RUGBY legend Brian Ashton, 61, has just been re-appointed head coach of the England national rugby union team. During the course of his career he played for Tyldesley, Fylde, Orrell, AS Montferrand, Roma, Milan, Lancashire, North of England, and Barbarians as scrum-half. He was also an England squad member.
RUTH Gretton, 48, is a Wiltshire woman through and through. Born in Bradford on Avon, she was brought up in Winsley, where her parents, Eunice and Derek Godfrey, still live.
ENTREPRENEUR Caroline Brown is a successful businesswoman and has held various fundraising events at her secondhand designer clothes store in Warminster to help raise money in support of a friend with breast cancer.
Jean Bowers, 58, county commissioner for Girlguiding Wiltshire South, was born in Yorkshire and moved to Trowbridge 34 years ago after marrying her husband Nick.
LOUISE Knox, 36, has been press officer at West Wiltshire District Council since January 2000. But she is leaving the role this week to take up a new post as media and communications manager at Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service.
LOUISE Rendle, 36, set up the Wiltshire Independent Travel Support project, based in Semington, designed to support disabled people to travel independently. The mother-of-two lives in Silver Street, Trowbridge, with husband Phil, 39, and their two sons Joseph, eight (top), and Benjamin, five.
Former Chippenham Mayor Maureen Lloyd has been mayor twice between 1987-88 and 2006-07 and she has been a town councillor for 25 years. Born in Chippenham, she has lived in the town all her life.
