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30 Most Recent News Stories
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Wed 17th Mar 2010
If you've genuinely sustained damage to a vehicle caused by a pothole on a Wiltshire road you can claim recompense for repair expenses.
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Wed 17th Mar 2010
If you're concerned about parking problems in Tisbury you can go to a meeting in the village on Saturday.
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Wed 17th Mar 2010
The POWER2010 campaign has asked the public to say which MPs they thought represented the biggest obstacle to democratic reform.
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Tue 16th Mar 2010
WaterAid have produced their manifesto, Manifesto in a Bottle, which sets out the charity's five priorities:
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Tue 16th Mar 2010
Free health screenings will be on offer at a series of health fairs to be held across Wiltshire.
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Tue 16th Mar 2010
Victims of the Equitable Life scandal have written to prospective MPs in the south west asking for their support for a just conclusion to a long-running and unedifying injustice.
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Tue 16th Mar 2010
The Alliance have published their manifesto in the run-up to the general election and the 2012 Olympics.
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Tue 16th Mar 2010
RCF have written to parliamentary candidates urging us to support their 12 point plan, "Towards the best in Europe", a copy of which is on their website at www.rarercancers.org.uk
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Tue 16th Mar 2010
Warminster's Conservatives have voted to take out an £800,000 loan to revamp the Assembly Room. Liberal Democrat Paul Batchelor was the only town councillor to vote against the proposal.
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Tue 16th Mar 2010
A group of Mere residents led by local councillor George Jeans made the trip to County Hall on Tuesday Jan 12th to try to persuade councillors not to impose car parking charges in the town's two car parks.
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Tue 16th Mar 2010
Porton Down is currently the site for Health Protection Agency's "Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response" at which internationally significant research into new diseases is undertaken. The total site covers 27 hectares with employment of 750 scientific, technical and administrative staff. The value to the economy is demonstrated by the fact that the direct impact of the employment of scientific/technical staff is estimated at over £70,000 per head (GWE Business West Ltd.).
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Tue 16th Mar 2010
The International Fund for Animal Welfare has published its manifesto for the general election, entitled "Missing a Voice".
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Mon 15th Mar 2010
Gordon Brown's announcement that the Budget will be on 24 March makes it almost certain that the general election be on 6 May.
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Mon 15th Mar 2010
Sixty thousand tonnes of household waste will be converted at a plant in Westbury to 20,000 tonnes of fuel which will go to Germany or Holland to be incinerated.
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Mon 15th Mar 2010
Wiltshire Council (WC) is to take on the responsibility for running the South West's office in Brussels. The eight staff will come onto the WC payroll, though the other councils in the region will be paying their share of the costs.
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Mon 15th Mar 2010
The former leader of the Conservative MEPs has announced his decision to upgrade to the Liberal Democrats.
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Mon 15th Mar 2010
Wiltshire Council's Private Finance Initiative to build 400 houses for rent has been in development for seven years and has not yet built a single house.
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Mon 15th Mar 2010
Wiltshire Council (WC) has produced a series of press releases about rubbish. They kept having to re-issue them because the figures referred to were wrong. Now they've abandoned a planned consultation on waste because it dawned on them that reductions in services could cost Conservative candidates votes at the general election.
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Sun 14th Mar 2010
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and University and College Union (UCU) have asked prospective MPs to back their four pledges for education. Here are the pledges and the response.
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Sat 13th Mar 2010
Trowbridge's latest supermarket is due to open in June.
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Fri 12th Mar 2010
If you believe the tabloid journalists, this country is no longer a welcoming place for the persecuted, and our Christian traditions have been replaced by intolerance and hatred.
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Fri 12th Mar 2010
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children will soon be launching its pre-election manifesto entitled "I stand for Children".
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Fri 12th Mar 2010
The British Humanist Association's (BHA) have published their General Election Manifesto. The BHA is the national charity representing the interests of the large and growing population of ethically concerned non-religious people living in the UK. It exists to support and represent people who seek to live good and responsible lives without religious or superstitious beliefs. The numbers of such people are undoubtedly growing and current figures (from the British Social Attitudes survey of January 2010) suggest that 43% of the population is happy to self-identify as non-religious, with the numbers of those not practising or affiliated to a religion much higher.
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Fri 12th Mar 2010
An extensive maintenance scheme carried out by the Highways Agency from east of Mere to the junction with the B3089 is now complete. The work involved repair and strengthening of the road, repair of drainage and installation of new safety barriers. The road was widened by a metre where possible, to assist with drainage and provide additional space for breakdowns and maintenance.
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Fri 12th Mar 2010
An application by Sainsbury's to expand their Melksham store returned to the planning committee on Wednesday (10th March). The plans were for a 1,937 sq m extension with a bigger car park and a relocated petrol station.
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Fri 12th Mar 2010
Many people would say it was the current parliament which should be hung, but much of the debate between now and May 6th will be on the possibility of the next one so being.
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Fri 12th Mar 2010
EDINGTON WESTBURY ROAD 12/03/2010-16/03/2010 WILTSHIRE COUNCIL Stop / Go boards
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Thu 11th Mar 2010
The manufacturers' organisation EEF has written to parliamentary candidates with their manifesto for manufacturing entitled 'Back to the Crossroads'.
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Thu 11th Mar 2010
John Kampfner was a foreign correspondent for nearly a decade, reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, before becoming one of Britain's most prominent political journalists, for the Financial Times and BBC.
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Thu 11th Mar 2010
Graham Watson, Wiltshire's Liberal Democrat MEP, has welcomed a European Parliament vote in favour of exempting struggling small businesses from producing onerous annual accounts.
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