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Devizes speed limit to stay at 40mph
North Wiltshire and Kennet Gazette & Herald
Wiltshire Council is proposing to retain the 40mph speed limit on the A360 between Devizes and Potterne instead of raising it to 50mph. ...

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Van driver crushed by hay bale
Mirror.co.uk
The driver, whose vehicle was hit on the A381 between Harbertonford and Halwell in Devon on Friday afternoon, has not been named. ...
Driver dies in Halwell two-van collisionBBC News

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New York Times
Devon Wilson, George Dentler
New York Times
Devon Marie Wilson and George Matthew Dentler were married Friday at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Manhattan. The Rev. George E. Agger, a Roman Catholic ...

Daily Mail
Cell assault policeman faces sack
BBC News
The footage also shows Sgt Mark Andrews dragging Pamela Somerville across the floor of Melksham police station in Wiltshire. Ms Somerville, now 59, ...
Lifted like a rag doll and hurled into cell: Shocking video of police ...Daily Mail
Pamela Somerville Was Assaulted By Police But Unlike Ian Tomlinson She Is ...Anorak.co.uk (satire)

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Daily Mail
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The motorist and a culture of exploitation
Daily Mail
The Wiltshire force has, to its credit, made no attempt to justify or cover up the incident. It admits that Ms Somerville was an innocent victim – but the ...

Reading Festival, Richfield Avenue, Reading
Independent
The terrain underfoot at Little John's Farm is sodden, partly due to the several days of rain that have lashed Berkshire beforehand, and partly due to the ...

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Daily Mail
Red for von Essen as it pays price of growth
Daily Mail
Von Essen, the group behind luxury hotels such as Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire, the Royal Crescent in Bath and Amberley Castle in West ...

Is Warren Buffett Exploring The Amazon For Berkshire Hathaway?
GuruFocus.com
Warren Buffett may be exploring the Amazon region for fertile future investments for Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire is reportedly interested in starting an ...

Masked men, armed with axe, try to rob Devon jewellers
BBC News
Two robbers, one armed with an axe, fled empty-handed after confronting staff in a Devon jewellers. The incident happened at about 1100 BST when two men, ...
Attempted Armed Robbery at Bideford JewellersBideford People

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Daily Mail
Council decision 'wheelie stupid', say residents
Wiltshire Times
The residents of the unadopted section of Clarendon Road, of which the majority are in their seventies and eighties, were told by Wiltshire Council last ...
Council forces pensioners to drag wheelie bins 100 yards - so DUSTMEN aren't ...Daily Mail
NOW 'POTHOLES' STOP DUSTMEN EMPTYING BINSExpress.co.uk

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Berkshire's A404 motorway to shut again for bridge work
BBC News
The A404 motorway in Berkshire is to be closed for the second time in recent weeks as work on a £10m project to replace a bridge continues. ...

Book review Storyteller The Life of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock
Scotsman
... he told the young man from the BBC who?had arrived at his home in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, to discuss a proposed documentary about him. ...

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Woman walking high-speed rail route reaches Warwickshire
BBC News
Some residents in in Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Buckinghamshire are against the scheme. The route would go from London's Euston ...

Reading set for 'biggest ever' Pride event
BBC News
The Reading Pride event has begun with thousands of people flocking to the Berkshire town. Now in its seventh year, organisers are hoping to attract more ...

Firefighters tackle thatched-roof fire for eight hours
BBC News
Firefighters have spent the night tackling a fire at a property with a thatched-roof at Kingscott in Devon. More than a dozen crews were called to the house ...

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Girl hurt in barbecue explosion
BBC News
A 13-year-old girl suffered serious burns when a gas cylinder exploded during her birthday barbecue in Wiltshire. A man in his 40s, thought to be her uncle, ...

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Planning applications for September 3
Bucks Free Press
Hughenden House Church Lane Cryers Hill Buckinghamshire HP15 6LD - Proposed non material amendment to permission for demolition of existing garage and ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Residents phoned 999 dozens of times over 'ghost and UFO worries'
Telegraph.co.uk
More than 150 calls, details of which were released under the Freedom of Information Act, claimed to have seen spooks or UFOs were made to Devon and ...

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Devizes smash highlights junction concerns
This is Wiltshire.co.uk
Wiltshire Council remodelled the junction of the A342 and the unclassified link to the B3098 near Urchfont two years ago, despite opposition from residents. ...

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A HOLIDAY romance led to a marriage which has lasted for half a century.
Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette
Albert was originally from the tiny village of Dadford in Buckinghamshire. It was there in 1958 that he met Grace Carrick, from Jarrow. ...

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