FANS of music, drama, personalities and diverse branches of the arts have flocked to events as part of Devizes Arts Festival this week, packing into venues large and small all over the town. Organisers are delighted with the response to events,
WESTBURY Netball Club have launched a Back To Netball scheme to encourage people to get involved in the sport. The club have two teams – Wildcats and Wolves – competing in the local Moonraker League and have just concluded a successful season.
A couple left their dogs emaciated and sick have been banned from keeping animals for life. Simon Sherman, 46, and Sarah Jane Sherman, 47, were sentenced to the life-long disqualifications when they appeared before Swindon Magistrates’ Court today
THE first event in Wiltshire Golf’s Junior Development Tour was played at Cumberwell Park Golf Club at the end of May. The event was well attended, with more than 20 players contesting a nine-hole competition on the par-three course. Some excellent
Top chefs from across the UK gathered at a farm near Westbury. They visited Stokes Marsh Farm in Coulston at a Chefs' Forum, hosted by Walter Rose & Son butchers. Farmer Tim Johnson welcomed the 100 guests to his farm. And Chefs’ Forum founder
Two teenagers have been arrested after car was stolen in Trowbridge in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police were called at around 1.30am yesterday (June 9) where a group of around six or seven teenage boys were seen acting suspiciously outside
A MAN has been charged in connection with a robbery at a shop in Winsley. Ryan Jones, 28, of no fixed address, has been charged with robbery. Police issued an appeal to find him earlier in the week. He was remanded in custody and is due to
CHILDREN’S charity Barnardo’s has praised its Westbury shop volunteers after they donated more than 4,400 hours of help last year. Barnardo’s is highlighting the importance of local support in advance of national Volunteers’ Week, which takes place
Heated exchanges over the lack of police on our streets have taken place between Police Crime Commissioner Angus Macpherson and a Wiltshire councillor keen to take over the role. Police revealed that while 87.4 per cent of staff within community
WILTSHIRE Police is paying more on officer wages as it climbs down from the seven year Tri Force partnership with Avon and Somerset and Gloucester. Fire arms, dogs units and roads policing had all been part of the Tri Force programme with teams
BRADFORD on Avon has been awarded Plastic-Free Community Status by marine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage in recognition of the work it has done to start reducing the impact of single use plastic on the environment. In order to qualify
