Each month customers at Waitrose decide which local charities and organisations should benefit from the store’s Comm-unity Matters scheme. For the past four years Waitrose in Marlborough – and each of the other 270 stores across the country – gives
A group of belly dancers set up by Devizes dancer Tracey Jones has come third in Miss Bellydance UK, held in Bournemouth last Saturday night. Ms Jones, 43, who continued belly dancing despite losing a leg in a motorcycle accident five years ago, set
A 12-HOUR music marathon is among the events being planned to raise £120,000 to renovate the 200 year old organ in Holy Cross Church in Ramsbury. The parish church’s pipe organ was last restored in 1981 and Frances Lofthouse, one of its organists who
CALNE mum-of-four Sarah Elliott has won tickets to attend a festival in Rowde, after coming top in a competition to name the event. The festival will be called Rowdy Fest and is on July 21 at Rowdeford School. There will be live music on three stages
Year 5 ‘water warriors’ from Ramsbury Primary School marched around the village carrying home-made banners to spread the message that to save the rivers, people need to save water. The River Kennet, which flows through Ramsbury and which features in
Councillors are pledging to tackle deprivation in Chippenham after it was revealed that almost 10 per cent of children in the town live in poverty. The figure, which Councillor Chris Caswill says amounts to around 1,000 children, was revealed
Children, teachers and parents all joined in a skipping workshop at Bishops Cannings Primary School. The Friends of the school organised the event on Friday and invited John Burns of Swindon-based company Skipping4Life to impart skipping skills during
STAR attraction at Avebury Rocks on July 7 will be the Levellers – one of the biggest and best festival draws in the country, holding the record for attendance for a mainstage performance at Glas-tonbury of more than 120,000 people. The rock concert,
CITYSCAPE failed to fire as he finished well out of the frame in the BMW Champions Mile at Sha Tin. Roger Charlton's charge was well fancied for the Group One event after his comfortable victory in the Dubai Duty Free at Meydan last time. However, he
Explorers Alan Chambers and Ed Coates will be the main attractions at this year’s Springfields Academy summer ball. The pair hope to help the school raise thousands of pounds for Asperger’s charity DORE and visual arts cause Engage. Mr Chambers, who
A new monthly Sunday market starts in Marlborough on July 1 in the High Street central parking reservation, where the traditional Wednesday and Saturday markets take place. Organised by Transition Marlborough, the group that aims to make the
Residents in Victoria Road, Devizes, face up to ten weeks of parking restrictions when work gets under way on gas mains. Wales and West Utilities is replacing old metal pipes with non-corroding plastic pipes with a lifespan of more than 80 years. The
Police are appealing for information after two specialised bikes worth close to £6,000 were stolen from a garage in Argyle Drive, Chippenham, on Friday. The theft is believed to have taken place between Thurs-day evening and 1.15pm on Friday. The
Trees in St Mary’s Church-yard in Devizes are to be felled as part of plans to bring the redundant church into community use. Work to remove five conifers of varying sizes, the largest overhanging the south porch, and one overgrown shrub, is due to start
The audience will be shaken but not stirred when a charity James Bond gala film night is held in Devizes on May 25. Bag4Sport Charity Foun-dation is screening Casino Royale in the ballroom of The Bear Hotel in aid of training costs and equipment
A LONG-LOST historic plaque awarded to Chipp-enham by grateful sailors on World War II warship HMS Cyclops is set to be returned to the town. The plaque, presented to the chairman of the Chipp-enham Urban District Council in 1942, was given
AN OLYMPIC challenge lies ahead of the competitors for this year’s Dragon Boat Race, organised by the Rotary Club of Chippenham. Teams taking part in the event will become eligible to enter the first UK Charity Dragon Boat finals on October
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey will be making his second visit to Wiltshire in less than a fortnight when he takes part in a day of Christian renewal at All Saints Church in Burbage. Lord Carey of Clifton, who was Bishop of Bath and
Graham Billing has, through White Horse Opera, built up a reputation for making abstruse opera accessible to ordinary members of the public. He has now turned his attention to Shakespeare and directed Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Wharf Theatre
