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The 21-year-old, of Corn-brash Rise, Trowbridge, will be competing in the regional leg of the pageant, against 20 other women, at the regional round at the De Vere Village Hotel in Swindon on Sunday.

DIDCOT'S iconic cooling towers should live on as an adventure park and giant mural, according to a woman inspired by a redundant power plant in South Africa.

Shopper Alec Chant was flummoxed when his packet of crisps from a Sainsbury's Basics multipack contained nothing but air.

A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies.

The building was completely wrecked and was cordoned off with blue and white police tape across the front gate this morning.

Julie Bell was discovered at her home in Doswell Way, South View, Basingstoke, by her daughter Shona Bell on March 10 this year.

Oxford charity Pond Conservation has received initial support for a A 965,000 bid from the Heritage Lottery Fund .

JUST like everyone else, the owners of a new children's adventure park are hoping for a good summer this year.

NOVICE female cyclists who are put off by doing so by groups of men can take part in a series of women-only rides in Winchester .

A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime.

A TALENT show organiser who helped to launch the career of Stanford-le-Hope X Factor star Rylan Clark has been arrested on suspicion of rape.

A PETITION has been launched calling on borough council chiefs to rethink a plan to use nearly A 800,000 of taxpayers' money to buy a Costa Coffee restaurant at the Basingstoke Leisure Park.

Neighbour Madeleine Tosh became concerned she had not seen David Waring for several weeks, and alerted Wiltshire Police, who found his body at his home on Beech Avenue.

The estimated jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing has swelled to a record $600 million for the popular lottery game, but one official estimated Friday that if it goes unclaimed the prize would zoom to nearly $1 billion.

Body: The tot was discovered by officers after they received a fear for welfare call at around 10am on Thursday The mother of a 20-month-old baby found dead in a house in Bicester is believed to have fled to Kenya.

It was the first week of my first job, and one of my co-workers was showing me around the building.

Walter Brazil, 41, of Collyer Avenue, is due to appear in custody at Worthing Magistrates' Court today.

The Basildon branch of Cure the NHS teamed up with London-based legal firms Leigh Day and Field Fisher Waterhouse to hold a public meeting at The Place in Northlands Pavement, Pitsea , yesterday afternoon.

CONFIRMED : A second man has been arrested in relation to today's stabbings, and the suspect taken away in an ambulance with a police escort.

FURIOUS motorists have hit out at yet more road closures being planned for routes in and out of south Essex.