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3rd December 2019    5th December 2019

  • Museum wants to find WW1 pistol owner

    A museum is appealing for information about a World War One German pistol handed in during a Wiltshire firearms amnesty. The 1911 Luger pistol, given to Wiltshire Police, is believed to have been taken as a souvenir during the 1917 tank advance

  • Lilly loses her locks for charity

    A nine-year-old Westbury schoolgirl has lost 14 inches of hair - but it's all in a good cause. Lilly Goodall had 14 inches cut off her long locks to raise £750 for the Little Princess Trust. The trust provides free real hair wigs to children

  • Quiz funds boost charity

    LOCAL accountancy firm MHA Monahans raised £1,171 for Alzheimer’s Society UK by organising the Chippenham Charity Quiz. The fundraising quiz in October saw 21 teams test their general knowledge to raise money for the national charity. The winning

  • Consultations on merger plans

    A PROPOSAL to create one unified council for the Melksham area has moved forward to the next stage. Locals will be consulted in January on proposals to merge Melksham Town Council and Melksham Without Parish Council. Two options have been submitted

  • Man freed from car after crash on B3105

    FIRE crews freed a man from his car after his doors jammed following a crash with another vehicle on the B3105 near Staverton on November 27. The 19-year-old's white Mazda 2 smashed into the back of a red Renault Scenic at around 6.30pm. A

  • Paramedics launch Big Give Challenge to buy new ventilators

    WILTSHIRE Air Ambulance is calling on supporters to take part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge which began on Tuesday December 3. It wants to buy four state-of-the-art ventilators each costing £6,000 to treat critically-injured or ill patients

  • THEATRE REVIEW: Ten Times Table, Theatre Royal, Bath

    Anyone who has ever been a member of a committee, whether local authority, club, church or charity event will empathise with the characters, or at least some of them, in this play. Someone once said a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Alan

  • Matilda to star in charity's Christmas appeal

    A six-year-old girl from Staverton who had Christmas ruined by cancer is starring in a national charity’s campaign. Matilda Fisher was just three years old when she was diagnosed with leukaemia in December 2016. What followed has been two years

  • Gazza talk will benefit Raife

    THE Raising for Raife appeal in Melksham has been selected as the nominated good cause for An Evening With Paul Gascoigne on January 31 at the Melksham Assembly Hall. Raife Wilson, 5, lives in Melksham and his family are fundraising for a much-needed

  • Children to march to help save the environment

    PUPILS at a Westbury primary school are planning to march to help save the environment. They are planning to descend on Westbury town centre on Friday, December 13 for a meeting with the town's mayor, Cllr Mike Sutton. The protest by 60 Year

  • LADIES RUGBY: Westbury toppled in Devon

    WESTBURY Ladies fell to a heavy 80-5 defeat when they travelled to Exeter to take on Topsham. In the first-ever meeting between the two clubs, both struggled for numbers in the lead-up to the contest, so it was decided that teams would only field

  • RUGBY: Chippenham's cash boost from Co-Op

    CHIPPENHAM RFC have received a generous donation of more than £3,500 from supermarket chain Co-Op. The Co-op Local Community Fund helps pay for local projects that their members care about. Every time a Co-op member shops at their store, one