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Wiltshire in pictures: New sports hub and wartime cakes

Richard Crowley
BBC News, Wiltshire
SWINDON BOROUGH COUNCIL An aerial view of a football pitch, pavilion and cycle trackSWINDON BOROUGH COUNCIL
A new £6.3m sports hub in Moredon, featuring football pitches, cycle tracks and a new pavilion opened this week

At any point, there are dozens of photographers out and about in Wiltshire capturing snapshots of life, from news to sport and live entertainment.

Here is a selection of images taken in the county over the past few days.

Swindon Borough Council An aerial view of the new 3G pitch, with goals at either end.Swindon Borough Council
In addition to cycling and the 3G pitch, there were also grass pitches, three for football, two for cricket.

Sports galore: A multi-million pound sporting hub, including cycling facilities that can be used for competitions, a floodlit 3G pitch and a BMX track, opened this week.

Moredon Sporting Hub in Swindon cost £6.3m, with funding coming from several places, including local councils.

It promised to offer sport and leisure for all ages and to introduce new activities on a Family Open Day later.

A school girl wearing a high-vis jacket and school skirt, shovelling soil into a hole to cover a time capsule on a field outside the school, with other teachers and people looking on.
The capsule, filled with contributions from pupils, will serve as a bridge between the present and the future

A moment in time: A ceremony was held at Silverwood School in Rowde bury a time capsule, which contains objects and letters from the children.

A new £38.5m campus will be built at the school to include a two-storey teaching building with a hydrotherapy pool, a new all-weather sports pitch, playing fields and parking.

A bronze bust sculpture of a man inside the Swindon museum, with blue carpets and walls.
The museum is based in a converted space on the upper floor of the art deco Civic Offices

Grand opening: Swindon's new museum and art gallery opened its doors for the first time on Tuesday.

The old venue closed during the Covid pandemic.

The exhibition tracks the Wiltshire town's history right up to the modern era, and displays its large collection of modern art.

A selection of wartime cake recipes written on white paper with black lettering.
A wartime fruit cake was delivered to a woman after she sent the recipe to her ready meal provider

Slice of history: Wiltshire Farm Foods recreated popular wartime cakes, from recipes given to the ready meal provider from customer Doreen Binder.

Bakers had to be creative because of rationing during the war, using alternative ingredients like vinegar.

A girl before and after a charity head shave, wearing yellow t-shirt
She has saved up her pocket money to hire the hall at Meadowcroft Community Centre, where the head shave took place

Close shave: 12-year-old Maisy from Swindon raised more than £1,000 from a charity head shave.

She chose to support the Wiltshire Air Ambulance after her grandmother Julie had a cardiac arrest at home on 30 May.

Children holding a banner saying 'keep the golf course wild!' in rainbow lettering. Others are holding signs made on cardboard.
The group call themselves the Golf Course Freedom Fighters

Really wild: 100 school-aged children held a protest at a former golf course in Bradford on Avon.

They want the 44-acre site to be protected from future housing development. They held placards that read 'kids need nature' and 'keep the golf course wild' on Sunday.

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