RESIDENTS are being invited to have their say at Melksham Town Council’s Annual Town Meeting. The meeting will be held at Melksham Town Hall on Monday April 29 at 7pm, to receive reports from the council, local Wiltshire councillors, grant recipients
LOCAL bands and performers will be taking part in a charity concert in age of Wiltshire Mind. On May 17 at 7.30pm at the Civic in Trowbridge guitar legends tribute band Access All Areas will be headlining an evening full of music and fundraising
House broken into ITEMS from an upstairs room were stolen when a house in Woolley Terrance, Bradford on Avon was broken into during the afternoon on April 16. Purse is stolen A PURSE and it's contents was stolen from St Margaret's Hall, Bradford
Glass is damaged A PANE of glass at the Asda store in the Shires was damaged in the early hours of April 17. Teens damage car A GROUP of youths have damaged the bonnet of a car after youths were seen jumping on a parked car in West Street,
WILTSHIRE Air Ambulance Ambassador Matt Perry and his family have raised more than £10,800 for the charity in memory of his sister Rebecca Gray. Wiltshire Air Ambulance came to Rebecca’s aid when she suffered a cardiac arrest while out horseriding
TWO serving soldiers have walked an epic 111 miles to the Rock of Gibraltar and have raised more than £5,200 for the armed forces charity SAAFA to help homeless veterans. Craig Dignam and his nephew Danny O’Connor trekked all the way from Torrox
WILTSHIRE has seen a three per cent drop in the number of overall recorded crimes in the county, according to crime statistics out today. Between January 2018 and December 2018, Wiltshire Police recorded 42,483 crimes overall – a decrease compared
MORTGAGE consultant Andrew Whitmore is calling for dramatic changes to the A36 after the Government rejected his petition asking for the road to be redesigned. His call follows a string of ten fatalities on the main road from Limpley Stoke to the
A NEW campaign for road safety improvements on the A36 through Wiltshire has been launched by local people following a string of fatalities. The move is being backed by South West Wiltshire MP Dr Andrew Murrison, as the road runs through his constituency
Wiltshire’s weather for Thursday, April 25: showers with sunny spells Today Showers with sunny spells at first this afternoon with the odd heavy, thundery shower is possible. By the late afternoon, however, showers should largely clear to the
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Wiltshire PC Paul Croft is attempting to break a world record when he runs the London Marathon on Sunday in full body armour. PC Croft, who's no stranger to a running challenge after completing a 250km ultra marathon in the heat of the Sahara, is
POLICE are trying to identify a man who they would like to speak to after he potentially prevented an assault from taking place in Trowbridge. Between 12.30pm and 12.45pm on March 30, a 26-year-old woman was approached by two other women as she
FIRE crews were called to a fire at an aviary in Newtown, Trowbridge. Crews from Trowbridge and Melksham attended on Sunday (April 21) at 2am to what initially appeared to be a fence alight. The fire actually involved a fence and an aviary which
POLICE are looking for information regarding the theft of a motorbike which has now been covered. Officers recovered the motor bike on April 19 which had been damaged and hotwired in an alleyway off Seymour Road, Trowbridge. It is thought the
FLY-TIPPING was labelled a “disgusting scourge” by councillors as Wiltshire Council pledged to prosecute more people who dump waste in laybys across the county – after learning that from 2,822 council led investigations, only one person was prosecuted
“ARE you willing to go to dark places and work really hard for each other?” The answer to that question will determine whether Bath can emerge victorious against Sale Sharks on Friday night (7.45pm), according to scrum-half Will Chudley. The
DAMIAN Hall is racing in America for the first time this weekend, hoping to be rewarded with a golden ticket for one of the country’s biggest trail events. The Wiltshire ultra-running star, from Box, will line up at 5am on Saturday for the Canyons
