SCHOOLS have been advised by Wiltshire Council and the public health team to bring back classroom bubbles because of a rise in Covid cases. The council has advised schools across the county to “consider their contingency plans” and introduce protective
TROWBRIDGE Town Council has reminded residents and visitors that free parking is available in Trowbridge every day in the run up to Christmas. Residents and visitors can park for free in the multi-storey car park at St Stephen’s Place, just across
LOCAL community group Trowbridge Future is appealing for help to launch a community fridge on the Longfield estate for individuals and families in need. The community fridge will redistribute food unsold by supermarkets and the initiative will
WILTSHIRE Wildlife Trust is urging people across the county to challenge themselves to take part in the Big Wild Walk later this month. The walk is being held to help fundraise for the charity to tackle the nature and climate emergency which has
TROWBRIDGE Town Council is expected to make decisions in the next few weeks about the development of its new four-year strategy leading up to the next scheduled local elections in 2025. The Liberal Democrat-controlled council has been working on
A drug dealer from Warminster has been jailed for over two and a half years by a court in Salisbury last Thursday after pleading guilty to supplying Class A drugs. In November 2019, 23-year-old Niquan Benoit was stopped by police in Warminster
A Wiltshire jazz enthusiast has celebrated his 90th birthday doing what he loves best - listening to live jazz music. Gerald Griffin, who co-founded Bradford on Avon Jazz Club 30 years ago with his friend Basil Hazell, celebrated his 90th birthday
SERVICEMEN and women who have died in conflicts and are buried in a Trowbridge cemetery are to be remembered at two services in November. The Friends of the Down Cemetery have joined with Trowbridge Royal British Legion to organise a joint ceremony
SEVEN 'inspirational and dedicated' teachers have won top prizes in the Wiltshire Music Education Awards. They include Fran Roach, head of performing arts at the Clarendon Academy School in Trowbridge, who was named Wiltshire's secondary school
Tesco is trialling a new change to alcohol aisles in store to tackle an increased in thefts. The suoermarket giant is trialling security barriers on aisles that serve alcohol. The measure is in place following an increase in shoplifters due
POLICE have reissued their appeal to the public to help locate a homeless man Geoffrey Cave who is wanted on recall to prison. Cave, who is 68 and of no fixed address, is wanted on recall to prison, as well as in connection with three burglaries
THREE roads in Melksham will temporarily close next week for road works. From October 18, three roads in Melksham will be closed so Wiltshire Council can carry out urgent carriageway resurfacing, ironwork adjustment, road markings and associated
A 30-year-old man has been arrested in Bradford by West Yorkshire Police on suspicion of carrying out offences at the Stonehenge World Heritage Site between August and September this year. The man was arrested at the request of Wiltshire Police
A WESTBURY night spot will be allowed to stage more strip shows after winning a sexual entertainment licence. Barrie White, director of Comus Leisure, which owns Venom, said it needed to run more events because it had been hit hard by the pandemic
Wiltshire Police has offered an explanation for data which led to national headlines labelling the force the "worst in the country for solving rape cases". And it says Home Office figures about rape outcomes “doesn’t accurately reflect its position
PEOPLE in Chippenham have called for ‘no more chainsaw massacres’ after a mature silver birch tree was cut down. Pete Bishop said he and his Esmead neighbours were stunned to discover it was being felled. Local councillor Nick Murry, who is
