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Wiltshire | Archive | 2006 | November

Stories for 9 November 2006

Bradford News

Princess opens £2.2 hospice extension

IT was a proud but nervous moment for sisters Teuta and Aphra as they welcomed Princess Anne to Dorothy House earlier today. more...

Princess opens £2.2 hospice extension

IT was a proud but nervous moment for sisters Teuta and Aphra as they welcomed Princess Anne to Dorothy House earlier today. more...

Princess opens £2.2 hospice extension

IT was a proud but nervous moment for sisters Teuta and Aphra as they welcomed Princess Anne to Dorothy House earlier today. more...

Princess opens £2.4 hospice extension

IT was a proud but nervous moment for sisters Teuta and Aphra as they welcomed Princess Anne to Dorothy House earlier today. more...

Princess opens £2.4 hospice extension

IT was a proud but nervous moment for sisters Teuta and Aphra as they welcomed Princess Anne to Dorothy House earlier today. more...

Princess opens £2.4 hospice extension

IT was a proud but nervous moment for sisters Teuta and Aphra as they welcomed Princess Anne to Dorothy House earlier today. more...

Calne News

Youth centre wins a new lease of life

A YOUTH centre which was threatened with closure has been given a six month trial run under new management. more...

Conflict brought alive

YOUNGSTERS took a step into the past at Hilmarton Church Hall on Saturday when they visited an exhibition on the soldiers of the First World War. more...

Nursery set to move into school

JACK and Jill nursery in Calne is set to move to St Edmunds Roman Catholic School in January. more...

New crossing to open soon

WORK on a puffin crossing on Curzon Street in Calne is set to finish by the end of this week. more...

Racism row Tory remains defiant

CALNE town councillor Ellie Bland, who has been suspended from the Tory party for sending a racist email, made it business as usual on Tuesday evening. more...

Drugs man is given a driving ban

A REVELLER on his way to the Summer Solstice celebrations at Avebury has been banned for driving while unfit through drugs. more...

Chippenham News

Ram raiders strike

A DRAMATIC ram raid at a garage in Chippenham, that was like a scene from a Hollywood movie, has left owners with around £12,000 worth of damage. more...

Sending seven goats to Africa

SCHOOLCHILDREN at Langley Fitzurse Church of England Primary School dressed up as goats on Friday to raise money for charity. more...

Sending seven goats to Africa

SCHOOL CHILDREN at Langley Fitzurse Church of England Primary School dressed up as goats on Friday to raise money for charity. more...

Leisure crisis causes deficit

BAILING out ailing leisure centres has helped leave North Wiltshire District Council with a predicted £1.5 million hole in its finances. more...

Rugby star facing drink-drive charge

Bath Rugby star Alex Crockett will appear in court on a drink-driving charge next month. more...

Last glimpse of canal

BUILDERS redeveloping Chippenham bus station uncovered a part of the town's history that has now disappeared forever. more...

Missing man, 38, found

A DEPRESSED family man reported missing from his Chippenham home has been found safe and well, police confirmed this morning. more...

Competitions

Win VIP tickets to see Journey South

Journey South, who shot to fame by reaching the grand final of The X Factor, are coming to the Chicago Rock Cafe, Trowbridge on Thursday, November 30, and we are giving you the chance to meet them. more...

Win tickets for an evening with former boxer Alan Minter

On Saturday, December 2 Trowbridge is host to one of boxing's most infamous fighters. Hosted by The Coyote Bar in Church Street, in addition tothecomfortable surroundingsof Trowbridge's newest bar, you can come along and have a great night's entertainment. more...

Win tickets for an evening with former boxer Alan Minter

Win tickets to an evening with former boxer Alan Minter

On Saturday, December 2 Trowbridge is host to one of boxing's most infamous fighters. Hosted by The Coyote Bar in Church Street, in addition to the comfortable surroundingsof Trowbridge's newest bar, you can come along and have a great night's entertainment. more...

Win tickets to an evening with former boxer Alan Minter

On Saturday, December 2 Trowbridge is host to one of boxing's most infamous fighters. Hosted by The Coyote Bar in Church Street, in addition to the comfortable surroundingsof Trowbridge's newest bar, you can come along and have a great night's entertainment. more...

Win tickets to an evening with former boxer Alan Minter

On Saturday, December 2 Trowbridge is host to one of boxing's most infamous fighters. Hosted by The Coyote Bar in Church Street, in addition to the comfortable surroundingsof Trowbridge's newest bar, you can come along and have a great night's entertainment. more...

Devizes News

Mum’s bid to stop death toll on roads

THERE will always be a hole in Kim Heath's life following the death of her eldest son, Jason Rawlings. more...

Grant adds to festival’s sparkle

THIS year's Devizes Christmas Festival on November 24 will have even more entertainment than usual, thanks to a grant from a national housebuilding company. more...

Second drink driving ban

DEVIZES carpenter Anthony Matthews has been banned from driving for three years after he was convicted of his second drink-driving offence in three years. more...

Victory for the veterans

WAR veterans' protest have forced council bosses to move a continental market they discovered it had been booked where they are due to parade on Remembrance Sunday. more...

TV star’s wildlife plea

TV PRESENTER Chris Packham urged people to help create a landscape for wildlife in the countryside when he spoke at the annual meeting of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust in Devizes on Tuesday evening. more...

Help needed for CCTV

VOLUNTEERS are being sought to help set up and run Devizes' CCTV security camera system when it comes into operation next year. more...

Fury over hike in parking charges

TRADERS and councillors in Devizes have condemned a proposed 66 per cent rise in parking charges at the Station Road car park, two years after they were reduced to encourage people to use the park. more...

Concrete plant plan thrown out

RESIDENTS of Sandridge near Bromham have won their fight to stop a concrete batching plant being built. more...

Bearders to report on Ashes for Gazette

BBC cricket statistician Bill Frindall, who lives in Urchfont, near Devizes, will write a weekly column for the Gazette during England's Ashes tour in Australia. more...

£1,000 fine for eyesore garden

POTTERNE residents have welcomed the news that action is to be taken to tidy up an overgrown garden that has been unkempt for about ten years. more...

£1,000 fine for eyesore garden

POTTERNE residents have welcomed the news that action is to be taken to tidy up an overgrown garden that has been unkempt for about ten years. more...

Starring role

VETERAN TV presenter David Dimbleby was in Devizes this week filming material for an upcoming BBC series on the industrial archaeology of the UK. more...

Green home gives power back to Grid

A SCHEME to build an eco-friendly home which will actually put electricity back into the National Grid has been welcomed by Kennet councillors. more...

Police in dawn raid

DEVIZES police say they will continue to take a robust attitude towards the cultivation of cannabis plants after they raided a house in West Lavington yesterday morning. more...

Builder grew drug for gout

BUILDER Paul Whitbread grew cannabis plants in his garden shed to help dull the pain in his feet from gout, magistrates heard on Tuesday. more...

Princess visits hospice

The Princess Royal congratulated all concerned with the construction of two new wings at Dorothy House today when she visited the hospice service's HQ in Winsley. more...

March to save hospital

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save Devizes Hospital are urging supporters to join them on a protest march next Saturday. more...

Entertainments

Youngsters give uplifting performance

A PROGRAMME of English liturgical music appropriate to Remembrance was performed by the boy and girl choristers and lay vicars of the cathedral, under director of music David Halls. more...

Glistening play packed chock full of bitingly funny epigrams

SONGBIRDS twitter as the play opens on the terrace at Hunstanton Chase. Lady Hunstanton is hosting a society house party and the conversation on the terrace is not so different from that of the birds, sharp and witty idle gossip about characters, soon to be introduced to the audience. more...

City to get a taste of Tibetan culture

TIBETAN Buddhist culture visits Salisbury Arts Centre next weekend (November 17 and 18), featuring workshops, film screenings and performances by monks from the Tashi Lhunpo monastery in southern India. more...

City to get a taste of Tibetan culture

Gazette Football

Ridout plays down bust-up

NICK Ridout has played down rumours of a rift with Melksham Town manager Kelvin Highmore as he looks set to complete a move to Frome. more...

Ridout plays down bust-up

Frome-bound Nick Ridout has played down rumours of a rift with Melksham Town manager Kelvin Highmore. more...

Gazette General Sport

Rudman on track

Pewsey slider Shelley Rudman makes final preparations for the start of her World Cup campaign. more...

Rudman on track

Pewsey slider Shelley Rudman makes final preparations for the start of her World Cup campaign. more...

Victoria aiming high

VICTORIA Scipio is capping off her incredible year with a trip to Scotland with the county team. more...

New hoickey league

LAST weekend saw the beginning a new Mini Hockey league in Wiltshire. Run by Toby Brown, the start of the Badgers League is a new concept for hockey in the county. more...

New hockey league

LAST weekend saw the beginning a new Mini Hockey league in Wiltshire. more...

Chippenham Ladies Hockey

All the weekend reports from Chippenham Ladies more...

Gazette Rugby

Laclustre display by Devizes Colts

Devizes Colts fail to find first gear against Newbury in a friendly. more...

Laclustre display by Devizes Colts

Devizes Colts fail to find first gear against Newbury in a friendly. more...

Chippenham Juniors

All the weekend reports from the juniors of Allington Field. more...

Chippenham Juniors

All the weekend reports from the juniors of Allington Field. more...

Chippenham Juniors

All the weekend reports from the juniors of Allington Field. more...

Journal Features

The show still goes on

Mere Drama Society has notched up 60 years. Lesley Bates toasts its diamond jubilee. more...

Malmesbury News

Shock as popular school set to close

BURTON Hill School will close at the end of the academic year after charity chiefs admitted they can no onger afford to run it. more...

MP’s wife forced out after affair

Popular MP's wife Sarah Gray will be forced to leave her idyllic country home, following her abandonment by her husband, North Wiltshire MP James Gray. more...

Help revamp the park

A FINAL rallying call to support White Lion Park's lottery television vote next week is about to be issued to the people of Malmesbury. more...

Threat to business

A MALMESBURY entrepreneur who employs 30 people at his spectacles business in Crudwell Road is fighting to keep his company alive. more...

Marlborough News

Golden day celebration

GOLDEN wedding pair Brian and Sylvia Norris celebrated their anniversary on Friday with a family lunch party. more...

Driven out by the parking wardens

MARLBOROUGH's register office staff are refusing to work in the town because their cars have been ticketed by parking wardens. more...

Garage boss faces theft trial

Garage owner Zubair Dean has been committed for trial at Salisbury Crown Court charged with theft. more...

Waz in eviction danger

STUDENT Waz Ashayer faces a second nail biting wait to see if he is going to be kicked off the TV reality show Make Me a Supermodel. more...

Waz in eviction danger

STUDENT Waz Ashayer faces a second nail biting wait to see if he is going to be kicked off the TV reality show Make Me a Supermodel. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Supermarket pulls out

Budget-price supermarket Somerfield is to close its Marlborough store and the premises will reopen next spring as a Marks and Spencer food hall. more...

Lights team look ahead

Fundraising events are taking place for Marlborough's new Christmas lights. The new low voltage LED lights replace ageing illuminations that had reached the end of their life. more...

Warning of costly scams

POLICE and the Royal Mail are warning residents to be on guard for two scams currently in operation. more...

Melksham News

Woman injured in village crash

A WOMAN was injured after her Ford Ka was in collision with a Volkswagen Transporter van on the B3107 in Holt at just after 6.30am this morning. more...

Michelletompkins

Woolly hat is missing in action

STOP the press. Hold the front page. I've got a story that's guaranteed to make national headlines: BLACK HOLE FOUND BENEATH SWINDON SCHOOL: My clothes just vanish into thin air,' says pupil. more...

Woolly hat is missing in action

STOP the press. Hold the front page. I've got a story that's guaranteed to make national headlines: BLACK HOLE FOUND BENEATH SWINDON SCHOOL: My clothes just vanish into thin air,' says pupil. more...

New Forest News

Police hurt in Halloween scuffle

POLICE in Verwood are stepping up their battle against late-night troublemakers after a youth assaulted a police officer causing facial injuries on Halloween night. more...

Salisbury Business News

Graham cultivates a new role as budding gardener

INSTEAD of helping his clients grow their businesses, Graham Tate will now be growing exotic fruits and flowers, after his retirement from Moore Stephens chartered accountants in Salisbury. more...

Economic recovery is powered by greater consumer spending

THE forecast for 2007 looks bright, despite the likelihood of an increase in interest rates. more...

FSB campaigns against 'going back to bad old days'

THE Federation of Small Businesses is campaigning against proposals to restore local authority control over business rates. more...

Salisbury Children'S Page

Countdown to Christmastime

Welcome Gang members new and old to your very own page. more...

Salisbury City Fc News

Why Tubbs is gunning for a City win

PERSONAL pride, respect for the magic of the FA Cup and love of club and colleagues are reason enough for Matt Tubbs to run out onto the hallowed turf of the Ray Mac on Saturday, ready to give his all for the team. more...

Why Tubbs is gunning for a City win

Journal preview

TODAY'S Salisbury Journal includes a special four-page colour pull-out previewing Saturday's FA Cup 1st round tie between Salisbury City and Fleetwood Town. more...

Holmes' cup record really rocks!

NICK Holmes boasts a remarkable record in the FA Cup as a player, but these days he is more than holding his own in the competition as a manager. more...

Holmes' cup record really rocks! (Full version)

NICK Holmes boasts a remarkable record in the FA Cup as a player, but these days he is more than holding his own in the competition as a manager. more...

History in the making?

SALISBURY City players have a perfect opportunity on Saturday to write themselves into the club's history books. more...

History in the making?

SALISBURY City players have a perfect opportunity on Saturday to write themselves into the club's history books. more...

T-shirts on sale

A NUMBER of Salisbury City FA Cup first round commemorative t-shirts are currently on sale at the club shop. more...

Six are up for the cup

A TOTAL of six Nationwide Conference South clubs are bidding for FA Cup glory this weekend. more...

Six are up for the cup

A TOTAL of six Nationwide Conference South clubs are bidding for FA Cup glory this weekend. more...

Bookies favour the Whites to win

SALISBURY City are 8/13 favourites to win Saturday's FA Cup first round tie with Fleetwood Town, according to the city-based Independent Bookmakers. more...

Bookies favour the Whites to win

SALISBURY City are 8/13 favourites to win Saturday's FA Cup first round tie with Fleetwood Town, according to the city-based Independent Bookmakers. more...

Good luck messages

ANYONE wishing to send a good luck message to the club, for teh attention of Nick Holmes and/or the Salisbury City players via the official site ahead of Saturday's FA Cup tie, can do so by emailing mike.turner@salisburyjournal.co.uk before 10am on Saturday. more...

Good luck messages

ANYONE wishing to send a good luck message to the club, for the attention of Nick Holmes and/or the Salisbury City players via the official site ahead of Saturday's FA Cup tie, can do so by emailing mike.turner@salisburyjournal.co.uk before 10am on Saturday. more...

Good luck messages

Salisbury News

Staff feel pain of council cuts

A LEAKED memo has revealed Salisbury District Council is considering cutting overtime for staff in a bid to make up a £1.5m shortfall. more...

Plucky couple jump for joy - in their seventies

A BRAVE couple in their 70s took part in a parachute jump won in a raffle. more...

Survey brands stones 'a mess'

THE bid to make Stonehenge one of the new seven wonders of the world was dealt a blow this week when the site was slammed in a world-wide survey of tourist attractions. more...

Salisbury Rural Focus

Air cadets grounded to go green

AIR Training Corp cadets serving with the 1010 (City of Salisbury) Squadron switched their interest in the skies to the ground when they carried out a conservation project in Laverstock. more...

Stfc Headlines

‘I’m not bitter’

SWINDON TOWN: TWO defeats out of two have not crushed Ady Williams' ambition of a future career in football management. more...

Sturrock says job is ‘difficult’ but ‘achievable’

SWINDON TOWN: PAUL Sturrock believes the quality of team and player in Coca-Cola League Two makes his job of taking Town up harder than the one he faced when manager at Plymouth Argyle, writes Owen Houlihan. more...

Sturrock will be backed all the way

SWINDON TOWN: TOWN have vowed to pull out all the stops to ensure Paul Sturrock has the best possible chance of emulating the two-division rises of both his former club Plymouth and, more recently, Southend. more...

Paul’s first job is to plot FA Cup joy

SWINDON TOWN: HE has been handed the job of plotting Town's course up the Football League ladder - but Paul Sturrock's more immediate task is ending both his and his new club's FA Cup woe on Saturday, writes Owen Houlihan. more...

White: Sturrock is right choice

SWINDON TOWN: STEVE White admits the best man won the race for the managerial post at the County Ground. more...

'Nasty taste' for Lee

SWINDON TOWN: SHOCKED youth coach David Lee has slammed Swindon Town for the way the club parted company with him following Paul Sturrock's arrival at the County Ground. more...

Swindon Letters

Facts stack up for creation

RESPONDING to Victor Chamberlain's letter (SA, October 28), the fact is the theory of evolution is exactly that, a theory. more...

Facts stack up for creation

RESPONDING to Victor Chamberlain's letter (SA, October 28), the fact is the theory of evolution is exactly that, a theory. more...

Facts stack up for creation

RESPONDING to Victor Chamberlain's letter (SA, October 28), the fact is the theory of evolution is exactly that, a theory. more...

Youngsters should not be subjected to this

WHEN will Commonweal School wake up and admit it's having major problems within the school? When a child dies? more...

Put Bassett bus service high on priority list

THE letter from Ian Manning, the managing director for Stagecoach West, suggests an improvement to the 54 service which covers Wootton Bassett. more...

Atheists are much the poorer for their belief

I HAVE been reading the correspondence on whether chimps are near-human (SA, October 21). more...

Embarrassed by Billie’s treatment

I AM disgusted yet again at the Adver for having a go at Billie, especially as you also pointed out that Ms Piper stayed two hours longer than she was supposed to. more...

New tax will hit lifestyles

OVER recent months, there have been several discussions about the council tax and how it is applied. more...

Cane do better

A girl of five has been permanently excluded from a Manchester school. She was excluded for violence against teachers and fellow pupils. more...

Bring law down on the hunt

REGARDING the article My sick horse upset by hunt' (SA, November 3). more...

What sort of climate are the scientists creating?

HAVE we all become strictly conforming, non-thinking, nonentities who are incapable of rational thought? more...

Please say no to this database state

ARE you waking up to the surveillance society? Recent media coverage reveals just the tip of the iceberg; the database state that threatens us all. more...

Magic on offer at info centre

WHILE reading the Advertiser an item concerning the Magic Roundabout caught my eye. more...

What value education?

I WRITE in response to Bill Goward's letter regarding Lower Shaw Farm giving a poor rate of return (SA, November 3). more...

A local treasure

I WAS delighted that Shirley Mathias has discovered Jean Morley our local' author (SA, October 31). more...

Bus time trial

HOW can Thamesdown and Stagecoach say that 9am to 9.30am are peak hours for workers to travel? more...

Bus time trial

HOW can Thamesdown and Stagecoach say that 9am to 9.30am are peak hours for workers to travel? more...

Bus time trial

HOW can Thamesdown and Stagecoach say that 9am to 9.30am are peak hours for workers to travel? more...

Bus time trial

HOW can Thamesdown and Stagecoach say that 9am to 9.30am are peak hours for workers to travel? more...

Let's stop this traffic insanity

I WROTE a few days back pointing out the horrendous traffic jam of the future that will occur at the bottom of Croft hill. more...

Let's stop this traffic insanity

I WROTE a few days back pointing out the horrendous traffic jam of the future that will occur at the bottom of Croft hill. more...

Act now or Big Brother will be watching us all

ARE your readers waking up to the surveillance society? more...

An unhealthy prejudice against the NHS?

I RECENTLY phoned at 11am for a non-urgent appointment with my doctor and was offered one the following afternoon. more...

Experiment on criminals and hang them

MAY I suggest a simple solution to some of today's problems regarding overcrowded prisons and animal experiments? more...