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A new supported living scheme for adults with learning disabilities which provides support so they can be independent and be part of the community, has opened in Salisbury.

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.

Wiltshire Council is launching a new grants programme in the new year to help businesses in the county bring vacant shops and commercial spaces back into use.

Wiltshire Council's Shared Lives service has been rated as Good in its recent inspection carried out by the Care Quality Commission.

Castle Street in Trowbridge is now fully reopened to traffic following the successful completion of the vast majority of works to improve walking and cycling access in and around the town centre

Residents at Furlong Close will continue to access care and support as usual while the future provision at the site is determined.

Trowbridge town centre and Salisbury city centre can now look forward to over £25 million investment following successful bids through the government's Future High Streets Fund.

The count for the Wiltshire and Swindon Police and Crime Commissioner elections has been completed today (Monday 10 May).

Wiltshire Council has today (Saturday 8 May) completed the count for the council unitary elections.