HOUSEBUILDER Stonewood Partnerships has given school pupils at Holt an early Christmas present in the shape of a donation towards new outdoor gym equipment. The developer, which is building 44 new homes at The Tannery in the village, donated £5,000
A POLICE officer who fell seriously ill after being poisoned in the Salisbury Novichok attack is fighting for “part of his pension” after leaving the force, his wife said. Det Sgt Nick Bailey was the first person to enter the home of Sergei Skripal
A SIX-year-old girl from Devizes has presented two large bags of donated toys to the Salvation Army’s Christmas Toy Appeal which is being supported by the Wiltshire Times. Carmela Chillery-Watson has a rare progressive muscle wasting called LMNA
A DISRAUGHT pensioner is appealing to residents in the Bristol Road area of Chippenham to look out for her missing moggie. Phyllis Caddick, 69, has spent the past month putting up posters and combing the area after her 11-year-old cat Socks went
A NEW service has been launched in the Melksham area designed to make it easier for people to make video calls to friends and family. Since the launch of the first lockdown and the various restrictions that have been in place, many people have been
A funding bid to look into a new Corsham train station has been unsuccessful. Corsham town council said it is disappointed the Wiltshire Council submission to the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Restoring Your Railway Ideas Fund was not picked
Cepen Lodge care home, in Chippenham, have welcomed two new pet Guinea pigs called Poppy and Pearl. As visits from therapy dogs and similar animals has not been possible this year, staff decided getting their own animals would be beneficial.
Kingsbury Green Academy in Calne is taking precautionary measures after two pupils from different year groups tested positive for coronavirus. Following advice from Public Health England, 131 pupils from Year 10 will self-isolate until December
A Marlborough musician has literally orchestrated around 130 other musicians to perform in an online fundraising orchestra. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, Nicola Ashton and a group of local musicians got together to play
STAFF at the five-star Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa near Chippenham have told how proud they are of one of their colleagues. Junior sous chef Jamaar Semper is through to the semi-finals of the BBC One television's 13th MasterChef: The Professionals
A new donation page has been set up to fund a memorial for the four young men who died in the Derry Hill crash. The page has been backed by the families and the town’s Mayor, and comes on the heels of three arrests in connection with a fraudulent
The number of recorded coronavirus cases in Wiltshire increased by 385 in the last seven days. This week has seen another decline in the county’s infection rate per 100,000 which stands at 77 compared to 80.2 last week. Public Health England
Wiltshire’s health boss says the county will be part of a pilot scheme surveying Covid-19 outbreaks across venues. This new surveillance tracing will look at venues and settings rather than tracking individuals and offers a more enhanced level of
