1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (249+ words) Specialist search and rescue teams have been deployed along a Wiltshire canal to help find a missing woman. Marcia, 52, from Devizes, has not been since approximately 8.15am on Friday (September 11). On Sunday morning, officers were joined by volunteers from Wiltshire Search…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (500+ words) A former PE teacher has been convicted of sexual offences against three of her students. Bronwen James, 30, of Chippenham, was today found guilty at Winchester Crown Court of three counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (361+ words) A “flirty” PE teacher who “exploited her position” at a Hampshire school has been found guilty of having sex with a 16-year-old schoolboy. Bronwen James, 30, from Chippenham, was convicted of three counts of sexual activity involving the schoolboy at Bitterne Park…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (298+ words) A pensioner from Wiltshire has appeared in court facing 13 sexual offence charges against children aged under 14. 78-year-old Robin Higgins, of Wood Lane in Chippenham, has appeared in Swindon Magistrates' Court charged with four counts of assaulting a girl under 13 by…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (851+ words) Hundreds of police officers lined the street at the funeral of a colleague who was killed in a collision on the A66. Standard bearers represented every UK force at the service for Pc Matthew Blades, 37, at St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church…...

6+ day, 51+ min ago   (240+ words) A jury has retired to consider its verdicts over a Wiltshire PE teacher accused of having sex with a teenage pupil at her home. Bronwen James, 30, of Chippenham, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court accused of four charges of…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (717+ words) A campaign by Reform UK councillors to make Swindon's parks safer for women appears to have backfired - after a woman was assaulted at the party's annual conference. Reform group leader Sara Godwin and fellow councillor Colin Lovell took to Facebook…...

1+ week, 3+ min ago   (770+ words) A PE teacher accused of having sex with a teenage pupil told a court she wanted to be liked and found it hard to “say no”. Bronwen James, 30, told a jury she felt she was immature, easily influenced and very…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (57+ words) Gazette and Herald Wiltshire prisoner who melted blades into toothbrush sentenced A serving prisoner who melted razorblades into a toothbrush and attacked prison officers has been sentenced to more time inside. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (581+ words) A “flirty” PE teacher who had sex with a 16-year-old pupil asked him to call her “miss” when they were together, a court has heard. Bronwen James, 30, of Chippenham, Wiltshire, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court accused of four…...