CHIPPENHAM MP Michelle Donelan has re-opened one of the town’s oldest Indian restaurants following a £100,000 refurbishment. She helped Chippenham’s deputy mayor, Cllr Desna Allen, cut a ribbon to re-open the Akash Indian Tandoori Restaurant at
FUNDRAISERS for the children’s charity Barnardo’s, which has a shop in Melksham, are being invited to swim, cycle and run to raise vital funds for vulnerable children in a new iTRI triathlon. They will be challenged to swim 2.4 miles, cycle 112
THREE madcap amateur drama group members are planning to throw themselves out of plane to raise funds for Wiltshire Air Ambulance. Sarah Badger, 29, and her two friends, Charlotte Paskin, 26, and Joe Hargreaves 29, will be doing a tandem skydive
COUNCILLORS in Hilperton have expressed concerns about the cracks appearing in the stone and brickwork of the Whaddon Lane canal bridge, which is part of the main access road into the village. The bridge over the Kennet & Avon Canal has begun
A SECOND group of councillors are set to look into late night taxi tariffs after fears were raised that it was putting people off having nights out in Wiltshire towns. A task group set up by the Environment Select Committee has already looked into
THE newly-formed Wessex Waterways Restoration Trust is appealing for volunteers to help its work on the historic Wilts & Berks Canal. The trust has just received a £10,000 award from the National Lottery Community Fund to buy equipment and publicity
MEMBERS of the Muslim community in Trowbridge and Melksham have been assured their mosques are a safe place to pray, after the shootings in New Zealand last week left them living in fear. Fifty people died at two mosques in Christchurch when a lone
