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Meet our baby winners
The winners of the Gazette’s Baby of the Year competition have been chosen in a poll. We published the entries of the three age categories on May 20 and voting has been heavy for babies aged 0-9 months, 9-18 months and 18-36 months.
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Farmer Beale accused of letting pigs starve
A police wildlife officer told yesterday how he found dead and suffering pigs at a farm near Bromham. PC Anthony Miles, describing the scene that greeted him, said he saw a pig carcass by some pipes and about six more carcasses inside a van
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Preview: Horn recital by Lauren Reeve-Rawlings, St Andrew's Church, Chippenham
Former Hardenhuish schoolgirl, Lauren Reeve-Rawlings gives a lunch time recital at St Andrew’s Church, Chippenham on Wednesday, August 4. Lauren, a member of Wessex Concert Orchestra, is currently a student at the Guildhall School of Music. She was a
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Review: Just So, Wharf Youth Theatre, Devizes
For a theatre group as talented as the Wharf Youth Theatre, ‘Just So’, the musical adaptation of the famous Rudyard Kipling stories is an ideal choice. A wise decision then by director Jemma Barnes. The show, like the stories, firstly provides quirky
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Review: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, Theatre Royal Bath
The Good Soldier is a powerful story, well told. It is set in 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War and traces the disintegration of two seemingly perfect marriages. Concealing the lies and infidelities which shore up an apparently respectable
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FOOTBALL: Sixes spaces available
THERE are still a few places remaining for this season's Ken Clarke Memorial 6-a-side competition which returns to the Chippenham Sunday League calendar this coming season. This year's tournament, which is being sponsored by Westbury and Frome-based
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Calne Castle emerges from earth
ARCHAEOLOGY enthusiasts baffled by the mystery of Calne’s castle have found evidence that a fortified building probably existed between the 13th and 17th centuries. There are 29 current or disused place names containing the word castle, which
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Chippenham Half Marathon a sell-out
Entries for Chippenham Half Marathon have sold out two months before race day. More than 400 tickets for the half marathon, voted single best road race in the country, by readers of Runner’s World magazine, sold in just 30 days. But the popularity of
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SPEEDWAY: Russell aims to down buzzing Bees
SWINDON’S 2010 Elite League campaign continues when Ronnie Russell’s side host a powerful Coventry seven at Blunsdon tomorrow. The Robins currently lie sixth in the league standings, but do have matches in hand over the teams directly above
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CRICKET: Weather forces Wiltshire draw
WILTSHIRE'S match in the Minor Counties Championship against Devon at Exmouth was abandoned as a draw when rain prevented any play after lunch on the third day. Devon won Sunday's toss and on a pitch damp after recent rain asked Wiltshire to bat. They
