As most of you will be aware, the pedestrian controlled crossing on the A303 was put out of action around the time of the summer solstice by a less than attentive car driver. It was clear that...
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URGENT: Email Malware On the Loose
It seems that a few villagers have fallen prey to an email malware attack. If you receive an email, seemingly from someone you know (from within, or outside the village) and it has similar content...
Our Enterprising Ladies
It's always nice to be able to report a good news story and doubly-so when it promises to bring pleasure to the village for years to come. A month or so ago, several of our village ladies got...
Nobis villa in agro?
Our apologies for using a Latin title for this post, but we hope you will soon see why. Back on the 31st of July we published a news item entitled "What Lies Beneath" having seen Wiltshire...
A303: Highways England Drop-In Sessions
Highways England are hosting a number of what they are calling Drop-In Sessions at a number of venues in the coming days and weeks. The aim of these is to allow the public to see the latest...
A303: Northern Bypass for Winterbourne Stoke and Stonehenge to Berwick Down Scheme
Today’s announcement of a northern bypass for Winterbourne Stoke is something of a curates egg - it’s only good in parts. As a village, we were offered two poorly thought-through bypass route...
URGENT: Are You Having Problems Signing-Up For Fibre
We heard earlier today that one villager, living on Church Street, had been told by an Internet Service Provider that they could not get superfast fibre broadband on their phone line. Unless...
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
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The Wait Is Over!
Well, barring any more last minute hitches, it seems that with no fanfare whatsoever, Winterbourne Stoke has been connected up to the outside world with fibre. I know we thought we had been here...
What Lies Beneath?
Earlier on today,we noticed that Wiltshire Archaeology were back in the recently harvested field between the Berwick St James road and the River Till. When they were last there, back in the spring...