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More re-enactors than ever at history festival
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIt has...English historian and boradcaster, Bettany Hughes, BBC correspondent Frank Gardner and former England cricket captain David Gower. The week-long...
Anglo-Saxon exhibition on first King of all England
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 3 days agoObjects more than a millennia old have gone on display at a Wiltshire museum to celebrate the life of the Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan 1,100 years after he...
New 100-mile Athelstan pilgrimage route to open
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"We’re so excited he’s joining our pilgrimage of celebration - a celebration of churches, countryside, and faith.” The route has been developed by the...
Attempted murder arrest after Devizes stabbing
BBC News· 6 days agoA man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a stabbing. The victim, also aged in his 20s, was flown to Southmead...
More re-enactors than ever at Chalke History Festival
BBC News· 5 days agoWhile Somerset hosts Glastonbury, next door in Wiltshire, there is another well-known festival on at...
First look at new leisure centre planned for Trowbridge
BBC News· 6 days agoImages have been released showing the proposed design of a new leisure centre in Wiltshire. The...
Latest round-up of cricket results in area
Stroud News and Journal· 3 days ago‘Evo, as he is universally known, has been named skipper of the England squad which is preparing for the first ever Over 70s World Cup, set to take place in England ...
Tiny Titian masterpiece once found at London bus stop sells for over $22 million
The Nation· 2 days agoA twice-stolen painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, which was once found in a plastic bag at a bus stop in London, sold for $22.3 million at auction on Tuesday. “The Rest on the Flight ...
Festivals, fashion and fire: Photos of the week
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 7 days ago[MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP] Visitors watch the sunrise at Stonehenge inWiltshire, England. On the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun...
Third arrest after Stonehenge sprayed with powder paint
BBC News· 6 days agoA third person has been arrested in connection with a Just Stop Oil protest in which part of...