A PLANNED bring and buy sale for seedlings and plants in Heytesbury tomorrow has been postponed after condemnation from a local businessman. The sale was due to have taken place from 10am to 12 noon at St Peter & St Paul Church in Heytesbury to
MARLBOROUGH'S mini burger company has created a burger and boardgame delivery service. Bite Me on Kingsbury Street is launching a Boredom-Busting Burger Box aimed at creating some lockdown fun. The brand has joined forces with games specialists
IT IS foolish to proclaim any one book as ‘the greatest novel.’ Tastes and judgements differ, just as our reading experiences do. We can only make a subjective choice, and that is limited by what we have read. Of novels written in English, George
A BRINKWORTH businesswoman is hoping her business distributing cardboard tents for festival goers can help firms as lockdown loosens. Kirsty Peters is the UK’s sole distributor of the tents, but with festivals cancelled, orders have followed suit
A TROWBRIDGE primary school has started up it's own food bank - and the Studley Green initiative has proven so successful, it is sending out around 35 boxes of food to families each week. "At the start of lockdown it became apparent a lot of people
A CROSS-party working group is to be set up by Trowbridge Town Council to look at the options for reinstating public toilets for the Town Park. Councillors voted to establish the group at their annual town meeting which was held online on Tuesday
THE house contents of Joan Dunk – a stalwart of Portobello Road Antique Market - will go under the hammer in Newbury in June. For decades Joan had an outside pitch on the corner of Westbourne Grove. One of the highlights going under the hammer
JACK Endacott, who was Headmaster of Westmead Junior School in Chippenham for more than 20 years, has died at the age of 89. He was born in Taunton, began his teaching career in Exeter and moved to Wiltshire in 1963 to become Deputy Headmaster
NO arrests have been made for breaches in the COVID legislation for the second week in a row in Wiltshire. The Force also saw a substantial drop in the number of COVID-19 related logs being created in the control room. This fell to 454 from 812
THE Mayor of Westbury Cllr Mike Sutton and his deputy mayor, Cllr Sheila Kimmins, are to stay in office because of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Town councillors in Westbury decided at their 'virtual' annual town meeting on May 11 to not make
IT'S been a breezy, often windy week of dry weather. The temperature has not always felt that warm, especially out of the sun and in unsheltered locations, but we could really do with some rain. We did have a few spots during the week, but they dried
AS the holy month of Ramadan comes to a close this weekend, Wiltshire and Swindon’s Local Resilience Forum has issued an open letter to all Muslims in the county, reminding them of the social distancing rules still in place, despite the easing of the
Award-winning Chippenham charity Waste Not Want Not is working behind the scenes to plan life after lockdown. The charity hopes to reopen in early June – pending government guidelines – but is working to ensure it can do so with the safety of customers
ALTHOUGH coronavirus may have scuppered my holiday plans, along with those of thousands of others, I didn't see why we shouldn't have a little family treat. And what could be better that a Sunday roast without the cooking and washing up? So I
A NEW weekly parenting podcast is set for release on all major platforms on Wednesday, May 27. The Play Healing Parent Podcast is for hard-working, stressed-out parents who are too busy to play and feel emotionally disconnected from their children
Endangered Amur tiger cubs, Rusty and Yuki, are thriving during lockdown at Longleat Safari Park. The 11-month-old brother and sister are the first to have been born at the Wiltshire wildlife attraction for nearly 20 years and are part of a European
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. It is a subject that has become far more widely spoken about in recent years and that can only be a good thing. But we can never do too much to raise awareness of the importance of looking after our mental
