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CALOR LEAGUE SOUTHERN PREMIER DIVISION: Bedford Town 0 Frome Town 2
A GOAL in each half enabled Frome Town to climb into a comfortable 14th place in the league, while the 2-0 away victory consigned Bedford Town to relegation from the Southern Premier League. Frome’s squad for this game was missing Tim Stephenson
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CHIPPENHAM & DISTRICT SUNDAY LEAGUE KNOCKOUT CUP: Thomson fires Corsham into final
FOLLOWING the withdrawal of Biddestone Social earlier in the week, Premier Division winners Castle FC were guaranteed their place in the final of this seasons Eric Hughes Memorial Knockout Cup. But they had to wait until Sunday afternoon to find
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Villages will grow
At the recent Trowbridge Area Board, we were presented with a written report from the Wiltshire Council spatial planners regarding the preliminary findings of the Planning Inspector of the Core Strategy. Amazingly nearly 25 per cent of the report referred
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Drivers take care
It is nice to see that the council is at last fixing the Wingfield Road potholes. All it needs to do now is put the yellow lines in the right places, such as from the Widbrook surgery and old peoples home entrance looking to the left going past the
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We need HCZ now
As a business owner in Bradford on Avon I feel it is imperative that the Historic Core Zone is implemented, and implemented soon. This is a significant investment that can only benefit the town’s residents, visitors and businesses. I understand the
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Thanks for prayers
On behalf of Trowbridge Women’s World Day of Prayer, I would like to thank the ladies who organised our successful events on March 7 and the many other people who supported us. Trowbridge raised £524.14 for WWDP and other Christian projects, and 136
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An Easter memory
At the outbreak of war in 1939, my dear father was in the local North Staffs Territorials and was sent down for training on Salisbury Plain, before embarcation for the continent. He came home around Dunkirk time, I believe, health shattered, but survived
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Thanks to shoppers
I would like to thank the people of Westbury for raising £67.35 during my street collection on Saturday, March 15, in aid of The Brooke Hospital For Animals, a charity helping to improve the quality of life of working animals in some of the world’s
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Help the hungry
Without the help of the Melksham Food Bank, hardworking families in the Melksham area may have gone without food until the next payday. I can’t praise them enough. It may come as a surprise to many people that it’s not only those on benefits that
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Mayor says thanks
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to everyone in Trowbridge who supported the Civic Dinner and Dance on March 15, and helped raise money and awareness for my charities, Wiltshire Revival – RASAC and Storehouse Foodbank. It was an incredible
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What about the blind
As one of the people who put forward the petition to Keep the Zebra crossing in the Historic Core Zone, I must answer some of the points made by Gerald Milward-Oliver in last week’s Wiltshire Times. In showing people the petition, I made clear
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Is it solar or floods?
I agree absolutely with Mrs Anne Ewing (Letters, Wiltshire Times, March 14) that energy efficiency is extremely important but if we are to avert catastrophic climate change, it is not an either/or, energy efficiency versus renewable energy, situation
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Act now on health
It is getting on for seven years since Trowbridge Hospital closed. When this happened the local health authorities promised a state-of-the-art Primary Care Centre as a replacement. As the prospect of this gradually retreated, Trowbridge people were
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Why we are striking
The National Union of Teachers has called a one-day national strike for Wednesday, March 26, as part of the campaign to protect pay, pensions and to ensure a workload that means your children receive the best possible teaching. The changes the
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Funds helping to raise roof for Trowbridge church hall
Repairs to the roof of St John’s Church Hall in Trowbridge start on Monday, March 31. The roof has been leaking since January and the work will cost £30,000. Churchgoers are fundraising to help pay for it. Canon Christopher Brown, 69, who served
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Trowbridge Guides go wild for big milestone
More than 80 members and friends of Girlguiding Trowbridge Rural District joined together at Brokerswood Country Park near Westbury to celebrate Thinking Day and the 100 years of the formation of the Brownies. The weather was fine, but wellies
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All dressed up for book day at Westbury Leigh
Children and staff at Westbury Leigh Primary dressed up as their favourite book characters for World Book Day on March 6. Costumes included SpongeBob Square Pants, Horrid Henry and Harry Potter. Staff dressed up as Little Miss and Mr Men characters
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Pupils show off dance moves at Wiltshire festival
Pupils from schools across Wiltshire showed their moves at the annual West Wiltshire Dance Festival at The Bath Forum at the end of February. The festival, one of the biggest yet, saw children performing four-minute dance routines. Among the
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A trolley load of help is collected at Bradford on Avon in ten weeks
Bath Food Bank has thanked customers at Sainsbury’s Bradford on Avon for donating 245kg of food in 10 weeks to help people in crisis. The bank has a trolley behind the tills for donated items bought in the store. Tricia and Rob Munday been volunteers
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Alison Phillips - High time for change over parking charges
On a whistlestop trip to Worcester I was reminded all over again how ridiculous the car parking charges levied by the council in Wiltshire’s county town are. I pulled into the nearest city centre car park to my destination and got out, cursing
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Good Health ... with Dr Stu - As much use as fairy dust
Gyms are strange places. Within one room you find a cross section of society – rich, poor, young and old – getting sweaty and breathless together. There’s lots of reasons why we would choose to clamber aboard a cycling/jogging/gyrating machine
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Will Guyatt, Gadget Guy - Don’t get caught in the criminals’ Web
The fantastic story of a 20-something Bristolian who decided to get his own back on an internet fraudster by sending them the entire works of William Shakespeare across almost 30,000 text messages caught my attention this week for several reasons.
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RUGBY: Ford display delights Hatley
NEAL Hatley was full of praise for George Ford after the 21-year-old England fly-half produced an outstanding performance in Bath's 44-23 victory over London Irish at the Madejski Stadium. Ford kicked 24 points on his return from England duty and
