Wiltshire | Archive | 2000 | July
DEVIZES Wharf, Box office tel: (01380) 725944. September 16-23: The Rivals (a) more...
IF YOU enjoy dining in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere Conigre Farm Restaurant in Melksham will be sure to please. more...
IT'S all really rather surreal. Alec Baldwin is the tough talking actor from the likes of Malice and The Hunt For Red October. He's the husband of Kim Basinger and celebrated puncher of photographers. more...
Big Momma's House (12) Crime comedy with Martin Lawrence, as an FBI agent forced to dress as a woman to nail an escaped convict. Rating: 1/10. more...
TUESDAY, July 18: Hot Strings, The Porter Cellar Bar, Bath more...
DEVIZES: Handel House Gallery, Tel: (01380) 727032. Until August 5: Unveiling Figures and Form, paintings by Howard Wolf and sculpture by K Jane Jones on the theme of the human body. more...
NEEDY children from across the area have had their summer holidays cancelled because the charity organising them is facing a funding crisis. more...
COUNCILLORS and parents have spoken of their safety fears over scrap cars being dumped on waste ground used as a play area by children. more...
ELDERLY and disabled people in Calne will now be able to speak to social services in the town rather than travelling to Chippenham. more...
AS many as ten village groups will benefit from the funds raised at the Derry Hill and Studley Village Fete. more...
WITH the North Wiltshire Festival about to kick off organisers are putting the final touches to nearly two years of work and preparation. more...
LONG-SERVING member Martin Ruddle has taken over as the president of the Lions Club of Calne for the third time. more...
PIONEERING work on oxygen is to be commemorated in a landmark occasion at Bowood House, near Calne. more...
TRAFFIC. It is an issue that touches our lives daily. more...
THE chance to get away on holiday is something most of us treasure, indeed planning a break occupies a huge amount of our time. more...
IN response to the report by Lyneham Parish Council on June 29, on the new footpath built by the RAF near our property, we would like to clarify a few points. more...
THE debate on the relocation of the Royal Photographic Society and the Records Office appears to have sidetracked into political argument when possibly more fundamental points could have been made. more...
HOW much more public money is to be poured into the council's ill-starred skateboard project in Devizes' Hillworth Park, which, on the scale of disasters, is rapidly approaching the Millennium Dome? more...
I READ with mixed reactions Mr Packham's statements and opinions on the merits of having the Wiltshire and Swindon Records Office located in Chippenham. more...
HOW gratifying to note that another Chippenham resident Angela Bevan (letters July 6) has the interest to note that the ex-Gaumont was a cinema designed by the renowned cinema architect W E Trent. more...
THE hunting with dogs issue has reached breathtaking heights of irrelevance. The killers for fun brigade say curtailing the `industry' will deprive people of country jobs. more...
THE heart-warming report entitled woman's treasured ring returned to her, in the Gazette on June 22 described how, by sheer coincidences a lost ring of great sentimental value was reunited with its owner. more...
I FEEL compelled to respond to D M Crawley's letter entitled Attitude Must Change. more...
Clifton Flax-Bourton v Chippenham more...
DAVE Lovell, the North Wilts Vikings skater hockey junior captain faces a 12 week lay-off. more...
DEVIZES Lawn Tennis Club is holding an open day on Saturday July 22 to encourage new members. more...
DEVIZES sprinter Wayne Martin is preparing for next month's Olympic trials in Birmingham. more...
RIDGEWAY School's Abi Wildbore finished eighth in the junior girls' javelin at the English Schools' Track and Field Championships at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium on Saturday, July 8. more...
WILTSHIRE produced another lacklustre performance in their final group cricket match in the 38 County Cup against Cornwall at Helston on Sunday, July 9. more...
SHALBOURNE racing driver Mike Salmon took victory during a double-header round of the Pirelli Porsche Cup at Croft in North Yorkshire. more...
SENIOR captain's day at The Wiltshire Golf Club at Wootton Bassett, was well supported, with 51 competitors taking part. more...
WESTINGHOUSE have taken over at the top of Division One after beating Potterne by 35 runs in their rearranged game. more...
CHIPPENHAM Wheelers held their annual 25-mile club handicap time-trial based on the Sutton Benger course. more...
THE sin bin is to be introduced at all senior rugby levels next season, leaving referees with a major headache. more...
DEVIZES Wharf, Box office tel: (01380) 725944. September 16-23: The Rivals (a) more...
IF YOU enjoy dining in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere Conigre Farm Restaurant in Melksham will be sure to please. more...
IT'S all really rather surreal. Alec Baldwin is the tough talking actor from the likes of Malice and The Hunt For Red October. He's the husband of Kim Basinger and celebrated puncher of photographers. more...
Big Momma's House (12) Crime comedy with Martin Lawrence, as an FBI agent forced to dress as a woman to nail an escaped convict. Rating: 1/10. more...
NEARLY 500 construction workers are due to move on to the sites of three proposed new schools at Chippenham, Malmesbury and Wootton Bassett by the end of the month. more...
TRAFFIC. It is an issue that touches our lives daily. more...
A BID by Chippenham Mayor Sandie Webb to save the Goldiggers building and turn it into a theatre or cabaret venue is being vigorously opposed by other district councillors. more...
IN response to the report by Lyneham Parish Council on June 29, on the new footpath built by the RAF near our property, we would like to clarify a few points. more...
THE chance to get away on holiday is something most of us treasure, indeed planning a break occupies a huge amount of our time. more...
THE debate on the relocation of the Royal Photographic Society and the Records Office appears to have sidetracked into political argument when possibly more fundamental points could have been made. more...
HOW much more public money is to be poured into the council's ill-starred skateboard project in Devizes' Hillworth Park, which, on the scale of disasters, is rapidly approaching the Millennium Dome? more...
I READ with mixed reactions Mr Packham's statements and opinions on the merits of having the Wiltshire and Swindon Records Office located in Chippenham. more...
HOW gratifying to note that another Chippenham resident Angela Bevan (letters July 6) has the interest to note that the ex-Gaumont was a cinema designed by the renowned cinema architect W E Trent. more...
THE hunting with dogs issue has reached breathtaking heights of irrelevance. The killers for fun brigade say curtailing the `industry' will deprive people of country jobs. more...
THE heart-warming report entitled woman's treasured ring returned to her, in the Gazette on June 22 described how, by sheer coincidences a lost ring of great sentimental value was reunited with its owner. more...
I FEEL compelled to respond to D M Crawley's letter entitled Attitude Must Change. more...
NEEDY children from across the area have had their summer holidays cancelled because the charity organising them is facing a funding crisis. more...
CHIPPENHAM Mayor Sandie Webb is hoping that a visit to the town by Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy will bring a high profile boost to the campaign for more playing fields. more...
A TEENAGER spent his 18th birthday in North Wiltshire Youth Court on Tuesday, July 11, after he was found with a Kinder egg containing heroin. more...
A RIVER of stinking sewage swamped shops in Chippenham High Street during a cloudburst, causing thousands of pounds of damage. more...
A SMALLHOLDER who describes himself as a man of the earth, has lost his bid for planning permission to keep his mobile home on land at Sutton Benger. more...
DEVELOPER William Hall warned North Wiltshire district councillors against approving two-bedroom terrace houses in a village because they attracted yobbos. more...
PLANS to sell off land for homes at Hardenhuish School have been stalled for a second time. more...
WITH the North Wiltshire Festival about to kick off organisers are putting the final touches to nearly two years of work and preparation. more...
LITTLE Charleen Langley can hear the birds singing for the very first time, thanks to an operation to cure her deafness. more...
Clifton Flax-Bourton v Chippenham more...
THE sin bin is to be introduced at all senior rugby levels next season, leaving referees with a major headache. more...
SWINDON Town football legend Maurice Owen has died at the age of 76. more...
DAVE Lovell, the North Wilts Vikings skater hockey junior captain faces a 12 week lay-off. more...
DEVIZES Lawn Tennis Club is holding an open day on Saturday July 22 to encourage new members. more...
DEVIZES sprinter Wayne Martin is preparing for next month's Olympic trials in Birmingham. more...
RIDGEWAY School's Abi Wildbore finished eighth in the junior girls' javelin at the English Schools' Track and Field Championships at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium on Saturday, July 8. more...
WILTSHIRE produced another lacklustre performance in their final group cricket match in the 38 County Cup against Cornwall at Helston on Sunday, July 9. more...
SHALBOURNE racing driver Mike Salmon took victory during a double-header round of the Pirelli Porsche Cup at Croft in North Yorkshire. more...
SENIOR captain's day at The Wiltshire Golf Club at Wootton Bassett, was well supported, with 51 competitors taking part. more...
WESTINGHOUSE have taken over at the top of Division One after beating Potterne by 35 runs in their rearranged game. more...
CHIPPENHAM Wheelers held their annual 25-mile club handicap time-trial based on the Sutton Benger course. more...
IF YOU enjoy dining in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere Conigre Farm Restaurant in Melksham will be sure to please. more...
IT'S all really rather surreal. Alec Baldwin is the tough talking actor from the likes of Malice and The Hunt For Red October. He's the husband of Kim Basinger and celebrated puncher of photographers. more...
Big Momma's House (12) Crime comedy with Martin Lawrence, as an FBI agent forced to dress as a woman to nail an escaped convict. Rating: 1/10. more...
TUESDAY, July 18: Hot Strings, The Porter Cellar Bar, Bath more...
DEVIZES: Handel House Gallery, Tel: (01380) 727032. Until August 5: Unveiling Figures and Form, paintings by Howard Wolf and sculpture by K Jane Jones on the theme of the human body. more...
MONDAY, July 17 more...
DEVIZES Wharf, Box office tel: (01380) 725944. September 16-23: The Rivals (a) more...
THE chance to get away on holiday is something most of us treasure, indeed planning a break occupies a huge amount of our time. more...
NEEDY children from across the area have had their summer holidays cancelled because the charity organising them is facing a funding crisis. more...
FRIENDS and colleagues have paid tribute to 29-year-old shop worker Kirsteen Stewart, who was killed in a car crash. more...
TRAFFIC. It is an issue that touches our lives daily. more...
WITH the North Wiltshire Festival about to kick off organisers are putting the final touches to nearly two years of work and preparation. more...
A VERDICT of accidental death has been recorded following an inquest into the death of international rower Thomas Llewellyn-Usher in a motorway accident last year. more...
PEOPLE living in a Corsham street are backing a last ditch stand to stop a controversial bungalow being built. more...
THE debate on the relocation of the Royal Photographic Society and the Records Office appears to have sidetracked into political argument when possibly more fundamental points could have been made. more...
HOW much more public money is to be poured into the council's ill-starred skateboard project in Devizes' Hillworth Park, which, on the scale of disasters, is rapidly approaching the Millennium Dome? more...
I READ with mixed reactions Mr Packham's statements and opinions on the merits of having the Wiltshire and Swindon Records Office located in Chippenham. more...
HOW gratifying to note that another Chippenham resident Angela Bevan (letters July 6) has the interest to note that the ex-Gaumont was a cinema designed by the renowned cinema architect W E Trent. more...
THE hunting with dogs issue has reached breathtaking heights of irrelevance. The killers for fun brigade say curtailing the `industry' will deprive people of country jobs. more...
THE heart-warming report entitled woman's treasured ring returned to her, in the Gazette on June 22 described how, by sheer coincidences a lost ring of great sentimental value was reunited with its owner. more...
I FEEL compelled to respond to D M Crawley's letter entitled Attitude Must Change. more...
IN response to the report by Lyneham Parish Council on June 29, on the new footpath built by the RAF near our property, we would like to clarify a few points. more...
DAVE Lovell, the North Wilts Vikings skater hockey junior captain faces a 12 week lay-off. more...
DEVIZES Lawn Tennis Club is holding an open day on Saturday July 22 to encourage new members. more...
DEVIZES sprinter Wayne Martin is preparing for next month's Olympic trials in Birmingham. more...
RIDGEWAY School's Abi Wildbore finished eighth in the junior girls' javelin at the English Schools' Track and Field Championships at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium on Saturday, July 8. more...
WILTSHIRE produced another lacklustre performance in their final group cricket match in the 38 County Cup against Cornwall at Helston on Sunday, July 9. more...
SHALBOURNE racing driver Mike Salmon took victory during a double-header round of the Pirelli Porsche Cup at Croft in North Yorkshire. more...
SENIOR captain's day at The Wiltshire Golf Club at Wootton Bassett, was well supported, with 51 competitors taking part. more...
WESTINGHOUSE have taken over at the top of Division One after beating Potterne by 35 runs in their rearranged game. more...
CHIPPENHAM Wheelers held their annual 25-mile club handicap time-trial based on the Sutton Benger course. more...
Clifton Flax-Bourton v Chippenham more...
THE sin bin is to be introduced at all senior rugby levels next season, leaving referees with a major headache. more...
SWINDON Town football legend Maurice Owen has died at the age of 76. more...
NEEDY children from across the area have had their summer holidays cancelled because the charity organising them is facing a funding crisis. more...
A GAZETTE and Herald petition, signed by hundreds of people, calling for the Palace Cinema in Devizes to be re-opened has been sent to the businessman who could save it. more...
CARERS in Devizes hope volunteers can be found to re-start a popular day club for people with learning difficulties. more...
DEVIZES School has joined forces with the police, Social Services and other organisations to crack down on pupils who play truant. more...
VICAR Peter Stone, who is to undergo a sex change, told listeners to a religious programme how for 40 years he prayed he would wake up a woman. more...
PEOPLE in the Forty Acres and Eastleigh Road area of Devizes are being asked for their views on the development of a one acre site, once used for temporary accommodation for homeless people. more...
COLOURFUL display boards used in a prestigious national exhibition on King Alfred staged by the Museum of London have been loaned to the village of Pewsey for its own royal exhibition from July 17. more...
A NEW multi-million pound joint control room for Wiltshire police, the ambulance service and the fire brigade is to be built in London Road, Devizes. more...
WITH the North Wiltshire Festival about to kick off organisers are putting the final touches to nearly two years of work and preparation. more...
KENNET District Council will be submitting its bid for lottery funding next week for the planned £3 million revamp of Devizes Leisure Centre. more...
TRAFFIC. It is an issue that touches our lives daily. more...
DEVIZES Lawn Tennis Club is holding an open day on Saturday July 22 to encourage new members. more...
DEVIZES sprinter Wayne Martin is preparing for next month's Olympic trials in Birmingham. more...
RIDGEWAY School's Abi Wildbore finished eighth in the junior girls' javelin at the English Schools' Track and Field Championships at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium on Saturday, July 8. more...
WILTSHIRE produced another lacklustre performance in their final group cricket match in the 38 County Cup against Cornwall at Helston on Sunday, July 9. more...
SHALBOURNE racing driver Mike Salmon took victory during a double-header round of the Pirelli Porsche Cup at Croft in North Yorkshire. more...
SENIOR captain's day at The Wiltshire Golf Club at Wootton Bassett, was well supported, with 51 competitors taking part. more...
WESTINGHOUSE have taken over at the top of Division One after beating Potterne by 35 runs in their rearranged game. more...
THE sin bin is to be introduced at all senior rugby levels next season, leaving referees with a major headache. more...
IF YOU enjoy dining in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere Conigre Farm Restaurant in Melksham will be sure to please. more...
IT'S all really rather surreal. Alec Baldwin is the tough talking actor from the likes of Malice and The Hunt For Red October. He's the husband of Kim Basinger and celebrated puncher of photographers. more...
Big Momma's House (12) Crime comedy with Martin Lawrence, as an FBI agent forced to dress as a woman to nail an escaped convict. Rating: 1/10. more...
TUESDAY, July 18: Hot Strings, The Porter Cellar Bar, Bath more...
DEVIZES: Handel House Gallery, Tel: (01380) 727032. Until August 5: Unveiling Figures and Form, paintings by Howard Wolf and sculpture by K Jane Jones on the theme of the human body. more...
MONDAY, July 17 more...
DEVIZES Wharf, Box office tel: (01380) 725944. September 16-23: The Rivals (a) more...
THE debate on the relocation of the Royal Photographic Society and the Records Office appears to have sidetracked into political argument when possibly more fundamental points could have been made. more...
HOW much more public money is to be poured into the council's ill-starred skateboard project in Devizes' Hillworth Park, which, on the scale of disasters, is rapidly approaching the Millennium Dome? more...
I READ with mixed reactions Mr Packham's statements and opinions on the merits of having the Wiltshire and Swindon Records Office located in Chippenham. more...
HOW gratifying to note that another Chippenham resident Angela Bevan (letters July 6) has the interest to note that the ex-Gaumont was a cinema designed by the renowned cinema architect W E Trent. more...
THE hunting with dogs issue has reached breathtaking heights of irrelevance. The killers for fun brigade say curtailing the `industry' will deprive people of country jobs. more...
THE heart-warming report entitled woman's treasured ring returned to her, in the Gazette on June 22 described how, by sheer coincidences a lost ring of great sentimental value was reunited with its owner. more...
I FEEL compelled to respond to D M Crawley's letter entitled Attitude Must Change. more...
IN response to the report by Lyneham Parish Council on June 29, on the new footpath built by the RAF near our property, we would like to clarify a few points. more...
IF YOU enjoy dining in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere Conigre Farm Restaurant in Melksham will be sure to please. more...
IT'S all really rather surreal. Alec Baldwin is the tough talking actor from the likes of Malice and The Hunt For Red October. He's the husband of Kim Basinger and celebrated puncher of photographers. more...
Big Momma's House (12) Crime comedy with Martin Lawrence, as an FBI agent forced to dress as a woman to nail an escaped convict. Rating: 1/10. more...
TUESDAY, July 18: Hot Strings, The Porter Cellar Bar, Bath more...
DEVIZES: Handel House Gallery, Tel: (01380) 727032. Until August 5: Unveiling Figures and Form, paintings by Howard Wolf and sculpture by K Jane Jones on the theme of the human body. more...
MONDAY, July 17 more...
THE chance to get away on holiday is something most of us treasure, indeed planning a break occupies a huge amount of our time. more...
IN response to the report by Lyneham Parish Council on June 29, on the new footpath built by the RAF near our property, we would like to clarify a few points. more...
THE debate on the relocation of the Royal Photographic Society and the Records Office appears to have sidetracked into political argument when possibly more fundamental points could have been made. more...
HOW much more public money is to be poured into the council's ill-starred skateboard project in Devizes' Hillworth Park, which, on the scale of disasters, is rapidly approaching the Millennium Dome? more...
I READ with mixed reactions Mr Packham's statements and opinions on the merits of having the Wiltshire and Swindon Records Office located in Chippenham. more...
HOW gratifying to note that another Chippenham resident Angela Bevan (letters July 6) has the interest to note that the ex-Gaumont was a cinema designed by the renowned cinema architect W E Trent. more...
THE hunting with dogs issue has reached breathtaking heights of irrelevance. The killers for fun brigade say curtailing the `industry' will deprive people of country jobs. more...
THE heart-warming report entitled woman's treasured ring returned to her, in the Gazette on June 22 described how, by sheer coincidences a lost ring of great sentimental value was reunited with its owner. more...
I FEEL compelled to respond to D M Crawley's letter entitled Attitude Must Change. more...
HIGHWORTH: The town council's planning committee is meeting tomorrow at 7pm in the council offices, High Street. It will be followed by a meeting of the general purposes and finance committee at 7.30pm where reports will be heard about Highworth market and town council accounts. more...
TRAFFIC. It is an issue that touches our lives daily. more...
WITH the North Wiltshire Festival about to kick off organisers are putting the final touches to nearly two years of work and preparation. more...
Clifton Flax-Bourton v Chippenham more...
SWINDON Town football legend Maurice Owen has died at the age of 76. more...
DAVE Lovell, the North Wilts Vikings skater hockey junior captain faces a 12 week lay-off. more...
DEVIZES Lawn Tennis Club is holding an open day on Saturday July 22 to encourage new members. more...
DEVIZES sprinter Wayne Martin is preparing for next month's Olympic trials in Birmingham. more...
RIDGEWAY School's Abi Wildbore finished eighth in the junior girls' javelin at the English Schools' Track and Field Championships at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium on Saturday, July 8. more...
WILTSHIRE produced another lacklustre performance in their final group cricket match in the 38 County Cup against Cornwall at Helston on Sunday, July 9. more...
SHALBOURNE racing driver Mike Salmon took victory during a double-header round of the Pirelli Porsche Cup at Croft in North Yorkshire. more...
SENIOR captain's day at The Wiltshire Golf Club at Wootton Bassett, was well supported, with 51 competitors taking part. more...
WESTINGHOUSE have taken over at the top of Division One after beating Potterne by 35 runs in their rearranged game. more...
CHIPPENHAM Wheelers held their annual 25-mile club handicap time-trial based on the Sutton Benger course. more...
DEVIZES Wharf, Box office tel: (01380) 725944. September 16-23: The Rivals (a) more...
IF YOU enjoy dining in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere Conigre Farm Restaurant in Melksham will be sure to please. more...
IT'S all really rather surreal. Alec Baldwin is the tough talking actor from the likes of Malice and The Hunt For Red October. He's the husband of Kim Basinger and celebrated puncher of photographers. more...
Big Momma's House (12) Crime comedy with Martin Lawrence, as an FBI agent forced to dress as a woman to nail an escaped convict. Rating: 1/10. more...
TUESDAY, July 18: Hot Strings, The Porter Cellar Bar, Bath more...
DEVIZES: Handel House Gallery, Tel: (01380) 727032. Until August 5: Unveiling Figures and Form, paintings by Howard Wolf and sculpture by K Jane Jones on the theme of the human body. more...
MONDAY, July 17 more...
THE chance to get away on holiday is something most of us treasure, indeed planning a break occupies a huge amount of our time. more...
THE debate on the relocation of the Royal Photographic Society and the Records Office appears to have sidetracked into political argument when possibly more fundamental points could have been made. more...
HOW much more public money is to be poured into the council's ill-starred skateboard project in Devizes' Hillworth Park, which, on the scale of disasters, is rapidly approaching the Millennium Dome? more...
I READ with mixed reactions Mr Packham's statements and opinions on the merits of having the Wiltshire and Swindon Records Office located in Chippenham. more...
HOW gratifying to note that another Chippenham resident Angela Bevan (letters July 6) has the interest to note that the ex-Gaumont was a cinema designed by the renowned cinema architect W E Trent. more...
THE hunting with dogs issue has reached breathtaking heights of irrelevance. The killers for fun brigade say curtailing the `industry' will deprive people of country jobs. more...
THE heart-warming report entitled woman's treasured ring returned to her, in the Gazette on June 22 described how, by sheer coincidences a lost ring of great sentimental value was reunited with its owner. more...
I FEEL compelled to respond to D M Crawley's letter entitled Attitude Must Change. more...
IN response to the report by Lyneham Parish Council on June 29, on the new footpath built by the RAF near our property, we would like to clarify a few points. more...
NEEDY children from across the area have had their summer holidays cancelled because the charity organising them is facing a funding crisis. more...
THE Malmesbury All Seasons Cycle Club is appealing to businesses and individuals to step forward and sponsor a limousine ride for teenager Tom Cleaver, who has undergone treatment for cancer. more...
A MILLENNIUM book project in Seagry was almost left in tatters when the company hired to produce the special volume went bankrupt just days before printing was to have started. more...
RETAINED fire fighters should be allowed to stay on beyond the mandatory retirement age of 55 if they still pass all their fitness tests. more...
LIVING in Malmesbury is like living in a fairy tale, according to visiting American basketball coach Melani Lowman. more...
WITH the North Wiltshire Festival about to kick off organisers are putting the final touches to nearly two years of work and preparation. more...
NEARLY 500 construction workers are due to move on to the sites of three proposed new schools at Chippenham, Malmesbury and Wootton Bassett by the end of the month. more...
TRAFFIC. It is an issue that touches our lives daily. more...
THE sin bin is to be introduced at all senior rugby levels next season, leaving referees with a major headache. more...
Clifton Flax-Bourton v Chippenham more...
SWINDON Town football legend Maurice Owen has died at the age of 76. more...
DAVE Lovell, the North Wilts Vikings skater hockey junior captain faces a 12 week lay-off. more...
DEVIZES Lawn Tennis Club is holding an open day on Saturday July 22 to encourage new members. more...
DEVIZES sprinter Wayne Martin is preparing for next month's Olympic trials in Birmingham. more...
RIDGEWAY School's Abi Wildbore finished eighth in the junior girls' javelin at the English Schools' Track and Field Championships at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium on Saturday, July 8. more...
WILTSHIRE produced another lacklustre performance in their final group cricket match in the 38 County Cup against Cornwall at Helston on Sunday, July 9. more...
SHALBOURNE racing driver Mike Salmon took victory during a double-header round of the Pirelli Porsche Cup at Croft in North Yorkshire. more...
SENIOR captain's day at The Wiltshire Golf Club at Wootton Bassett, was well supported, with 51 competitors taking part. more...
WESTINGHOUSE have taken over at the top of Division One after beating Potterne by 35 runs in their rearranged game. more...
CHIPPENHAM Wheelers held their annual 25-mile club handicap time-trial based on the Sutton Benger course. more...
IT'S all really rather surreal. Alec Baldwin is the tough talking actor from the likes of Malice and The Hunt For Red October. He's the husband of Kim Basinger and celebrated puncher of photographers. more...
Big Momma's House (12) Crime comedy with Martin Lawrence, as an FBI agent forced to dress as a woman to nail an escaped convict. Rating: 1/10. more...
TUESDAY, July 18: Hot Strings, The Porter Cellar Bar, Bath more...
DEVIZES: Handel House Gallery, Tel: (01380) 727032. Until August 5: Unveiling Figures and Form, paintings by Howard Wolf and sculpture by K Jane Jones on the theme of the human body. more...
MONDAY, July 17 more...
DEVIZES Wharf, Box office tel: (01380) 725944. September 16-23: The Rivals (a) more...
IF YOU enjoy dining in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere Conigre Farm Restaurant in Melksham will be sure to please. more...
COLOURFUL display boards used in a prestigious national exhibition on King Alfred staged by the Museum of London have been loaned to the village of Pewsey for its own royal exhibition from July 17. more...
ANGRY district councillors have criticized developers for not wanting to provide fully equipped play areas for children in Burbage. more...
WITH the North Wiltshire Festival about to kick off organisers are putting the final touches to nearly two years of work and preparation. more...
PARALYMPIC hopeful Anne Dunham is looking for sponsors to help her achieve her dream of winning a gold medal in Sydney. more...
TRAFFIC. It is an issue that touches our lives daily. more...
IN response to the report by Lyneham Parish Council on June 29, on the new footpath built by the RAF near our property, we would like to clarify a few points. more...
NEEDY children from across the area have had their summer holidays cancelled because the charity organising them is facing a funding crisis. more...
TOWN councillors have welcomed new designs for the town's controversial war memorial, drawn up by local architect Malcolm Ward. more...
FAMILIES living in a Marlborough street dubbed Vandal Alley, have suffered one of the worst spates of attacks on their homes and cars. more...
PLANS to mark the Millennium with a market cross in Marlborough town centre have been put on the back burner. more...
A NEW Ofsted report has confirmed St John's School in Marlborough as one of the best in the country. more...
TOWN councillors want plans for a footbridge over the River Kennet in Marlborough sent back to the drawing board because they fear it will obstruct the existing riverside walk. more...
TWO Woodborough mothers, Beverley Hams and Liz Walmsley, are walking around with rainbow coloured hair in a bid to attract donations towards a forthcoming charity trek in Nepal. more...
A PLAQUE is to be unveiled at the former workhouse, later the Marlborough Children's Hospital, on July 21, to honour five generations of the Maurice family who were doctors there. more...
PUPILS at St Peter's Primary School, Marlborough, swapped their usual school dress for cowboy hats and Red Indian costumes when the school staged a Wild West Day. more...
THE chance to get away on holiday is something most of us treasure, indeed planning a break occupies a huge amount of our time. more...
THE debate on the relocation of the Royal Photographic Society and the Records Office appears to have sidetracked into political argument when possibly more fundamental points could have been made. more...
HOW much more public money is to be poured into the council's ill-starred skateboard project in Devizes' Hillworth Park, which, on the scale of disasters, is rapidly approaching the Millennium Dome? more...
I READ with mixed reactions Mr Packham's statements and opinions on the merits of having the Wiltshire and Swindon Records Office located in Chippenham. more...
HOW gratifying to note that another Chippenham resident Angela Bevan (letters July 6) has the interest to note that the ex-Gaumont was a cinema designed by the renowned cinema architect W E Trent. more...
THE hunting with dogs issue has reached breathtaking heights of irrelevance. The killers for fun brigade say curtailing the `industry' will deprive people of country jobs. more...
THE heart-warming report entitled woman's treasured ring returned to her, in the Gazette on June 22 described how, by sheer coincidences a lost ring of great sentimental value was reunited with its owner. more...
I FEEL compelled to respond to D M Crawley's letter entitled Attitude Must Change. more...
Clifton Flax-Bourton v Chippenham more...
SWINDON Town football legend Maurice Owen has died at the age of 76. more...
THE sin bin is to be introduced at all senior rugby levels next season, leaving referees with a major headache. more...
DAVE Lovell, the North Wilts Vikings skater hockey junior captain faces a 12 week lay-off. more...
DEVIZES Lawn Tennis Club is holding an open day on Saturday July 22 to encourage new members. more...
DEVIZES sprinter Wayne Martin is preparing for next month's Olympic trials in Birmingham. more...
RIDGEWAY School's Abi Wildbore finished eighth in the junior girls' javelin at the English Schools' Track and Field Championships at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium on Saturday, July 8. more...
WILTSHIRE produced another lacklustre performance in their final group cricket match in the 38 County Cup against Cornwall at Helston on Sunday, July 9. more...
SHALBOURNE racing driver Mike Salmon took victory during a double-header round of the Pirelli Porsche Cup at Croft in North Yorkshire. more...
SENIOR captain's day at The Wiltshire Golf Club at Wootton Bassett, was well supported, with 51 competitors taking part. more...
WESTINGHOUSE have taken over at the top of Division One after beating Potterne by 35 runs in their rearranged game. more...
CHIPPENHAM Wheelers held their annual 25-mile club handicap time-trial based on the Sutton Benger course. more...
MUMS of children at Rowde School are celebrating after a campaign to get road safety measures installed has been won. more...
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Half Way Down The Line, an exhibition of paintings and photographs by Richard Gagola is at the Arts Centre, Devizes Road, Old Town. The display of 30 pieces explores the mystery of Swindon from a variety of perspectives. Richard's show is based on the theme of Time in keeping with the millennium focus run by Visual Arts. The exhibition runs until July 29. Free entry. more...
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AS a member of the GWR Staff Association Club in Shrivenham Road for more than 60 years, I find Swindon Council's decision to quash the application for housing development most welcome on the surface. more...
IN response to Swindon Borough Council reversing its decision to allow planning permission to go ahead on the GWR Sports Ground I can see three options left: more...
DURING a recent visit to my home town I spent two enjoyable hours at the new Steam museum. more...
I SEE the Labour trumpet blower, Jim D'Avila is at it now. more...
I DON'T know if there is a term for collective paranoia but the Evening Advertiser seems to have it in abundance! more...
I was delighted to learn that Christopher Mitchell from Ferndale is recovering after contracting meningococcal disease meningitis and septicaemia. more...
I care about the proposed devastation of Swindon's Front Garden, as I am sure do thousands of other people in and around Swindon. more...
POLICE have arrested a man suspected of trying to deal drugs in a Swindon nightclub. more...
STAFF at Greenbridge's Focus Do It All store spent the weekend trying to catch four escaped finches. more...
PENSIONERS could soon be offered the choice between bus tokens and a controversial half-price fare scheme. more...
SU Horn has come up with a hot idea to raise money to fight cancer. more...
AN MP says she is delighted that pensioners have been coming forward in large numbers for free eye tests since their reintroduction in April of last year. more...
THE same gang is thought to be responsible for thefts in two pubs near Swindon. more...
MP JAMES Gray got a good soaking when he was put in stocks and pelted with wet sponges. more...
BLONDE beauty Trudie Clarkson has shed her locks to help raise vital cash for cancer and leukaemia sufferers. more...
EQUIPMENT and help will be more available to children's groups thanks to a new Play-care Resources Service. more...
TRAIN passengers travelling between Swindon and Bristol will be able to pop in to a hi-tech station cafe. more...
SWINDON based Sixth Sense Theatre Company is taking Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories on the road. more...
CHILDREN as young as eight are getting drunk in Swindon yet a charity which wants to help them says it can do nothing because it has lost its National Lottery funding. more...
NEARLY £40m is set to be spent on Swindon's clogged roads. more...
PROSTITUTES should have a designated area in Swindon to stop a community turning into vigilantes. more...
THEY will bring the curtain down for the last time at Oakfield School on Tuesday, July 18 ... literally. more...
ONE of Swindon's main cable television companies has announced plans to sell off its TV masts throughout the country. more...
A DEVICE developed in Swindon which monitors the effect of the sun's rays on space weather is now in orbit. more...
THE first £1 million nursery in Swindon opens its doors this week to reveal a new generation of hi-tech childcare. more...
IN A classic David versus Goliath style victory, little Tyron Daly has been told that he will, after all, be allowed to join his sister at Seven Fields Primary School. more...
A GREAT grandfather who went back to college to take a computer course died before he could get his exam results. more...
IT makes you wonder just where the priorities of the National Lottery Charities Board lie. more...
We welcome Swindon Borough Council's multi-million plan to improve transport in the town. more...
DAVID Howell gave himself a great chance of playing in The Open by firing a one-under-par 70 in the qualifiers yesterday (Sunday, July 16). more...
SWINDON speedway star Frank Smart has said sorry after failing a routine drugs test. more...
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COLIN Todd will get a further chance to assess his trialists tonight (Monday, July 17) when Town travel to Dr Marten's League side Witney Town in a 7.30pm kick-off. more...
MORE than 1,000 children took part in one of the biggest football extravaganzas this country has ever seen. more...
IF YOU enjoy dining in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere Conigre Farm Restaurant in Melksham will be sure to please. more...
IT'S all really rather surreal. Alec Baldwin is the tough talking actor from the likes of Malice and The Hunt For Red October. He's the husband of Kim Basinger and celebrated puncher of photographers. more...
Big Momma's House (12) Crime comedy with Martin Lawrence, as an FBI agent forced to dress as a woman to nail an escaped convict. Rating: 1/10. more...
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DEVIZES: Handel House Gallery, Tel: (01380) 727032. Until August 5: Unveiling Figures and Form, paintings by Howard Wolf and sculpture by K Jane Jones on the theme of the human body. more...
THE chance to get away on holiday is something most of us treasure, indeed planning a break occupies a huge amount of our time. more...
IN response to the report by Lyneham Parish Council on June 29, on the new footpath built by the RAF near our property, we would like to clarify a few points. more...
THE debate on the relocation of the Royal Photographic Society and the Records Office appears to have sidetracked into political argument when possibly more fundamental points could have been made. more...
HOW much more public money is to be poured into the council's ill-starred skateboard project in Devizes' Hillworth Park, which, on the scale of disasters, is rapidly approaching the Millennium Dome? more...
I READ with mixed reactions Mr Packham's statements and opinions on the merits of having the Wiltshire and Swindon Records Office located in Chippenham. more...
HOW gratifying to note that another Chippenham resident Angela Bevan (letters July 6) has the interest to note that the ex-Gaumont was a cinema designed by the renowned cinema architect W E Trent. more...
THE hunting with dogs issue has reached breathtaking heights of irrelevance. The killers for fun brigade say curtailing the `industry' will deprive people of country jobs. more...
THE heart-warming report entitled woman's treasured ring returned to her, in the Gazette on June 22 described how, by sheer coincidences a lost ring of great sentimental value was reunited with its owner. more...
I FEEL compelled to respond to D M Crawley's letter entitled Attitude Must Change. more...
NEEDY children from across the area have had their summer holidays cancelled because the charity organising them is facing a funding crisis. more...
A FULL meeting of Wiltshire County Council gave all Party backing to Coun Mollie Groom's resolution on the Junction 16 controversial park and ride issue. more...
TRAFFIC. It is an issue that touches our lives daily. more...
NEARLY 500 construction workers are due to move on to the sites of three proposed new schools at Chippenham, Malmesbury and Wootton Bassett by the end of the month. more...
PARALYMPIC hopeful Anne Dunham is looking for sponsors to help her achieve her dream of winning a gold medal in Sydney. more...
DAVE Lovell, the North Wilts Vikings skater hockey junior captain faces a 12 week lay-off. more...
DEVIZES Lawn Tennis Club is holding an open day on Saturday July 22 to encourage new members. more...
DEVIZES sprinter Wayne Martin is preparing for next month's Olympic trials in Birmingham. more...
RIDGEWAY School's Abi Wildbore finished eighth in the junior girls' javelin at the English Schools' Track and Field Championships at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium on Saturday, July 8. more...
WILTSHIRE produced another lacklustre performance in their final group cricket match in the 38 County Cup against Cornwall at Helston on Sunday, July 9. more...
SHALBOURNE racing driver Mike Salmon took victory during a double-header round of the Pirelli Porsche Cup at Croft in North Yorkshire. more...
SENIOR captain's day at The Wiltshire Golf Club at Wootton Bassett, was well supported, with 51 competitors taking part. more...
WESTINGHOUSE have taken over at the top of Division One after beating Potterne by 35 runs in their rearranged game. more...
CHIPPENHAM Wheelers held their annual 25-mile club handicap time-trial based on the Sutton Benger course. more...
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SWINDON Town football legend Maurice Owen has died at the age of 76. more...
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