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BOWLS: Duo hit back for singles triumphs
DAVE Godwin and Russell Francis both produced superb fightbacks to win their quarter-finals in the Wiltshire men’s National Singles Championship on Monday at Wootton Bassett, writes DAVE EATON. Chippenham Town’s Godwin was adrift for the whole match
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Wiltshire libraries gets youngsters reading
Libraries across Wiltshire are getting ready to launch children into orbit for an intergalactic adventure with the 2010 Summer Reading Challenge. The twelfth annual challenge, Space Hop, is part of an exciting free library promotion that runs in Wiltshire
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BOWLS: Box's Cooke into her third final
SUE COOKE has qualified for her third Wiltshire National Championship final at North Wilts later this month, writes DAVE EATON. The Box player booked her place in the top event, four wood singles final, with two comfortable victories in the quarter-finals
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CHIPPENHAM TOWN: Chippenham to kick-off new season at Hednesford
Chippenham Town will kick-off the new Zamaretto League Premier Division season with a trip to last year's play-off semi-final opponents Hednesford Town, on August 14. The Bluebirds beat their Staffordshire rivals 2-0 in April to reach last
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Youths arrested after Marlborough fracas
Six youths were arrested by police after they were seen acting suspiciously in the Waitrose car park on Saturday evening shortly after seven o’clock and were subsequently found to be in possession of drugs. Police were called by members of the public
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Wildlife returns to Pewsey riverside
Just eight months after the completion of restoration work on a stretch of the Salisbury Avon near Pewsey, wildlife is flooding back into the area. The water is teeming with fish, yellow flag iris and water forget-me-nots are in bloom on the river banks
