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  • Wood is a golden winner

    ANGLING: THE Saturday open match at Viaduct Fishery produced good fishing. Stuart Wood, of Viaduct, drew the golden peg worth £170 and duly went on to take top spot with a carp catch weighing 117lb 2oz, taken on long pole-fished pellets. Mash Mashedar

  • SFTW: The Avon Gorge and Downs Wildlife Project

    BIRDS, bats, fungi or trees, there is something about the outdoors to interest everyone this autumn. The Avon Gorge and Downs Wildlife Project is holding a series of events throughout the cooler months from children's art and folklore investigations

  • Step Up (PG)

    Everyone deserves a chance to follow their dreams, but some people only get one shot. Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) is a rebel from the wrong side of the tracks. Nora (Jenna Dewan) is a privileged ballet dancer and the only thing standing in the way of

  • Borat (15)

    Kazakhstani TV personality Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) is dispatched to the United States to report on the "greatest country in the world." With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than on his

  • Little Children (15)

    Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Field teams up with novelist Tom Perrotta to adapt Perotta's acclaimed novel concerning the suburban malaise experienced by a handful of small town individuals whose lives converge in a variety of surprising, and sometimes

  • A night at the opera will appeal to all

    Opera in the House, Sunday, December 3, Assembly Rooms, Bath. Find yourself transported back to a bygone era when Candlelight Opera perform at the Assembly Rooms in Bath next month. This talented company are working in association with organisations

  • Club stages hilarious hospital farce

    It Runs In The Family, Thursday, November 9 until Saturday, November 11, Merlin Theatre, Frome. The ever-popular Frome Drama Club will have audiences rolling in the aisles with their performance of It Runs In The Family, Ray Clooney's hilarious hospital

  • Magical musical

    Oliver!, Tuesday, November 7 until Saturday, November 11, Bristol Hippodrome. For one week only, Bristol Light Opera Club (BLOC) will be bringing the smash-hit show Oliver! to the Bristol Hippodrome in spectacular fashion. Be prepared to fall under

  • Haunting wartime drama

    Outlying Islands, Wednesday, November 8 until Saturday, December 2, Ustinov Theatre, Bath. Following the huge success of last year's first Ustinov production of The Blue Room, the Ustinov is once again closing the autumn season with its own production

  • Colour, drama and spectacle

    Carousel, Tuesday, November 7 until Saturday, November 11, Theatre Royal Bath. BATH Light Operatic Group celebrates 50 years of performing at the Theatre Royal Bath with Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, Carousel next week. Filled with all the

  • School plans to go on public show

    PEOPLE in Melksham will be given the chance to comment on plans to build a new multi-million pound secondary school in the town. Three exhibitions are being held, starting later this month, where initial plans for the new school will go on show so local

  • Chippenham facing biggest ever test

    CHIPPENHAM will be playing the biggest game in the club's history when they entertain Bridgwater and Albion in the second round of the EDF National Trophy on November 18. That's the view of the club's head coach Rob Alford, who saw his team cruise

  • Trowbridge home in Vase tie

    TROWBRIDGE have been drawn at home to Witney in the third round of the EDF Energy Senior Vase. Wootton Bassett will be at home to North Bristol. In the third round of the EDF Energy Junior Vase Pewsey Vale have been drawn at home to Thatcham and

  • Hercules crew in life-saving mission

    A HERCULES aircraft from RAF Lyneham in north Wiltshire was involved in a rescue mission to save the life of a newborn baby in Wales on Thursday. The crew's mission was to fly to Glasgow to collect emergency equipment to treat the child and then deliver

  • Great news for Somerford

    THE Wiltshire Times and Chippenham News-sponsored Team of the Week award for October 29th, 2006, has been awarded to Third Division side Somerford FC. Although there were a number of good results for teams from most divisions, this week the top honours

  • New lease of life for skatepark plan

    SKATEBOARDERS could soon have long-awaited state-of-the art new facilities in Trowbridge. A planning application for nine ramps and other structures in Stallards Park has been submitted to West Wiltshire District Council. People living nearby have objected

  • Local campaigners to join climate rally

    CAMPAIGNERS from Bradford on Avon will be heading for London on Saturday to take part in the Stop Climate Chaos rally. Concerned campaigners, including members of the recently formed Climate Friendly Bradford Group, will be joining a rally at the US