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Golf: Basset Down prepares for big switch-on
AFTER a painstaking four-year wait for approval, Basset Down Golf Course will officially turn on its brand new floodlighting system on its driving range next Wednesday (September 9), writes SAM MORSHEAD. The lights, which employ a 'Berm
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Football: Gullick dreaming of World Cup call
BLUEBIRDS utility man Luke Gullick is dreaming of playing in the 2010 World Cup as he prepares to fly out for a trial with Trinidad and Tobago. The 22-year-old jets off to the West Indies on Tuesday and will be out there for four weeks as he
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Athletics: Marlborough to hold club championships on Sunday
Marlborough & District Junior Athletics Club (MADJA) have just completed a highly successful season with a 3rd place finish in the 18 club Wessex League, and a 4th place finish in the 16 club National Young Athletes League. Wessex League includes big
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Gaiger says title win is just the beginning
POTTERNE captain Graham Gaiger believes the club is on the verge of big things after securing promotion from the Wiltshire Division. The club clinched the title with victory at Westing-house on Saturday after a season-long battle against Marlborough
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Adie Mings: Home games are going to get harder
AFTER the Leamington game on Saturday I was disappointed as I felt it was a game we should have won. We made mistakes defensively but looked very good going forward and, especially at 4-3 up, we should have gone on to get all three points. Having
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Football: Captain Adams looking to put down a marker
BLUEBIRDS captain Ross Adams says Saturday’s game against Cambridge will be their toughest of the season so far and a test of how far the side has come. Chippenham have enjoyed a fine start to the season having picked up 14 points from a possible 18
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Football: Familiar face denies Highmore a first win
A LATE strike from former Calne Town striker Gary Banks denied his old club three points on Tuesday night, just days after a disappointing exit from the FA Cup. The Lilywhites conceded an early goal against Shrivenham on Saturday but had the better
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Football: Thorne refuses to hear excuses
MELKSHAM boss Wayne Thorne’s mood went from delight to despair on Monday as his side threw away a lead at home to reigning league champions Bitton. David Thompson’s first half goal put the Conigre club in front and was reward for a fine spell of play
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Triathlon: Milstead secures Malmesbury win
CHIPPENHAM’S Mike Milstead clinched victory in the seventh Malmesbury Triathlon, in which more than 350 competitors took part. Milstead’s strong bike section – he completed the 22 kilometres to Luckington and back in 35 minutes – gave him a 15-second
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Football: Defensive déjà vu for frustrated boss
FRUSTRATED Corsham boss Mel Gingell watched his side throw away another lead on Saturday and said they are not getting the rub of the green at the moment. The Southbank side have taken the lead in three of their four league games this season, all at
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Football: Regan tells players to have faith
MALMESBURY boss Ken Regan has urged his players to show greater belief in their ability after a successful week in which the club took four points from two games. The Vics came from behind on Tuesday evening to defeat rivals Highworth Town with two
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Cricket: Khan reaches wickets landmark
PACE ace Naeem Khan picked up his 50th wicket of the season on Saturday as his five-for inspired Biddestone to a final day victory. Having been asked to field first, the opening bowler was typically accurate from ball one and finished with figures
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Opening the batting will be an exciting challenge
IT HAS not been a great week for the club and that was capped off by us getting a hammering on Monday at Worcester. We made 220 from our 40 overs which was not a bad score for the wicket but we just didn’t bowl well enough. Worcester have got a
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Cricket: Silk stays positive after promotion bid falters
CHIPPENHAM captain Steve Silk congratulated his players on a fantastic season despite their poor recent form ending hopes of successive promotions. The Bristol Road club were in pole position to go up with three games to go as they sat in second place
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Rugby: Coach Martens excited by season ahead
CHIPPENHAM Rugby coach Hentie Martens says the upcoming season is about laying the foundations from which they can successfully build on in future season. In their first campaign in South West One, the club finished bottom of the table but avoided
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Cooper roars to Combe’s Saloon Car championship
Castle Combe Racing Club crowned its first champions of the year on Bank Holiday Monday when Jason Cooper took the circuit’s Saloon Car championship and Ben Norton the Formula Ford at the A Plant Lux Sportscar Raceday. Yatton Keynell’s Cooper, 21,
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Free blood pressure checks in Wiltshire
St John Ambulance in Devizes is offering free blood pressure checks after research discovered that one in three people in the UK suffer from high blood pressure. The Wiltshire St John Ambulance HQ at Hopton Park industrial estate in Devizes is among
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Calne boxing club ready for first round
Calne Amateur Boxing Club will be officially opened next week, town mayor Howard Marshall has confirmed. The first training session will be from 6pm to 9pm on Thursday at the Beversbrook sports facility. Mr Marshall said: “I am really pleased that everything
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Calne baby chillout in big demand
A baby chillout group in Calne has been so successful, it is expanding to cope with demand. The pilot project was launched by Calne Children’s Centre, managed by children’s charity Barnardo’s South West in its new sensory room. The aim is to help children
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Devizes museum lands £150,000 windfall
Wiltshire Heritage Museum has been awarded a grant of £150,000 towards a new Bronze Age gallery which will house material excavated from Stonehenge. The Devizes museum needs to raise £500,000 and plans to have the new gallery open by 2012 to link in
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Why it's happy ever rafter in Cherill
Scores of competitors tried their best to get wet in the annual Cherhill raft and duck race on Sunday. Most of the village turned out to the races, in which brave rafters took to the pond in Middle Lane in home-made craft in a race to be the first across
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Some like it hot at Marlborough pub's chilli challenge
Sweat ran down foreheads and eyes bulged as pub customers chewed some of the world’s hottest chillis on Saturday. Chef Carl Games cooked up three huge pans of chilli, each progressively hotter, for contestants in the annual Chilli-Off organised by David
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Chippenham pals complete their Euro dash
Exhausted pals Liza Brooks and Dale Knaggs have just completed the gruelling challenge of visiting 35 countries in 28 days all in the name of charity. Miss Brooks, a 25-year-old student of St Peter’s Cottages, Kington Langley, decided to visit every
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Worton and Marston gardeners show results of labours
Gardeners showed off the results of their hard work at the Worton and Marston flower show on Saturday. The annual show attracted 410 entries, slightly down on last year’s record of 440. John Vint, one of the organising committee, said: “The judges were
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Memories of Marlborough come flooding back
Probably the oldest visitor to the Crofton Pumping Station on the Kennet and Avon Canal over the bank holiday weekend was 98-year-old Ethel Giles. Her father William Giles was the last engine house manager in the days when the pumping station provided
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Cup thief put Pewsey Vale race at risk
More than 360 runners in the Pewsey Vale half marathon on Sunday were nearly left high and dry when 400 plastic cups were stolen from their half way drink station in Beechingstoke. The running club believes someone in or near Beechingstoke is targeting
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Cooper Avon crowned Champions of Melksham
This eagerly anticipated "friendly" between premier division Cooper Avon and FC Jager from division three lived up to the hype and expectations. The visitors - FC Jager made the most of the opportunity to play at the home of football. The players
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Devizes skate park hunt goes to area board
The problem of finding a location for a skateboard park has been handed to the Area Board to solve by Devizes Town Council. The council has trawled the town since it was forced to remove equipment in Hillworth Park seven years ago. It received a petition
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Stroll among art at Urchfont
Eight of the 20 artists exhibiting at this year’s Celebrating Art in the Garden exhibition at Urchfont Manor College have their studios in Wiltshire. New graduates will join more established artists in an exhibition that will see more than 75 pieces
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Brothers tell of Devizes crop circle arrest ordeal
Former firearms police officer Sid Wilson has spoken of his relief that his brother, Kenneth, has been cleared of any wrong doing after being arrested for allegedly shooting at two women visiting a crop circle near Devizes. Mr Wilson, who lives in Little
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Devizes children learn to box clever
Youngsters from Devizes stepped into the ring to try boxing. Sarsen Housing Association teamed up with the ABC Boxing Club in Trowbridge to give youngsters aged nine to 15 a taste of the sport on a four week intensive course. The youngsters
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Musical picnic in Patney a notable success
Businessman Bruce Hopkins has presented £1,100 to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance appeal following a successful concert in his home village of Patney. Mr Hopkins, director of Devizes Fine Kitchens, organised a singing concert in July called Picnic at Patney
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CSL cup competition previews
Last seasons reebrooks print media sponsored Eric Hughes Memorial Knockout Cup winners Corsham Centre should once again do well but with the Centre concentrating more on regaining the Wiltshire Sunday Cup they may make an early exit from this seasons
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Tall order for Devizes museum
Visitors to Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes had a hands on role when they joined Stonehenge expert Julian Richards in building a model of the ancient monument. A total of 160 visitors of all ages helped Mr Richards construct a trilithon in the car
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CSL Premier Division season preview
It is hoped that when the league kicks off this season that glorious sunshine will greet the clubs unlike last season when the opening few months of the campaign was blighted by appalling weather conditions that saw many game postponed due to waterlogged
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Beckhampton couple find route back to health
A Beckhampton couple involved in a kidney swap operation last year have praised the Devizes gym where they have been recovering their fitness. Chris Burgin donated a kidney to his wife Janet Surr in July last year and staff at Route 2 Fitness
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CSL Division Two season preview
Three Crowns United, Bradford Renegades (formerly Three Horseshoe Renegades), and Bromham (Sunday) were all promoted to Division Two, from the third division, North Star A dropped down from division one and with AFC Bell, AFC Melksham, Audley FC, Biddestone
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CSL Division One season preview
The race for silverware in Division One promises to be another gripping one with both of the newly promoted teams in with a realistic chance of claiming promotion to the premiership. Chippenham based Pheasant FC will be confident that they can do well
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CSL Division Four season preview
There are three new teams joining the league for the coming season and they will all kick off life in Division four as unknown qualities. The newcomers are FC Boroughs who hail from Malmesbury, Potterne B, Witham Friary who have been the top dogs in the
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CSL Division Three season preview
Their will be five different teams in Division Three this time around. North Star B who were promoted as champions of division four will be joined by FC Jager (formerly Melksham Jagerbar), British Lion FC and White Horse FC who all had to be pushed up
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Honours even in friendly
Maud Heath Sports and AFC Calne battled to a 3 - 3 draw at a pre-season friendly at the Recreation Ground on Tuesday. With both teams fielding new look sides it was always going to be a close encounter and so it proved. Sports' new Team Manager
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Sadness at death of Devizes entertainment veteran
Devizes has been shocked by the sudden death at the age of 65 of former Yokels star Tom Mills. Mr Mills, who lived at High Lawn with his wife Sandra, collapsed at the top of the Brittox on Tuesday morning. He was attended by paramedics but was pronounced
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Chippenham festival organiser left with £5,000 bill
River festival organiser John Clark stands to lose up to £5,000 of his own money but says the event was worth every penny. Mr Clark was prepared to re-mortage his house if he had to to underwrite the festival which brought about 3,000 people to the town
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Where's the money for Devizes' Shambles?
Devizes councillors have expressed shock and fury that the town could lose £600,000 funding promised to upgrade the Shambles market hall. Kennet District Council promised the funding at its meeting of the community development executive committee in
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YOU BET: Britain awaits return of Fallon
LINGFIELD and Kempton will be expecting an increase in attendances on Friday when jockey Kieran Fallon returns to the saddle on a British racecourse for the first time for more than three years. He was allowed to ride in Ireland after having his licence
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EQUESTRIAN: Nicholson's double delight
MARLBOROUGH-BASED Olympic eventer Andrew Nicholson had an action-packed Bank Holiday weekend when he travelled nearly 1000 miles to take in part in two competitions. The New Zealand 48-year-old journeyed up to Blair Castle, in Perthshire to
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Confetti battle goes ahead despite weather
More than 100 people took part in Devizes Carnival's confetti battle on Wednesday evening despite high winds and heavy rain. People had already started to gather in the Market Place for the occasion, thought to be the last confetti battle in
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Three arrested in rogue trader operation
Wiltshire police helicopter was up over Devizes on Wednesday afternoon on reports of rogue traders offering cut price driveway tarmaccing. Three men were arrested after a householder in Wessex Drive, Jump Farm, rang 999 to complain that her
