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Scheme Manager – Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover) – Home-Start Kennet

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‘Never Doubt…’ – Dr Nick Maurice’s autobiography charts the Marlborough Brandt Group and life of a true ‘citizen of the World’

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Visit ‘Marlborough Open Gardens’ from anywhere this year – now a virtual event

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Having a lovely time – Marlborough St Mary’s pupils are pleased to be back at school

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U3A Kennet embrace social media and welcomes new members

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Now book online to visit the Household Recycling Centre

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Love Local campaign persuades shoppers to support Marlborough’s independent traders

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Maternity Cover for Office Assistant – Trident Water

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Electrician – I&T Compliance – Marlborough College

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May weather – dry, warm and sunny but with wet and cold extremes

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Back to school for more pupils – small classes, staggered starts and finishes and lots of hand washing

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Town Toilets to reopen tomorrow – Saturday 30 May

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Dr Nick Maurice (screengrab from Gunjur News Online)

‘Never Doubt…’ – Dr Nick Maurice’s autobiography charts the Marlborough Brandt Group and life of a true ‘citizen of the World’

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‘Never Doubt…’ – Dr Nick Maurice’s autobiography charts the Marlborough Brandt Group and life of a true ‘citizen of the World’Read Full Article

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Visit ‘Marlborough Open Gardens’ from anywhere this year – now a virtual event

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Smiles all round - Marlborough St Mary’s Year 6 pupils are back at school

Having a lovely time – Marlborough St Mary’s pupils are pleased to be back at school

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Marlborough's Household recycling Centre

Now book online to visit the Household Recycling Centre

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Love Local campaign persuades shoppers to support Marlborough’s independent traders

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Peacock butterfly - pic: Eric Gilbert

May weather – dry, warm and sunny but with wet and cold extremes

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Kennet Valley School, at the heart of the Fyfield and West Overton parish in Lockeridge

Back to school for more pupils – small classes, staggered starts and finishes and lots of hand washing

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— CANCELLED — SALISBURY RACE:: SPRING AFTERNOON RACING

9 Jun 2020 @

PARKINSON’S CAFE at Savernake View Care Home

9 Jun 2020 @ 11:00 - 12:00

— CANCELLED — SALISBURY RACES :: CATHEDRAL STAKES & FAMILY FUN RACEDAY

14 Jun 2020 @

(Virtual) Marlborough Open Gardens 2020 – The Merchant’s House

17:00 19 Jun 2020 - 11:30 21 Jun 2020

— CANCELLED — A PAINTED OCEAN @ THE ARTS SOCIETY PEWSEY VALE

23 Jun 2020 @ 19:00 - 23:59

— CANCELLED — SALISBURY RACES :: WHISTBURY MANOR STUD – BIBURY CUP DAY

24 Jun 2020 @

BARBURY INTERNATIONAL HORSE TRIALS

2 Jul 2020 - 5 Jul 2020

—CANCELLED— MARLBOROUGH FLORAL CLUB – Monthly Meeting at MILDENHALL VILLAGE HALL

2 Jul 2020 @ 14:00 - 23:59

SALISBURY RACES :: LADIES’ EVENING & THE DELOREONS

11 Jul 2020 @

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Marlborough’s High Street market back to normal next week

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Free Parking stops at the weekend: charges apply Monday 1 June

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MP Danny Kruger’s reply to constituents regarding the Dominic Cummings journeys

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Obituary – Karon Staniland, Marlborough Artist and source of inspiration to many

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The former Chapel in The Parade - soon to become Marlborough's new cinema

Marlborough’s new cinema – one step further forward

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Danny Kruger MP at the recent Question and Answer even at St Mary's

Danny Kruger: calls for Cummings’ resignation are “basically declaring no confidence in PM”

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Ramsbury charity Action Through Enterprise (ATE) seamstress Mercy, making masks, supporting the people of Upper West Ghana

Ramsbury charity is raising funds to support the people of Lawra through the Covid-19 crisis

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Danny Kruger Column – May 2020

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'Music in Art' - Zoomed from The Merchant's House on Saturday 30-May-2020

The Merchant’s House Zooms into the future – ‘Music in Art’, their first ‘virtual’ live event

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What to do with the kids during lockdown? Practical ‘home learning’ – a sunflower growing competition!

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Sir Simon Russell Beale, Marlborough LitFest Patron

Sir Simon Russell Beale talks to Marlborough.news about LitFest, lockdown and living in Marlborough

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Lockdown: The student’s perspective

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U3A Kennet embrace social media and welcomes new members

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Fears that the lockdown would negatively impact the activities of the University of the Third…

Town Toilets to reopen tomorrow – Saturday 30 May

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Marlborough’s two public toilets will reopen tomorrow, Saturday 30 May. The Town Council announced this…

Pewsey Carnival: Another COVID-19 casualty

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Organisers of the Pewsey Carnival issued an announcement earlier today (Tuesday 19 May) that this…

GWH announce another Covid-19 fatality from their clinical family

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GWH Chief Executive Kevin McNamara announced this afternoon (Thursday 14 May): “It gives me great…

New timetable for Bedwyn trains as from next Monday – May 18

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GWR have announced a new timetable from Monday 18 May. Below is a summary of…

Four arrested near Burbage on suspicion of burglary

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Four men from the Nottinghamshire area have been arrested on suspicion of going equipped to…

St Michael’s School celebrates child-led learning on Instagram

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Last Tuesday April 28, St Michael’s School, Aldbourne, were chosen to take over the Instagram…

Arrests made after Budgen’s ATM attacked

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Police arrested two men shortly after the ATM at Budgens BP Petrol Station in Hertford…

Wiltshire Council funds tablets for St John’s students

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Staff at St John’s Marlborough are delighted that the school has been awarded a £3,000…

Previous Articles

Travellers depart from Elcot Lane and Kennet Valley Hall

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Obituary: Ewart Holmes, an appreciation from the Avebury Society

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Long queue as Marlborough’s Recycling Centre opens to local residents

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Obituary: Len Bulley, three-time Mayor of Marlborough

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Avebury to close for Summer Solstice

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Chalked bike mystery resolved: drawings highlight the need to make streets safer

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‘Good in all areas’ – Lockeridge’s Kennet Valley School pre-Lockdown OFSTED report

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Supporting reading in lockdown – St John’s brings their library to homes

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Marlborough Litfest patron, Sir Simon Russell Beale records nature readings for lockdown

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Marlborough College Summer School cancels – another Covid-19 casualty

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Marlborough Recycling Centre to re-open next week, but…. a PostCode Lottery!

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Lockdown relaxation – Tennis returns to Marlborough and Pewsey

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Hand Sanitiser direct from Ramsbury Brewery – now available to all

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Home-Start Kennet now formerly announce their National Lottery Funding

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Local NHS still calling for PPE donations

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Local band Barrelhouse hit national chart success with new album – ‘Mainline Voodoo’

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Cllr Mark Cooper Zooms in as Marlborough’s new Mayor

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Thieves steal Arnhem War Hero’s statue from display on VE Day

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VE Day 75 in Marlborough – Socially Distanced…

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‘New Normal’ for Marlborough’s traders: Beauty Full Time offers local home delivery and virtual make-up advice

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‘New Normal’ begins to emerge in Marlborough’s High Street as The Food Gallery reopens for take-away

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Marlborough’s new mayor – “I want to represent the people and the town to the best of my ability”

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Marlborough’s Jubilee Centre is looking for more customers for its home delivered £8 lunchtime meal

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Creativity, community and compassion – all part of St Michael’s School home learning programme

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Own a digitally signed Nigel Hudson print and help GWH ‘Brighter Futures’ appeal

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We will miss you Mac, thank you for all you have done for us – customers pay tribute as Mace store’s owner retires

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VE Day 75 in Marlborough – bringing people together at home

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George Lane Police Station development: designs now on view for comment

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April weather – rainfall record broken even though most days dry

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VE Day 1945 in Marlborough – processions, street parties, lemonade and jam sandwiches, bonfires and more

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Get the Corona LockDown Lingo! New words for the new normal

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Chilton Foliat Primary School focuses lockdown on ‘thankfulness, courage and love’

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Anya’s virtual cycling adventure raises funds for NHS Charities Together

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Friends of the Marlborough / Gunjur Link and the Marlborough Brandt Group support the poorest families in Gunjur, The Gambia

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Danny Kruger MP: Monthly Column

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Prospect Hospice given much needed funding boost by Marlborough’s NFU Mutual team

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Small is Beautiful: Pewsey’s Shed Alehouse now delivers beer and cider to order by Tuk Tuk

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Supporter sets up CrowdFunding page for Marlborough’s scrubs team

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From the front line – what’s happening elsewhere : Seoul, South Korea

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Are you a health care professional who needs a PPE face shield? Contact St John’s Academy

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Cadley’s Dobie Wyatt switch all production to produce 40,000 PPE masks for the NHS

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Ridgeway between Overton Hill and Hackpen to be closed to motor vehicles for the summer

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Marlborough Academy of Dance and Drama raise funds for NHS and key workers

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Running challenge raises funds for Friends of Savernake Hospital

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Overheard during lockdown……..

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