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  • Judge’s anger over delay in nurse’s hearing

    A SENIOR judge has criticised ‘unacceptable’ delays by a professional body in dealing with a male nurse convicted of battery and drink-driving, but said he must remain suspended from working in order to protect the public. Craig Dennis Martin, of 14

  • There’s nothing bog standard about our loos

    A TROWBRIDGE pub has been put on a pedestal by achieving the highest possible rating in the Loo of the Year Awards 2011. The Albany Palace Weatherspoon, in Park Road, has been awarded a five star rating by inspectors who turned up unannounced. Since

  • Arc takes centre stage

    PROTESTORS and Wiltshire College bosses will meet next week to discuss the future of The Arc theatre in Trowbridge. People who had objected to the college’s plan to stop professional productions at the College Road theatre are expected to hear the final

  • RUGBY:

    BATH face a must-win clash wuith French side Montpelllier just two matches into their Heineken Cup campaign nxt week after a last-gasp 26-21 defeat at Glasgow today. Richie Gray's stoppage-time effort upstaged the debut of Bath's World Cup-winning fly-half

  • Last bit of lead stolen from Tourist centre roof

    AS BRADFORD on Avon Tourist Information Centre continue its battle to get a new steel roof following a series of lead thefts, the remaining two lead strips were stolen from the roof last week. The theft, the fourth time the centre has been targeted since

  • RUGBY: Glasgow Warriors 26 Bath 21

    RICHIE Gray's stoppage-time try saw Glasgow Warriors upstage Bath and World Cup winner Stephen Donald with a stunning Heineken Cup Pool Three win at Firhill. Tom Heathcote kicked six penalties before being replaced with 11 minutes to go by Donald, the

  • Works hammer trade

    A PETROL station owner has said roadworks have cost him £310,000 in three months and left his business hanging in the balance. Weeks of roadworks along West Ashton Road and Green Lane to pave the way for laying sewage pipes for a new housing estate have

  • Melksham canal path completed

    A PROJECT to improve a path linking the Bowerhill estate in Melksham with the Kennet and Avon Canal has been completed. The path, from Locking Close to the canal towpath is now usuable in all weathers and completes a circular walk around the estate.

  • Stars are pumped up for reborn Trowbridge folk festival

    THE famous Westbury White Horse will become the backdrop of the Village Pump Folk Festival when the event is resurrected next year. Tickets went on sale last week as the organisers announced the new venue would be Westbury Country Park after the Pump

  • Melksham residents help plan for future

    MORE than 100 people gathered at Melksham Assembly Hall to discuss priorities for the town and surrounding area. The Melksham Forward event, hosted by Wiltshire Council and the Melksham Community Area Partnership, was designed to encourage people to

  • Wiltshire firm chirpy after Dragon’s Tweet

    A SMALL business owner from Dilton Marsh is celebrating after his printing company was picked out by Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Theo Paphitis for a mention on Twitter. Orders have flooded in since LF designs, run by Barry Slip from his home in Fairwood