RIVAL bosses Nigel Davies and Mike Ford pulled no punches in their assessment of a spiteful Aviva Premiership west country derby between Gloucester and Bath that descended into chaos at Kingsholm. Gloucester ended the game with 11 players after
BATH maintained their Aviva Premiership play-off hopes after claiming a dramatic late victory over 11-man Gloucester at Kingsholm. The home side had two players sent off - substitute prop Sila Puafisi and scrum-half Tavis Knoyle - while they also
FIONA Price will again be leading the county challenge in the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday. Price is one of a large party of athletes from Avon Valley Runners making the trip to the capital and has nothing but happy thoughts about the London
Clergyman Dennis Brett has thanked the extraordinary generosity of the public, after donations raised enough to cover the cost of removing a huge fallen tree in St John’s Churchyard, Warminster. The tree toppled on to about 100 gravestones in February
Walking into the exhibition hall at the American Museum in Britain there is so much colour leaping off the walls that it’s almost disorientating. This year the gallery, which sits alongside the magnificent 19th century manor at Claverton Down near
HOLT swimmer Jessie Foster finished tenth fastest in the women's 200m breaststroke heats at the British Gas Swimming Championships in Glasgow this morning. Foster, representing the Bath-based Aquae Sulis club, clocked 2:34.38 to finish a couple
TROWBRIDGE man Chris Brooking is taking on the London Marathon in memory of his friend Tom Fairfield. Mr Brooking, 33, is raising money for Dorothy House Hospice Care, which cared for Mr Fairfield, who died aged 32 of a brain tumour in November
WATCHING Bath’s easy victory over Brive in Sunday’s Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final will have confirmed what most people have thought. Namely, that the sooner Bath return to the Heineken Cup – or whatever its future equivalent will be – the better
Parcels, packages and now pizzas can be collected from Lower Westwood Post Office, after the village underwent a major transformation. The office, which was revamped last month, was officially opened last Thursday when the village’s oldest resident
John of Gaunt headteacher Andy Packer is leaving the Trowbridge school in July to seek a fresh challenge. Mr Packer, 56, has been at the school in Wingfield Road, which has 1,300 pupils, for 10 years. He does not have a new job lined up, but
PUPILS from Trowbridge’s St Augustine’s Catholic College are through to the national final of the Business Accounting Skills Education competitionafter being successful in the regional stage. A team of six, from the school in Wingfield Road, were
A MOTORCYCLE convoy will travel from Trowbridge to Bristol Children’s Hospital on Sunday for the annual toy run. The riders will meet at the Kings Arms pub car park, in Hilperton, at 10am and leave at 11am taking the items to the hospital.
DODGING flying footwear ranks among one of the more amusing episodes in Guy Mercer’s experience of Gloucester versus Bath clashes. But the young flanker hopes he can play his part in a performance worthy of silencing Kingsholm’s famous Shed this
The selection of royalty for this year’s Trowbridge Carnival is taking place at Oasis Academy Longmeadow on Saturday, April 26. The event’s committee are looking for girls and boys, aged between seven and 11, to fill their Butterfly Queen, Butterfly
