BRADFORD on Avon Town Council has voted to go it alone on making temporary improvements to roads and pavements in the town centre to improve social distancing. At an extraordinary general meeting on Friday, councillors voted in principle to pursue
Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenage cyclist collided with a tractor in Studley, Calne, yesterday. A police spokesman said: "At approximately midday, a 17-year-old boy from Chippenham was riding a push bike along the single track road
As lockdown rules have started to ease, I’ve been able to get back out into the Constituency and start to think again about local projects and priorities. One of these is the ambition to open a new train station to serve Devizes and the surrounding
A FORMER pupil of St John’s School, Marlborough has reached the semi-finals of the Miss England contest. It means that Isis Flack is just one step away from the Miss World pageant and she wants to use the opportunity to support a charity close to
MOD Corsham has received a share of 14 new firefighting vehicles from Capita as part of the company’s 12-year Defence Fire and Rescue Project (DFRP) contract. Capita Fire and Rescue is deploying two new types of firefighting vehicles including ten
THE detective leading the hunt for the almshouse raiders who held an elderly woman at knifepoint believes someone in the community knows who they are. The two men wearing balaclavas and gas masks forced them into the Devizes home of a 77-year-old
NEWLY elected Devizes Mayor Chris Gay has taken over the top civic job amid the most tragic of circumstances but is determined to serve the town well. She has stepped up after the shock death of Andy Johnson just days after he took on the role in
WEDDING suppliers who have been badly hit by the coronvairus emergency set out to show they are still in business by holding a competition to showcase their work. Four Chippenham business women came together to organise the event with Copper and
A suspected burglar was caught in double quick time after a man was spotted climbing through the window of a property. Police were alerted and within half an hour of the call being made a 33-year-old was arrested on suspicion of burglary at Forman
A youth who threw dog mess at the front door of an elderly person in Calne have been caught by police. Officers, who put pictures of the suspected group who gathered outside the house on social media, said yesterday they had now been tracked down
