The Wiltshire town of Marlborough is today left without a newspaper office for the first time in more than 200 years

Owners Newquest decided to close the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald’s base in the town after transferring advertising and circulation staff to Swindon, Devizes and Trowbridge.

The only remaining reporter based at its two-storey office on Kingsbury Street was veteran reporter Nigel Kerton, who has been based there for the last 43 years.