DREAMS certainly came true for some people in west Wiltshire and all over the country last week, as we went to the polls and, like most of the rest of England, decided to back the Conservatives to run the country for another five years.

Our new MP has apparently dreamt since childhood of winning a seat in Westminster, and no-one can blame her for being delighted to have got there.

Let's hope the new era of Conservative control brings similar success to lots of other local people, as the Tories will now be able to, hopefully, bring in lots of policies that will make life better for us all.

I'm hoping that once the shouting dies down, we will see good news come to all of us: lots of people seem to feel that its time ordinary folk got some sort of reward for suffering under five years of austerity.

The new government has made it clear it will keep on making savings, but hopefully it will also start to help us all move on.

In the last five years we've seen a lot of change in the fabric of Trowbridge, with our long-awaited cinema and a plaza of restaurants bringing a real vibrancy and lots of choice to the town. Wagamamas opens this week, a chance for Trowbridge to experience Japanese-style cuisine to counterbalance the prevailing Italian/American influence. There are plenty of shops open, the weekly market does good business, and the project to revitalise the Town Hall is making progress on bringing theatre and art to the town centre again. Apart from the fact that you still have to pay too much to park in a car park all day if you work in the town town, centre, things are looking up.

So now we've got a smart town centre, with good facilities, perhaps its time people living here began to raise their heads a bit, look to the stars and dust off their own dreams.

The area has a low unemployment rate compared to some other parts of the country, so hopefully as young people leave school and head for college or the world of work they will find it easier to get jobs, and from there begin to live independent lives.

Before they get to that stage of course there's the hurdle of exams to tackle: the first leap for many in achieving their own dreams. Good luck to all the youngsters who began A-level, AS level and GCSE exams this week. The next month will be hard work but please, hold on to your dream and one day you too could be feeling that wonderful feeling of achievement and success.