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Ladies go Wilde for classes at Steeple Ashton
A SERIES of dance classes run by former Pan’s People legend Dee Dee Wilde have been such a success that more are planned around west Wiltshire. Dee Dee’s Dance Club got off to a flying start at the beginning of March with weekly classes at West Ashton
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Evicted Bradford on Avon woman on the streets
A TENANT dubbed a nightmare neighbour says she is now homeless after being evicted from her rented home in Bradford on Avon, following a string of anti-social incidents spanning three-and-half-years. Susan Almadi, 47, formerly of Downavon, Bradford on
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Bradford on Avon town councillor resigns
A VACANCY for a town councillor in Bradford on Avon has arisen after David Bolwell stood down citing disagreements with council decisions and work commitments. His main concerns include the town’s financial contribution to the Kingston Mills
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Gig Guide - The Village Pump Folk Club, Arc Theatre, The Foresters
THE Village Pump Folk Club in Trowbridge, which in its day was one of the country’s leading clubs and spawned the Village Pump Festival, has its grand re-opening tonight. Mastermind John Alderslade has booked ‘all the usual suspects’ including
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Generous donations
I WOULD like to thank the people of Melksham for raising £68.53 during my street collection on Saturday, March 28 in aid of Compassion In World Farming, a charity advancing farm animal welfare. DR ROGER G CHALLONER GREEN, Church Lane, Wingfield,
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Town Hall puzzle
ALTHOUGH I am pleased that Cllr Jeff Osborn was against the refurbishment of the Town Hall I thought it was the Conservative group that took the stand on this particular issue (it being their policy) and that Cllr Osborn happened to support this.
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Thanks for support
On behalf of the newly formed West Wilts Palestine Support Group, (Justice for Palestine, Peace for Israel) I would like to thank all your readers in Melksham and Bradford on Avon who took leaflets or signed the petition on Monday asking Sainsburys
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Centrepiece must have proper investment
I feel I must comment upon Cllr Osborne’s latest ‘man of the people and saviour of Trowbridge’ type letter regarding the Town Hall (March 27). As some readers may remember I was a longstanding member of the Town Council Project Group which oversaw the
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We must be vigilant
As an IT expert dealing with computers and the internet all the time I am very concerned, as I feel local parents will be, to hear the revelations made by Channel 4’s Sexperience programmes this week. They tell us that the average teenager watches
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Just don’t park there
No one likes the clampers much and they nearly always quite rightly receive bad press. What do I dislike more? Actually, people who break and bend the rules to suit no one but themselves. I am sure we were all supposed to feel sorry for Linda Trollop
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Clampers have guts
I read in your article (March 27, 2009) about the clampers returning to the Texaco garage in Trowbridge. Why do people park there and wonder why they get clamped when going into the JobCentre? There are plenty of signs to say that you
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No whipping boys
I would like to make a couple of comments about issues raised in your paper. Firstly, the redundancy payments to senior officers at the district councils. These were, as you state, agreed by the implementation executive of the county council – please
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Your Views - The Great Wall of China
Annette and Harold Willis of Maple Grove, Trowbidge, took along the Wiltshire Times when they visited the Great Wall of China on Red Nose day. They were in China visiting friends in Beijing. Mrs Willis, who is disabled, managed to get
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The way forward?
Now we know more about how the new Wiltshire Council will work, I think that most people will be pleased we have just the one. The county map showing the 18 Area Boards reminds me of the areas covered by the old borough, urban and district
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Please explain
Your paper recently exposed the astonishing £5.5 millions of taxpayers’ money that is being shared by 29 council officers across the county who have been made redundant in the move to the new Wiltshire Council. My own research, using the
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Time to get real
REFERENCE the photo on the Letters page of last week’s Wiltshire Times (March 27) of the protesters against the radio mast at Bradford on Avon railway station. If you have a good look it seems to me that they are all senior citizens that are living
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Work is paying off
I would like to say thank you to the members and volunteers who joined me on Sunday morning to start clearing the Biss Meadows Country Park of litter. In a two hour period we manage to collect approximately 40 sacks of rubbish from the park, from
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Sports editor at Trowbridge was a great community servant
I would like to place on record our grateful thanks to Mike Bristow, the former sports editor of the Wiltshire Times, for his tremendous contribution to sport in the West Wiltshire area over many years. Mike’s in-depth knowledge of soccer
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Village gardens to be opened to the public
Twelve private gardens in Seend near Melksham will be opened to the public in June to raise funds for the village church. Visitors will be able to look around a Suzhou-style Chinese garden, complete with two-storey pavilion, as well as a host of cottage
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'This sewerage saga stinks’, say Crockerton residents
RESIDENTS in a village near Warminster are shocked and angry after receiving a letter demanding they pay £7,000 each for repairs to the sewerage system. Selwood Housing announced on Tuesday it plans to invest £700,000 in its 25 rural sewerage
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Corsham Centre ready to pick up where they left off
DIVISION FOUR: Fourth division leaders Corsham Centre B who have been inactive for the past two Sunday return to action this weekend with what should be a guaranteed two points away at Chippenham West End. The Centre who are unbeaten in their 17 matches
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Golden couple celebrate milestone on a dream cruise
A Trowbridge couple who got together after literally falling into each others arms at a roller disco will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on a dream Caribbean cruise. Trevor and Pauline Mumford are enjoying a 24-day cruise but will celebrate
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WWI bomb discovered in Warminster
A LIVE First World War grenade was blown up by the Army after it was discovered near Warminster on Sunday. The Explosives Ordinance Disposal unit were called in on Monday morning to carry out a controlled explosion after the grenade was found in a field
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Pheasant desperate to cut the deficit
DIVISION TWO: FC Bradford may not be in action this weekend but Pete Collier’s side will remain top of the pile whatever the outcome of the rest of games in the division. Bradford currently have a three point lead over Pheasant FC and WG Parr Trophy finalists
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Three Crowns wary of potential banana skin
DIVISION THREE: Chippenham based The Three Crowns United are slowly closing in on the Division three title but when they travel to Green Lane, Devizes this weekend to face The Crown FC they will be guarding against a possible banana skin as their hosts
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Combe could be knocked off their perch
DIVISION ONE: With Division One leaders White Hart Combe playing in the final of the WG Parr Trophy this weekend, we could come Sunday afternoon have new pole sitters for the first time this season as both Bradford News and Cooper Avon will be hoping
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Cup final promises to be a classic
WG PARR TROPHY FINAL: This Sunday sees the 35th final of the WG Parr Trophy when first division pacesetters White Hart Combe and second division high flyers AFC Melksham lock horns at Corsham Town’s Southbank ground as the battle it out to lift this season
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Dog & Fox ready to put the pressure on leaders
PREMIER DIVISON: With Robson Taylor, Chippenham League Premier division leaders Potterne without a game this weekend it will give the chasing pack the opportunity to close the gap on the villagers at the top of the table. Dog & Fox Ashley who were unable
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Cup final promises to be a classic
WG PARR TROPHY FINAL: This Sunday sees the 35th final of the WG Parr Trophy when first division pacesetters White Hart Combe and second division high flyers AFC Melksham lock horns at Corsham Town’s Southbank ground as the battle it out to lift this season
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Rugby player from Chippenham fights for life as two others suffer injuries
A 16-YEAR-OLD rugby player is fighting for his life in Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, while two other players have been hospitalised after being injured in matches in the past week. Jay Ryles-Jenkins, from Chippenham, collapsed after his Sheldon
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Holidays in Bradford on Avon still afloat despite firm’s woes
FOUR narrowboats have been seized from a hire firm in Bradford on Avon Marina which has replaced a company that went into liquidation last week. According to the assistant manager of Sally Narrowboats Ltd, in Trowbridge Road, their boats were
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New sport in Trowbridge put to test
MORE than 50 children from the Grove Primary School in Trowbridge got to try out a brand new sport at Wiltshire College’s Trowbridge campus last Friday. Youngsters in Year 5 tried their hand at Netby, a cross between netball and rugby devised
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Joseph James Christopher Deadman
Parents: Sarah Goody and Robert Deadman, of Southfield, Southwick. Born: 1.45pm, March 29. Weight: 9lb 12.5oz. SARAH Goody and Robert Deadman describe their newborn son Joseph as an ‘absolute gem’. The couple have three children from Mr Deadman
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The life of Mrs Helen Wilmott
WATERCOLOUR artist Helen Primrose Wilmott, who was known as Prim to her family and friends, died suddenly on March 10, aged 74, after several years of illness due to pulmonary sarcoidosis. Mrs Wilmott was born in Backwell near Bristol, growing up
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Frome Town 3, Street 0
Frome Town crowned a successful Southern League ground inspection in the morning with an excellent 3-0 victory in the evening over a committed Street side, in a match that was full of good football from both sides. With the AlderSmith Stadium now
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Putting down roots
RADIO presenter Phil Stocks, 34, was born in London and moved to Wiltshire three-and-a-half-years ago. He has been married to Lucy, who he describes as his best friend, for 18 months. The couple have lived in Great Cheverell, near Westbury, for a year
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Waiting For Godot
A ruinous post-apocalyptic scene, snow on the ground and the remains of an old theatre where one leafless tree thrusts through the broken boards – such is the setting for this (appropriately) long-awaited production of Samuel Beckett’s play.
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Review: Look Back in Anger, Salisbury Playhouse
Bill Ward gives an explosive portrayal of Jimmy Porter, the original angry young man, in the Northern Stage touring production of John Osborne’s 1950’s drama Look Back in Anger, directed by Erica Whyman, at Salisbury Playhouse last week. Jimmy’s self-opinionated
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Review: Wessex Concert Orchestra and Lauren Reeve-Rawlings, St John’s Church, Devizes
CLASSICAL music is seen by too many as the dull grandfather of the musical spectrum, consisting of pieces known by numbers, not catchy titles, composed by long-dead musicians whose names we learned as historical facts at school and can’t imagine
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Preview: Noises Off, Merlin Theatre, Frome, April 22-25
THEY say that farce is the most difficult type of drama to do well but Frome Drama Club have thrown caution to the wind and chosen a farce about a farce for their spring production. Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, which has the reputation of being
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The life of Mr Jonathan Sims
JONATHAN Sims, who has died aged 25 after suffering from a brain tumour, was the son of Valerie and Philip Sims, of Balmoral Road, Trowbridge, and also leaves a younger brother Matthew. He was a pupil at Grove Primary School and became a Beaver
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The life of Mr Leslie Davis
Mr Leslie Davis FORMER serviceman Leslie Davis, who was always known as Les, died at his home in Corsham from heart failure on Monday, after suffering with a chest infection and low blood pressure. Mr Davis was born in Peckham, London, and
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Keeper drops cup final for cage fight
There will be one notable absentee when the Wiltshire Under 18 football team kick off their FA Youth Cup final against Dorset on Saturday as captain Kent Kauppinen prepares for a very different kind of battle – in a cage. As his teammates
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Double Winsley fencing success
Winsley fencing duo Sophie Williams and Philip Marsh are celebrating after picking up top honours at one of the largest events in Europe. Williams, 18, was named Champion-at-arms at the Public Schools Championship in Nottingham, a prize given for success
