You can help bring beautiful colour to Chippenham this summer by sponsoring a lovely hanging basket. Each year we work with our business community to offer ready planted hanging baskets that we deliver, put up and water during the season, all for the great price of £60 a basket. If you need a bracket on …

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The Yelde Hall has closed for major maintenance work to be carried out. The 15th century building closed on April 25 and will be closed until the end of July for the renovation work. There will be no public access during this time. The Robin Tanner exhibition, which opens this month, will be staged in the museum and …

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Congratulations to volunteers at our museum and heritage centre who have been shortlisted for a prestigious national award. The team is through to the final of the UK wide Museums and Heritage Awards competition to find the volunteers of the year. They were shortlisted for the work they did on the centre’s major Unity and Loyalty …

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  Our new swings are in at our play areas in John Coles Park and Pewsham Park. We took out the old swing units and started work earlier this week replacing them with these fantastic, bright new swings. The new equipment has more swings than before including a baby basket swing. The work was scheduled …

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We marked Commonwealth Day on Monday March 14, with a cultural festival of traditional costumes, dance, art and food. Led by Mayor David Powell, we raised the Commonwealth flag from the Town Hall steps at 10am with our military friends, 9 Logistics Regiment, based at Hullavington Barracks.   Hundreds of local schoolchildren joined us for a colourful journey around the …

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