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SIR – The cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason describes feeling uncomfortable about the playing of Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms (report, January 21). Perhaps if there was wider awareness of the origins of these words, minds might be set to rest. Rule, Britannia! was inspired by a lad from Penryn, Cornwall. Thomas Pellow was 11 years old and on his first sea voyage with his uncle when they were captured by Barbary pirates and taken into horrific, cruel, brutal slavery under Sulta...

SIR – The Conservatives will lose the next election – not because of Rishi Sunak but because of the disloyalty shown by other members of the party.

When Wiltshire Council released a new free history tour app aiming to promote the hidden parts of Wiltshires past, I was keen to see if it…

When Wiltshire Council released a new free history tour app aiming to promote the hidden parts of Wiltshires past, I was keen to see if it…

Town councillors are weighing up their options to help protect hundreds of amphibians crossing a busy road to migrate to their traditional breeding…

Three blocks of 60-year-old flats in Wiltshire that cannot be repaired are set to be demolished - with residents affected needing to move out.

A fox trapped in a farm’s slurry ‘lagoon’ in Wiltshire was rescued in the nick of time by the RSPCA with expert help from a local fire and…

The fox was in "real danger" when he got trapped in a slurry lagoon but was rescued by firefighters.

Alert alert passer-by has helped to save an empty house in Wiltshire from going up in flames after  he heard a fire alarm sounding.

A NEW storage facility with 20 shipping containers available for customers to rent could be set up on agricultural land north of Swindon.