Chippenham & Beyond news

A CORSHAM mother who stole more than £16,000 from her parents has been given another chance after failing to do any community service.

CHILDREN are being invited to two Halloween parties at Whitehall Garden Centre this month.

FUNDING is on the verge of being secured for a £29m campus at Wiltshire College Chippenham.

TWO fire appliances from Chippenham are attending a kitchen fire at a property in Cranwell Close, Chippenham.

EMERGENCY services rushed to Chippenham yesterday afternoon after a man threatened to kill himself and then jumped into the river off the town centre bridge.

THERE was more gloom on the jobs front this week with two firms in Chippenham announcing redundancies.

A FATHER from Chippenham will be slipping on his running shoes next month to raise money memory of the 15-year-old daughter he lost to meningitis.

A SOLDIER from Chippenham about to be deployed to Afghanistan for a second time said he is 'apprehensive but looking forward' to going back to the troubled Helmand Province.

POLICE are linking two separate break-ins at a supermarket in as many days.

TWO youths have been remanded in custody after admitting charges of robbery and affray.

LACKHAM Country Park held a bee and honey open day tomorrow to introduce visitors to the world of beekeeping.

AN historic hotel near Chippenham has been put on the market for offers of £2.5m and over.

A MAN was the victim of a knife attack in Trowbridge on Thursday night.

TIME travel really does exist at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre as it holds it annual open day.

BUSINESSMAN Dean Gosley, 27, died in hospital on Tuesday after his Mercedes collided with a tree off the A350 near Lacock in the early hours of Saturday morning.

A FIREWORK rocket will be launched to mark the start of the Chippenham Half Marathon on Sunday.

A FATHER from Chippenham will be slipping on his running shoes next month to raise money memory of the 15-year-old daughter he lost to meningitis.

A JUDGE has questioned why a woman with violence convictions was allowed to become manager of a care home - where she then bullied and ill-treated a vulnerable young woman resident.

THE FAMILY of teenager Chris Hughes attended Trowbridge Coroner's Court this week to hear evidence relating to the death of the 16-year-old on the A350 near Lacock earlier this year.

A drug dealer who had thousands of pounds worth of cocaine and cannabis has been jailed for two years.