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Westbury is a market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. The town lies below the northwestern edge of Salisbury Plain , about 4 miles (6 km) south of Trowbridge and a similar distance north of Warminster .
Wiltshire Publications Ltd publishes and prints three local newspapers in west Wiltshire and east Somerset, England: Melksham Independent News (covering Melksham and surrounding villages), White Horse News (covering Westbury and the surrounding villages) and Frome Times (covering Frome). It is a family-owned business and one of the few ...
The Wiltshire Times is a weekly newspaper published in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in South West England. The paper serves the western Wiltshire towns of Bradford on Avon , Trowbridge, Corsham , Chippenham , Warminster , Westbury and Melksham , and their surrounding rural areas.
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire in South West England. All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown. The number of councillors elected for each electoral division or ward is shown in brackets.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974, further to the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the former urban districts of Bradford-on-Avon, Melksham, Trowbridge, Warminster and Westbury, along with Bradford and Melksham Rural District and the Warminster and Westbury Rural District. [1]
Following a review of parliamentary representation in Wiltshire, the Boundary Commission for England created two new constituencies in the county. Chippenham was created mostly from the adjoining North Wiltshire constituency, plus the town of Bradford-on-Avon at the northern end of the Westbury constituency, while the rest of Westbury saw minor changes to its composition and was renamed South ...
The Warminster Journal is the local paid-for weekly newspaper. Published since 1881, it covers the surrounding villages as well as the town. [56] The town is also within the area of the Wiltshire Times, another weekly newspaper. [57] Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC West and ITV West Country.
BBC Radio Wiltshire is the BBC's local radio station serving the English county of Wiltshire. It broadcasts on FM , DAB , digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Prospect Place in Swindon . According to RAJAR , the station had a weekly audience of 89,000 and a 6.2% share as of December 2023.