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  • Warning for speeder

    A DRIVER has been given "words of advice" for speeding in Westbury after being stopped by Special Constables from the Warminster Area Community Policing Team. The SPCs conducted a speed enforcement check at Mane Way, Westbury, on Friday in-between

  • Drug dealers are jailed after sting

    TWO men have been jailed and a third defendant handed a suspended sentence following a police investigation into Class A drug dealing in Wiltshire. Connor Flower, 29, of no fixed address, Melksham, appeared at Winchester Crown Court last Friday

  • Oldest care home resident celebrates her 101st birthday

    CELEBRATIONS have been in full swing at Henford House Care Home in Warminster as its oldest resident was the special guest at a party for her 101st birthday. Mary Hillman, formerly of Upton Scudamore, celebrated her special birthday on Thursday

  • Chippenham car park to temporarily close for essential works

    PARTS of Emery Gate car park in Chippenham will temporarily close at the end of this week until the end of July. Wiltshire Council has announced the partial closure to allow for essential structural works to take place from Sunday, January 16.

  • A former village pub could get a new lease on life

    A PUB near Devizes has submitted plans to create a fenced pub garden. The George & Dragon in Erlestoke has applied to the council to install a fenced pub garden with “natural materials to blend into the surrounding countryside”. This will involve

  • Man sought for sex attack

    POLICE have appealing for information after a woman in Melksham was allegedly sexually assaulted in the run up to Christmas. At about 5.30pm on Monday, December 20, a woman in her 50s was in a beer garden in Market Place when a man she did not