Mystery surrounds the reason behind the suspension of Longleat chief executive David Bradley, with Longleat confirming this week that an investigation is being carried out. The Wiltshire Times understands that Mr Bradley was removed from the site
Teams from Wiltshire battled the Tough Mudder endurance course to raise money for charity on Saturday. Trowbridge-based company apetito’s team, of 14, raised £3,000 for Dorothy House hospice, completing the British Special Forces course in three
Wiltshire Police is currently holding a day of action cracking down on anti-social behaviour across the region. Operation Harness has seen an increased number of officers on the streets tackling rural crime and motoring issues. While, there
Edinton author Jane Panos will see her dream become a reality today as her debut novel Orders From Above is published. The humorous fantasy novel, published under her pen name JM Forrest by Cosmic Egg, is set in Wiltshire and tells the story of
Mrs Vera Pearce Great Grandmother Vera Hetty Gabriele Pearce died at her home in Arundell Close in Westbury aged 90 on September 16, after suffering with a lung condition for many years. Mrs Pearce was born in Bromham, on September 29, 1922 and
SCRUM-HALF Peter Stringer is not yet ready to close the chapter on his glittering international career, but insists securing success with Bath remains top of his priority list. The veteran Irish star, 35, remains two caps short of the century mark
CONTENDER Gym trainer Mark Kent was furious with officials for denying Nick Blackwell the WBA continental middleweight title. Blackwell, 22, comfortably dealt with the challenge put forward by the experienced Max Bursak in front of his home crowd
More than 70 years after their Second World War heroics, 25 Wiltshire veterans finally earned special recognition when they received their Arctic Star medals at a presentation at County Hall in Trowbridge this afternoon. Third secretary of the
WORK on the construction skills centre for Wiltshire College’s Trowbridge campus will start next month. The building will have three plumbing workshops, three brick workshops and two wood workshops when it opens next September. It will replace
The temporary closure of Trowbridge’s Crown Post Office has been pushed back until Saturday, October 5. Once it closes at 12.30pm all the services from the Roundstone Street branch will transfer to a temporary unit opening in the Lovemead car park
JONATHAN Joseph, Matt Garvey, Anthony Watson and David Sisi welcome their old employers to the Rec this weekend but you wouldn’t know about it – according to Bath Rugby captain Stuart Hooper. Bath went on a small raid of Aviva Premiership rivals
THE new campaign may be just a month old but the outcome of the Division Four match at Meriton Avenue between Corsham Centre Youth and Bremhill View Boys could prove to be a defining moment of the season. Both Pete Ralph’s Corsham side and Chris
ICE Queen Shelley Rudman pledged her support to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance when she visited its base to launch a new fundraising venture on Saturday. The 32-year-old Skeleton Bobsleigh World Champion visited the evizes base with her daughter,
MELKSHAM Cosmos take on FC North Wiltshire at the Conigre on Sunday morning looking for a victory that would see them extend their stay at the top of the Division Three table. Cosmos, who suffered two defeats at the hands of their guests last term
I KNOW I’m not the only one who was perplexed by Bath’s team selection for last weekend’s defeat against Saracens. Yes, you need a big squad to compete in the Aviva Premiership and over the course of a long season but the side they picked at Allianz
SUTTON Benger will look to become the first side in 24 outings to beat Division Two leaders FC Buscots. Although Benger have been in good form of late they will have to produce an exceptional performance for them to have any chance of causing an
NOT surprisingly there was not an empty seat in the house at the start of the performance by these doyens, dare one use the overworked description ‘legends,’ of the folk world. What was surprising were the several empty seats after the interval
Strawsome fun was to be had by visitors to North Bradley’s annual scarecrow trail at the weekend. A total of 47 scarecrows were scattered around the village – including characters from Peter Pan, Despicable Me and Pinocchio – for the animation
THERE are a few mouthwatering fixtures in Division One this coming Sunday, with the match at Combe Lane between near neighbours Goatacre CC and North Star A being the one to whet the appetite. Chippenham West End play host to early pacesetters
TROWBRIDGE-based bobsleigh stars John Jackson and Paula Walker have been handed a new sponsorship deal with Wiltshire butchers Walter Rose & Son. Great Britain pilots Jackson, 36, and Walker 27, have both been selected for this season’s Winter
HAVING both record comfortable Knockout Cup wins last weekend, Bradford Renegades and Biddestone Social will return to league action in what promises to be one of the top games in the whole of the league this weekend. Renegades have struggled to
TROWBRIDGE head coach Steve Ojomoh hopes his squad can live up to their stunning new home after starting life at Doric Field with victory on Saturday. Playing their first match at the new multi-million pound facility at Hilperton, Ojomoh’s men
GRAHAM Shadwell’s unbroken run in the England senior men’s team is set to continue, writes DAVE EATON. The 38-year-old, from Trowbridge, who plays for the Spencer Moulton club at Bradford on Avon, has been selected for the national side to compete
On Friday it was a great pleasure to visit two very different local educational establishments, Fairfield Farm College in Dilton Marsh and Clarendon Academy, Trowbridge. I have been to Clarendon before of course but was delighted by the way it
Melksham's growing community spirit has been recognised, with the town’s first ever award in the annual South West in Bloom competition. It took silver in the Nellie Sargent Cup, on its first entry for the contest. Deputy town clerk Miriam
LAST season’s beaten presstoprint-sponsored Eric Hughes Memorial Knockout Cup finalists Bug & Spider should have few problems in getting over the fist hurdle in the bid to reach a third successive final. The Premier Division side, who lifted
GRACE Davies-Redmond ended her season with an outstanding victory at the English Schools’ Combined Event Championships in Birmingham, writes Kevin Fahey. The St Laurence School student, from Bradford on Avon, won gold in the inter girls’ heptathlon
CHAMPIONS past and present were on hand at Saturday’s Rallyday at the Castle Combe circuit. Thousands of rallying enthusiasts turned out as World Championship leader Sebastien Ogier led a star-studded line-up in the 13th year of the event.
Not so long ago, at the end of the summer, political reporters would decamp to the seaside for three weeks at the party conferences. That tradition is now just a memory. Although Labour is in Brighton, the Conservatives will meet in Manchester
A glass fusing workshop for beginners will be held at Matravers School on October 9, as part of Westbury Music and Arts Festival. Places at the event – from 5pm to 8pm – are limited. They cost £15, which includes materials. To book, call Bev Jessop
TOBY Booth expects both his current and former side to be nursing a sense of frustration when they meet at the Rec tomorrow (3pm). While Bath’s unbeaten start to the season ended at free-scoring Saracens last weekend, London Irish threw away a
LOCK Dave Attwood will captain Bath in their Aviva Premiership game against London Irish tomorrow (3pm). Attwood returns to the starting line-up and partners Dominic Day in the second row. Elsewhere in the pack, Paul James comes back to scrum
Hearing politicians pontificate at their national conferences, it’s clear that they all want us to believe they are ‘right’, and if we will only change what we are doing to their way of doing things, everything will then be ‘all right’. They can
A Trowbridge firm hopes Bath’s Comic and Sci-Fi Weekender will be picture perfect for all the family. Mike Bowyer and Jan Harding, of Roundstone Framing, and Steve Causer, of Swindon-based American Dream Comics, organised the event, from 10am to
GOALKEEPING coach Lloyd Chamberlain was delighted with Frome Town stopper Darren Chitty as the Robins won 2-0 at Truro City on Tuesday night, writes Henry Burridge. Following a goalless first half, Ryan Laville put Frome ahead from the spot after
As part of a £5.2m initiative to boost small businesses across the region a new enterprise centre opened in Trowbridge yesterday. Jane Scott, leader of Wiltshire Council, officially opened the centre, based at the White Horse Business Park, which
WEST Wilts captain James Baker says his side are planning to blood new talent this season after their relegation from the second tier of the Davis Wood Hockey League. West Wilts finished ninth in the Championship last season, ten points ahead of
Averil Beresford, a pillar of the Trowbridge community, died on Wednesday following a short illness. Mrs Beresford, 82, played an active part in town life, being involved in organisations including Trowbridge in Bloom, Trowbridge Carnival, the
Wiltshire people aiming to stop smoking are asked to join the Stoptober campaign in October. The campaign, launched regionally at County Hall, Trowbridge, wants people to give up cigarettes for 28 days with a long-term aim of stopping for good.
Hundreds of coffee mornings will be taking place across the region today raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is the charity’s biggest fundraiser and sees a variety of venues holding events. Yesterday Karen
Police are appealing for information regarding an assault which occurred in Warminster last weekend. The incident happened after an 18-year-old man split up a fight between two women in Weymouth Street at about 2qm last Sunday. He was then
Pupils, parents and teachers are putting together final touches to celebrate the 10th St Laurence Street Party in Bradford on Avon tomorrow. The event is organised by St Laurence School Association and raises money for school projects every year
An apothecary garden opens at Dorothy House’s outreach centre in Trowbridge today. The garden, full of herbs and health-giving plants, was put together by the charity’s patients, under the guidance of occupational therapist Lucy Burley. Medical
In the same way that nurses take exception to those inevitable conversations about their work uniform, I’ve grown increasingly weary of people who call me a nerd, or openly laugh in my face when I tell them I work in the games industry. This week
