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She admits she once couldn't run for a bus, but now Jenny Dalton from Seend has kicked her smoking habit and is pounding the streets.

Lisa Hearn, Christine Faulkner and Michelle Perry with Year 3 and 4 pupils with plants donated by Sainsbury's Picture: Paul Morris Sainsbury's has donated plants to Frogwell School in Chippenham to give a boost to a gardening club it helped to set up two years ago.

Corporal Dobroczynski, who served with the 2 Rifles battalion in Iraq and Afghanistan, died of cancer on May 5, at Dorothy House Hospice in Winsley.

PLANS to build another mega shed on Andover's former airfield look set to be given the go-ahead by planning chiefs.

TRAINS are now running again between Didcot Parkway and Swindon, after a person was hit by a train in Wiltshire earlier this evening.

Trowbridge Prince's Trust team will be hosting a coffee morning at Court Mills Youth Development Centre between 10.30am and 12.30pm on Friday, May 31.

The Three Crowns in Chippenham has been selected by the Northwest Wiltshire branch of Camra as its 2013 Pub of the Year.

First, she'll be attending a charity event in aid of Wiltshire Air Ambulance and Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust at Corsham's Middlewick House, her former home, and then she'll be visiting a Big Lunch event running at The Mead Community Primary School in Trowbridge.

The Wiltshire Islamic Cultural Centre , Trowbridge Mosque, Salisbury Mosque, Melksham Mosque have today issued a statement on behalf of the whole Muslim community in Wiltshire condemning the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday.

Campaigners display information to drum up support for the re-opening of Corsham Railway Station in 2009, one of ten projects now shortlisted for funding Wiltshire Council has selected the A350 in Chippenham and projects in West Wiltshire to be put on a shortlist for Government funding.

Penny England, who carried out the family research, and metal detectorist Roger Vanstone unite Jane Giles, centre, with her father's Territorial Army medal at the Bell Inn last week The family of a Seend Cleeve resident who suffered as a Japanese prisoner during the Second World War has thanked the metal detectorist who found his long-lost medal.

Baronet Sir Charles McLeod, who became a well-known and well-loved character in the Malmesbury area, has died at the age of 88.

The inquest into the death of 68-year-old Chippenham resident Sandra Wiltshire, who suffered a cardiac arrest after being trampled by cows, will take place in Salisbury on June 18.

The former Asda worker, who is releasing his debut album on July 22, is performing at the Best of Swindon gig, which also features other artists from the town.

Campaigners, back row from left, Sylvia Clegg of Age Concern, Ed Deedigan and Coun Melody Thompson with, front, Lynne Brook from the GreenSquare disability steering group and Sue Simmons, of the GreenSquare disability forum Residents who rescued a disabled woman thrown from her wheelchair after it hit a pothole want Wiltshire Council to patch up ... (more)

A peace campaigner in Winsley is celebrating the agreement of a historic treaty, after 30 years arguing for global arms control.

SHOPPERS have identified Wharf Green and Canal Walk as their preferred locations for a new town centre market - but traders are keen to have it reinstated in Havelock Square.

The crew had been sent to Ludgershall Fire Station to provide cover as the Ludgershall engine was helping at a major fire in Weyhill, Hampshire, on Sunday night.

A Trowbridge woman pleaded guilty to making a false claim for council tax benefit when she appeared at North West Wiltshire Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

Lucy Whitfield, Ann Blake, Sue Stearn, Bob Berry, Sue Wilthew, Melissa Barnett and Anne Alderman rehearse for Strictly Come Clogging It will be hankies at dawn as five novice Morris dancers shake their best ribboned stick as part of the 42nd Chippenham Folk Festival when it takes over the town for the Bank Holiday weekend starting tomorrow.