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Published on November 22, 2023

Local nurse welcomes change to government Covid bonus payment

A LOCAL district nurse has welcomed the news that healthcare staff who work for non-NHS organisations may now be eligible to receive the NHS Backlog Bonus.  In recognition of Health…

Get creative for mayor’s Christmas card competition!

CHILDREN across Westbury are being asked to get creative and design a Christmas card for the mayor’s annual competition – and the overall winner will be given the chance to…

Help out with next year’s Westbury Festival

LOCAL people are encouraged to have their say about next year’s Westbury Festival by attending an upcoming meeting and joining the festival team.  This year’s fortnight-long music and arts festival,…

Remembrance Activities at Bratton Primary

Remembrance Activities at Bratton Primary

PUPILS at Bratton Primary School marked Remembrance by crafting poppies while the school’s Little Troopers, a lunchtime club for children of those serving in the armed forces, hiked to the…

Remembering Westbury’s war memorial

Remembering Westbury’s war memorial

WESTBURY’S oldest war memorial was marked with its own poppy wreath thanks to members of the town’s heritage society.   The wreath was laid on the historic stone memorial in the…

Climate Alliance criticises Wiltshire Council’s latest climate action score

Climate Alliance criticises Wiltshire Council’s latest climate action score

WILTSHIRE Climate Alliance says that “much is needed to be done” if Wiltshire Council is to stick to their 2030 carbon neutral commitment after the council’s climate action score dropped…

MP welcomes new environment minister and asks for early meeting on incinerators

MP welcomes new environment minister and asks for early meeting on incinerators

LOCAL MP Dr Andrew Murrison has written to Steve Barclay MP to congratulate him on his appointment as the new environment minister in the Prime Minister’s reshuffle.   Dr Murrison also…

Community Fridge is here foreveryone – not just people in need

THE organisers of the town’s community fridge are urging all people in the Westbury area to come down to the Westbury Community Project to pick up some free and tasty…

Westbury will remember this weekend

WESTBURY will once again pay its respects to armed forces personnel past and present at the always well attended Remembrance Service on Sunday 12th November, starting at 10.55am.  The Royal…

Fourth place for library tree in national competition

THE holm oak tree behind the library in Westbury’s Soisy Gardens, which was nominated for the Woodland Trust’s annual Tree of the Year competition, has finished in joint fourth place. …

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