TRIBUTES have been paid to 83-year-old Jean Newman, who died less than a month after she celebrated her diamond wedding anniversary. Mrs Newman died at the RUH on Saturday after being taken ill last month. Mrs Newman met her husband Alan, 88, a former
Keen gardener Cyril Webb died at Salisbury Hospital on July 31, aged 75. Mr Webb, of Warminster, was born in the old Netley Hospital, Southampton, in 1931, where his father worked as the chief electrical engineer. He was orphaned at the age of 14 and
Mum Karen Day thinks a spate of house cleaning in the run up to the due date of her second child may have sparked the baby's early arrival. Mrs Day, 36, and her husband Alan, 37, have been trying to ready the house for the new addition to the family
WITH two teenage boys Zoe Pike was delighted when her new baby was a girl. She and her partner Tony Hadley, 36, who works as a printer, are celebrating the birth of their daughter Georgia-May, who was born at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. Ms Pike
Miss Emma Louise Bartley and Mr Simon Craig were married at the Minster Church, Warminster, on July 1. The bride is the daughter of Joy Clark and the late Irven Clark, of Warminster and the bridegroom is the son of Glen and Judith Craig, also of Warminster
The picture on the right is of the Melksham Independent Labour Party in 1915, sent in by John Cannings, of Melksham, whose mother and father are seated first and second right. They are named as standing: G Love, F Rivers, G Perry, H Knee, W Pinnock,
This old photo, from John Stevens, of Bradford on Avon, is of the Bradford on Avon Horse Show in 1951 as part of the Bradford Carnival Week run by the British Legion. The show, Mr Stevens says, was held in the field next to the Beehive pub in Trowbridge
Last week we took a look at the old cinema in Melksham's High Street. This week we move further along the High Street to the junction of Church Street and take a look back. Our archive picture, taken around 1920, shows the large premises of Stratton
TRACEY Edwards, 41, joined the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal in 2003 as fundraising coordinator and is responsible for raising £350,000 each year to keep the helicopter flying. She does this through promoting the work of the charity around the county
THE new Toolstation League Western League season kicks-off on Saturday after a busy pre-season programme. In an exclusive 16-page guide to the new campaign, Wiltshire Times and Chippenham News sports reporter Gareth Moorhouse assesses the chances of
CHILDREN can have great fun at a festival being run just for them in Glastonbury this weekend. Charity Children's World is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the festival, held at the Abbey playground in the centre of Glastonbury, with workshops, entertainment
M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, The Village) continues his mission to revive the ancient art of storytelling, melding aspects of the fantastic with the mundane, and bringing to life a mythology of his own concoction. Paul Giamatti (Sideways) is
A haunted house with human characteristics that frightens the neighbourhood is the familiar premise for this animated tale. Youngsters DJ (Mitchel Musso), his bumbling friend Chowder (Sam Lerner) and tomboy Jenny (Spencer Locke) decide to fight back
City of Bath Male Voice Choir Wednesday August 16, 8pm Beechen Cliff Methodist Church MEN who enjoy singing and wonder what it is like to be in a male voice choir can find out for themselves on Wednesday, August 16 in Bath. The City of Bath Male
Wiltshire's GWR FM's new breakfast show is now up and running. Howard Taylor and Roo Green are fronting the new action packed, gossip-filled five-hour prime time show (which now broadcasts from 5am), which got under way on Monday. Howard's wealth of
Infinite Space, The Edinburgh Festival, and then at the Rondo Theatre, Bath. Britain is in the grip of a pandemic. The rapid spread of the disease and an appalling death toll have caused mass panic, and there is fighting and lawlessness on the streets
Look Back in Anger, Wednesday-September 2, Theatre Royal Bath. This year sees the 50th anniversary of John Osborne's ground-breaking Look Back in Anger.This play introduced the expression "angry young man" to the world and brought the drama of real
HOLIDAYMAKERS from west and north Wiltshire are caught up in major airport delays after a terrorist plot to bomb passenger planes was foiled. Passengers at all UK airports were affected this morning, with Heathrow cancelling all inbound flights
