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  • Choir pops up for Trowbridge supermarket concert

    Shoppers enjoyed a performance by Alzheimer’s Support’s pop up choir at Trowbridge Sainsbury’s on Monday morning. About 60 people took part: dementia patients, carers and the charity’s volunteers. Shoppers donated £70 for their efforts. Alzheimers

  • ANGLING: A League of their own

    COMPETITORS had mixed fortunes in the Upper Thames Winter League match on the Bristol Avon at Chippenham and Melksham. Daiwa Gordon League took team honours with 50 points followed by Garbolino BVMG with 39 and Swindon Talisman with 36. Individually

  • Lack of checks at RUH tackled

    Concerns have been raised about Royal United Hospital staffing and patient records because staff did not know how much vulnerable patients drank and one was left in a soiled bed for 10 minutes. An independent inspection was carried out by the Care

  • Successful year for Melksham rubber firm

    Melksham-based manufacturing firm Avon Rubber PLC has seen its revenue increase by 17 per cent in the 12 months leading to September 30. The firm, which produces rubber items for the defence and dairy industries, released its preliminary results

  • Bradford on Avon twinning group plans cycle break in France

    Bradford on Avon’s French Twinning Association is looking for families interested in going on a cycling holiday next year. The five-night visit to the twinning town of Sully-sur-Loire will take place during spring half term, from May 27-June 1.

  • Wiltshire's town and parish councils face grant cuts

    Town and parish councils face some difficult decisions after Wiltshire Council reduced a grant aimed at combating Government council tax reforms. During today’s cabinet meeting, held at County Hall, Trowbridge, the decision was made to reduce a

  • Police seek help finding stolen Trowbridge planters

    Wiltshire Police is appealing for help locating two cast iron planters which were taken from a Trowbridge house overnight on Wednesday. The planters, valued at £400, were taken from outside a house in St Thomas Road. Witnesses are asked to

  • FOOTBALL: O’Donnell pounces to bring in Tim

    FROME Town manager Brian O’Donnell has swooped for one of his former protégés after bringing in defender Tim Stephenson from Calor League Premier Division strugglers Bashley. The versatile 21-year-old signed a professional contract with AFC Bournemouth

  • Healthcare could be included in Trowbridge campus plans

    Wiltshire Council is looking into the possibility of Trowbridge’s new campus including healthcare facilities. Mark Stone, Wiltshire Council’s Transformation Programme’s service director, said talks are going on with Wiltshire’s Clinical Commissioning

  • Biggest Christmas ever at Longleat

    Longleat Safari and Adventure Park’s Christmas celebrations will be bigger and better than ever before with a host of festive attractions to enjoy this year. Running until January 4, Christmas at Longleat brings together all the magic of the holiday

  • Painter gets Keevil pupils going wild for art

    Keevil artist Joanna May has inspired the children at her local primary school after involving them in an exhibition to raise money for the school. The wildlife artist, 48, visited Keevil Primary School on Tuesday to give a talk and show her collection

  • RUGBY: ‘Electric Watson can make England impact’

    ROB Webber is eyeing a place in England’s Six Nations squad come next year – and the Bath Rugby hooker is also tipping teammate Anthony Watson to make further progress with the Red Rose. Both Webber and Watson were part of Stuart Lancaster’s training

  • RUH inspectors spot patient left in soiled bed

    CONCERNS have been raised about staffing and patient record keeping at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, because staff did not know how much vulnerable patients drank and one was left in a soiled bed for 10 minutes. An independent inspection was

  • How Warminster valley will remember First World War

    LIVING history re-enactments and a display map of local Army camps will be the centrepieces of Codford’s First World War centenary commemorations next year. With the First World War centenary less than a year away, Codford Local History Society

  • Review: City of Bath Bach Choir, Bath Abbey

    Almost all the Bs with Bath Bach Choir: Bach could have been better; Britten was brilliant; Bruckner was bewitching. To continue the B theme: A computer glitch in the abbey organ meant organist Marcus Sealy had to substitute Romance sans paroles

  • Big Society praise for project to help Forces spouses

    THE Prime Minster has praised the “inspirational” work of a Wiltshire organisation which helps the partners of military personnel into employment, granting it a Big Society Award. Founded in 2009 by military wife and former journalist Heledd Kendrick

  • Melksham school goes Back to the 80s

    STUDENTS at Melksham Oak Community School were donning their legwarmers and preparing their perms last week, as the school looked to the 80s for its latest all-singing all-dancing musical. Three sell-out performances of Back to the 80s: A Totally

  • Drivers warned of road delays on A36

    DRIVERS using the A350 south of Warminster, the A36 Warminster bypass and the A361 into Frome from Beckington are being warned of possible delays this morning due to an abnormal load travelling on the route. The 140 ton load, which is so wide that

  • Review: Romeo and Juliet, The Athenaeum, Warminster

    Heavily inspired by Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film, the Athenaeum Limelight Players’ first foray into Shakespeare is one that is likely to have you hooked from start to finish. The tale of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, whose love defies the deadly

  • GOLF: Surry soaring in South Africa

    STEVE Surry's superb finish to 2013 continued this morning as he soared into early contention in the 1.1million Euros South African Open. The Cumberwell Park professional carded a four-under-par round of 68 to lie just two shots off the pace in

  • Chapmanslade residents show interest in gas hook-up

    Chapmanslade Parish Council held a meeting to discuss the possibility of getting mains gas in the village last Thursday, with residents enthusiastic about the plans. Kerry Jones, a resident and heating engineer, gave a presentation to the council