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Watch Out there’s Speedwatch about – in Lockeridge, so beware….

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45596 ‘Bahamas’ Steam Locomotive passes through Pewsey

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Triage Nurse / Paramedic – Kennet & Avon Medical Partnership, Marlborough / Pewsey

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Dispensing Assistant (Maternity Cover) – Kennet & Avon Medical Partnership, Marlborough / Pewsey

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Volunteer Trustees – The Merchant’s House Trust

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Tours, Groups and Education Coordinator – The Merchant’s House Trust

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Domestic Services Supervisor – Marlborough College

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High court judgement – proposed Stonehenge tunnel is unlawful

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Classroom in the sky – Preshute Primary’s new classrooms arrive!

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Judgement day for Marlborough in Bloom

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Broadband progress in our area: Danny Kruger to host summit on Tuesday 3 Aug

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Wiltshire Wildlife Trust receives large grant from Government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund

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Sports Scholarship success for St Francis pupils

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Ramsbury fire station says goodbye and thank you to Chris Martin

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Drivers who can’t read – letter by Kath Pinchen

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Nova Fine Art opens in Marlborough

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First Turf ceremony celebrates start of St John’s new sports build

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Ramsbury rider to make Olympic debut

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20mph sign in Lockeridge with Kennet Valley School in background

Watch Out there’s Speedwatch about – in Lockeridge, so beware….

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Watch Out there’s Speedwatch about – in Lockeridge, so beware….Read Full Article

July: Milder, slightly drier but ending with a big storm

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High court judgement – proposed Stonehenge tunnel is unlawful

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Classroom in the sky – Preshute Primary’s new classrooms arrive!

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Judgement day for Marlborough in Bloom

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Broadband progress in our area: Danny Kruger to host summit on Tuesday 3 Aug

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Wiltshire Wildlife Trust receives large grant from Government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund

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‘Wessex and Other MOTHS’ – an exhibition of the works of Sarah Gillespie at The Rabley Gallery

5 Aug 2021 @ 11:00 - 16:00

‘Wessex and Other MOTHS’ – an exhibition of the works of Sarah Gillespie at The Rabley Gallery

6 Aug 2021 @ 11:00 - 16:00

Desert Island discs with Peter Makin, at Ogbourne St Andrew Church

6 Aug 2021 @ 19:30

‘Wessex and Other MOTHS’ – an exhibition of the works of Sarah Gillespie at The Rabley Gallery

7 Aug 2021 @ 11:00 - 16:00

Watch the Lions’ Tests in the Marlborough Rugby Club bar

7 Aug 2021 @ 17:00

Vunipola Coaching at MRFC on The Common

11 Aug 2021 @ 09:30 - 15:00

Vunipola Coaching at MRFC on The Common

12 Aug 2021 @ 09:30 - 15:00

‘Wessex and Other MOTHS’ – an exhibition of the works of Sarah Gillespie at The Rabley Gallery

12 Aug 2021 @ 11:00 - 16:00

Vunipola Coaching at MRFC on The Common

13 Aug 2021 @ 09:30 - 15:00

‘Wessex and Other MOTHS’ – an exhibition of the works of Sarah Gillespie at The Rabley Gallery

13 Aug 2021 @ 11:00 - 16:00

‘Wessex and Other MOTHS’ – an exhibition of the works of Sarah Gillespie at The Rabley Gallery

14 Aug 2021 @ 11:00 - 16:00

Summer basketball camp at St John’s

16 Aug 2021 - 20 Aug 2021

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Sports Scholarship success for St Francis pupils

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Ramsbury fire station says goodbye and thank you to Chris Martin

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Nova Fine Art opens in Marlborough

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First Turf ceremony celebrates start of St John’s new sports build

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Ramsbury rider to make Olympic debut

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Marlborough Rugby Girls team – take on the boys as part of training

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Improving Lives Fund set up after pilot in Oxenwood and Swindon

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Popular Marlborough teacher retires

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Marlborough’s Dark Skies Fest – a heavenly feast for all to enjoy

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2012 Olympic torch opens Great Bedwyn School’s Olympics

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Marlborough's Household recycling Centre

Normal Service Resumed at Marlborough’s Recycling Centre, so don’t get a ‘cowboy’ to take the rubbish away

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Marlborough St Mary’s pupils raise money to help save South American rainforests

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45596 ‘Bahamas’ Steam Locomotive passes through Pewsey

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The pic above was taken of Steam locomotive 45596 Bahamas as it passed through Pewsey…

‘A ‘tip-off’ for all would-be Michael Jordans!’

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Wiltshire Demons Basketball Club is running a summer camp in August at their home base, St…

Walk-In Vaccination Clinic in Tidworth – Today – Friday 16 July

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Walk-In Vaccination clinic is being held today for both Pfizer and Astra-Zeneca vaccines. It will…

Equine Clinic Application for Poulton Hill rejected by Minal Parish Council

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At last night’s (12 July ’21) meeting of the Mildenhall (Minal) Parish Council members voted…

Brighter Futures for families and colleagues to remember lives lost as work starts on a Wellbeing Garden at GWH

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Work has just started on the creation of a Wellbeing Garden at Great Western Hospital…

Development of a large three bedroomed house in a Cross Lane garden opposed by the Town Council Planning Committee

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At last Monday (14 June) evening’s meeting of the Planning Committee of the Town Council…

M4 night-time closure, traffic to be diverted through Marlborough

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Between 9pm and 6am for ten weekday nights starting Monday next week (7 June), the…

Mayor to open u3a celebrations in Marlborough

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Wednesday June 2 is National u3a(University of the third age)Day and u3a in Kennet are…

ARK (Action for River Kennet) sets out to make the Kennet and other local rivers sparkle

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ARK (Action for River Kennet) has embarked on a new ‘Sparkling Streams’ project in partnership…

Previous Articles

Life on the Ocean Wave? Not quite, but on the Canal – Yes. The Rose of Hungerford is asking for volunteers

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Live theatre back in Marlborough – The Marlborough Players holding auditions

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Want to become Wiltshire Police & Crime Commissioner? Apply by 23 July

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George Lane crossing: Work to start on 19 July

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Medieval stone lion discovered in the Kennet

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Full steam ahead for Crofton over the Summer

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Marlborough’s Mayor visits KAMP’s last Covid vaccination clinic

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Bishop of Ramsbury has new role

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Marlborough St Mary’s pupils learn how to save lives with Wiltshire Air Ambulance

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Major Equine Clinic Application for Poulton Hill presented to Town Council Planning Committee

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GWH Brighter Futures receive the largest ever grant in the UK awarded by the Rotary Foundation

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New local company offers sustainable BBQ charcoal made from UK woodlands

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New plastic surgery and skin cancer diagnostic and treatment centre opening in Royal Wootton Bassett

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Marlborough LitFest announces acclaimed visiting authors and new lead festival sponsor

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Wiltshire Air Ambulance – in the air for more so far this year

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Kennet Valley pupils learn how to save lives

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Mystery knitters give Marlborough’s postboxes hats

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Cooper’s Meadow sheep are ready for the heatwave

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Pewsey Vale School teacher’s Race to the Stones to help God-daughter

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St Peter’s Clock Face removed for restoration – back in a month

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The new face of Sue Brady Catering

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Flaming June? not really in 2021……

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Wine from Pewsey’s Southcott Vineyard wins Silver in national competition

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Concerns grow over road safety near Marlborough St Mary’s as pupil is hit by a car

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Views of the Downs – art exhibition celebrates the Marlborough Downs

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Philip Wilkinson selected by Conservatives to stand as candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner

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Barclays to bid goodbye to Marlborough – branch closing in September

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Teenage Marlborough athlete finishes first in Javelin at Senior National Championships

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Wiltshire Wildlife Trust launches appeal to save Marlborough’s Bay Meadows

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Marlborough LitFest 2021 announces line-up of non-fiction authors

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Marlborough’s new Community Vaccination Centre – at Savernake Hospital

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‘Coach Friendly’ status – Marlborough’s receipt of this award will put the town ever more firmly on the map as somewhere to visit

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Waitrose support Home Start Kennet with food donations

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Crofton back in steam again this weekend

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Bryan Castle – Marlborough Town Councillor, Former Mayor and great servant to the community

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Marlborough Youth Football Club (MYFC) – vote for ‘Player of the Year’

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Bigger and better than ever – Marlborough Open Studios 2021

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Bryan Castle, longtime Town Councillor and former Mayor

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St Peter’s development: ‘What are the actual proposals for this building?’

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Christmas Card pop-up shop at St Peter’s raises more than £23,000 for charity

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Marlborough hairdresser retires after 25 years in the town

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Not vaccinated yet and over 25? Come forward…..

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Devizes Constituency to be carved up – new ‘East Wilts’ proposed

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St Peter’s Development – once to be a hotel, now to be business and residential?

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Mayor declares Marlborough Community Fridge open

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