A SQUAD dedicated to tackling metal theft has been scrapped by police despite a recent wave of crimes and the rising cash value of copper and lead. Churches, factories and community centres across the county have been targeted in recent months. But
TEXTILE arts students are among the exhibitors in this year’s Trowbridge Textile and Weaving Festival. The Old, But New exhibition features new textile artwork from third year creative arts students from Bath Spa University and runs until November 12
WINSLEY Village Hall Film Club is seeking members to join a new society, which will launch in September. The club is being established after the village hall hosted successful occasionally film nights last year. Breakfast At Tiffany’s will be shown
MP DUNCAN Hames was the guest of honour at the Wiltshire Scrapstore in Lacock at its Scraptastic event last week. The Member of Parliament was shown around the store’s Bowden Hill site including the shop, the workshops and the various creative departments
TROWBRIDGE town crier Trevor Heeks had the difficult task of choosing his favourite floral-themed cushion in a competition in the town last Friday. Fabric Magic, on Silver Street, had launched a competition for its customers to create the best cushion
NOWADAYS Wiltshire Council chief executive Andrew Kerr is running an £800m budget. As a teenager, he was running something very different . . . an athletics track as one of Britain’s Olympic hopefuls. With less than a year to go until the London 2012
THE new Innox Riverside development could be open by Christmas 2013. Prorsus, which last month announced it has acquired the land, said it will be submitting a planning application to Wiltshire Council before the end of 2011. Trowbridge people are being
MORE than 300 jobs will come to Westbury when a paper bag firm moves its factory to the West Wilts Trading Estate. Welton Bibby and Baron, the main employer in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, is moving to west Wiltshire to make use of a bigger site as the
MORE than 40 children packed into the wildlife garden at The Courts in Holt to learn how to create a campfire. The children, aged from three upwards, were taking part in the latest of a series of summer outdoor skills workshops at the National
