Positive news: you can charge your electric car. Negative news: household recycling centre is now closed two days a week

Marlborough has its first public charging point for electric cars.  Two parking bays in front of the public conveniences in the George Lane car park – just before you reach the bridge – are now reserved for cars using the charging point.

The even better news is that there is an introductory offer: charging is free for an unspecified period.  

Marlborough News Online will give a very, very small but tasty prize to the photographer the first photo sent to info@marlboroughnewsonline.co.uk that shows a car using the charging point – not just parked there but fully plugged in.  (Smart phone photos will do.)

Reminder needed:

Marlborough News Online understands some people have not yet realised that all Wiltshire Council’s household recycling centres – there are eleven across the county – are now closed two days a week.  

We hear that plenty of cars – some with trailers – full of rubbish are turning up on the days the Marlborough centre is closed.

All Wiltshire Council’s recycling centres will be open from 10.00am to 4.00pm five days a week.  And the Council says that closure days have been staggered so there is always one open within easy reach of town centres.

Since July 13 the Marlborough recycling centre on the Salisbury Road Business Park is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  The Everleigh centre (a few miles beyond Pewsey) is closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays.  

So on Wednesdays the nearest centre for Marlborough is the Devizes centre – or wait a day.

Do not get excited if, after you have brought a car load of recycling into town and found the centre is closed, you see a signpost in the George Lane car park pointing invitingly to the Neighbourhood Recycling Centre.

That centre was closed by Wiltshire Council several years ago – and leaving rubbish there definitely counts as fly-tipping.