Westbury Westbury Swimming Pool is now due to re-open in mid-June, after a new contractor started repair work on the pool lining this week. The pool was originally expected to close for three to four weeks from March 4, so repairs could be carried
A woman in her 60s who was left with a suspected broken nose after she confronted two burglars in her own bedroom says she is pleased her ordeal is over after the pair were jailed. The plucky householder chased after Darren Jackson and Andrew Scarrot
BATH head coach Gary Gold says adding experience to the key positions in the club’s three-quarter line remains a priority after the signing of teenage Leicester fly-half George Ford this week. Ford, the son of Bath coach Mike, and scrum-halves
Real estate company Colliers International wants to find a developer to buy the former St Paul’s Church in Staverton. The Diocese of Salisbury has asked the company to find someone to take over the 13th century Georgian gothic church. The Grade
Wiltshire Police are appealing for witnesses following an attempted distraction burglary in Bradford on Avon. The incident took place at a residential address in the Highfield Road / New Road area during the afternoon of Tuesday. Shortly before
Taxi driver Phillip Rilley says he feared for his life after a passenger became abusive and violent on an early hours trip. Mr Rilley was approached by four people at a Chippenham taxi rank at 2.55am on Sunday. They asked to go to Melksham.
MY initial reaction to the British & Irish Lions squad announced this week is that it is lean and mean. Past squads always had an element of versatility to them, but that isn’t the case this time. With just two specialist fly-halves and
TROWBRIDGE coach Steve Ojomoh believes their failure to book a return to South West level rugby may prove beneficial to the long-term health of the club. Ojomoh’s side lost out 39-20 at Oxfordshire side Grove in their promotion play-off last week
Plans for a new, mixed-use development at Kingston Farm in Bradford on Avon have been submitted to Wiltshire Council. The site in Holt Road, which has been defined in the Wiltshire Core Strategy, would have a mix of 138 one to five bedroom apartments
FC Jager may not have got they win they were after on Thursday evening that would have kept their hopes of winning the title alive, but Barry Holloway’s side will host FC Colerne at the Beeches, this Sunday in what will be their final ever game in
Health and safety officers at Wiltshire Council are investigating an incident at a Westbury car auction in Northacre Industrial Park on Tuesday, which resulted in a 74-year-old man being airlifted to Frenchay Hospital. The man sustained serious
A bus driver from Melksham, seen drinking Special Brew lager while on duty, has been banned from driving for 18 months and fined more than £200. Stephen Ackland, 55, of Ferris Grove, was seen drinking a can of super-strength lager outside Sainsbury
BEN Harrison says that he is not feeling dispirited by having to go down the hard route to achieve his dream of qualifying for the World Snooker Tour. Harrison, 21, was in contention for a tour place in last weekend’s European Billiards and Snooker
WITH three pieces of silverware to their name already this season, Biddestone Social now set their sights on a adding a fourth. Ashley Smith’s side are favourites to add the Subsidiary Cup to the Premier Division trophy and the Knockout and Wiltshire
FLANKER Guy Mercer started the final weekend of Bath’s season armed with a contract extension and is determined to do everything possible to end it by helping his beloved club into the Heineken Cup. Victory at Saracens tomorrow, coupled with an
The 13th Seend Beer Festival takes place on Saturday at Seend Community Centre, from noon to 11pm. More than 30 beers and ciders will be available, while the bar at the community centre will also be selling other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks
WE’VE got our second match in the Knockout Trophy on Sunday against Lincolnshire and we’re looking to put right what went wrong in the defeat to Norfolk. We bowled and fielded particularly well but the team let themselves down a bit with their
BATH have kept faith with the same side that defeated Leicester two weeks ago for tomorrow's final Aviva Premiership game of the season against Saracens at Allianz Park (2.30pm). World Cup-winning fly-half Stephen Donald partners Springbok Michael
A POINT from a 2-2 draw for Biddestone Social at home to FC Jager on a sun-drenched Thursday evening at Yatton Road was all that was needed for Ashley Smith’s side to be crowned S.K. Fruits Limited Chippenham Sunday League Premier Division champions
Edward Miles, who died recently aged 60, attended Trinity School, Bradford on Avon, now St Laurence School. The second of the three children of Reg and Hermine Miles, he was born in 1952 in Gibraltar, moving to Brad-ford on Avon in 1961 when his
Former Trowbridge Wanderers player and charity fundraiser Chris Penelhum died at home on April 24, aged 29, after testicular cancer spread to his brain. Born in Trowbridge, the son of David and Lorraine Penelhum, he grew up in the town with his
A thanksgiving service will be held today in Devizes, following the death of Stanley John Kirk, the founder of the Scholars children’s outfitters business, which has shops in Trowbridge, Warminster, Devizes, Chippenham and Bath. Mr Kirk, who was
Family activities at North Bradley Memorial Hall will raise funds for a new cancer treatment unit tomorrow. The Forever Friends Appeal event, from 10.30am to 4pm, will support plans at Royal United Hospital, Bath. Attractions will include craft
An 88-year-old woman injured in a car accident in Shaw in March has died. The woman was driving a Nissan Micra from Melksham towards Shaw on March 28, when she collided with a Nissan Juke travelling in the opposite direction. She was taken
Mountain biker Jamie Rawlings came to the rescue when his younger brother collapsed with an epileptic fit and plunged down a hill while out on a remote ride. Jason Rawlings, 23, of Newleaze, Hilperton, spent eight hours in hospital after being
The funeral of former Trowbridge Wanderers player and coach Chris Penelhum will take place next Friday, two weeks after he died of testicular cancer. Mr Penelhum, 29, died at home on April 24, 17 months after he was diagnosed with the disease.
Two teenage entrepreneurs from Melksham are looking to expand their fuel comparison website, just four months after it first went live. Wiltshire College students Adam Gentle, 17, and Nathan Singer, 16, set up the Melksham Fuel site in their spare
People turned up to polling stations yesterday hoping their vote would make a difference to the future of their town and county. Tonya Smith, 37, who voted at the town’s Civic Centre,said: “People always moan about things not happening but if we
