elf next week in the west Wiltshire area. It will see police officers, PCSOs and Special Constables conducting high visibility patrols in Warminster
A TOY appeal organised by Royal Wootton Bassett and District Rotary Club will bring joy to many families this Christmas. The club's junior vice president, Linda Locke, commented: "We were overwhelmed with the generosity and kindness that local people
A PUB dinner, complete with a cold pint in hand, is very much an element of normality our household is missing during lockdown. So on Friday we did our best to recreate this with an order from the Greyhound in the village of Bromham. Like all
PARISHES around Trowbridge are to be asked to make a contribution towards sports sessions organised by its Active Trowbridge service. Town councillors voted 17-3 at a recent full council meeting to ask local parishes surrounding Trowbridge to contribute
A marketing and social media management expert has helped a small west Wiltshire primary school to promote its unique qualities. Marketing and social media consultant, Gaby Nichol also helped to teach pupils how to stay safe online. She was invited
RETAILERS and businesses in Warminster are being urged to get their displays organised for the town council’s annual Christmas window competition to brighten up the shopping areas. The call came as Warminster switched on its annual Christmas Lights
Exciting plans are in place for circus, dance, music and arts workshops in Wiltshire. Bassline Circus have pencilled in Devizes as a new base to operate a variety of exciting projects from. The company, before the pandemic, would typically put
SOUTH Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is urging people to get the flu vaccine to protect themselves and others this winter. From Tuesday people aged 50-64 will be eligible to get the vaccine. Flu is a very common and highly infectious
A vulnerable Trowbridge man who went missing from his home yesterday has been found, police said today. Daniel Dickinson, 26, had not been seen since Friday afternoon when he was seen near the Avoncliff Aqueduct heading towards Freshford. Police
CORONAVIRUS has stopped us all doing many things this year, sadly including the Gazette and Herald and Wiltshire Times' usual First Day at School supplement. With the uncertainty in the summer over schools' plans for September, and the advice that
LOCAL historian and railway enthusiast Roger Fredrick Newman died on Tuesday, November 24 aged 83, having suffered from Covid-19. Born on October 10, 1937 in Birmingham, Roger and his wife Jacqueline moved to Trowbridge in 1973. Having met on
A SOUTH west parliamentary candidate has raised concerns as the council serves more than 3,000 people with court summons over unpaid council tax. Danny Bamping, an independent candidate for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport has criticised councils across
POLICE found £14,000-worth of cannabis in a man’s shed. And when officers scoured Ieuan Davies’s Chippenham outhouse they also discovered a mobile phone linking the owner to the supply of drugs. Appearing before Swindon Crown Court on Friday,
A BMW driver has admitted injuring a cyclist in a crash near Westbury. Anthony Adams, 47, was behind the wheel of a BMW M5, speeding and three times over the drink drive limit when he struck the cyclist, a Trowbridge man in his 40s, on the A350
HUNDREDS of fires were started deliberately in Dorset and Wiltshire during the first coronavirus lockdown, figures reveal. The National Fire Chiefs Council said it was "shocking" fire services across England had to respond to arson call-outs at
