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  • No arrest yet after assault on woman

    POLICE in Westbury are still searching for a man after a woman was allegedly assaulted during a domestic dispute. Armed officers and dog units were involved in the search following an incident in Warminster Road at around 1pm yesterday afternoon

  • Former pub site is sold for homes

    LOCAL housing association Selwood Housing Group has announced its recent purchase of The John Bull pub site in Studley Green, Trowbridge, for an undisclosed sum. Estate agents Savills had been marketing the former public house - which was built

  • Test backlog is “the worst ever known”

    DRIVING instructors in west and north Wiltshire say the current 17-week wait for driving tests is probably the worst they have ever known. There are 420,000 learners across the UK waiting to take their driving tests and Chippenham and Trowbridge

  • Crews put out cooker fire in Bratton

    TWO crews from Trowbridge and Warminster attended a small fire on a cooker top in Melbourne Street in Bratton. The fire was extinguished using one hose reel jet and mechanical ventilation. The incident happened at around 12.3pm yesterday afternoon

  • Swans close to hatching eggs

    SIGNS have gone up in Bradford on Avon urging people not to disturb a pair of swans nesting by the historic town bridge. The signs warn people to keep clear for their own safety as the swans “will instinctively” defend their nest and young if disturbed

  • Tim’s turfed off by plot ‘snobs’

    A FORMER Bradford on Avon hotelier has launched a “I lost the plot” campaign after being turfed off his allotment on Bradford on Avon’s upmarket Kingston Farm housing development. Tim Burnham, 72, who used to own the Old Manor Hotel at Trowle Common

  • Neighbours say ‘no’ to chip shop food hut plans

    Concerns have been raised over plans by a chip shop to put up a marquee in a car park next to Bradford on Avon train station. A group of residents who live at the nearby Stone’s Court say the proposed marquee by Harlees Fish and Chip Shop for dozens