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  • Chippenham car park to temporarily close for essential works

    PARTS of Emery Gate car park in Chippenham will temporarily close at the end of this week until the end of July. Wiltshire Council has announced the partial closure to allow for essential structural works to take place from Sunday, January 16.

  • A former village pub could get a new lease on life

    A PUB near Devizes has submitted plans to create a fenced pub garden. The George & Dragon in Erlestoke has applied to the council to install a fenced pub garden with “natural materials to blend into the surrounding countryside”. This will involve

  • Police forensics team swoop on Westbury Leigh drugs factory

    Forensics officers in protective white suits were examining a disused storage building in Westbury Leigh today after police discovered a large cannabis factory growing plants on three floors of it. The drug factory was revealed after officers dealing

  • Wiltshire NHS teams celebrate 2 million Covid jabs milestone

    THE NHS area covering Swindon and Wiltshire has hit another vaccination milestone. More than two million Covid vaccinations have been given out at sites across Swindon, Bath & North East Somerset and Wiltshire. And 100,000 of those jabs were