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  • Epic tale of Marlborough internationalist

    DR Nick Maurice OBE has just published his autobiography "Never Doubt..." It is largely a history of the Marlborough Brandt Group and the partnership between Marlborough and the Muslim community of Gunjur in The Gambia - as noted on the signs at

  • Free tennis on offer as Malmesbury club opens up

    MALMESBURY Tennis Club is offering free tennis to the local community. Following the further easing of lockdown restrictions in England, all tennis courts are now able to open to allow doubles play, with members from different households.. The

  • £2m needed to help Marlborough and Swindon hospices survive

    A MARLBOROUGH end of life charity is making a desperate appeal for donations - so it can keep going. It says demand for services is increasing while, at the same time, funding has dried up. The charity continues to deliver essential specialist

  • Torso wins award for artist famous for horse sculptures

    EASTERTON sculptor Judy Boyt has won the Little Buckland Sculpture prize at The Broadway Arts Festival. Judy was attending a week's course on the human figure at The Ruskin College in Oxford when she sculpted her bronze study of 'Andrew at the Ruskin

  • Chippenham physio auctions shirts to buy bed for his ward

    CHIPPENHAM physiotherapist Joe Thomas has got his hands on a selection of England rugby shirts, and is now auctioning them off to raise cash to buy a specialist chair for his unit. The 21 year old from Colerne works between Chippenham Hospital and

  • Care home gets its youngest residents ever

    PEOPLE living at Cepen Lodge care home in Chippenham have had their very own Springwatch, after staff spotted a blue tit's nest in one of the outside ashtrays. Anxious not to disturb them, they began taking pictures of the nest, the newly hatched

  • £33m special school contracts awarded by Wiltshire Council

    A £33M investment in special schools in north Wiltshire has just taken a major step forward as the contractor for the work has been announced. Contractors Willmott Dixon will oversee the work to build the school and provide up to 400 places for

  • Lone piper on Windmill Hill plays for NHS workers

    A TEENAGE piper has been making lone trips to the top of an ancient hill outside Avebury to make a lone contribution to the Thursday NHS thank you clap. 18 year old Algie Fooks from Dauntsey’s School, has been making his way up to Wind Mill Hill