The perfect retreat

Calcot Manor

9:14am Thursday 4th December 2008

Katie Adams indulges in some R&R at Calcot Spa.

Making a meal of Mutton

Leg of mutton

9:20am Thursday 4th December 2008

Sheepdrove Organic Farm’s Russell Downing discusses this rather unusual meat.

The long and winding road

Journeying with Candy Verney and Sue Glanville. Photo by Trevor Porter

9:24am Thursday 4th December 2008

Charley Morgan follows the spiritual path of Journeying.

Grassland prize for Corsley farmer

David Helliar

9:26am Thursday 4th December 2008

A DAIRY farmer from Corsley, near Warminster, is a south west regional winner and runner-up in a national grassland management competition.

Charley’s patch

Charley’s patch

9:30am Thursday 4th December 2008

How the ‘no dig’ method could improve your plot ready for next year’s crop.

A colourful history

Ginny Barlow with one of her designs

10:57am Friday 10th October 2008

Benjamin Parkes meets an artist who is keeping traditional signwriting alive on the Kennet and Avon.

Heart of glass

Heart of glass

10:51am Friday 10th October 2008

How a Bradford business is still flourishing despite the economic downturn. By James Williams.

Water way to look to the future

Rob Jones of the Wilts & Berks Canal Trust at one of the restoration sites

11:01am Friday 10th October 2008

How an abandoned canal could provide the key to boosting the local economy. By Katie Adams.

Great Outdoors

Choose a site which has fences, hedges and locked gates at night to deter vandals.

11:06am Friday 10th October 2008

How to pick the perfect allotment.

Charley’s patch

Charley’s patch

11:11am Friday 10th October 2008

JUST when you think everything is going so well, along comes the rain and wipes out the entire tomato crop.

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Your Say Your Times

It has been heartening to see the coverage of the new Wiltshire Council market being opened in Trowbridge and, as a Wiltshire Council market trader of long standing, I wish it every success. New markets are needed in these straitened times and it is only right that stallholders at new markets are offered special reduced rates.  − Name and address supplied

Rents rising on quiet »

I have an office in the small trading estate at the top of Westwells Road, Hawthorn Hill, near Rudloe, in Corsham. Traffic flow on Hawthorn Hill – and, as a consequence, office access – is currently in a state of chaos, thanks to work being carried out by Bardon Constructing.  − Geoff Fry, Neston

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