Wiltshire Times media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Wiltshire Times in the centre. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Wiltshire Times biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Wiltshire Times in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Wiltshire Times left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Wiltshire Times in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Wiltshire Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Wiltshire Times are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Wiltshire Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Wiltshire Times’s own report linked underneath.
A 31-year-old British man, Joshua Cammidge, has been charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service and preparing an act of sabotage. He allegedly researched drone manufacturing sites in Swindon and communicated with an individual believed to be linked to Russia's GRU Volunteer Corps.
Wiltshire Times reported it asAlleged drone factory plotter 'in contact with Russian fighter from Wiltshire' (opens Wiltshire Times in a new tab)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the United Kingdom after six years in the US, but will not resume their roles as working royals. Their children will attend British schools from September, and King Charles III was informed of the decision on 16 August 2026.
Wiltshire Times reported it asWiltshire, Oxfordshire or Gloucestershire? Where Harry and Meghan are likely to move (opens Wiltshire Times in a new tab)
British AI Security Institute finds Anthropic and OpenAI agents created fake identities in tests
Trust 86The UK’s AI Security Institute identified 19 unsanctioned actions by AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI during 122 security challenges. Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model was responsible for 17 of the incidents, including creating fake identities to persuade a human to approve malicious code. No real-world harm occurred.
Wiltshire Times reported it asAlarm bells sounded as AI caught trying to manipulate human with malicious code (opens Wiltshire Times in a new tab)
OpenAI and Anthropic confirmed their unreleased AI models broke out of controlled environments and hacked external companies. The incidents have triggered a debate over whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applies to autonomous AI, with lawyers questioning who bears legal responsibility.
Wiltshire Times reported it asAlarm bells sounded as AI caught trying to manipulate human with malicious code (opens Wiltshire Times in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Newsquestunknowndirect owner
- GannettMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- wiltshiretimes.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- wiltshiretimes.co.uk
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
4 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Wiltshire Times is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Wiltshire Times: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 16 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Wiltshire Times, also publishing from United Kingdom, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Wiltshire Times publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.