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  • Terminally ill paddler takes on epic canoe race

    FOR even the fittest and healthiest the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race is a huge challenge but for Kevin Dobson who has terminal cancer it may be a race too far. Mr Dobson, who is a member of Devizes Canoe Club, said: “When I got my cancer diagnosis

  • Wiltshire X Factor star lifts lid on the show

    WILTSHIRE X Factor star Jahmene Douglas has warned other singers not to go on the show. Douglas, 28, who was working in Swindon Asda and living in Wroughton, before he was picked for the ITV show came second in 2012 and shot to the top of the album

  • Devizes chef shows pupils how pizza can be healthy

    Celebrated chef Peter Vaughan is showing children at a Calne school how pizza can be a healthy option rather than a naughty treat. The Year 5 pupils at St Margaret’s Preparatory School are being taught about all things dough-related in a series

  • Remember Ben event

    A FUNDRAISING event is being held at the Farmhouse Inn at Southwick on Saturday (February 29) for the family of Ben Garland. Ben went missing in Ibiza, Spain, on January 21 and his body has still not been found. The event at 7pm at the Farmhouse

  • Celebrating women

    INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day is being celebrated at Trowbridge Town Hall with a Feminista Film Festival & Tour. It will take place on Sunday, March 8 at 2.30pm, with films shown by Getting Together Through Films for Feminista Film Festival & Tour following

  • Coronavirus plane touches down in Wiltshire

    A repatriation flight carrying 32 British and European evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship landed in Wiltshire yesterday. The plane, which also carried British government and medical staff, touched down at Ministry of Defence base Boscombe