A TROWBRIDGE church will be looking to the skies for its energy from now on, after parishioners installed solar panels on the roof. In a bid to reduce its carbon footprint the Zion Baptist Church in Union Street was fitted with 18 solar panels on Tuesday
A TROWBRIDGE couple will get on their bikes for a 185-mile ride in aid of children’s charity Barnardo’s. David Dutchman, a worker for the charity, is joining his partner, Katie Seymour, who is an assistant project manager at Invensys Rail in
MUSIC lovers will be in for a treat at the first Seend Acoustic Festival. The event has been organised by Malcolm Shipp, who moved to Seend just over a year ago after he and partner Jenny Dalton found their dream home on the TV programme Location, Location
A MELKSHAM mother whose size once confined her to her home is celebrating a new lease of life after losing more than eight stone. Sue Gale, 50, had hardly left her Awdry Avenue home for 20 years before starting her diet drive last September
AN exhibition match on Sunday featuring three generations of his family marked Dennis Richman’s 50 years with Winsley Bowls Club. Dennis Richman, 87, who joined the bowls club in 1961, played in the competition with his son Michael, 59, grandson Mark
MUM-OF-FIVE Amanda Hooper is urging cash-strapped parents to seek help after she turned her own financial fortunes around. Last week the Wiltshire Times revealed almost half the children on some Trowbridge and Melksham estates are in poverty, according
UP to 400 new jobs will be created in Trowbridge when the developer of the former Bowyers site builds a long-awaited cinema, supermarket and restaurants. Developer Prorsus said as well as an eight-screen cinema, at least five restaurants and
POSTAL services in Trow-bridge are in disarray because cost-cutting measures at Royal Mail have resulted in letters not being delivered for weeks as staff struggle to keep up with the pressure. Royal Mail staff have warned that missing and late letters
EARLY-BIRD parking inspectors have been issuing tickets to motorists parked on double yellow lines in Trowbridge as early as 6am on Sundays, residents claim. Families from the Newtown area are tired of battling for a parking space outside their own homes
