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  • Water result for Devizes paddle pair

    James Keeble and Dan Seaford have put down their marker as favourites for the Devizes to Westminster canoe race after winning the Waterside D race between Devizes and Newbury on Sunday. The pair from Reading Canoe Club finished in ten hours and 12 seconds

  • SWINDON TOWN: Town fail to take cue

    THE stage was set and it was the grandest of stages. With the glorious March sunshine illuminating the home of English football, it was almost written in the stars that the protagonists in red would saunter to victory with the same swagger that has

  • Top names for show

    ORGANISERS of Sherst-onfest, Wiltshire’s new festival, have announced the line-up for their debut event. The festival, which is due to take place on June 15 and 16, has been a keen talking point in the village, with rumours of Prince Charles and Coldplay

  • Ghost Walk at Calne brings spooky tales to life

    Calne's spookiest untold stories will get an airing this weekend as the town’s first ghost walk takes place. Friends Jackie Notman – who is a dowser – and author Sonia Smith organised the ghost walk due to their shared love of everything supernatural

  • SWINDON TOWN: Lee seeks title tonic

    LOAN star Lee Holmes is determined to erase his Johnstone’s Paint Trophy final agony by helping to fire Swindon Town into npower League One. Holmes started Sunday’s 2-0 Wembley defeat by Chesterfield less than two weeks after signing on loan from Southampton

  • Hurt biker cries foul

    MOTORCYCLE enthusiast Wayne Lawton says he is lucky to be alive after a dog ran into his path, causing him to fall head-first to the ground. Mr Lawton, 54, was travelling home along Glebe Road, in Royal Wootton Bassett, at about 9.30pm on March 15 when

  • Duchess to visit Jamie's Farm

    Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will be visiting Jamie’s Farm in Box for a tour of the site and to see the work which supports vulnerable children. On Tuesday the Duchess will see the variety of farming and therapy methods used to support children from

  • Police car in crash near Broad Hinton

    A police officer has been taken to hospital with a head injury after his car collided with another on a country road. The male officer was travelling along the A4361 near Broad Hinton at the time of the three-vehicle crash at around 1.15pm today.

  • Wiltshire firefighters' warning over fuel storage

    Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service has reminded people not to store fuel in their homes, after a woman in Yorkshire was badly burned in an explosion last night. The woman accidentally set fire to herself after trying to decant petrol from one container

  • SWINDON TOWN: A sour end to Jay's unlikely debut

    THERE’S being thrown in at the deep end on your debut – and then there’s being asked to make your debut by starting in a cup final at Wembley just three days after signing on loan for your new club. The record books will show that’s exactly what Jay

  • Marlborough school nets new tennis courts

    Tennis courts were included in the original plans for the school which moved into a brand new building on the Orchard Road site in December 2009 but had to be put on the back burner because there was no money. Today headteacher Patrick Hazlewood announced

  • MINGS: We’ve let the club down

    I THINK that our chances of doing something in the league this season are now over. The players have let themselves, the club, the fans and myself and my management team down with the inconsistent form we’ve had over the last few months and we need

  • CHIPPENHAM TOWN: We're a soft touch now, admits Griffin

    ALAN Griffin fired in his 20th goal of the season last Saturday but it didn’t offer much consolation for the Bluebirds’ top scorer in the thrashing at Brackley Town. The striker has been in good form in front of goal this season and his second-half penalty

  • Delivery man hurts neck in beef mishap

    A driver delivering meat to butchers Walter Rose & Son in Devizes fell and hurt his neck when a 140lb hindquarter of beef fell on him. The 57-year-old man, who has not been named, works for Stiles Abattoir in Brom-ham and was carrying the meat from the

  • LONDON CALLING: Marsh determined to be team player

    WINSLEY fencing star Philip Marsh goes looking to retain his world junior epee title in Moscow next week but says that he’s approaching the competition with the pressure firmly taken off. The 17-year-old wrote his name in the history books by becoming

  • School’s green dream boosted

    Rowdeford School this week got a boost in its bid to create a new eco-learning centre on its grounds. The Touchstone property management company handed over a cheque for £10,000 on Tuesday which will go towards the cost of demolishing an old outbuilding

  • Skater boys are on a roll

    TWO young entrepreneurs from Calne are hoping a new skating contest could be the springboard their company needs. Ellis Welch, of Isis Street, and Tyler Shurmer, of Silver Street, are both just 16 but are in the process of turning their love of skateboards

  • Foul play, say Corsham pupils

    Two Corsham Primary School pupils have called for a mystery dog walker who keeps leaving bagged dog mess outside their house to clean up their act. Six-year-old Luke Mundy and his sister Tamsin, four, have made a sign which they hope will end six months

  • EXECUTIVE BRIEF: You were fantastic

    IT was a disappointment we didn’t come home with the silverware on Sunday – but that doesn’t take away from the fantastic support that team had with the 30,000 fans that made the journey from Swindon. I think it was always going to a case that our fans

  • Fire service warns of dry weather danger

    Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service is urging members of the public to take care during this current spell of dry weather as the risk of wild fires in the countryside grows. Group Manager Steve Law said: “We have had unusually warm weather for

  • Developers will appeal

    Two developers, who plan to build more than 350 new homes in Calne, are to appeal after their proposals were rejected by Wiltshire Council. Hills Group has applied to build 200 homes on land off Oxford Road. And C G Fry & Son Limited want to build 154

  • Top prof for history talk

    PROFESSOR Asa Briggs will give the fundraising lecture for the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes. Lord Briggs is perhaps the best known living historian in Britain and the lecture will draw on his own experiences and the changing perceptions of history

  • Top prof for history talk

    PROFESSOR Asa Briggs will give the fundraising lecture for the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes. Lord Briggs is perhaps the best known living historian in Britain and the lecture will draw on his own experiences and the changing perceptions of history

  • SWINDON TOWN: It was only half a performance

    SWINDON defender Joe Devera’s verdict on Sunday’s performance in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy final was that it only lasted for 45 minutes. The 25-year-old deputised for injured skipper Paul Caddis at right-back at Wembley and had injury added to insult

  • North Wiltshire MP welcomes shake up of planning system

    North Wiltshire MP James Gray has welcomed the most radical shakeup of the planning system in a generation. Speaking in the House of Commons following a statement by the Minister of State, Department for Communities and Local Government, Greg

  • Police find suspected fuel thief hiding in pile of manure

    A suspected fuel thief, who realised that the Wiltshire police helicopter searching for him had heat-detecting equipment on-board, dived into the nearest dung heap hoping to avoid being detected. The crafty suspected crook, a Lithuanuan living

  • MARLBOROUGH TAG RUGBY FESTIVAL: Ramsbury A retain Tag title

    THE Marlborough Schools Tag festival saw one of the closest finishes in years, with three teams battling it out for the shield. Twenty teams were drawn into five groups of four to determine the make-up of four second-round groups at the Marlborough RFC

  • DEVIZES TAG RUGBY FESTIVAL: There's no stopping Cannings again

    ALL Cannings A successfully defended the trophy they won last year at the Devizes festival. The top group was decided by a single point with Nursteed gaining 10 points to Cannings’ 11, both teams going through to represent the Devizes area in the county

  • Result is as nice as pie

    Pubs in the Devizes and Marlborough area have dominated this year’s pie contest run by Devizes brewery Wadworth & Co. Three out of the five on the short list came from within ten miles of the brewery – the Waggon & Horses at Beckhampton, the Barge in

  • Council move is now official

    Wiltshire Council is to take over three of the units in Snuff Street that have lain empty since local developers Gaiger Brothers completed them nearly four years ago. The council plans to close the former Kennet District Council offices at

  • Dizzy has Crufts judges in a spin

    TEEN Abby Blythe and her four-year-old Jack Russell Dizzy are top dogs after taking home a prestigious prize at Crufts. Abby, 16, of Drake Crescent, Chippenham, came first in the under-25s agility category, making Dizzy top small dog in the UK, and

  • Sale to aid charity bid

    A VERY special handmade rocking horse is helping ten serving soldiers gallop past their fund-raising goals. The soldiers, from the 73 Engin-eer Regiment in Nottingham, have cycled the equivalent distance from their base to Camp Bastion – a distance of

  • Story shocked care workers

    Healthcare professionals working for under-fire provider Enara had no idea they were moving to Somerset Care until they read it in the Gazette and Herald. Enara handed back its Wiltshire Council contract to provide social care for the elderly and vulnerable

  • Manton pub gun drama

    Pub staff have told how they were locked in by police after they received reports of a gunman threatening to shoot at it. Workers and customers at the Outside Chance in Manton, as well as staff and pupils at nearby Preshute Primary School,

  • Top Wiltshire cop in sex case inquiry

    The former head of Wiltshire Police, Brian Moore, has been accused of mishandling a sexual harassment case. Ex-Chief Constable Moore, who last month was head-hunted to lead the new UK Border Force, was accused in a national newspaper of failing to take

  • Broken down lorry results in road closure

    The main A342 Devizes to Andover road had to be closed for almost an hour this morning after and lorry broke down in Rushall at the junction with the Pewsey road shortly after 6am. The junction was impassable to other traffic and police had

  • CHIPPENHAM TOWN: Lamb chopped

    SHAUN Lamb has been axed by Chippenham Town after he was sent off for the second time in four games – and more players could follow. The full-back was dismissed for a headbutt against Barwell on February 18 and then saw red again during Saturday

  • Market Place takeover plan

    DEVIZES Town Council is to renew its bid to take over the ownership and running of the Market Place and the Shambles market hall from Wiltshire Council. The town council first approached Kennet District Council in 2007 about the possibility of taking

  • Review: The Taming of the Shrew

    Theatre Royal Bath Until Saturday, March 31 IT is with good reason that many of Shakespeare’s plays are judiciously edited for modern audiences. What usually gets cut is the cabaret element, the gratuitous knockabout stuff that was

  • Thieves on the prowl

    Police are are warning motorists to be on their guard following a number of thefts from vehicles at Wiltshire beauty spots at the weekend. Police received eight reports of valuables being stolen from vehicles parked at scenic spots. On Saturday valuables