Wiltshire | Archive | 2005 | September
SHOCKWAVES from hurricane Katrina are hitting family-run and independent petrol businesses in south Wiltshire as petrol prices smash the £1-a-litre barrier. more...
NINTY-eight per cent of managers say they are coming into contact with difficult work colleagues on a regular basis. more...
BUSINESS travellers have somewhere different to sleep with the opening of a new hotel in Swindon. more...
HIGH Street bank Lloyds TSB is to increase the number of branches that offer Islamic banking services to the UK's two million Muslims. more...
SERVICE sector firms are increasingly pessimistic about the future because of the economic slowdown. more...
BUSINESS owners are being cautiously optimistic about the morale of their employees. more...
CHUGGING is the most popular part-time job for students at university, according to a new survey. more...
ALL three companies who were invited to bid for the franchise that could re-open Corsham Railway Station have snubbed the offer. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: A COUPLE fighting proposals to turn a light industrial unit into a warehouse on the Porte Marsh Industrial estate have branded the planning process farcical. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: CHURCH bells rang out across Calne last Sunday to call worshippers to the first Hymns on the Green event in the town in many years. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: HUNDREDS of children in Calne have been making the most of their holidays with the Summer Fun in Calne Playscheme. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: BUDDING photographers are being urged to enter a competition by submitting an up-to-date view or scene of Calne. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: CALNE'S 31st festival of music and arts is preparing for another fine display of local artistic talent. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: PLANS to build a pair of semi-detached houses instead of a terrace of three houses on London Road in Calne have been given the green light. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: A FORMER telephone repeater in Pew Hill is being auctioned next week with a guide price of £20,000. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: YOUNG mathematicians will be able to extend and develop their skills thanks to a new Government sponsored scheme that puts Hardenhuish School at the centre of a countywide initiative. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: JUST days into her first exhibition 20-year-old Ali Pearce sold three photographs. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: PLANS to turn the former Marshfield Road surgery of former GP Barney Williams into seven flats have been approved by North Wiltshire District Council. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: CHIPPENHAM'S ailing CCTV network could be safe for another six months if town councillors agree to spend out on staffing for high risk hours only. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: TWENTY-TWO-year-old Andrew Hawkins from Lyneham knocked a man off his motorbike and sped away, a court heard last Thursday. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: A DRAMATIC rise in thefts from sheds and back gardens has urged police to send out a warning to homeowners in the Chippenham area. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: PROPOSALS by Chippenham town councillor Sandie Webb to build three detached houses in her back garden have been rejected by planners. more...
President of Malmesbury Chamber of Commerce, Alan Woodward, says the new charges are terrible (17187/2)MOTORISTS and traders in north Wiltshire have voiced outrage at new car parking charges that have been introduced across the district. more...
Businesses in Corsham, Chippenham and Calne say they are suffering from last week's rise in car parking charges. more...
PLANS to turn the former Marshfield Road surgery of former GP Barney Williams into seven flats have been approved by North Wiltshire District Council. more...
THE ORGANISER of Preloader, a short film festival coming to the county next month, is appealing for new films to screen. more...
Anyone intending to set up a sex shop in north Wiltshire will have to apply for a licence from the district council and will probably have to fork out a £1,000 fee. more...
RESIDENTS of North Wiltshire will have to shell out £100 to name their property under new plans given the green light by the district council. more...
Cecil Coles kept conman talking (17207/7)GAZETTE & HERALD: FORMER intelligence officer Cecil Coles, 88, used his training to thwart two bogus callers who tried to con him out of £850. more...
Nicky Gough and Colette HolbrookGAZETTE & HERALD: AN inquest into the deaths of childhood sweethearts Nicky Gough and Colette Holbrook will be held next Friday the day after Miss Holbrook would have been celebrating her 21st birthday. more...
Lizzy Treglown still can't believe she won the People in Wiltshire youth award, scooping a £500 chequeGAZETTE & HERALD: SIXTH former Lizzy Treglown, who helped her school raise £1,500 for the victims of the Boxing Day tsunami and then went to Sri Lanka to help the aid effort, is one of the winners in this year's People of Wiltshire awards. more...
Celia Feane, who worked at St Nicholas School, pictured with Jamie Smith and David John DaviesGAZETTE & HERALD: The Ringway Parkman Employee of the Year Award went to someone who has given up work now, but whose influence is still felt at her former place of work. more...
Mums Lenka Anderson and Wendy Kirby with Freya and Amelie (17192/5)GAZETTE & HERALD: OUTRAGED mums Wendy Kirby and Lenka Anderson have literally been left holding their babies after their new double buggy was stolen on Thursday. more...
A treasured photo of Toby Charnaud with his son DanielGAZETTE & HERALD: MEMORIES of murdered Thai bar owner Toby Charnaud were shared in a touching ceremony in his home village of West Kington on Saturday. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: A NUMBER of Chippenham children, who lost appeals to get into the town's secondary schools, are having to start the new term out of town. more...
Poet and window cleaner Clive Ambrose (17189)GAZETTE & HERALD: WINDOW cleaner Clive Ambrose has the answer to every gift crisis a personal poem written by his own fair hand. more...
Margaret Knaggs, left, Chippenham Mayor John Scragg, Pamela Walden Woods, Margaret Spackman and John MIlls (17184/1/MP)GAZETTE & HERALD: CHIPPENHAM Town Council has honoured four people with a Civic Award to recognise the work they do and the contribution they make to the community. more...
Senior Aircraftswoman Michelle McNulty and Flt Sgt Brian Lyons at work in the control tower 17198/04GAZETTE & HERALD: RAF Lyneham has been given two major honours in the space of a week. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: LOUD swearing, vomit in the garden and drunken couples making love on the driveway are all distasteful antics Priory Street residents have been forced to endure. more...
Mario Lymath and Sharon Beasley (17156/08)GAZETTE & HERALD: GRATEFUL Sharon Beasley watched as her neighbour Mario Lymath received an award for saving her from the clutches of her crazed ex-boyfriend. more...
Campaigner Cathy Thatcher, her granddaughter Darcie Tayler Shields and community fundraiser Natasha Russell are all supporting The Westonbirt Walk Together (17188/4/DV)GAZETTE & HERALD: BREAST cancer survivor Cathy Thatcher is encouraging local people to join her in supporting Cancer Research UK's All Women Together Campaign. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: A SPECIAL garden in memory of the ten men who died in the Hercules crash in Iraq is due to be unveiled to their families soon. more...
G4's Matt Stiff, Jonathan Ansell and Mike Christie (17172/52)GAZETTE & HERALD: Thousands of people flocked to the Bowood estate for a day of music and entertainment in the glorious sunshine, at the Crimestoppers Family Fun Day on Sunday. more...
Mathew Cooper and Nia Picton-Philips hold the new sign which Mathew designed 17174/01GAZETTE & HERALD: YOUNG artist Mathew Cooper last week returned after the holidays to Corsham Regis Primary School to find a sign which he had designed standing proudly outside. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: HARDHEARTED councillors ignored the desperate pleas of children and gave a 38-house development in Neston the green light. more...
Jerry Dix, Peter James and Philip Bullock with their pirate fruit machine (17160/2)GAZETTE & HERALD: SHIPMATES in Box enjoyed a swashbuckling day out at the annual village fete on Saturday. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: Talented jazz performers from all over the world converge on Corsham for the town's festival this weekend. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: TOWN councillors have approved plans for a giant care village at HMS Royal Arthur, saying it would be the lesser of a number of evils on the site. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: ALL three companies who were invited to bid for the franchise that could re-open Corsham Railway Station have snubbed the offer. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: BOWOOD owner Lord Lansdowne says the future of his estate is in jeopardy if his proposals for 50 houses in nearby Derry Hill are refused. more...
GAZETTE & HERALD: BOX village rockers danced their socks off to help raise more than £1,000 for a hospital appeal. more...
The bungalow, where Michael Hobbs lived alone, was damaged in the blaze. He received extensive burnsDETECTIVES are hunting arsonists who torched the home of Michael Hobbs while he was asleep. Police said he is lucky to be alive and they have appealed for information to catch the attackers. more...
Robin Brookes with the wall of money he left for the bailiff for payment of taxes 15950/2PEACE campaigner Robin Brookes finally received his long-expected visit from the bailiff last week after withholding part of his income tax because he disagrees with British involvement in the Iraq war. more...
Peter Pan and his friends from Worton Youth Club weave their own spell 17164/52WITH Devizes Carnival's usual uncanny luck with the weather, the sun shone on the procession on Saturday evening. more...
Museum curator Paul Robinson and education officer Ali Siviter looking forward to renovations (17190/1)THE Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society has launched an appeal to raise £13,000 to find the last of the money it needs to complete urgent alterations at its museum in Devizes. more...
Peter Jaques assessing a whisky (17158/3)IT was through involvement with a cult film involving sex and drugs and rock'n'roll that Peter Jaques became involved with the genteel art of whisky tasting. more...
IAN Wiltshire, 13, of Forty Acres Road, Devizes, has become the youngest person in Kennet to receive an anti-social behaviour order. more...
Sarah Yorston, centre with fellow travellers, left, and Jane WheeldonWADWORTH brewer Brian Yorston only knew his daughter was safe from the aftermath of the New Orleans hurricane when he saw her picture on an internet site. more...
MICHAEL Ancram, deputy leader of the Conservative Party and MP for Devizes, has introduced Europe into the centre of the leadership election debate in a rousing speech to the women of the constituency. more...
Louis with mum Sarah Eagle and grandmother Eileen EagleTHE Devizes family of little Louis Townsend who has a life threatening genetic disorder are appealing for people to raise money in the annual Jeans for Genes event. more...
MOTORIST David Pearce has been told to expect a jail term after admitting causing the death of Jason Rawlings of Devizes, through careless driving while unfit through alcohol. more...
THE new J D Wetherspoon pub in Devizes is not likely to be open for another year. more...
Pee Wee EllisINTERNATIONAL jazz star Pee Wee Ellis will be playing at the Bear Hotel in Devizes on Saturday. more...
THE man who discovered Charlotte Church will be coming to Market Lavington this month on a search for raw talent among local people. more...
PARISH, town and district councillors in Kennet are invited to nominate their favourite building or planning document for a new competition being organised by Kennet District Council. more...
KENNET District Council is urging businesses to know the facts about new hazardous waste regulations or face a fine up to £20,000. more...
KENNET District Council's customer services contact centre is handling 7,000 calls a month. more...
Recent efforts to boost efficiency mean ambulances are never properly cleaned, according to unions and members fear the public's health is at risk. more...
HEALTH bosses have been slammed for keeping a public meeting concerning the controversial ambulance merger low-key. more...
Lizzy Treglown still can't believe she won the People in Wiltshire youth award, scooping a £500 chequePEOPLE OF WILTSHIRE AWARDS: SIXTH former Lizzy Treglown, who helped her school raise £1,500 for the victims of the Boxing Day tsunami and then went to Sri Lanka to help the aid effort, is one of the winners in this year's People of Wiltshire awards. more...
Celia Feane, who worked at St Nicholas School, pictured with Jamie Smith and David John DaviesPEOPLE OF WILTSHIRE AWARDS: The Ringway Parkman Employee of the Year Award went to someone who has given up work now, but whose influence is still felt at her former place of work. more...
THE number 70 bus service has been saved after Wiltshire County Council agreed to provide a replacement. more...
CATCH THE BAIL BANDITS: MORE than half the fugitives from justice featured in the pages of the Gazette and Herald over the past few weeks have been arrested and others have given themselves up to avoid further publicity. more...
Kennet and North Wiltshire Primary Care Trust must cut services to save £14 million from its budget next year, according to health boss Trevor Jones. more...
GRANTS totalling £170,000 have been awarded to 29 schools across Wiltshire to help encourage green, safe and healthy travel to schools. more...
Wiltshire County Council is on a mission to cut its carbon emissions in a bid to help combat global warming and save council taxpayers' money. more...
Young actors will have a chance to develop their skills and devise a play about crime in a new project called DramaXpress, run by the Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership. more...
With respect to the proposed closure of the Tourist Information Centre, central Government is deliberately trying to treat us very unfairly here in rural Devizes, in almost all aspects of our lives. more...
Australians have an expression for circumstances where fact is stranger than fiction. "You couldn't write about it!" Well, I've decided that writing about it is my only option. more...
Several people responded agreeing with my earlier letter in the Gazette concerning the foolishness of demolishing public toilets in Devizes. more...
On August 30, on the 10.02am bus from Wick Lane bus stop in Devizes, I happened to see an elderly person with obvious movement difficulties struggling to board the bus, along with a large shopping trolley. more...
We would like to thank all the staff, Pam, Tanya and Jodie, of Images hairdressing salon of The Arches, Bridewell Street, also Jaimie Benson, who kindly gave their time and efforts to push our older residents in the carnival procession. more...
I write in support of the letter from Sylvia Lavers (September 1). I too think the new Marlborough College building is less than lovely. more...
On a clear night just before midnight, I drove into Marlborough from Manton and immediately noticed the flashing lights of a police car on the south side of the square. There were several jolly young pedestrians but virtually no traffic and I was not followed. more...
I would like to say a big thank you to Mr and Mrs Bill Harrison, 10 Roundway Park, for opening their home and garden, in July for a coffee morning to raise money for a donkey sanctuary. more...
I would like to thank everyone involved in Chippenham's first gravity race held in the High Street on Sunday August 28. more...
I was encouraged to see the recognition given to all who worked together to produce the interpretive panel recently unveiled on the Common in Marlborough (Gazette, September 1). more...
On August 20, I tripped and fell over a loose paving stone in the Brittox, Devizes. more...
Congratulations to town councillors Noel Woolrych and Jane Burton, plus Susan Rasey and all the rest of their team for another successful carnival last Saturday. Combined with the sunshine and the town council flower displays, the event made it a wonderful evening to be out enjoying Devizes. more...
May we, through your letters column, thank all those family, friends, customers and colleagues who sponsored us on our recent walk in aid of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal. more...
There is no sadness about the case of nimbyism with regard to the Oakey family (letters, August 25). more...
I was very surprised to read the letter from Geoff Brewer re human sewage sludge on farm land. Having lived in the Far East, this is an acceptable practice in many countries, but I would never have expected this to be common practice in a developed country such as England. more...
Mathew Cooper and Nia Picton-Philips hold the new sign which Mathew designed 17174/01YOUNG artist Mathew Cooper last week returned after the holidays to Corsham Regis Primary School to find a sign which he had designed standing proudly outside. more...
GRANTS totalling £170,000 have been awarded to 29 schools across Wiltshire to help encourage green, safe and healthy travel to schools. more...
A NUMBER of Chippenham children, who lost appeals to get into the town's secondary schools, are having to start the new term out of town. more...
YOUNG mathematicians will be able to extend and develop their skills thanks to a new Government sponsored scheme that puts Hardenhuish School at the centre of a countywide initiative. more...
Kennet and North Wiltshire Primary Care Trust must cut services to save £14 million from its budget next year, according to health boss Trevor Jones. more...
Niky Philpot, whose foot was burned in the fire, and the house she shares with Louise Richens, where the candle fire broke out (17220/3)What started as a fun girls' night in for Niky Philpot and flatmate Louise Richens was just minutes away from ending in tragedy after a fire broke out in their Highworth bungalow. more...
A TEENAGE mother carrying her baby was attacked with a golf club as drunken thugs caused mayhem at the funfair after Malmesbury's Carnival procession on Saturday night. more...
Antiques valuer Charles Woodward, top right, enjoys the fun day alongside, top from left, county councillor Carole Soden and Sylvia Dibben. In the front are, from left, Juliet Dibben, Heath Russell, dog judge Frances Ring and Robert Blackmore with Bouncer, who was second in the show (17179/5)Young and old enjoyed glorious summer sunshine at this year's Crudwell Family Fun Day. more...
President of Malmesbury Chamber of Commerce, Alan Woodward, says the new charges are terrible (17187/2)MOTORISTS and traders in north Wiltshire have voiced outrage at new car parking charges that have been introduced across the district. more...
Making a clean sweep of carnival frivolity (17182-02)Malmesbury exploded with a kaleidoscope of colour and music as thousands of people lined the streets for this year's carnival procession. more...
Marion Outlaw welcomes home her tortoise SpeedySherston pensioner Marion Outlaw is thrilled to have been reunited with her beloved tortoise Speedy. more...
Susan Sutton with her husband Mark, and children Ashley and Jodie (17213/3/DC)Mother-of-two Susan Sutton, who is battling bowel cancer, says people should not be embarrassed to consult their doctor if they show symptoms of the disease. more...
SHOPPERS and traders in Malmesbury have condemned new parking charges that came into force last week. more...
Millie was one of the many children who enjoyed tackling the climbing wall, a new feature of the show (17183/1)From ferret racing to falconry displays, around 7,000 visitors enjoyed a great day's entertainment at the Brinkworth Country Show. more...
QUEEN OF 1965: Lana NailAn American woman who was crowned Malmesbury Carnival Queen in 1965 is planning a return visit to see her loyal subjects in the town. more...
QUIT SHOP JOB : Hazel JarrettTwo workers in Malmesbury have already resigned from their jobs because of the new car parking charges at Station Yard Car Park. more...
Malmesbury's new town clerk Jeff Penfold says he loves Malmesbury but he he does not expect to be a public figure. more...
Jazz fans from all over England will come to Malmesbury this weekend for the ninth annual jazz festival. more...
Crudwell parents are delighted the village pre-school has been saved from closure after a new supervisor was appointed. more...
A scheme to build 11 houses on the site of a former garage in Minety has been refused by district councillors. more...
Holy Cross Church in Sherston could become an advice point in an effort to make the building more user-friendly. more...
Townspeople could be asked to pay an extra 41p to 51p a week towards the town council's precept in order to save Malmesbury Town Hall. more...
The father of the victim says his family has been destroyed (17214/1)A MARLBOROUGH father has blamed police mistakes for the fact that the man he says raped his 14-year-old daughter in the bedroom of a town pub is not going to be prosecuted. more...
Juliette and Russ Plank are poised to realise their ambition of living abroad with their children Mai, Ross and Brook (17171/2)ACCOUNTANT Juliette Plank and her husband Russ and three children are counting on making a new life down under but their address will remain familiar. more...
THE consensus of opinion about the new tourist information kiosk outside Marlborough Library is that it's a bit of joke. The amount of local information currently available is minimal and some of that is inaccurate. more...
PC Andy Sexton with sons William, nine, and Ali, four 17156/01MARLBOROUGH police officer Andy Sexton took part in a high speed pursuit of suspected burglars in an unlikely vehicle. more...
The spirit of cowboy country is alive and kicking in Aldbourne (17169-07)ALDBOURNE Carnival enjoyed its biggest and best procession on Saturday as a culmination of a sun-kissed week of community entertainment. more...
SHOPLIFTERS could find themselves thwarted in Marlborough in the lead-up to Christmas as a new Shopwatch scheme comes into effect. more...
Felicia Field Hall hopes her friends in Marlborough and Pewsey will vote for her to become an FHM HoneyA FORMER pupil of St Francis Preparatory School in Pewsey will find out at the end of this month if she has made it into the final ten pin-up girls of the national men's magazine FHM. more...
FIREFIGHTERS called to a blaze at a property in Aldbourne in the early hours of Sunday had to rescue a man from his first floor flat. more...
Rick WakemanSIXTIES rock musician Rick Wakeman, who was part of legendary rock band Yes, is to return to Marlborough to perform a special Christmas concert with three of his children. more...
IF no-one comes along to revive Marlborough Carnival in the next five years it will be wound up and its funds distributed to local charities. more...
MARLBOROUGH Town Council has agreed to take over running the public toilets in Chantry Lane after Kennet District Council declared its intention of closing them. more...
SIXTIES rock musician Rick Wakeman is to return to Marlborough to perform a special Christmas concert with three of his children. more...
Felicia Field Hall hopes her friends in Marlborough and Pewsey will vote for her to become an FHM HoneyA FORMER pupil of St Francis Preparatory School in Pewsey will find out at the end of this month if she has made it into the final ten pin-up girls of the national men's magazine FHM. more...
TO THE RESCUE: Cyril WeinmanVillagers of Everleigh, near Pewsey, are cock-a-hoop after the Crown Hotel was saved from conversion to housing. more...
Pewsey Carnival Princess Jessica Johnson, aged 11, right, with Flower Girl Rosie Green, aged 9 (17166-04)CARNIVAL fortnight has kicked off in Pewsey and it promises to be one of the best ever the organisers say. more...
PLANS to build three homes on part of the car park behind the Royal Oak pub in Pewsey have brought a strong objection from the parish council. more...
THE first big river match of the season took place on the River Thames between Kelmscot and Tadpole on Sunday, with 36 teams of four competing for the annual Turner 400 match. more...
CRAIG LYUS chats to Jon Lewis, Swindon's England and Gloucestershire cricket who is banking on an England victory in the final Ashes Test more...
GOATACRE missed out on capping their wonderful season with promotion by the narrowest of margins, despite a resounding win over Swindon. more...
CORSHAM'S fine end-of-season form disappeared along with their chance of the runners-up spot as they lost at home by 136 runs to Cheltenham. more...
A DIFFICULT season for Malmesbury ended on a positive note, as they recorded a nine-run win over relegation partners Cinderford St John. more...
A SUPERB promotion-winning season for Biddestone ended on a sour note as they slumped to a heavy 164-run defeat at the hands of league winners Gloucester City Winget. more...
DEVIZES fell agonisingly close to survival after a thumping nine-wicket win at Redmarley, but they could not avoid relegation to Glos/Wilts Two. more...
CHIPPENHAM avoided an overly tense final day as they produced a massive nine-wicket victory against Stroud to ensure survival. more...
MARLBOROUGH suffered a narrow defeat in their final game of the season, as Dumbleton escaped with a one-wicket win. more...
FAIRFORD Town's clash with Tuffley Rovers tonight has been called off due to the Gloucestershire-based side's resignation from the Hellenic League Premier Division. more...
DEVIZES manager Nathan Sheridan is turning to the club's old guard to reverse their early season fortunes. more...
A THRILLING 6-4 win announced the arrival of the Southgate Inn to Division Four of the Chippenham and District Sunday Football League. more...
GARY Skidmore has been left bitterly disappointed after Biddestone chairman Martin Jennings sacked him over the telephone. more...
CORSHAM'S impressive start to their league campaign continued last Saturday as they edged out Radstock 2-1 to go fifth in the Toolstation Premier Division. more...
GRAHAM Learmonth's first two games in charge of Biddestone have resulted in a good response, as the team picked up four points in three days. more...
A DEPLETED Pewsey Vale side suffered a resounding 3-0 loss away at Easington Sports. more...
DEVIZES Town boss Nathan Sheridan was left with a bloody nose as his side went down away to a very physical Odd Down side. more...
CALNE picked up their first win of the season with a dominating performance away to rock bottom side Torrington. more...
HELLENIC LEAGUE ROUND UP: JOHN Fisher has read the riot act to his complacent champions after Highworth's 4-1 home stuffing at the hands of Carterton. more...
MELKSHAM boss Kelvin Highmore has told his players to enjoy Saturday's daunting FA Cup trip to Swindon Supermarine, as they have no chance of winning. more...
TWO stunning goals helped Melksham earn a point in a fine comeback against Exmouth Town as their encouraging start continued. more...
DEVIZES-based Southgate Inn were the only one of the three new sides to the league to gain a win on the opening day, but the anticipated cricket score against last season's wooden spoonists AFC Melksham never materialised. more...
WILTSHIRE LEAGUE: WROUGHTON celebrated their return to the Wier Field with an 11-1 victory over visitors Blyskawica. more...
WILTSHIRE MINI SOCCER FESTIVAL: HUNDREDS of children took part in a mini football extravaganza in Devizes at the weekend in the Wiltshire County FA Mini Soccer Festival. more...
DEVIZES won the opening day battle of Wiltshire in Southern Counties South as the visiting Saddlebacks pulled away after the scores were locked at 8-8 at half-time. more...
CALNE kicked off their campaign with an edge-of-the-seat victory over Bradford on Avon. more...
MALMESBURY'S entrance into Dorset and Wilts Division One North ended in a 15-5 defeat at the hands of Swindon 2nd on Saturday. more...
CORSHAM'S return to Southern Counties rugby ended in a home defeat at the hands of Sherborne. more...
CHIPPENHAM'S 2nd team came through a hard fought encounter at North Bristol on Saturday virtually unscathed. more...
JUNIOR RUGBY: CHIPPENHAM'S U16 squad kicked off their new season with a 22-17 defeat to a touring side from Camberley in Surrey. more...
TWO of the street wardens who were used on the Parks and Walcot estates have been moved to the West Swindon area. more...
WHAT some glorious weather we've been having. But, as usual, there is not one public outdoor swimming pool in Swindon to go and cool off, have fun and exercise in the sun. more...
IN 2003, Swindon lost its direct train service to Oxford. Now the service to Southampton is threatened too. more...
JUST when the blackberries are ripening on the bushes along Wharf Road in Wroughton and are begging to be picked, Swindon Council has sent in its men to trim all the bushes back, so thwarting our desire for a blackberry and apple pie. more...
WITH reference to Alan Hayward's query about councillors' views on the development at Coate. more...
I AM surprised anyone does not know my position on the Coate issue. more...
Stuart and Verity Turner Picture Ref: 99181-3A COUPLE who paid more than £7,000 for a conservatory in June are still waiting for work to be completed. more...
SWINDON Council is launching another national advertising campaign to find its next layer of managers. more...
Coun Dale Heenan Picture Ref: 99190-7COUNCILLORS should no longer be paid petrol expenses for travelling to meetings. more...
The exterior of the National Trust building in Swindon Picture Ref: 78113-267AS a prestigious Swindon building came under fire from an architectural commentator, Anthony Osborne spoke to its occupiers, and looked at other prominent buildings in the town. more...
Campaigning for a skatepark Ben Clinch, front, with, from the left, Amanda Musty, Matt Davidson, Lewis Doult and Angela Musty Picture Ref: 99187-44THE GREAT DEBATE: THE Dorcan and Eldene areas of Swindon are witnessing an outbreak of young people power. more...
Peter Pan stars Steven Pinder and Daniel Boys toast the new cafe at the Wyvern Theatre Picture Ref: 99179-11THE Wyvern Theatre's new coffee bar has been unveiled after months of planning. more...
Flashback to the 2003 celebrations When Hamish Orr-Ewing, of Foxhill took his steam engine along Picture Ref: 26644-12SWINDON ... AND PROUD OF IT: THIS year's Arkell's beer festival will be a beer drinker's paradise. more...
South Swindon MP Anne Snelgrove Picture Ref: 72773-74SOUTH Swindon MP Anne Snelgrove has been campaigning to help working parents in the town balance their responsibilities. more...
SWINDON police are appealing for witnesses following two distraction burglaries. more...
DR Chris Steele who appears regularly on ITV's This Morning will give Swindon mums advice about their children's health when he appears at a supermarket today. The doctor, pictured, will be offering his advice at Asda in the Orbital Shopping Centre in Haydon Wick. He will be at the store on Thursday from 11am to 3pm. more...
A YOUNGSTER has had his brother's BMX bike stolen by a BB gun-toting youth. more...
A 19-YEAR-OLD was forced to the ground and had his money and a mobile phone stolen following an attack on Tuesday. more...
THE National Blood Service is holding two donor sessions. more...
A SHAKE-UP in the running of the Swindon-based National Trust has put it on course for a secure financial future, according to its chairman. more...
THE British Red Cross urgently needs more volunteers for its Home From Hospital service, which operates from the Great Western Hospital, in Swindon. more...
CALLING all bands fed up of rehearsing in your garage? Then get yourself down to Megabowl for the chance to win an amazing prize. more...
THE Moredon Labour Party has selected its candidate to fight next year's election. more...
A SWINDON mother has escaped a fine from the courts after she failed to make her 12- year-old son go to school. more...
PRIME-time TV police shows are helping criminals get away with crime. more...
SWINDON's first Pedal To The Pub event will be held at Coate Water on Sunday, September 18. more...
Libraries across Wiltshire are going to hold performances of the recreation of the battle of Trafalgar. more...
Dust off your running shoes for Get Active Day on Wednesday. more...
BRITISH scientists working on the Cassini space probe say they have made a series of new discoveries about Saturn's rings. more...
PEOPLE are invited to go along to a meeting tonight to talk housing with Coun Ian Dobie, pictured, the Cabinet Member for Social Care. more...
SWINDON shoppers at Asda will soon be able to browse the aisles from the comfort of their own home. more...
AS part of the Soil Association's Organic Week the Swindon Sunday Farmers' Market at the McArthur Designer Outlet will be offering solely organic produce. more...
A FUN time is promised at the end of the month for anyone wanting to know more about fungi. more...
Highworth Lions have responded to claims they refused to accept a Scottish £20 note. more...
A HOTEL hit by lightning is back to business as normal. more...
WILTSHIRE's unsung heroes were recognised last night at this year's People of Wiltshire Awards. more...
North Wiltshire MP James Gray Picture Ref: 25546-80NORTH Wiltshire MP James Gray has sparked fury after branding Swindon as an absolute dump. more...
Alex Tew who has launched an advertising website to pay for his business degree Picture Ref: 99181-11A STUDENT from the Swindon area is hoping to become the latest dot.com millionaire in his bid to avoid university debt. more...
Deans in Marlborough is selling unleaded petrol at £1.03 and diesel at £1.08 Picture Ref: 99180-19PETROL prices have broken the £1 a litre barrier in Swindon. more...
Gary Capon when he featured in the Adver with the old McIlroy's clock Picture Ref: 72142-7FIVE workers who were sacked from a Swindon shop with no notice have been awarded £11,000 in compensation. more...
A 24-YEAR-OLD man involved in the theft of a taxi cab which left a father-of-nine in hospital has been jailed for 180 days. more...
Swindon Town supporter Andy Ings at the County Ground Picture Ref: 99185-38A LIFELONG Swindon Town Football Club fan has been asked to promise he will behave himself before being allowed back in the ground. more...
Lin Foulds, landlady of the Crumpled Horn, with a breakfast tray Picture Ref: 99191-48A PUB is opening its doors early and invit-ing punters in for a drink. more...
Stacey Porter Picture Ref: 99169-34THE drivers who ignored a pregnant woman's cries for help have been called gutless. more...
Sandra Hughes and Angela Lawrence who are doing the Swindon Half-Marathon in preparation for walking the Great Wall of China Picture Ref: 99184-44WHILE most people taking part in the Swindon Half-Marathon will be taking a well earned break afterwards, one Swindon pair are using it as a training session for a walk along the Great Wall of China. more...
The father of the victim says his family has been destroyed (17214/1)A MARLBOROUGH father has blamed police mistakes for the fact that the man he says raped his 14-year-old daughter in the bedroom of a town pub is not going to be prosecuted. more...
NICKY Nicolau hopes the need for a `balanced' view, coupled with a double endorsement, will be enough to secure a spot against old friends on Saturday. more...
An artist's impression of how the old St Ivel site will lookDeveloper KingsOak have finally revealed their plans for the former St Ivel site in Wootton Bassett, more than a year after buying the site for £19m. more...
President of Malmesbury Chamber of Commerce, Alan Woodward, says the new charges are terrible (17187/2)MOTORISTS and traders in north Wiltshire have voiced outrage at new car parking charges that have been introduced across the district. more...
Recovering in hospital from a heart attack, Estelle Hadingham is looking forward to using the transport voucher scheme to allow her to go shopping in Swindon (17193/4/PM)Wiltshire's first ever taxi voucher scheme has brought a new lease of life to diabetes sufferer Estelle Hadingham. more...
Wednesday market traders in Wootton Bassett have welcomed the Town Hall and Trust Charity's decision not to increase market rents. more...
Wootton Bassett Post Office manager Sanjay Soni is urging residents not to panic when the counter closes for business next week. more...
Pubs and off-licences in Wootton Bassett are to undergo spot checks as part of the ongoing police effort to curb anti-social behaviour. more...
Wootton Bassett is to have a regular craft fair following the success of last month's inaugural event. more...
Harry Ward in his Wootton Bassett hockey kit (17194/1/PM)Nine-year-old Harry Ward has ditched his wheelchair, cast and crutches to wield his hockey stick for Wootton Bassett once again. more...
Wootton Bassett residents and traders have been left scratching their heads after hundreds of ransom-style posters from a mystery person demanding to see their son were plastered all over town. more...
An alleged parking dispute between two neighbours in Wootton Bassett ended with a bleeding nose after tempers got frayed. more...
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