TRAFFIC signs have gone up to warn drivers about delays on the Farmer’s Roundabout in Melksham which will last for most of 2019. A 30mph speed restriction is being placed on all four approach roads to the roundabout and the nearby A365 ahead of
EMPLOYERS need to make sure they are hiring the right people for their business, according to one of Wiltshire’s leading recruitment agencies. Emma Summers, managing director of Juice Recruitment in Trowbridge and Swindon, says the workforce, particularly
A WILTSHIRE arts charity that helps older people to tackle loneliness and social isolation is in danger of collapse. Arts Together only has sufficient funding to last until the February half term but then needs £20,000 to survive. Karolyne Fudge-Malik
FORMER champion boxer Nick Blackwell, who came close to death following two serious head injuries in the ring, says he feels lucky to be alive and to be well enough to use sport to help other brain injury victims. He said: “I can’t believe it has
A 10-YEAR-OLD boy and two 12-year-old girls have been frightened after they were followed by strangers in Bradford on Avon in the last week. Local police are urging parents to talk to their children about the dangers of speaking to strangers following
A MELKSHAM charity shop has been given so many teddy bears it is introducing a ‘buy one, get one free’ offer. The Barnardo’s store in Verbena Court received 800 bags of donations after Christmas, including many new items such as clothes, books,
UNEMPLOYMENT across Wiltshire fell to 6,700 in the three months to September, according to figures released on Tuesday (January 22). The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics showed a 600 drop on the June to September figures for
Firefighters and staff gathered outside Trowbridge fire station today in honour of the late Jack Drewett, a former sub officer in the fire service. Respects were paid as the hearse passed through Hilperton Road on the way to Semington Crematorium
YOUNG patients are having a magic time when they visit the Children’s Unit at the Royal United Hospital Bath, thanks to a generous gift from a former patient. There’s now a new magic carpet machine in the Children’s Therapies Unit, which can project
A DRUG dealer caught hiding under the stairs following a police chase, just weeks before he was due to stand trial for similar matters, has been jailed for five years and nine months. Tobiah Rule had been spotted driving out of KFC in Trowbridge
POLICE dog Fozzy assisted officers at an incident in Trowbridge in the early hours of this morning which led to one man being arrested. At about 2am this morning, officers were called by a member of the public reporting that a man wearing a balaclava
WITNESSES are being sought by police after a 16-year-old boy was threatened at knife-point during a robbery in Trowbridge. It happened at around 4.15pm yesterday when the victim was walking through the alleyway opposite Central Convenience Stores
A MAN who approached a group of young girls and made inappropriate comments to them is being searched for by the police. On December 12 between 3-4pm the group of girls aged 11 and 12 were in the town park when they were approached. The man
