Plalyers from Bradford Town Youth Football Club walked eight miles along the Avon and Kennet canal, to raise money for an under-11s trip to Holland. The team went from Bathampton to Bradford on Avon, raising £2,700 through sponsorship and shaking donation
Melksham Museum is appealing for photographs to be part of an exhibition on the town’s history. Any pictures donated to the Well House Collection will be copied and returned. For details, email lisa@wellho.net.
TROWBRIDGE professional Steve Surry shot a one-over-par round of 66 in the rain-affected Nelson Mandela Championship in Durban today. After two washed-out days at Royal Durban in South Africa the inaugural Nelson Mandela Championship was cut to
CONCERNED residents have asked Warminster Town Council to hold an open discussion on the Strategic Land sites identified for possible development with Wiltshire Council. The Town Development Comm-ittee will continue to keep a watching brief, but said
A couple from Southwick are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary, 65 years after meeting during the Second World War. Pat Cleverley, 82, grew up in Fulham in west London, until she was evacuated to Devizes when she was a teenager. It was
A Trowbridge man, who retired after being a train driver for 50 years, now plans to go full steam ahead in enjoying his passion for film. Philip Marshman, 65, of Dursley Road, started work at Westbury Train Station, in 1962, as a coal boy at the age
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey is helping to keep pupils at a school near one of its sites safe on their walks to and from school. The firm has donated 200 high-visibility, reflective wristbands to The Mead Community Primary School, Hilperton, to be
Melksham and District Girl Guides raised £111.91 at their recent Christmas fair. They were also able to produce five Christmas hampers with produce donated to them by members of the public, which were raffled to boost proceeds.
TWO flights totalling almost 7,000 miles were Emily Dixon’s preparation before making her debut for England, writes Kevin Fahey. Not the sort of easing down that you would find in any coaching manual but such was 17-year-old Dixon’s excitement
A GP practice manager, who has worked across Bradford on Avon and Melksham for 24 years, is celebrating her retirement by planning a trip to the Glastonbury music festival. Alda Sinclair, 64, of Bath Road in Atworth, has created a list of things
TROWBRIDGE pilot Paula Walker claimed 10th in the fourth World Cup meeting of the season in Germany today. In a tight race, which saw the top 10 pairs separated by little more than half a second, Paxcroft Mead's Walker and brakewoman Gillian Cooke
A LACOCK family firm has celebrated its 40th anniversary by inviting customers to a ruby day. Watling Goldsmiths, in East Street, welcomed 300 people to last Friday’s event at the shop, run by siblings Jane Watling, 50, and John Watling, 46.
AN INCREASE in the number of people arriving at the county’s accident and emergency departments, added to the costs of a new drug to treat an eye condition, have led to an overspend in Wiltshire’s health budget. New figures for the period up to
A group of 30 Clarendon College science students from Years 11, 12 and 13 visited the Natural History Museum, The Science Museum and a series of lectures at the O2 as part of Science Discovered! The students got front row seats for the lectures
Festive revellers turned out in force for Westbury’s delayed Christmas lights switch-on, which had been postponed due to the previous week’s wet weather. Although street events, originally set to precede the switch-on ceremony were cancelled, there
NICK Blackwell has no qualms admitting that he’ll be feeling the nerves when his life-changing British and Commonwealth title showdown with Billy Joe Saunders comes around next week. But the Trowbridge star believes that those pre-fight jitters
