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  • Raffle is a festive draw

    SHOPPERS at the Sainsbury’s store in Bradford on Avon have raised more than £680 so far for its local charity, We Hear You. The store staged a tombola in the run up to Christmas which raised £370.73, on top of the £326.49 it raised between November

  • Warminster crew tackles chimney fire

    A crew from Warminster was mobilised to reports of a chimney fire at a home in Brixton Deverill just after 7pm yesterday. The crew arrived quickly on the scene and extinguished the fire using chimney rods and a stirrup pump. The firefighters

  • Police officer rescues woman from canal

    A heroic police officer rescued a woman from the Kennet & Avon Canal close to Devizes Rugby Club yesterday evening. A spokesman for Wiltshire Police said: “We were called at 6.50pm last night to reports of a woman in the canal close to the rugby

  • Prepare for shock reveal at village panto

    SOUTHWICK Players are bringing a children’s favourite to the stage for their annual pantomime, with an adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson story The Emperor’s New Clothes. The story follows a vain emperor, who was so excessively fond of new