A SPECIAL public showing of the Safe Drive, Stay Alive roadshow is being held on November 23 as part of National Road Safety Week. Anyone is welcome to attend the free show at Neeld Hall in Chippenham, as long as they are aged 15 or over. It starts
A GROUP of residents in Broughton Gifford and Shaw are aghast at plans to put an enormous slurry container in a field near their homes. Dairy farmers Paul and Catherine Richards have applied to place the 1,633,000-litre container in a field at Common
CHILDREN explored a Trowbridge nature trail and made wood sculptures as they learned about the environment during a school trip. Year Six children from Paxcroft Primary School headed to the Biss Meadows Country Park for an outdoor adventure day. The
BROKERSWOOD Country Park, near Westbury, has again earned an award from wildlife expert David Bell-amy’s conservation scheme. This year, the park has been singled out for a Special Distinction award, one of only a handful of UK parks. The awards consider
BRADFORD on Avon Museum wants to hear from former workers at Holt factory J&T Beaven Ltd, to help them with an oral history project about the site. The project is being run to coincide with the recent launch of the Glove Factory Studios & Café, which
ST PATRICK’s Catholic Primary School in Corsham has announced a series of new measures to combat the traffic chaos at the start and end of each school day. There have been concerns raised about the safety of pupils crossing Lacock Road, in
A MAN who threatened a petrol station employee with a brick before making off with £80 in cash has been sentenced to nearly three years in jail. Ashley Watson, 24, walked into the Texaco garage in Trowbridge Road on the night of September 9 and threatened
A MELKSHAM mother who went shoplifting while awaiting sentence for stealing a purse and mobile phone from a friend’s home has been given a suspended jail term. Laura Dommett, of Lewisham, Close, went into a flat at a hostel and took the items while her
HUNDREDS of shoeboxes packed with toys, games, pencils, pens and treats are pouring into the Melksham Operation Christmas Child warehouse ahead of their first delivery this weekend. About 2,000 shoeboxes have been donated by people in Wiltshire and they
AROUND 1,700 homes in the Adcroft area of Trowbridge were affected by a power cut on Wednesday night. An underground cable fault cut the power to the homes at around 9.20pm. Southern Electric immediately sent engineers to try and fix the problem, and
