News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

Well,  after the fiasco of last week, BT managed to get nearly everyone in the village reconnected to both telephone and broadband;  though we did hear only yesterday (26th July 2017) that one poor...

The irony of this post is not wasted upon us, as those it is of most interest to are the ones least likely to be able to read it at the moment.   Over the last couple of weeks, BT Openreach...