Wiltshire County, England News

A drug addict who burgled his own sistera s house and stole a sex toy has been jailed for 19 months.

Drivers are being urged to take extra care when approaching the Stanton St. Quintin roundabout this morning following a one vehicle collision.

Age Concern Wiltshire is calling on people to keep on knitting woollen items for Innocent drink bottles.

Classmates of teenager James Colson, who died of leukemia, have raised nearly A 2,400 for cancer charity CLIC Sargent.

Young and old across Wiltshire are being urged to spread Christmas cheer to deprived children in Eastern Europe by filling shoeboxes with goodies.

Corsham man Dick Cooke is backing a campaign to promote organ donation after undergoing a lifesaving kidney transplant last year.

Excited children moved into their A 600,000 custom-built nursery earlier this week at Corsham Primary School after months of waiting.

A flock of rare Wiltshire Horn sheep were attacked by a dog in a field near Fairfield Meadows, Southwick, on Monday afternoon.

A horse owner was woken in the middle of the night by a call from police telling her that a blaze had broken out in a barn filled with straw near where she keeps her animals.

AN American woman on holiday in the UK has died after being hit by a car crossing the road near Stonehenge.

People across west Wiltshire and Corsham will pay their respects to those who have served in wars gone by and those who are still fighting for their country today, as Remembrance Day services are held across the area this weekend.

An elderly driver from Box has been taken to hospital after a head-on crash on an A-road near Bradford on Avon.

Friends of Adrian Cooksey described the night out they had in Melksham shortly before the father-of-three was killed, to a jury sitting at Bristol Crown Court yesterday afternoon.

The milkweed pods are breaking, And the bits of silken down Float off upon the autumn breeze Across the meadows brown.

A 29-year-old dad-to-be is fighting for his life in a specialist unit at a Leicester hospital after contracting a severe form of the swine flu virus.

A father-of-three found dying in the street suffered severe head injuries from one punch, a court has heard.

A 19th century bicycle normally found in museums fetched A 5,800 at an auction held at the Castle Combe racetrack on Saturday.

A coroner is to investigate the rules on mental health patients being allowed to drive following the death of a Trowbridge man in 2007.

A single punch killed Trowbridge builder and keen cricketer Adrian Cooksey, a jury has been told.

A man who brutally raped an old lady who was out walking her dogs at an isolated spot has been jailed for life.