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On Monday morning last week, I boarded the 7:38 am train from Trowbridge, not just to travel to Swindon but to sell the tickets too.

It was a great way to celebrate the launch of the new regular TransWilts rail service, and to meet the local commuters who are benefitting from it. etc

12:00pm Friday 20th December 2013 in Entertainment News

Perhaps this is a better link to the same story ...

It's possible their link is simply scouring the interwebs for mentions of the word "Bradford" and assuming that all references are going to be of interest to readers living in Lancashire, without checking that there is in fact more than one place named Bradford.

Duncan Hames, MP for Chippenham - Rail service is now back on track thanks to grant

12:00pm Thursday 19th December 2013 in News

On Monday morning last week, I boarded the 7.38 train from Trowbridge, not just to travel to Swindon but to sell the tickets too. It was a great way to celebrate the launch of the new regular TransWilts rail service, and to meet the local commuters who are benefiting from it.

I^ve been working with First Great Western and the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership for a number of years to get this service up and running, and I am delighted that it^s been made possible by a grant of more than ^4 million from the coalition government.

Eight trains a day are now running in each direction along the line between Westbury and Swindon, Monday to Saturday, stopping at Trowbridge, Melksham and Chippenham.

That^s a big improvement, particularly for the people of Melksham who had their service cut to just two trains a day each way eight years ago.

I hope that in the new year plenty of local people will take up this option and prove its worth.

This sort of government investment for a stronger economy in Wiltshire is very welcome, and I am determined to ensure that it doesn^t stop there.

A fortnight ago, Liberal Democrat Treasury Minister Danny Alexander set out the government^s plans for ^375 billion-worth of infrastructure projects.

In Parliament last week, I pressed him to include Wiltshire College^s proposed new Chippenham campus in those plans.

I^ve already urged the Skills Minister and even the Prime Minister to ensure the college receives the funding it needs to rebuild the campus and help our young people acquire the skills that will enable them to get on in life.

Returning to Wiltshire, I toured the Shreddies factory in Staverton, where investment in their combined heat and power plant has cut carbon emissions by 9,000 tonnes a year, the equivalent of taking 3,600 cars off the roads.

I met a student spending a year in industry as part of her sandwich course, and a recent graduate on the firm^s graduate trainee scheme, who is already making her contribution to health and safety in a business that clearly takes great pride in its operations.

I look forward to witnessing more and more opportunities created for young people as we build a stronger economy in the year ahead.

I also completed three well-attended constituency surgeries, bringing my total for 2013 to 52.

1) Bradford is the other side of the Pennines if you are up north forget this at your peril!

These are both Gannet papers using the Newsquest site, and the story appears to be on all of them. Since it's been tagged as "national" and "entertainment" news, it's not going to vary from one title to another.

What is unclear is why it got tagged like that. Most items on that list are credited as copyright PA, but this one has no source at all - so presumably it's from one of their own staff.

The on-line comments are of course separate for each title, and you would have thought someone on one of them would have twigged by now.