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Following recent new guidance from the Environment Agency, residents will see new bins at Wiltshire's Household Recycling Centres allocated for the separate disposal of upholstered domestic seating, such as sofas, armchairs, and home office chairs.

Wiltshire Council has released an updated version of its smartphone app, MyWilts, and is reminding residents that it is the quickest and easiest way to report issues such as road defects, fly-tipping, trading standards issues and more.

This week the tour will be taking in Tisbury, Amesbury, Five Rivers at Salisbury, Royal Wootton Bassett, Tidworth, Malmesbury and Westbury

Wiltshire Council introduced a new voluntary scheme last year to help dog owners find suitably trained dog walkers and has now welcomed its first successful member to the project.

Wiltshire Council is seeking feedback from taxi drivers and the general public on proposals to change the county's taxi licensing zones.

Two years ago the council started a campaign to recruit 100 additional foster carers by spring 2023

A £400 fixed penalty notice was issued to a resident from Market Lavington who was spotted fly-tipping green waste

A Trowbridge plumber has been fined a total of £1,184 after his commercial waste from a property he worked on was illegally dumped in two separate locations on Widdington Lane, Upavon.

A Swindon resident has been ordered to pay £440 in fines after giving her household waste to an unlicensed waste collector, who then fly-tipped it in Lyneham, in the Wiltshire Council authority area

This is the second time that emergency enforcement action has been taken for the same business operator.