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  • Pub restaurants offer delivery dinners as coronavirus bites

    PUB restaurateurs Steph Carr and Sam Liverton may have to put Plan C into action following Monday night's lockdown instruction from PM Boris Johnson. After leaping into action to open a takeaway business from The Old Ham Tree in Holt on Friday night

  • Farmer failed to care for animals

    A FARMER from Devizes whose sheep were found to be lame, and being kept on filthy wet bedding, and whose pigs did not have enough fresh clean water, also left the corpse of a dead calf lying where vermin could get at it, magistrates heard. Richard

  • £800,000 pledged for repairs to Trowbridge swimming pool

    £800,000 has been pledged by Wiltshire Council at its cabinet meeting on Tuesday for repairs to the Trowbridge swimming pool. Wiltshire Council agreed to fund the repairs and future maintenance of the swimming pool at Clarendon to ensure it can

  • Volunteer wants to come home

    A WILTSHIRE man stranded in Ghana is desperately trying to organise a flight home with British Airways. Dominic Bride, 24, of Bradford Road, Atworth, went to Ghana in January to work for an international charity helping to improve sanitation and

  • Butchers launches new website to help get orders out quickly

    The Cook family at Walter Rose and Son have launched a new website to enable customers to order essentials online with contactless payment and delivery to their door. The new website has been developed to manage the surge of orders during the Covid

  • Clinic donates ‘scrubs’ to the RUH

    STAFF at a Melksham medical clinic which is having to temporarily close because of the COVID-19 pandemic are donating some of their equipment to the Royal United Hospital in Bath. The Snowberry Lane Clinic at Ridgway House, Shurnhold, is giving

  • Wanted Melksham man located

    A MAN wanted by police in Melksham has handed himself in. Steven Robins has now presented himself at Melksham police station following a police appeal to find him. Robins, 33, from Melksham, was wanted in connection with a number of offences.

  • Olympic Games postponement backed by British sporting bodies

    BRITISH Olympic chiefs have backed the decision to postpone both the Olympic Games and Paralympics until 2021 due to the global coronavirus pandemic. The decision means that Wiltshire athletes including high jumper Tom Gale and sprinter Danny Talbot

  • Witnesses sought to Trowbridge collision

    WITNESSES to a collision between a car and van in the Trowbridge area are being sought by police. On Monday, at 7.30am, a red Toyota Yaris was travelling along the A363 Bradley Road towards the town centre, when it was in collision with a white

  • Rallying to the cause

    MEMBERS of the Rally for Heroes team raised £485.53 for an Armed Forces charity at supermarkets in Wiltshire last weekend. They shook buckets outside two stores, Asda in Melksham, and Tesco in Marlborough. They raised £291.16 for SSAFA after

  • Wiltshire Armed Forces and Veterans Celebration is cancelled

    THE annual Wiltshire Armed Forces and Veterans Celebrations due to take place in Trowbridge have been cancelled for this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The event was scheduled to have taken place in Trowbridge town park over the weekend

  • Wadworth to keep regulars entertained at a virtual pub

    PUBS have been banned from opening in real life but in virtual reality Wadworth is making sure the local is still thriving. The brewery has launched The Henry named after founder Henry Wadworth. A spokesman said: “With the current Covid-19 advice

  • Heartbreak for couples as weddings are put on hold

    COUPLES all over Wiltshire have had their wedding plans thrown upside down by coronavirus restrictions. Those who were planning a Church of England ceremony have been told that only the bride and groom, a minister and two witnesses would be able

  • Devizes woman's diary of lockdown in Spain

    DEVIZES woman Barbara Carlile was at her holiday home in Spain when the government announced a strict lockdown. She spent five days abiding by the rules in a small town in Andalucia before she finally got a flight back on Friday. Below is here

  • Longleat and Cheddar Gorge & Caves confirm closure

    TWO of the South West's top tourist and visitor attractions have closed their doors for the foreseeable future. Longleat near Warminster and Cheddar Gorge & Caves in Somerset have confirmed they are closed to visitors with immediate effect. The

  • ULTRA-ENDURANCE: King close to victory in Gaucho Derby

    WILTSHIRE’S Clare King picked up silver in the ‘world’s toughest horse race’, The Gaucho Derby. In early March, King took on 23 other riders from around the world in an ultra-endurance multi-horse race that crossed the mountains of Patagonia and