A MUM has thanked people in Bradford on Avon for their support, after bystanders told her autistic son off for picking flowers in the town centre. Dylan Jacob, seven, who has special needs, picked some of the crocuses in Westbury Gardens and presented
HOUSEBUILDER Cotswold Homes has helped a primary school to enhance its music teaching by donating 10 glockenspiels, boosting the limited number of instruments available. Cotswold Homes has given one instrument for each of the new homes it is building
THIS Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative production of Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd, imaginatively adapted by Rachel Wagstaff, and directed by Melly Still, is receiving considerable acclaim at Salisbury Playhouse, where it runs until
A WEEKEND event raising vital funds for the RSPCA to help tackle animal cruelty will take place at Pets at Home stores in Chippenham and Trowbridge. Launching on today (February 22) and running until Sunday, Pets at Home is inviting customers to
MEETING the people of Trowbridge and finding out what they want from the Town Hall building whose continuing revival is in his hands is the top priority for Town Hall Arts' new Director, David Lockwood. Mr Lockwood has been appointed by the Town
A RISING Trowbridge soccer star has gained her first international cap playing for the England U15s girls’ team in Switzerland. Talliah Keenan, 14, played left back for the team which lost 0-2 on Friday (Feb 15) against a Swiss U16s girls team at
A FOUL smell which has plagued residents in part of Trowbridge is puzzling experts, after investigations by both the council and a local company failed to find the source. The stench, compared by some people to that of a dead animal, has been noticed
ANYONE who would like to honour one of the martyrs of England’s Industrial Revolution are invited to the annual wreath laying next month to commemorate the death of Thomas Helliker. Organised by the White Horse (Wiltshire) Trades Union Council ,
RESIDENTS in Winsley have been urged to remain vigilant following an attempted break-in and a number of unidentified drones being seen flying in the area. Roy Ludlow, of Winsley Neighbourhood Watch team, said a Tyning Road estate resident had returned
A GROUP of ex-service veterans have graduated from a course designed to set them up in a new career in the construction industry after leaving the armed forces. The nine were the third cohort to graduate from the Building Heroes skills training
PLANS for a new primary school at Elm Grove in Trowbridge have been dropped by Wiltshire Council following public consultation last month. Local campaigners are celebrating the council’s decision to abandon plans to build the school on the Queen
A battling 70-year-old campaigner is appealing to elderly residents in Melksham to help define a much-loved footpath as a public right of way. Sue Carter, of the Woodrow Road and Local Community Facebook Group, is urging people who used the 40 Acre
A DESPERATE mother, whose son is in Erlestoke Prison, says she constantly receives messages from drug dealers from inside the jail demanding she pays them money. Susan Brooks says she has reported the texts and calls to the prison but has received
TEENAGERS from Wiltshire were left emotionally stunned when they visited the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The South West group included eight pupils from John of Gaunt School in Trowbridge; St Mary’s School in Calne; Sheldon School
BATH scrum-half Will Chudley believes his team’s recent good form has put them in an excellent position to make a serious move on the top four in the Premiership, writes JONATHAN LEIGHFIELD. After a dominant bonus-point win against Newcastle Falcons
MELKSHAM Town boss Kieran Baggs believes a potential back-to-back promotion for his side could be “a step too far, too soon” as they look to get back to winning ways in Southern League Division One South against struggling Mangotsfield United on Saturday
