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Visitors and local residents in Marlborough can now enjoy exploring their local history and cultural heritage with the town being the latest to be added to the 'Explore Wiltshire' heritage app.

Wiltshire Council has issued a £400 fixed penalty notice (FPN) to a Swindon resident who paid an unlicenced person to dispose of their domestic waste. The waste was subsequently fly-tipped in a layby in Winterbourne Monkton, near the Avebury World Heritage Site, and was inspected by Environmental Enforcement Officers.

Wiltshire Council will be seeking to work with a specialist contractor to help deliver energy efficiency measures to up to 175 existing homes in the county.

The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre is closed for alteration work from today (4 December 2023) to 8 January 2024.

Wiltshire Council's leisure members are enjoying high-energy workouts in low-energy facilities following a range of initiatives that will help to reduce energy bills and carbon emissions.

Wiltshire Council is encouraging local groups and organisations to take part in the Great British Spring Clean this year, from 25 March-10 April.

A rare Cruck-framed building at Kings Farm in Winterslow has been given Grade II* listed status after being found to have special architectural and historic interest.

Wiltshire Council has thanked its highways, emergency weather staff, contractors and all those involved for all their work throughout the weekend in responding to a record number of incidents caused by Storm Eunice.

Wiltshire Council's Cabinet has today (Tuesday 1 February) approved the council's Climate Strategy and Green & Blue Infrastructure Strategy, Wiltshire's Natural Environment Plan.