Melksham’s Person of the Year 2009 has been revealed as long-term Cub leader Christine Broom.
With £18,200 of taxpayers’ money being spent on deciding where lorries should park in Melksham, Melksham News has asked Wiltshire Council for a full breakdown of where the money is going.
Plans are moving fast for Melksham’s own radio station after a successful first meeting attended by interested parties.
Three members of staff at a local primary school undertook a hair-raising stunt on Saturday in the name of charity.
Donations offered by Melksham people have benefitted poverty stricken children at an orphanage in Sierra Leone.
Wiltshire Council has released a statement reassuring residents that they will get the chance to have a say about the future of the county’s leisure facilities before any decisions are made.
Melksham will be well represented in the Bath Half Marathon, which takes place this Sunday, 7th March.
Discussions are underway with Wiltshire Council, the Department for Transport, First Great Western and others with a view to setting up a "Community Rail Partnership" for the TransWilts line - which links Swindon to Salisbury via Chippenham and Trowbridge, and provides Melksham station with its only train services.
A popular cobblers and shoe repairer in Melksham is celebrating trading in Melksham's town centre for 20 years.
Melksham people have been mourning the loss of local man Graeme Brady, who involved himself in many aspects of community life.
