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  • Normandy Veteran Bob Conway dies aged 94

    ONE of the last survivors of the Normandy Veterans living in Trowbridge has died peacefully on Wednesday, July 15 at the Bloomfield care centre in Paulton near Bath. Walter George Conway, 94, who was known as ‘Bob’, had been living there since

  • Scouts get back to outdoor activities after lockdown

    Scouting has been run virtually since March 17 and many sections across the Wiltshire West District have been offering exciting activities which have included The Great Outdoors with virtual camps, camp fires, cooking, Explorer challenges, Hike to

  • Litter pickers tidy up Trowbridge estate

    EIGHT volunteers helped clean up Studley Green estate in Trowbridge yesterday. They provided some helping hands to a clean up operation organised by Cllr Tom Bazan. He said: "I had eight attendees including myself and we collected a large amount

  • Westwood wakes up to loss of water

    VILLAGERS in Westwood near Bradford on Avon woke up this morning to a water shortage. A burst water mains left more than 700 properties without water from early this morning. One man, who declined to be named, said: “I turned on the cold water

  • In the dock in Wiltshire: round-up of cases

    DEVIZES: Paul Tyrer, 65, of Easterton, Devizes, indicated guilty pleas to breaching a sexual harm prevention order made by Cheshire Magistrates’ Court in March last year by deleting the Kik messenger app and its history. He also admitted failing to

  • Round-up of those jailed in July by a Wiltshire court

    Drug dealers, dangerous drivers and perverts were among those who found themselves before Swindon's two crown court judges in July. Among them was a man who shoved an octogenarian to a Corsham church floor and later laughed about the robbery was