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  • Police help get lost dog back to its owner

    A lost chihuahua has been returned to its owner thanks to the intervention of a Wiltshire Police PSCO.  On Saturday, PCSO Revers was flagged down to help with a lost dog in Westbury. The missing pooch was found and looked after by a member

  • New "amphitheatre" seating proposed for town's river

    New public areas could be built beside the River Biss in Trowbridge to “improve people’s enjoyment of the area” and the town’s “connection to the river.” Wiltshire Wildlife Trust has submitted planning applications which propose work to the small

  • Fruit trees planted in Wiltshire play area divide opinion

    A row of six newly-planted fruit trees within the Stallard Recreation Field near Trowbridge railway station has divided the town. The fruit trees are part of a new community orchard planted by contractors idverde using some of the £140,471 granted

  • Prosecutions for Wiltshire school absences at five-year high

    More than 150 Wiltshire parents were pursued in the courts during the last academic year for their children’s lack of school attendance. A Freedom of Information request has revealed that Wiltshire Council carried out 161 prosecutions in 2022/

  • Two girls who died when WW2 bomb hit Trowbridge remembered

    THE Royal British Legion in Trowbridge has helped relatives to remember two teenage girls who died in 1942 when a German Second World War bomb exploded in Stallard Street. On July 27 1942 cousins Rosie Sheehan, aged 17, and Renee Reid, aged 16,