• Hundreds pay respects to murdered Sian

  By kaylacey

  The private funeral service of Sian O’Callaghan took place on Monday 18th April at 3pm at...

            

   

  By Marlborough People at 07:00 on 19/04/11

  

  HUNDREDS of people lined the streets yesterday to pay their respects to nightclubber Sian O'Callaghan ( Well-wishers gathered in the Old Town area of Swindon – where she lived with her boyfriend and was last seen alive – as the funeral cortege passed slowly by with a police escort. Wiltshire Police asked people to wait in either Bath Road, Devizes Road, Newport Street or Marlborough Road. More than 500 had gathered in...

• Claire Perry launches local No2AV campaign

  By kaylacey

  oops, sorry for the spelling error!

            

   

  By kaylacey at 17:48 on 06/04/11

  

  Claire Perry, MP for Devizes constituency helped launch the local No2AV campaign in Marlborough on Wednesday 6 April. Polling Day is on 5th May.  Our M.P. advises us, her constituents to vote against the introduction of the Alternative Voting system in favour of the present first-past-the-post (FPTP) system.   She says that "AV is an unfair, untenable and unpredictable voting alternative to our present system...

• Closure of Voluntary Action Kennet

  By Alec_Stevens

  Since it has been such an asset to the community it is doubly regretable

            

   

  By kaylacey at 19:05 on 05/04/11

  

  Voluntary Action Kennet, River street, Pewsey, closed on 31st March due to a lack of funding. In a letter in the Gazette and Herald on 31st March Margaret West, Chief Officer thanked supporters and funders.  

• Retail Forum proposes further solutions to Marlborough’s traffic problems

  By BigMac09

  why cannot traffic lights be used on the bridge, they work perfectly well at Burbage wharf

            

   

  By Holly_Berry at 17:55 on 12/08/10

  

  Marlborough's Retail Forum and Chamber of Commerce have written to Wiltshire Council laying out suggestions which could help local retailers through the difficult times caused by ongoing  Marlborough roadworks- and make life easier for Marlborough's shoppers. Proposals to move the Mop Fairs to the common for this year were apparently not acceptable due to rules in Marlborough's 13th century charter which would take an act of...

• Claire Perry MP to appear on Panorama this evening

  By Holly_Berry

  You can watch this on i-player until, it says Jan 10th, but I would guess it means 17th as it's...

            

   

  By Holly_Berry at 15:42 on 10/01/11

  

  Claire Perry, MP for the Devizes Constituency, will appear on current affairs documentary programme, Panorama on BBC1 at 8.30 this evening. The programme "Too Much Too Young" examines the growing concern about the sexualisation of children in the UK. Claire was asked to talk about her campaign for an opt-in system for accessing pornography on the internet which would require all UK-based Internet Service Providers to restrict...

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