Bradford

All the fun of the fair as young people enjoy the fairground attractions.

PICTURES: Famous faces join Bradford on Avon Christmas light switch on

Organiser Christopher Curtis with Glass artist Alex Compton with the Nordic pine tree.

12 foot ‘giving tree’ returns to Wiltshire town with a new look

A planning application for 190 homes on the site was rejected in 2008.

Town council’s petition on local plan reaches milestone

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Months of road closures are coming to West Wiltshire.

Months of disruption expected as major gasworks announced

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Tori Jordon and staff at the Still Sisters Distillery opening in St George’s Works , Trowbridge

Gin shop and distillery opens with new tasting sessions

Stonegate Farmers Ltd: Michelle Donelan MP with Derek Bull, Operations Director (blue top) and Luke Weaver(white coat).

Wiltshire firm reveals £10m growth and investment plans

A Spitfire memorial that one in Trowbridge could compare to

Calls for Spitfire memorial to honour town's history

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Alice Moody with her Doctorate in Education

102-year-old Wiltshire woman receives honorary doctorate

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The mystery 'stick man' *on the front cover of the Led Zeppelin IV album has been identified as mostly likely to be thatcher Lot Long from Mere.

Led Zeppelin's mystery 'stick man' identified as Wiltshire thatcher

The Lounge former café and bar in Roundstone Street

Calls mount for town centre shops to smarten up their act

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Fireworks light up the night sky at the spectacular Bradford on Avon fireworks display at Poulton Park.

Thousands enjoy Bradford on Avon fireworks display

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Nearing completion: the road over rail bridge in St Margaret’s Street, Bradford on Avon, as seen from the railway station.

Date railway bridge is set to be reopened after months of work

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The application says that confirmed ecological constraints at the site include hedgerow and tree habitats, bats, nesting birds and great crested newts.

'Deeply flawed' plans for 145 homes on farmland approved by council

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Jenny Mosley puts on a brave face after receiving a parking charge notice yet she maintains she never received Parkmaven's first letter and is now trying to appeal.

Shopper 'distressed and humiliated' by £170 parking fine for £1 ticket

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Rosie Sheehy as the young woman and the cast of Machinal.

Classic American drama Machinal is intended to shock audience

The ticket office at Trowbridge railway station was among those in Wiltshire threatened with closure.

Campaigners welcome U-turn on station ticket office closures

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This unusual fungi growing in Trowbridge Town Park has attracted much attention from townsfolk as it hasn’t been seen on this tree before

Mystery surrounds strange fungi growing in town park

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Salvation Army volunteers with their haul of toys during the 2021 Christmas appeal

How you can can give the gift of Christmas to Wiltshire families in need

Spectacular – the Bradford on Avon fireworks display is scheduled to go ahead on Sunday evening.

Fireworks display moves to new venue after last year's disappointment

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Ex-service veterans and members of the public gather round the Trowbridge War Memorial to pay their respects on Remembrance Sunday.

Town council row over free tickets to Festival of Remembrance

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ECO:FEST is being staged by Wiltshire Music Centre in November in partnership with Climate Friendly Bradford on Avon

Bread art at ECO:FEST aims to highlight climate change

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The volume of traffic through Bradford on Avon is causing concerns about exhaust pollution, air quality, congestion and highways safety

Town centre traffic problems to be discussed at key meeting

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The Lamb Inn in Trowbridge is a popular grass roots music venue.

Uncertainty at town pub as brewery seeks new tenants

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Firefighters were called out to rescue a young family whose Renault car got stuck in floods at Melksham. Photo: Trevor Porter70299-3

Drivers urged not to ignore flood warnings after a vehicle gets stuck

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Work has begun to refurbish and renovate the historic Hop Pole pub in Limpley Stoke.

Cost of saving 500-year-old village pub could top £1 million

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Head chef James Hooper and manager Chris Wilde at the fully renovated and aptly named New Leaf Café at Trowbridge Garden centre.

New £100k café opens at garden centre hit by boycott threat

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Richard and Tash Synan, co-owners of The Weaving Shed restaurant in Bradford on Avon

Restaurant boss launches 'classy' new menu after U-turn over decision to leave town

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Derek and Lesley Peters say their garden and home is being dwarfed by their neighbour's huge loft conversion.

True scale of 'overbearing' loft conversion shown in new aerial images

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A number of Trowbridge roads will be closing for the carnival this weekend

Full list of all the roads closing for Trowbridge Carnival this weekend

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Friends of Becky Addy Wood protesting about tree works in March 2022

Town council hires ‘heavyweight’ lawyer in row over ancient woodland

Palestinians flee the Israeli bombardment of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, October 17.

Palestine friendship group cancels all 10th anniversary events

Work underway at the Sainsbury store in Bradford on Avon.

Sainsbury’s supermarket undergoes first revamp in 17 years

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Friary Vintners Ltd in Frome is close to opening its new Still Sisters gin micro-distillery and gift shop in St George’s Works, Trowbridge.

Gin distillery prepares to open new town centre shop

George Ward was evicted from his tent on the Kennet & Avon Canal towpath in August.

Evicted boater ordered to pay £32,000 by Canal and River Trust

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The Christ Church clock face is hauled back up to the church spire to be fixed in place.

160-year-old church clock is finally restored to its former glory

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The B3105 at Staverton is still closed but the Wessex Water mains laying works are now complete past The Bear public house and Michael Blake’s racing stables.

Company provides update on roadworks 'bringing traffic to a standstill'

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Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip

Palestine friends group cancels 10th anniversary event

Israeli airstrikes razed swaths of a neighbourhood in Gaza City (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Friends of Palestine group in Wiltshire condemns violence

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Belliringers will compete for the title

Why 100 bellringers will be doing battle at Wiltshire church this weekend

A new service has launched in Wiltshire offering support for people who have been affected by sexual violence.

New service to support victims of sexual violence in Wiltshire

The former Ushers Brewery machinery in Trowbridge was dismantled and shipped to North Korea in a £1.5m deal approved by the UK Government.

How a Wiltshire brewery was taken apart and is now making beer in North Korea

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Tiny Hughes, who died on Thursday, was the founder of the Wiltshire Microlight Centre.

13 aircraft soar over hospice in tribute after pilot's death

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Jack Bardoe as the Son, Rupert Everett as Father and Eleanor David as Mother in A Voyage Round My Father.

THEATRE REVIEW: A Voyage Round My Father

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Trowbridge Apple Festival organiser Mel Jacob with some of the vast selection of apples on show.

Trowbridge Apple Festival: What you need to know ahead of big day

Courtney Wicheard, of Bare Laser Ltd, says the public realm improvements in Castle Street and on the B3095 at Staverton are 'killing' her business.

Traders fear improvement works will kill off their businesses

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A worker inspects the Christ Church clock after its removal.

Clock that hasn't told the time for 15 YEARS is being repaired

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The new Toolstation outlet in Furnax Lane, Warminster

New Toolstation store opens in Wiltshire town

Jamie Howarth's family have launched a campaign to improve safety on the B3099 at Dilton Marsh since his death on August 22.

Family give tribute to much loved son after combine harvester crash

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The rubbish dumped in Bradford on Avon

Town centre business fined hundreds for dumping waste on street

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The Lookout Day Nursery at Monkton Farleigh is celebrating its first Ofsted rating 'Outstanding'

Nursery rated ‘Outstanding’ in first Ofsted inspection

Contractors put the finishing touches to the new electric charging facility at Novuna Vehicle Solutions in Trowbridge.

New forecourt offering super-fast EV charging opens in Wiltshire town

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Cllr Rob Fryer and his partner Sue Burrow welcome visitors to Warminster's Spring in the Park in 2018.

Tributes paid to town's former mayor after death at 84

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Melanie Hall was killed in 1996 (Avon and Somerset Police/PA)

Fresh bid to find nightclubber's killer as TV documentary explores unsolved murder

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Lou Baker with her social knitwork - hand knitted wool, a netting tunnel and an invitation to add labels.

Unusual exhibition sets up shop in Trowbridge

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