EXPLOSIVE experts have detonated an unexploded wartime bomb found in a farmer’s field near Pewsey. The four-inch naval shell was blown up last Friday – leaving a gaping hole in the farmer’s field at Stanton St Bernard. Officers from Devizes
A Trowbridge premises has been slapped with a £1,000 fine for breaking Covid rules on New Year’s Eve. Wiltshire Council has handed out its first fixed penalty notice to a licensed premises in Trowbridge for failing to comply with Covid regulations
Nearly 80 per cent of all rough sleeper reports were responded to by Wiltshire Council since the pandemic began. According to StreetLink, an app where members of the public can connect rough sleepers people with local services to support them,
POLICE revealed today they recorded 143 assaults on officers and staff in Wiltshire – of which 63 resulted in injury - from July to December last year. They say that in addition to officers potentially exposing themselves to the risks of the
Wiltshire Council will be holding its fourth live Covid-19 briefing this week. The event will be broadcast live on Wednesday, January 27 at 7pm, where council leader, Philip Whitehead will be joined by public health director, Kate Blackburn and
MORE than 500 people have signed a petition protesting over plans to build 28 new homes close to a nature reserve in Warminster. Sustainable Warminster is calling on locals to help stop the houses being built on land off Damask Way.
Bins collections likely disrupted today following a weekend of winter weather. In a tweet Wiltshire Council said its waste and recycling collection would likely be disrupted today due to icy conditions. However, the local authority asked residents
FIRE crews in Devizes gained entry to a property earlier this morning to give South West Ambulance Service paramedics access to a patient who had fallen inside. The crews used a bolt cropper to gain access through the front door of the property
Prince’s guitar is being auctioned off by two brothers in Wiltshire. The guitar, a Fender Gemini II acoustic, which was played by Prince on his Diamonds and Pearls album, has been housed in a living room in Frome, Somerset. It has sat in the house
SOUTH West Wiltshire MP Dr Andrew Murrison has welcomed the decision by the Environment Agency to extend its consultation over controversial proposals by Northacre Renewable Energy Ltd for a waste-to-energy incinerator in Westbury until February 21
A PROJECT which is helping bridge the digital divide in Wiltshire says the situation has become more difficult for families now schools are better equipped to provide online learning during this third lockdown. Community interest company, Wiltshire
THE paradox is the problem. On the one hand we hear about the truly phenomenal success of the UK’s vaccination programme which - despite some inevitable local messiness - continues to reach more and more people. But on the other hand, we know the
DRIVERS and pedestrians are being warned to watch out for icy roads and pavements this morning and the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning. Highways England warned drivers to beware of black ice and to take care when driving on main roads
HUNDREDS of people in Wiltshire are likely to receive vaccinations against the Covid-19 coronavirus in coming weeks as the NHS rolls out two large-scale vaccination centres in Salisbury and Bath. The rollout of the coronavirus vaccine across Bath
