SWINDON Robins extended their lead at the top of the Sky Sports Elite League tonight with comprehensive 56-39 beating of Belle Vue Aces. Skipper Leigh Adams and Slovenian ace Matej Zagar both scored paid maximums as the Robins celebrated their
VISITORS to this year’s Swindon Mela can get a free health check alongside learning more about Asian culture. Health experts will attend tomorrow’s annual celebration to give information, advice and basic assessments. The idea behind the stand, run
JOHNNY Ball will be cheering when his brother-in-law and 150 young swimmers splash out for the NSPCC. The former TV presenter’s brother-in-law Paul Hicks and members of the Swindon Amateur Swimming Club (ASC) will cover 110 lengths to raise money for
SWINDON Robins' Elite League trip to Lakeside Hammers tomorrow night is OFF, after an agreement between both clubs. Alun Rossiter's men, beaten three times by the Essex side during the course of June and July, were due to contest a meeting
A violent robber who attacked a man in a town centre park and snatched his bag from him has walked free from court. Ryan Strickland grabbed victim Darren Arthur in a bear hug while an accomplice threatened the man, who had been shopping with his wife
CHILDREN are getting outstanding care at a Swindon nursery, a Government watchdog has judged. The Little Stars nursery has been rated as outstanding in all categories by Ofsted. Inspectors have described staff as “sensitive adults” and said children
One of the questions that people regularly ask me is what happened to the cranes that used to be in the sidings by the Tesco Superstore? I always say “do you mean the two large steam railway cranes?” “Yes,” they reply with a glimmer of hope in their
FORMER Robins' favourite Tomasz Chrzanowski will return to the Abbey Stadium next week to ride for Swindon in the Four-Team tournament at Blunsdon. Polish ace Chrzanowski joins Travis McGowan, Simon Stead and Paul Hurry in the Swindon squad
TOWN sponsors FourFourTwo magazine and EA Sports have both added their support to the Red Army Fund (RAF), by donating items to be auctioned at the planned fundraising event on August 4. EA Sports have donated copies of the video game FIFA 09, while
TOWN fans may not see injured duo Lee Peacock and Hasney Aljofree for months, with boss Danny Wilson admitting the pair face a long road to recovery. Striker Peacock went under the surgeon’s knife twice during the close season in a bid to cure a long-standing
IT was back in 1967 that the Swindon Robins speedway team were last crowned champions. Alun Rossiter’s team are currently top of the Elite League and in their 60th year the team are gunning for long-awaited silverware. By coincidence, Wiltshire auctioneer
52 pubs are closing every week, according to the British Beer and Pub Association. Also the rate at which pubs are closing is accelerating, because of the smoking ban. We are now witnessing the death of the good old British pub, and it is all down to
A TEACHER famed for going above and beyond her duties has stepped down after 24 years at the same school. Pauline Baker has taught every year group at Eastrop Infants School in Highworth but has been focusing on Year 2 for the last decade. The 59-year-old
WITH all those empty spaces and shops in the town centre and all those regeneration schemes falling by the wayside, there is one proposal which has been mentioned before - a good old fashioned open air market. One look at Salisbury will tell you why.
A COUPLE of months ago a friend of mine purchased an old painting of The Green, Tenby by Oliver Morgan from the sale that Rodbourne Cheney Baptist Church have every Thursday. It is now in my possession and I would like to know how this painting came
DOESN’T it sound great, a colourful running stream, with all sorts of wonderful features for us to enjoy while out shopping. With the £3.9m spending money maybe some nice clean toilets within a short distance of all that running water, also while they
North Wiltshire MP James Gray has written to the Home Secretary to suggest a change in the law which permits noise-enhancing alterations to car exhausts. “A very large number of my constituents in Malmesbury are being continually disturbed by the noise
I AM appealing again to your readers who have, in the past, always come up trumps so fingers crossed. The Phoenix Players, well known to theatre goers at the Arts Centre, are presenting two one act plays in September one of which is Blood Brothers by
MARTA Andreasen, the former Brussels whistle blower sacked by Lord Kinnock, has been blocked from taking a senior position at the European Parliament by MEPs fearful of future scandal, by which they mean being exposed as fraudsters. She was to be Vice
WOOTTON Bassett is to host a Charity Fun Run on Sunday, August 9, featuring a 5km multi-terrain race. The charity event will start out at Ballards Ash Sports Ground at 10am. The route will take entrants round Jubilee Lake, Lime Kiln, Coxstalls, Row-de-Dow
THREE men have been arrested in Swindon over the alleged export of 99 shipping containers of illegal waste from the UK to Brazil. Officers from the Environment Agency’s National Environmental Crime Team raided three properties in the town yesterday
THE railway spent the weekend testing the new diesel engines non stop for 48-72 hours from Friday to Monday. The noise was horrendous like a train running non stop in the bedrooms. I lived in Dean Street and I and my friends all had children at very
STEVE Halden said that the Apollo Moon Landings were faked. Could he answer this about them then, please? If you are right Mr Halden why have the Russians never shouted ‘fake’ and continued with the race to get to the Moon first? After all
A loose spark plug caused a microlight to crash into a field near Bishopstone. The crash happened in the morning of February 21 after the MW7 aircraft took off from an airfield near Winchester, Hampshire. An air accident investigation report into the
MUCH has been said and more written about the rights and wrongs of our presence in Afghanistan and whether or not our Armed Forces have the up to date equipment to do the job which they are called upon to do. As the casualties mount these arguments are
I WOULD like to thank the young man who came to my aid when I had a bad fall in Wood Street on June 15. He kindly held my hand and rang my husband. He was right I broke my elbow which is now on the mend. Once more thank you. C PUCKEY Swindon
FOOTBALLERS at Swindon Town will be asking residents to put the kettle on to help raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support at their match on Tuesday. The charity wants people to take part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning in September. Macmillan
WELL done Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington for boycotting the new ‘go-faster’ swimsuit because ‘it’s just like doping’. She’s refused to wear the controversial performance swimsuit claiming it’s tantamount to cheating. And now the controversy has intensified
I GET fed up with having to dodge cyclists riding on the pavement. On my way to work, a woman was cycling on the pavement going the wrong way down a one way street. I politely reminded her it was illegal to cycle on the pavement and that the offence
ON Thursday evening, July 16, I went with some of my neighbours to St Margaret’s Church, Stratton to listen to a choir, not knowing we were in for such an evening’s entertainment. They were the New College Chamber Choir and Ensemble in aid
THIEVES smashed a window in a garage to steal a racing bike. The red and white £500 bike disappeared between July 12 and 19 from Caernarvon Walk, Lawn, when its owners were on holiday. The five-year-old bike has drop handles and tri-bars. If anyone
Tears may mask the sorrow, And grief may hide the pain. But, how do we cope tomorrow? And keep ourselves sane? A light went out when we lost you, Our darkest hour has come. For the beautiful person you were to us, Our precious
STRESS will be on the agenda at the next Swindon Mindful Employer Network meeting. Psychotherapist, coach and author Andrew Buckley will be talking about managing mental health issues at work during the September 23 meeting at 2.30pm.
A DOCTOR turned heroine when she saw an unconscious man being kicked in the head in Swindon town centre. Emma Court was on a night out with medical colleagues, but was called into action when she saw the assault by five men. The junior
LOCAL players missed out on a county title in the four Wiltshire women’s finals that they contested at Box on Monday. The finals were totally dominated by the host club who took the honours in all five events - a Wiltshire ladies record in modern times
A SUCCESSFUL hotelier has criticised Swindon Council’s plans to bring yet another large-scale hotel to the town centre. Eddy Shah, the former newspaper tycoon, who owns and operates the Wiltshire Golf and Country Club, in Wootton Bassett, said
ALL of the players who will represent Wiltshire in the men’s national championships at Worthing next month are now known. The three outstanding county semi-finals in pairs and fours wereplayed at Westlecot and resulted in two local winners. The outstanding
TRIBUTES have been paid to a Swindon man who fell 30ft to his death from an industrial unit’s roof. Father-of-four John Wheeler, of Cheney Manor Road, fell from the building, which is owned by Powell McNeil Machinery Co Ltd, at Hawksworth Industrial
A former Swindon brothel madam ordered to pay back millions of pounds from the proceeds of her illicit businesses said today she will not be leave her luxury Mediterranean hideaway to face justice. Diane Jones is enjoying the sunshine of northern Cyprus
DMT (double mini tramp) club, Aquila, held a 2009 open day, featuring competitions and displays at Swindon Academy. The morning session saw all club members training together, including a session of rig work and double mini tramp, a new discipline now
LESS will hopefully be more for Jamie Cox tomorrow night as he aims to prove a point to the boxing world’s harshest critics. That is the opinion of Cox’s trainer Paddy Fitzpatrick as the 22-year-old goes head-to-head with Hungarian Janos Petrovics at
SWINDON supporters who have placed pre-orders for a new home shirt will be able to pick up their kit tonight. The Legends Lounge will be open from 7pm and seven Town players will be in attendance to meet supporters. New signings Jonathan Douglas, David
THREE players from Swindon Town’s Football in the Community Trust girls development programme led out England Women for their friendly last night against Denmark. Amy Joliffe, Emily Price and Larrisa Emms were mascots as England faced Denmark at the
A VINTAGE Jap speedway machine that was used in the first-ever meeting at Blunsdon on July 23, 1949 will lead tonight’s pre-match parade. The bike, ridden in the Abbey Stadium’s opening meeting 60 years ago against Oxford by Tom Wilson, will
FOR A man as dyed in the Robins wool as Alun Rossiter, it is entirely appropriate that the Swindon team manager should be celebrating his 44th birthday on the same day his beloved club toasts its 60th. And there are few people better placed than ‘Rosco
GORDON Brown today promised us a railway fit for the 21st century as he announced a £1.1bn electrification scheme which will transform the service between London and Swansea. The Prime Minister, travelling by train from London Paddington to
AFTER being married at Poole on Saturday, “Ginger” Nicholls, member of Swindon’s new speedway team - the “Robins” - dashed by car with his bride to the Stadium for the opening match with Oxford “Cheetahs” to register the fastest time of 82 4-5 seconds
A £1.3m project aimed at persuading youths to be arty instead of creating trouble has come to an end. The north Swindon-based Flux project has been working with Isambard Community School and the surrounding primary schools to teach film making, website
DANNY Wilson is confident of strengthening Town’s striking options inside the next week, but revealed he is undaunted at the possibility of starting this season with only Billy Paynter up top. With just over two weeks before the 2009/10 campaign kicks-off
OLD Town library will merge with the Arts Centre to create a “cultural community hub” under an ambitious scheme backed by councillors. The library, which has been facing the axe for more than a year, will move into the Devizes Road centre within the
THE latest chapter in the saga of three Swindon libraries was opened last night at a heated council meeting. Swindon Council’s cabinet voted to close one library and cut staffing at two others despite protests from library users. The
BLUNSDON hero Leigh Adams will make his 500th appearance in Robins colours tonight on an historic evening for the club. The Aussie is due to reach the milestone against visitors Belle Vue in the Elite League, 60 years to the day since the Abbey
CHILDREN in Wootton Bassett have been mastering the art of using chopsticks and learning about Indian cuisine. Youngsters from Noremarsh Junior School visited the Ganges Indian restaurant in the town. Meanwhile, pupils from Longleaze Primary School
