FIRE crews are currently tackling a blaze above the Seven Day Shop in Roundstone Street, Trowbridge. The fire is believed to have started earlier this evening in a top floor flat above the convenience store. Police have closed the road while
THE Red Arrows will fly over Wiltshire for the last time this year on Friday (September 17). Pilots from the world-famous RAF display team will fly from Bournemouth in the morning, having performed at the Isle of Wight and Cardiff as part of a
SELWOOD Housing’s £4 million redevelopment of the Margaret Stancomb site in Trowbridge has been shortlisted in the 2021 British Homes Awards. The local housing association has been shortlisted in the Affordable Housing category of these national
A quartet of baby red squirrels have been born at Longleat Safari Park - the first to have been born at the Wiltshire wildlife attraction. The babies, a boy and three girls are known as kits, are part of a UK-wide breeding programme for the rare
A SPECIAL screening of The Secret Spitfire, The Directors Cut, film is to take place in Trowbridge to help raise funds for the Alzheimer's Support charity. It will take place on Saturday, September 25 from 2pm-5pm at the Trowbridge Town Hall in
MEMBERS and friends of The Trowbridge and District Metal Detecting Club have raised a magnificent £43,000 for charity. Up to 800 detectorists from all over the country took part in The Rodney Cook Memorial Rally at a site near Marlborough for a
A former kebab shop manager has been fined £24,000 for 12 offences of failing to comply with European food safety and hygiene regulations. Cuneyt Ascioglu,who managed the Speedy Chef in Weymouth Street, Warminster, was fined £2,000 on each of the
EXTRA funding to hire more traffic enforcement officers and camera equipment to tackle speeding in Wiltshire has been announced by the Police & Crime Commissioner. Currently Wiltshire has one such officer who helps support community speed watch
More than 45,000 secondary school aged children in Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire are to be offered the coronavirus vaccine. England’s chief medical officers, led by professor Chris Whitty, have announced that the first vaccines
A WESTBURY-based company has been presented with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise. The award was presented to EdTech company Scanning Pens by Mrs Anna Turner, the Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire at a dedicated ceremony held at Hoar Cross
STRESS-related absences by Wiltshire Council staff have increased by nearly a third in a few months. Between April and June stress-related absences among staff at the council rose by 31 per cent compared with the previous quarter. Stress has
Julia’s House children’s hospice has launched an urgent appeal to plug a £1m back hole and help Wiltshire’s most seriously ill children. The Wiltshire Times has joined forces with the charity, calling on the community to help raise £1.5m vital
THE James Dyson Foundation is funding a £500,000 dementia research fellowship to help better understand the disease. Former F1 driver Sir Jackie Stewart founded Race Against Dementia and now RAD Dyson Fellow Dr Claire Durant hopes to establish
