South West Wiltshire Liberal Democrats

Real Madrid, one of the world's best football clubs, is giving young English football players the opportunity to experience top-class coaching this summer.

The Real Madrid Foundation Clinic will be at the Nadder Centre, Tisbury from 26-30 August.

Coaching sessions will be available to boys and girls aged 6-16 of any footballing ability. The once-in-a-lifetime experience offers an educational programme with top quality coaching, both on and off the pitch.

20mph speed limits are to be introduced to Studley Green and Drynham. Wiltshire Council wants to increase road safety and reduce vehicle intimidation in the areas. Here's a list of the roads affected:

In the council report he's known as 'Adult D'. Let's call him John, because he was a man, and men have names.

In the winter of 2017 John went to hospital suffering alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Because no support was available he was discharged. He was told to avoid the withdrawal symptoms by continuing his drinking.

School children can enjoy a number of different sports in the Easter holidays. Athletics, basketball, cricket, dance, dodgeball, football, gymnastics and tennis camps are being delivered at locations across Wiltshire, with each camp running from 10am - 3pm.

All activities will be delivered by experienced coaches who will help participants improve their skills and knowledge of the sports on offer.

Wiltshire's three new Members of the Youth Parliament have been announced: Aanya Verma (Wiltshire West), Declan Kiely (Wiltshire North), and Heather Newton (Wiltshire East) took up their term of office on 1 March.

This year five candidates stood for election in Wiltshire.

The British Youth Parliament provides opportunities for those aged 11 to 18 to use their voice to bring about social change through representation and campaigning.

The drastic cuts to funding for disability friendship clubs, which Wiltshire Council's beleagured administration proudly announced last month, have now been postponed at least until next year. This follows an outcry from those affected and their supporters. The responsible cabinet member, Jerry Wickham, said: "I very much regret the upset this has caused to the users and staff at the clubs and I extend my apologies."

Here's a press release about another nasty cut by Wiltshire's Tory administration. It's been issued to counteract what they see as adverse publicity about the community clubs. Note the usual trick of pretending the 50% cut will actually make things better.

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Recommendations to exempt cars from being charged to drive in the proposed clean air zone in Bath are being made to Bath and North East Somerset councillors.

The cabinet meeting on March 5th will consider two options for reducing high levels of air pollution in the city, which the Government says must happen 'in the shortest possible time' and by 2021 at the latest.

Yesterday Wiltshire Council passed a motion acknowledging that there's a climate emergency. Almost everyone in the chamber accepted the reality of runaway climate change, and much of the debate centred around whether or not we should be using big scary words like 'emergency', or doing the usual public sector routine of observing, monitoring, and putting off doing anything useful.

The review into Wiltshire's political boundaries has moved a step forward and people are being invited to have their say

The Boundary Commission has published its draft recommendation which proposes Wiltshire should continue to have 98 councillors.

The commission has today (5 February) launched a 10-week public consultation on the recommendations that will end on 15 April. The consultation is open to anyone who wants to have their say on the new divisions, boundaries and division names.