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Chippenham's dry festival ‘will be a showstopper’
FIRST the live music was pulled and now the sale of alcohol has been axed from the first Chippenham River Festival. Organiser John Clark has admitted that no alcohol will be sold at the festival but that people can bring their own drinks with picnics
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Marlborough's Dear Prime Minister campaign
A campaign to recruit 100 people to write to Gordon Brown has been launched by Marlborough Climate Pledge Group. It wants the Prime Minister to receive a letter a day for 100 days from a Marlborough resident, to highlight the Copenhagen climate
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Picnic in the park launches Devizes Carnival
The family-friendly Picnic in the Park gets Devizes Carnival fortnight under way at Hillworth Park today. The picnic has grown in popularity since it was launched nine years ago. Admission is free and children can take part in a circus skills
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Chippenham road men’s kindly cook reaches 100
Sprightly Amy Morgan who reached her centenary yesterday recalls her pride at officially opening Avenue La Fleche in the 1990s. Mrs Morgan, of Westmead Lane, used to take the workmen building the new road Welsh cakes and tea so when it came to the duty
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Chippenham soldier’s girl strips for charity
Daring Faye Hanner has posed for a saucy calendar to raise money for a forces’ charity after her fiance served in Afghanistan. Ms Hanner, 22, of Flowers Yard, Chippenham, stripped for the shoot inspired by the film Calendar Girls. Instead
