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  • Vehicle fire on A303 near Solstice Park

    FIREFIGHTERS have dealt with a vehicle fire on the A303 near Solstice Park this evening.  Highways England says the road is now open as normal.  Traffic travelling westbound was being diverted via slip roads at Solstice Park. A fire crew

  • OPINION: Farce at the Playhouse, farce in Westminster

    FARCE is a very useful and adaptable word. It can mean a comic play, full of saucy shenanigans and ludicrously improbable situations. Or, in its wider sense, it can be applied to any situation that’s absurd or shambolic. Hmmm … A brilliant

  • Woman fined for abandoning vehicle in town

    A TIDWORTH woman has been fined for abandoning her SUV in a Wiltshire town. Wiltshire Council says the vehicle, a Honda CRV, had no tax, no MOT and the owner failed to comply with the removal notice issued on the vehicle by environmental enforcement

  • Pavement parking ban - we want to see the worst in Wiltshire!

    A BLANKET ban on the "blight" of car parking on pavements could now be introduced. MPs on the transport committee criticised Government inaction in a new report, with witnesses telling the committee's inquiry that the worst case of pavement parking

  • WEEKEND BBQ? Sunshine and high temperatures on the way

    THIS weekend could be a September scorcher as temperatures are forecast to rise above 20 degrees with plenty of clear skies and sunshine. The latest update from the Met Office shows that we can expect highs of 24°C on Sunday after the mercury slowly

  • Elderly man killed in crash

    AN ELDERLY driver has been killed in a car crash in Wiltshire. At around 5.10pm yesterday, a silver Kia Rio and a black Ford Ranger collided on the A361 at Beckhampton. The 83-year-old male driver of the Kia sustained serious injuries and died

  • REVIEW: Feeling the VERVE at first wellness festival

    A FESTIVAL entirely dedicated to health and wellbeing took place in the Chalke Valley at the weekend. The inaugural VERVE wellness festival fused together nature, fitness and the great outdoors in the beautiful surroundings of Church Bottom, Broad