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  • Hunt for local Billy Elliot to get under way this weekend

    The director of a Billy Elliot musical to be staged in Warminster is hoping they will be mobbed by talented applicants at open auditions being held this weekend. Warminster School music teacher Brian Martineau, who is producer and musical director

  • HOCKEY: Chippenham Ladies 4th 5 West Wilts Ladies 2

    CHIPPENHAM Ladies fourth team continued their winning form with a fine win over their county rivals. The first half was hard-fought, Chippenham leading 2-1 after well-worked goals from Emma Fletcher and Jessie Devers. Devers completed her hat-trick

  • HOCKEY: Chippenham Ladies 3rd 1 Team Bath Buccs 1

    CHIPPENHAM started in solid fashion, but somewhat against the run of play, Team Bath took the lead midway through the first half. The Wiltshire side enjoyed the majority of possession in the second half and, after narrowly missing the first couple of

  • HOCKEY: Taunton Ladies 1 Chippenham Ladies 0

    CHIPPENHAM Ladies dropped into the relegation zone after defeat against bottom-of-the-table Taunton Vale despite a strong start. They played the ball confidently down the right with Holly Honeywill making well-timed runs into the D. Chippenham

  • West Wiltshire shivered through coldest January for 23 years

    West Wiltshire shivered through its coldest January for more than 20 years, figures have revealed. Amateur weatherman Geoff Witts, from Steeple Ashton, released his monthly figures which showed the average temperature for the month was 1.4 degrees Celsius

  • Westbury man arrested on suspicion of brandishing weapons

    A 44-year-old man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of being in possession of an offensive weapon and common assault. It followed an incident in the Haines Road area of Westbury at 11.30pm, during which a man came out of a house allegedly brandishing

  • RUGBY: Warminster 71 Puddletown 3

    WARMINSTER consigned their previous week's disappointing defeat to leaders Bridport straight to the history books as they hammered long-time rivals Puddletown. Traditionally, games between the two are difficult affairs, but this time the Amber Blues

  • RUGBY: Bridport 48 Westbury 3

    WESTBURY crashed back to earth this weekend at the hands of Dorset & Wilts One South leaders Bridport. For the first half an hour the sides were evenly matched, with Westbury at times in the ascendancy drawing first blood with a well-taken penalty by

  • SLAUGHTERFORD 9 RESULTS

    REPORT & PICTURE SPECIAL IN FRIDAY'S WILTSHIRE TIMES 1 Tom Fisher 00:55:13 SM; 2 Alec Woods (Bristol& West AC) 00:56:22 MV40; 3 Chris Maxwell 00:58:40 SM; 4 Marcus Mumford (Bad Tri) 00:59:16 SM; 5 Ben Lang (Team Bath AC) 01:00:01 SM; 6 Guy Woods (Team

  • Plans being drawn up to relocate Trowbridge Library

    Blueprints for the proposed relocation of Trowbridge Library to County Hall will be ready within months, it was revealed at a meeting last week. Members of Trowbridge Area Board discussed the proposal at a meeting in the Civic Hall on Thursday, alongside

  • Police officer dies in crash near Bradford on Avon

    A police officer died after his vehicle left the road and crashed at Bradford on Avon last night. He was driving along Westwood Road towards Trowbridge at around 8pm when he apparently lost control, Wiltshire Police said. A force spokesman