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  • Jobs bonanza as Trowbridge restaurant creates 20 posts

    More than 20 jobs will be created by new American restaurant Dean’s Diner, which has been confirmed as the latest addition to the St Stephen’s Place Leisure Park in Trowbridge. Legal & General Property announced this week that it has exchanged

  • Pizza topped off nan's terrific London Marathon

    Warminster grandmother Kathy Watson recovered from the London Marathon on Sunday by bingeing on fizz and pizza, after achieving her goal of running it in under five hours. Mrs Watson, 49, who lives in Wylye and has two children and two grandchildren

  • Bradford on Avon Football team gets kick from kit

    Youngsters from Bradford on Avon Football Club’s Under 11 team will head off for a match tour of Holland wearing brand new kit, thanks to RACS Group based in Warminster. The company, which specialises in payroll and accounting services, presented

  • Villages are urged to join the Best Kept

    The Campaign to Protect Rural England is urging villages to enter the Wiltshire Best Kept Village Competition this year. The Wiltshire branch of CPRE organises the annual competition, sponsored by The Hills Group, and has introduced a newcomer’

  • Police appeal over West Ashton road rage incident

    Wiltshire Police are appealing for witnesses to a road rage incident which happened near Trowbridge. The incident took place on Saturday, April 5, at about 6pm at West Ashton after a blue BMW and a black Vauxhall Corsa came to a stop at the Stoney

  • Review: High Society, Devizes Musical Theatre

    I am always in admiration of anyone who possesses the triple talents of being able to dance, sing, and act well all at the same time. The ability to project those talents into a large auditorium space such as Dauntsey’s would be a mammoth challenge

  • Review: Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Imogen Cooper WMC

    Miss Cooper must be one of the world’s best and Miss Wieder-Atherton can’t be far behind. Janacek’s Podhaka (which translates from the Czech as a fantastical story or fairy tale) was pretty hot stuff and prefaced the delights to follow. Beethoven

  • Book lovers wanted for new Corsham library

    Corsham library is looking to recruit book-loving volunteers as it prepares to move into a new modern home as part of the town's new community campus. In July, the town’s library will make the move from its current location in Pickwick Road to

  • Review: Blood Brothers, Bristol Hippodrome

    This has to be one of the most powerful stories on the modern stage: from the dramatic opening scene it pulls no punches and tugs at the heartstrings. That such a tragic story can also be great entertainment, full of humour, pathos, bravery and

  • Review: Dead Guilty, The Woolstore Theatre, Codford

    Director Karen Johnstone opted for a slow burning drama building up to an unexpected and shocking climax for the Woolstore Theatre’s Spring production. In her elegant London home, Julia Darrow (Sophia Milburn) is an attractive young woman in a

  • Review: Worst Wedding Ever, Salisbury Playhouse.

    The world premiere of Worst Wedding Ever, Chris Chibnall’s brilliant new play, directed by Gareth Machin, is a major triumph. This perceptive production, which runs until April 19, deftly diverts the audience from side-splitting hilarity to moments

  • Trowbridge wages clerk marks 50 years with same company

    Wages clerk Angela Withey is preparing to celebrate 50 years of working for Trowbridge beds manufacturer Airsprung. Mrs Withey, 65, joined the company at the age of 15, when it was based in Cradle Bridge, on April 21, 1964, and has been overseeing

  • Body of man found by dog walker in Melksham

    The body of a man was discovered by a dog walker in a field in Melksham last Thursday. The man in his 40s, who is from the Beanacre area, was discovered shortly before 7pm on land behind Beanacre Road, by a woman walking her dog. The fields behind

  • Firefighters rescue girl trapped at Warminster Park

    Firefighters had to rescue an 11-year-old girl from Warminster Park last week, after her leg became trapped in the play equipment. The girl’s mother called the fire crew after she had been trapped in the plastic play tube at the park for 20 minutes