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Trowbridge memorial game for cancer fund

Chris Penelhum

6:00pm Saturday 18th May 2013

Friends and former teammates of Chris Penelhum, the Trowbridge football coach who died last month, will honour his memory with a charity match on Tuesday.

CHIPPENHAM TOWN: Fey departs for Bridgwater

Richard Fey

11:28pm Friday 17th May 2013

RICHARD Fey has left Chippenham Town to take over as manager at Bridgwater Town.

FOOTBALL: Alex won't be taking Liberty

Corsham’s Alex Bray has earned a professional contract with Premier League side Swansea City

5:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

THE hard work starts now for Corsham teenager Alex Bray after he earned his first professional contract at Swansea City.

BOXING: Blackwell title hunt

Nick Blackwell will box twice in March

3:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

PROMOTER PJ Rowson says he will consider every avenue for Nick Blackwell to challenge for more major titles.

RUGBY: Melksham’s Steph wings in for Wales

Steph Holman has made the Walesd U18 womens' development squad

2:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

MELKSHAM teenager Steph Holman is hoping that she can make the grade as an international rugby player after earning a spot on the Wales U18 women’s development squad.

RUGBY: Thomas takes Chippenham reins

New Chippenham head coach Danny Thomas

7:16pm Thursday 16th May 2013

CHIPPENHAM have appointed former Plymouth Albion flanker and captain Danny Thomas as their new head coach.

CHIPPENHAM TOWN: Town tighten belts

Nathan Rudge faces working with a reduced budget next season

1:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

CHIPPENHAM Town chief Nathan Rudge concedes that financial restrictions will play a big part in how he shapes his squad for next season.

NEIL SHARDLOW: Getting tough in pursuit of good times in the field

1:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

Wiltshire’s boss on the cricket scene

OJO'S INSIDE LINE: Leicester still set the standards

12:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

ONE of my favourite films is the American Football drama Any Given Sunday, starring Al Pacino and I was reminded of that phrase watching last weekend’s Aviva Premiership semi-finals.

ATHLETICS: Dan passing on the benefits of relays

Dan Cossins

11:00am Friday 17th May 2013

DAN Cossins is hoping to play his own small role in rejuvenating Great Britain’s relay culture after being appointed as coach for the junior relay squad for this summer’s European Under 20 Championship, writes Kevin Fahey.

RUGBY: Rokoduguni extends Bath stay

Semesa Rokoduguni scores Bath’s second try.during last weekend’s victory against London Welsh. (Photo: Bob Ascott)

2:08pm Thursday 16th May 2013

FIJIAN flyer Semesa Rokoduguni has signed a new contract with Bath Rugby.

ANGLING: Gilbert reels in huge bag

1:30pm Thursday 16th May 2013

TONY Gilbert, from Melksham, turned in another sparkling performance in the Wilts Open match at Viaduct Fishery, with 307lb of carp, writes COLIN SCULL.

Finding the right cure to end your topping woes

A shallow angle of hit causes you to hit up on the ball

1:19pm Thursday 16th May 2013

THIS WEEK: The top (part two)

RUGBY: Saddlebacks learn league opponents

Devizes’ squad celebrate their Southern Counties title triumph after Saturday’s 18-16 home win over Wimborne

11:58am Thursday 16th May 2013

SOUTHERN Counties South champions Devizes will start their life as a Level Six club in a tough-looking South West One East division in September.

SUNDAY LEAGUE: Simply four-midable

Biddestone Social captain Danny Jones lifts the Subsidiary Cup to complete his side’s historic quadruple on Sunday

11:30am Thursday 16th May 2013

BIDDESTONE Social manager Ashley Smith says his side will carry on seeking out new challenges after their historic quadruple-winning campaign in the Chippenham & District Sunday League.

CHIPPENHAM HALF-MARATHON: Entries close to 1000 mark

11:41am Wednesday 15th May 2013

ORGANISERS of this year’s Chippenham Half-Marathon are encouraging runners to get their entries in to avoid disappointment with almost 1,000 entries sold.

TROWBRIDGE & DISTRICT LEAGUE DIVISION THREE: Double delight for Dickson

1:00pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

GOALKEEPER Carl Pryer and striker Doug Dickson were the star men for Fleece FC, who overcame both the elements and a stubborn Trowbridge Town Reserves side to sign off their very first season in the League with a 3-2 win as a very wet Woodmarsh on Tuesday evening.

BOWLS: Ladies set for Purton showdowns

12:06pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

THE FIRST Wiltshire players to qualify for the 2013 Ladies National Championships to be staged at Royal Leamington Spa in late July will be known this coming weekend.

TROWBRIDGE & DISTRICT LEAGUE DIVISION ONE: Eatough stunner sets up Seend victory

12:15pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

SEEND United followed up their 3-3 draw with North Bradley from the weekend with a 3-0 victory at Warminster Town Reserves which was good enough to give them a top-four finish from a season that had so many ups and downs.

CRICKET: County ring the changes

4:35pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

WILTSHIRE have made changes to their team ahead of their third MCCA Knockout Trophy match against Suffolk at Devizes on Sunday (11am).

RUGBY: Bath confirm pre-season programme

4:33pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

ONE of rugby’s oldest rivalries will kick off Bath's pre-season schedule when they welcome Championship contenders Bristol to the Recreation Ground on Saturday, August 17, (3pm).

BOXING: Tough assignment looms for Blackwell

Nick Blackwell goes for British and Commonwealth title glory tomorrow night

2:43pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

TROWBRIDGE middleweight Nick 'Bang Bang' Blackwell has been handed a tough match-up in his next fight in Swindon next month.

TROWBRIDGE & DISTRICT LEAGUE DIVISION THREE: Seven-up Lacock stay second

1:00pm Monday 13th May 2013

A 7-0 WIN for Lacock at United FC means that as things stand Joe Martin’s team will finish the season as runners-up to Division Three winners Westwood News.

TROWBRIDGE & DISTRICT LEAGUE DIVISION TWO: Broughton down after Heytesbury loss

12:00pm Monday 13th May 2013

BROUGHTON Gifford failed to collect the point from their final game of the season at home to Heytesbury which would have kept them in Division Two and sent Worton & Cheverell down to the third division.

TROWBRIDGE & DISTRICT LEAGUE DIVISION ONE: Bradford stunned by Magpies fightback

11:00am Monday 13th May 2013

SEMINGTON Magpies may have already been relegated from Division One of the Trowbridge Windows & Conservatories Trowbridge & District League before their final game of the season at Bradford United, but they bowed out of the top flight by coming out on top of a nine-goal thriller with a 5-4 win as they overturned a 4-1 half-time deficit to claim a remarkable victory.

RUGBY: Dorset & Wilts 12 Surrey 41

9:30am Monday 13th May 2013

DORSET & Wilts' hopes of a return to Twickenham were ended as Surrey gained revenge for their final defeat at the hands of the Twin Counties two years ago.

WADWORTH 6X WEST OF ENGLAND PREMIER LEAGUE CRICKET RESULTS

9:44am Monday 13th May 2013

Saturday, May 11

RUGBY: Gold reads riot act to Rec intruders

Bath coach Gary Gold

10:18am Monday 13th May 2013

BATH have unveiled a new weapon in their battle against flocks of birds threatening to damage their playing surface at the Recreation Ground - head coach Gary Gold.

CHIPPENHAM SUNDAY LEAGUE SUBSIDIARY CUP FINAL: Injury-time strike hands Social quadruple

9:00am Monday 13th May 2013

IT MAY not have been a game that people will be talking about for years, months or even days to come but that won’t worry a Biddestone Social outfit who, thanks to an injury-time winner, collected the Subsidiary Cup to complete what has been a remarkable first season in charge for manager Ashley Smith.

CANOEING: World silver for McKeever

Kayak king McKeever takes Olympic gold

5:24pm Sunday 12th May 2013

OLYMPIC champion Ed McKeever claimed silver in the first World Cup meeting of the season in Szeged, Hungary, today.

EQUESTRIAN: Nicholson lifts Chatsworth crown

Andrew Nicholson

9:37pm Sunday 12th May 2013

NEW Zealander Andrew Nicholson continued his rich vein of form today by winning the headline class of this year's Chatsworth International Horse Trials in Derbyshire.

RUGBY: Winner Joseph ready for Bath switch

J.P. Morgan Asset Management 7's Player of the Season Award winner Jonathan Joseph of London Irish at the Aviva Premiership Rugby Awards at the Hilton Hotel

10:00am Saturday 11th May 2013

ENGLAND centre Jonathan Joseph insists he could have hardly asked for a better way to switch from London Irish to Bath after being honoured at the Aviva Premiership Rugby Awards.

BADMINTON HORSE TRIALS: Nicholson takes stock

Andrew Nicholson and Nereo

3:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

MARLBOROUGH rider Andrew Nicholson was philosophical about missing out on a place in the record books as he finished third at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials.

MOTORCYCLING: Victor-y

Victor Cox celebrates his victory at Oulton Park (Phot by Dave Stening)

3:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

TROWBRIDGE’S Victor Cox sees no reason why he can’t be National Superstock 1000 series champion after topping the podium for the first time on Bank Holiday Monday.

BATH RUGBY: Ford seeing good signs for the future

Dave Attwood earned an England recall and two awards at Bath’s end of season presentation this week

2:30pm Friday 10th May 2013

BATH assistant coach Mike Ford refused to be downbeat as his side’s lingering Heineken Cup hopes were extinguished by a last-day defeat at Saracens.

RUGBY: Bentley backs Eastmond for England

Kyle Eastmond

2:27pm Friday 10th May 2013

HIS NAME might not have been one of those read out at the British & Irish Lions squad announcement but Kyle Eastmond is still set for a big summer according to former dual-code international John Bentley.

BADMINTON HORSE TRIALS: County riders savour trials experience

Beanie Sturgis in action at the Badminton Horse Trials

2:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

GREAT Somerford’s Beanie Sturgis says that the local support she received at Badminton put an extra spring in her step.

OJO'S INSIDE LINE: Leicester and Saracens look best bets for Premiership final

1:30pm Friday 10th May 2013

GETTING the recognition of your peers and teammates is, in many ways, the ultimate accolade for any professional sportsman.

SWIMMING: Chloe making a real splash

Trowbridge Swimming Club’s Chloe Davies, 15, with her haul of medals from  last month’s British International Disability Swimming Championships

1:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

TROWBRIDGE Amateur Swimming Club’s Para-lympian Chloe Davies is getting ready to take on the world once again after qualifying for this summer’s IPC World Championships in Montreal.

Banish bunker blues

Set up with the club face pointing right and your body aiming left

12:38pm Friday 10th May 2013

THIS WEEK: Bunkers

CASTLE COMBE: Norton still has the win formula

Ben Norton (above) celebrates his Formula Ford Championship race win

12:30pm Friday 10th May 2013

BRATTON driver Ben Norton proved he had lost none of his winning touch when he roared to victory at Castle Combe’s Motors TV Live race day on Bank Holiday Monday, writes John Moon.

NEIL SHARDLOW: Slipping back into old habits

12:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

Wiltshire’s boss on the cricket scene

TROWBRIDGE & DISTRICT LEAGUE DIVISION ONE: Seend return to action with a win

11:00am Friday 10th May 2013

AFTER not being able to raise a team for their last two Trowbridge Windows & Conservatories, Trowbridge League, Division One matches, Seend United made a welcome return to action on Thursday evening with a 5-0 victory at home to near-neighbours and the already-relegated Semington Magpies.

GOLF: Wiltshire hit back for league draw

12:35pm Friday 10th May 2013

WILTSHIRE launched a magnificent comeback to draw their Channel League clash with Gloucestershire at Brickhampton Court Golf Club.

FOOTBALL: Hotshot Higdon the toast of the Town

Gary Higdon (yellow) scored twice in open play and netted a penalty in the shootout as Melksham progressed to the Wiltshire Senior Cup final

10:00am Friday 10th May 2013

MELKSHAM Town striker Gary Higdon says that he never expected to write his name in the history books during his time at the Conigre.

CHIPPENHAM SUNDAY LEAGUE SUBSIDIARY CUP FINAL PREVIEW: Bug bid to spoil Social’s perfect season

1:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

PREMIER Division juggernauts Biddestone Social and Bug & Spider will line up at Westbury United’s Meadow Lane ground on Sunday morning for the final of the Subsidiary Cup.

FOOTBALL: Tyrone’s debut thrills dad Adie

Tyrone Mings, pictured during his full Football League debut for Ipswich at Burnley on Saturday (Picture by Warren Page/PAGEPIX)

4:00pm Thursday 9th May 2013

EX-CHIPPENHAM Town boss Adie Mings was brimming with pride to see his son Tyrone make his Championship debut last weekend.

CRICKET: County on the brink in Trophy

Tom Bowler took two wickets during Wiltshire’s Trophy defeat in Lincolnshire

3:30pm Thursday 9th May 2013

WILTSHIRE team boss Neil Shardlow was left fuming by his side’s fielding performance as a second defeat left their Trophy hopes in tatters.





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