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  • White Horse Juniors set new record

    A RECORD 116 teams from 36 clubs took part in White Horse Juniors annual six-a-side competition at the John Bentley School, Calne, at the weekend. Melksham Town Youth were the weekend's big winners as the club lifted two titles and two fair play awards

  • Whiting earns skipper’s praise

    SKIPPER Joe Breet and Ben Whiting shared a century partnership to set up a 69 run win over Swindon and keep Westbury in the lead for the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Division One title. The pair shared a fourth wicket partnership of 115 as Westbury

  • Wiltshire crash out

    BOWLS: Wiltshire's hopes of a place in the last eight of the Middleton Cup inter-county championships were dashed at Kidderminster. Needing to win their final Middleton Cup group match against Worcestershire to win the section and book a quarter-final

  • Atomised (TBC)

    ATOMISED tells the story of half-brothers Michael (Christian Ulmen) and Bruno (Moritz Bleibtreu). The only thing that they have in common is a mother (Nina Hoss) who abandoned them to separate grandparents so that she could lead a carefree jet-set

  • Superman Returns (12A)

    Superman (Brendan Routh) born on a planet which has long since died has been raised by adoptive parents on the Kent farm in Kansas. The young boy Kal-El is renamed Clark Kent, and has grown up among humans. To co-exist with them he must live a dual

  • Bluster, bravado and spontaneity

    Hellfire Comedy Club Saturday July 15, 8pm, Wyvern Theatre, Swindon Brendan Burns and Russell Howard will bring the Wyvern Theatre's Hellfire Comedy Club season to a close tomorrow night. Presenting himself as an angry comic, but obviously venting

  • Young musician gives solo recital

    Cordelia Williams, Friday July 14, 7.30pm, Wiltshire Music Centre. Cordelia Williams, the talented pianist from Wiltshire who recently reached the finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition will be playing at the Wiltshire Music Centre

  • Blend of gypsy, jazz, blues and rock

    The Speakeasy, Ashton Court Festival. New band The Speakeasy, offering an exciting blend of gypsy, jazz, blues and rock, has won a slot at the Ashton Court Festival next weekend. The band, all with an average age of 17, are set to appear in the

  • Tales of the river bank

    The Wind in the Willows, Friday, July 21 and Saturday, July 22, Arc Theatre, Trowbridge. Kenneth Grahame's Tales of the River Bank, the Open Road, the Wild Wood, the exuberant Mr Toad and Mole, Ratty and Badger are all here in this vibrant musical

  • Highlights of best new comedy

    Not the Edinburgh Festival. July 20-29, Theatre Royal Bath. Your chance to see the best of the fest in Bath before it heads north of the border, here are some of the highlights of the forthcoming Edinburgh Festival, appearing in the Ustinov Studio

  • Bold version of potent classic

    Miss Julie, In repertory until August 12, Theatre Royal Bath. POWER struggles and sexual desire are two potent topics for a 90-minute one-act play to tackle. The Peter Hall Company's version of August Strindberg's Miss Julie manages in part to convey

  • Wiltshire remain in second place

    WILTSHIRE remain in second place in the Minor Counties Championship Western Division after their match against Cornwall at Camborne ended in a draw on Tuesday. Devon head the table with 82 points after winning all three of their games so far, with

  • Investigations into cause of house blaze

    FIREFIGHTERS were called to tackle a blaze at a house in Broughton Gifford in the early hours of this morning. The fire broke out in a first floor bedroom at a house in Newleaze Park just after midnight. Neighbours heard screaming about 12.15am and

  • Wiltshire thwarted by rain

    A COMBINATION of rain and stubborn resistance from the Cornwall tailenders thwarted Wiltshire's hopes of victory in their three-day Minor Counties Championship match at Camborne which ended yesterday. A total of 84 overs were lost because of rain

  • Catches down as temperatures soar

    ANGLING: IT was a difficult week in the very hot sunny weather at Chew Valley, despite over 7,500 fish being stocked into the lake. These were spread out around the lake, to Wick Green, North Shore, Sailing Club, Nunnery and Moreton, but to date there