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30 Most Recent News Stories
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Sat 4th Sep 2010
If you're looking for entertainment on the last fine weekend of the summer Staverton Fete takes place on the playing field in the middle of the village from 12 till 5.
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Fri 3rd Sep 2010
BULKINGTON 02/09/2010-06/09/2010 WESSEX WATER Two-Way Signals
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Fri 3rd Sep 2010
Tisbury residents have unanimously opposed Wiltshire Council Conservatives in their plan to introduce parking charges to the village. The consultation on the proposals has now closed, and the WC cabinet will make a final decision later in the year.
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Fri 3rd Sep 2010
Wiltshire Councillor for Melksham South, Jon Hubbard, has launched a campaign to save Melksham Library after the Conservative Administration in County Hall announced a consultation exercise which proposes closing the popular town centre resource in favour of an out-of-town complex to be located by the new Melksham Oak Community School.
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Fri 3rd Sep 2010
Conservative-controlled West Wiltshire Council in its final years repeatedly hit the national headlines for being excessively pedantic over the way bins were collected. There were stories about bin men refusing to take bins which couldn't be moved with two fingers, or which were placed too far from the kerb, or which were left on dangerous gravel surfaces. Now Wiltshire Council is following in the same tradition ...
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Thu 2nd Sep 2010
Next, New Look and international footwear retailer Brantano were the first retailers to take space at Shires Gateway in Trowbridge, and now Boots chemists will join them in November.
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Thu 2nd Sep 2010
WC's Conservative 'cabinet' is concerned that not everyone takes an interest in what they do, so they're spending £54,000 in reaching out to 'hard to reach' groups across the county.
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Wed 1st Sep 2010
The Rural Challenge is published by a newly formed Rural Coalition, and argues that without radically empowering local people to make decisions about their communities, rural villages could be under threat.
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Tue 31st Aug 2010
Wiltshire Council is holding trials in a number of villages to see if 20mph limits could be put in.
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Tue 31st Aug 2010
Friday 17th September, 7.30pm at Bridge House, Trowbridge. "Go! Co-operative". A presentation by Tim Pearce on the possibility of a new kind of railway company to serve Wiltshire's stations and create new travel opportunities.
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Sat 28th Aug 2010
Salisbury Liberal Democrat Councillor Paul Sample has welcomed Wiltshire Council's review of the Real Time Passenger Information System - to be discussed at the Council's Environment Committee on 7th September.
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Fri 27th Aug 2010
Wiltshire Council has put off making changes to parking arrangements in Westbury, Trowbridge, Melksham and Warminster because the council is also reviewing parking arrangements across the whole county and someone has spotted the fact that attempting to implement two lots of changes to parking at the same time could cause chaos.
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Thu 26th Aug 2010
Three separate applications for gypsy sites in Bratton went to West Wiltshire's planning committee on Wednesday August 25.
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Wed 25th Aug 2010
Pubs around the country are going out of business and the sight of abandoned licensed premises is becoming increasingly familiar.
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Tue 24th Aug 2010
Wiltshire parents are being encouraged to apply now for the school they would like their children to attend in September 2011.
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Tue 24th Aug 2010
Following a meeting of the Chief Executives of Wiltshire and Swindon Camera Safety Partnership a decision has been made that the partnership will close with the loss of some 40 posts.
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Tue 24th Aug 2010
Before the general election Theresa Villiers MP, now Conservative Minister of State for Transport and Norman Baker MP, now Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, both pledged to undertake a full review of the nationwide Driving Test Centre (DTC) Closure Programme.
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Tue 24th Aug 2010
Wiltshire Conservatives have announced the cutting of a number of road safety schemes due to the council's increasingly precarious financial position.
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Tue 24th Aug 2010
All of West Wiltshire's swimming pools could be closed in the next few years in plans announced by Wiltshire Conservatives.
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Sun 22nd Aug 2010
A group of Mere residents led by local councillor George Jeans made the trip to County Hall in January to try to persuade councillors not to impose car parking charges in the town's two car parks.
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Sat 21st Aug 2010
The government has published a consultation document outlining its plans to abolish the Labour Government's 'capping' regime for local councils.
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Fri 20th Aug 2010
Campaigners against the closure of Westbury Pool made their views known at the WAB meeting in Heywood Village Hall on August 18th. The Conservative member for pool-shutting Stuart Wheeler was there to make the case for the council's proposals and to explain the consultation procedure now underway.
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Wed 18th Aug 2010
Housing charity shelter has written to councillors to express concern over the cuts to rent allowances announced by the government. They point out that the changes take money away from the poorest and most vulnerable households and could prove expensive for local councils as evictions and homelessness increase.
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Tue 17th Aug 2010
Warminster Town Council held a meeting on Monday August 16th to decide whether or not to go ahead with the plan to move the council's office to the Assembly Rooms. The outcome of the meeting was that no decision was made, and the council will undertake further consultation.
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Sat 14th Aug 2010
Wiltshire is producing less waste, but the amount of material recycled also fell last year so the percentage recycling rate stayed the same at 40.5%. This was though only achieved through an increase in the amount of garden waste collected, as the amount of paper and other materials put out for recycling has diminished.
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Sat 14th Aug 2010
Officers are warning Wiltshire residents to be extra vigilant following several reports of a man selling advertising space allegedly on behalf of Wiltshire Police.
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Fri 13th Aug 2010
Trowbridge's latest supermarket is now open.
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Wed 11th Aug 2010
Chippenham councillor Bill Douglas has called for a redesign of the A350 between Chippenham and the motorway following another fatal crash on the road.
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Wed 11th Aug 2010
The Local Government Association reports that the Government recently wrote to all local authorities in England and Wales revoking the current statutory fee for a personal search of the Local Land Charges Register (LLCR) and advising them to stop charging with immediate effect.
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Tue 10th Aug 2010
A consultation on potential sites for sand and gravel extraction started on Thursday 5th August and will run for eight weeks.
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