HIGHWORTH Town put the disappointment of their FA Vase semi-final defeat behind them with a 3-0 win at home to Thame United in the Premier Division tonight. John Fisher’s side suffered an agonising weekend as they were beaten 2-0 away at Northern
POLICE have released this CCTV image of three men they would like to trace in connection with an incident of criminal damage.The video footage showed three men who used a broom to smash the windows of Moredon Community Centre.The trio were caught on the
FIREFIGHTERS braved the bluster on Sunday to take part in a charity car wash in aid of the Fire Fighters Charity.Despite the adverse conditions, firefighters pulled up their sleeves and washedsoaped and scrubbed at cars visiting the fire station in Cricklade
A DRIVING test examiner killed his wife by deliberately crashing their pick-up truck off a motorway at up to 84mph, a court has heard. A jury at Leicester Crown Court was shown CCTV footage of Ian Walters's Mitsubishi L200 moments before it veered
THE Swindon branch of the Green party is celebrating after their crowdfunding campaign reached its £1,000 goal, allowing both their candidates to stand in the general election.A £500 deposit is required to secure a place in the election with the Green
THE cream of the Irish dancing world descended on Swindon this weekend when overmore than 100 dancers battled it out for a glittering podium finish. The VW Irish Dancing Feis, which was held at the Lydiard Park Academy in Grange Park Way, attracted
SWINDON Town midfielder Yaser Kasim got the only goal of the game as Iraq beat DR Congo 1-0 in an international friendly this afternoon. Kasim’s fine strike from the edge of the box in the second half was enough to clinch the win for his side.
A VOLUNTARY service that has resolved family conflicts in Swindon for the last decade has been forced to fold after Lottery Funding was withdrawn two years ago. Mediationplus, based in Milton Road, has worked for the last ten years around Swindon
Former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord William Waldegrave has released his account of one of the most exciting times in British politics' modern age. Educated at Eton, Oxford and Harvard, and serving in Cabinet from 1990-97, Waldegrave's memoir
URANIUM, that vital ingredient of radiation sickness and nuclear annihilation, was big news as March gave way to April in 1979.At the Three Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania, a stuck valve came close to sending a molten blob of the stuff scorching
WE’VE always know they are a caring lot at Dorcan School, and these two photographs taken by the Adver in 1995 prove the point.We went along in July that year, when pupils made their own mobiles for the hospitals special care baby unit. In the picture
Wiltshire Police were called to the Holiday Inn in Marlborough Road, Swindon, just before 1.10pm on Monday following reports of a sudden death. A 51-year-old woman from Swindon was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are not treating her death
SWINDON Robins' meeting with Coventry Bees has been moved and will now be shown live on Sky Sports. The clash had been due to take place at the Abbey Stadium on Thursday, June 4, but the fixture will now happen on Tuesday, May 26.
Wiltshire Packaging specialist GWP Group are on course for their best ever year with sales well ahead of expectations.The company has been performing strongly since 2012, when the firm first saw the beginnings of a recovery from the recession, with sales
THE morning’s work is done. The stomach rumble cannot be ignored. It is time for lunch. The opportunity, perhaps, to delve into a work bag to pull out a lovingly crafted risotto or the leftovers of last night’s curry. More likely is the dash
THE Swindon Music Festival came to a glittering crescendo this weekend with the crowning of its four major champions.Beginning on March 20 and held at the Swindon Arts Centre, the festival marked an opportunity for the town’s best musical talent to take
SIGNING for Swindon Town feels like a homecoming for Sam Ricketts after joining on loan for the club he used to watch as a child. Ricketts, who signed on until the end of the season last week, holds Swindon close to his heart with his grandad,
AARON Nell has been selected in the English Premier League all-star first team. Following an impressive campaign for the Swindon Wildcats, the 25-year-old forward, who netted 33 times in 37 appearances, has been picked alongside five players from
OUR black masthead and page borders 13 year ago today marked the end of an era. At about 6pm on Saturday, March 30, 2002, Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen Mother had died in the afternoon at Royal Lodge, Windsor. She was 101 years
JOHN Paine, 52, has won a Pride of Swindon award for his work on the Penhill Community Association’s Build-a-Bike scheme at the Chippenham Close Community Centre. The scheme gives young people the opportunity to create and customise their own machines
Graham Carter the voice of age and experience... Now I’ve got used to it, I like my grey hair. It makes me look older than I feel, but at least it tells the world I wasn’t born yesterday. Unfortunately, I must also have a gormless face, because
SWINDON people are a bunch of unfriendly miseries, according to a survey by some outfit called Public Library of Science ONE. No, I’ve never heard of them either. The claim came as a bit of a surprise to me. In 17 years in Swindon I’ve only
Wiltshire Police have had nearly 40 reports of trees being brought down by the high winds overnight. Police took 37 calls from members of the public between midnight and 8.30am telling them trees had either blocked roads, partially blocked roads
THE election campaign rolled on today as the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls visited Swindon to announce a major new Labour policy. Alongside South Swindon parliamentary candidate Anne Snelgrove and Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna, the party
I HOPE lots of readers heed our call to tell us about food served up at the Great Western Hospital. We made that call after a patient called Roger Strange was refused a Halal meal. Although he’s a non-Muslim, he’d asked for one because he says
AN Australian woman called Jacky Collyer has been told by the Home Office she’s being chucked out of the country. Jacky and her husband, Purton man Andy Carter, run Darkroom Espresso in Faringdon Road. In spite of having a British husband,
THREE friends who took on one of the world’s highest mountains have raised £7,000 for a Swindon charity which supports people with mental health, drug and alcohol problems. Electrician Lee Breakspeare, property developer Haydn Beer, and chartered accountant
POLICE are investigating a series of burglaries at care homes in Swindon in the early hours of yesterday. At about 2.05am, police were called to Rose Cottage Care Home in Haydon Wick following reports that a man had attempted to gain entry to the
A 'JEALOUS' man who assaulted and threatened to 'stab up' a woman he moved in with after they met on a dating website has been spared jail. Leon Cole, 42, who has a history of violence, was on bail for twice assaulting the mum when he embarked
A GRIEVING husband is fundraising for a new cricket pavilion in memory of his beloved wife, who lost her 12-year battle with cancer last month. Phil Duffell, 49, launched the Ainslie’s Pavilion project – which aims to build a new pavilion with
DELIVERY firm TNT has announced who will manage the new South Marston depot, with bosses hopeful the site will be running by the summer.In January, developers IDI Gazeley broke the ground for the new distribution centre in G Park, next to the B&Q depot
Here are the top national news stories that you are waking up to on Tuesday, March 31. Two British students murdered by fishmonger Fishmonger, Zulkipli Abdullah, 23, has been found guilty of murdering two British medical students in Malaysia
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DIY CHAIN B&Q is to close as many as 60 stores over the next two years in a shake-up set to impact on 3,000 jobs in the UK and Ireland. Parent company Kingfisher, which also owns Screwfix, wants to cut about 15 per cent of surplus space through
A 51-YEAR-old man whose wife died in hospital after a motorway crash is set to go on trial accused of her murder. Ian Walters was seriously injured when a Mitsubishi 4x4 left the southbound carriageway of the M1 in Leicestershire on March 21 last
WE can expect winds of up to 25mph throughout the day across Swindon. The Met Office has issued a warning for the public, particularly motorists, to take extra care. Simon Routh-Jones, Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service’s chief fire officer,
THOUSANDS of jobs at Honda have been secured after the car giant announced it was investing £200m to build the new Civic in Swindon. Honda of the UK Manufacturing (HUM), in Highworth Road, South Marston, will become a global production hub for
SWINDON Junior Flames got the better of Ash as they edged to a 6-5 success in a pulsating encounter. The first period began with Swindon in penalty trouble but a fine display of goalkeeping by Jade Kenealy kept the score level. Shortly after
PAUL Bodin was not expecting to be playing much the last time Swindon Town won promotion to the then First Division. Having seen his second spell at the club go south after back-to-back relegations, the full-back thought he was going to be replaced
TIGERSHARKS have been crowned 2015 Wiltshire Winter League champions following a decision by the Wiltshire ASA to call off the final round to accommodate the county championships. The title was therefore decided on positions at the end of the third
RYAN Aldridge signed off on Sunday night as Swindon Wildcats’ head coach after overseeing his final game and believes he is leaving the club in a better place than it was at when he joined. Aldridge, who started his career in the Swindon Academy
MARLBOROUGH Town hauled themselves off the foot of the table with an impressive 3-0 win at home to Devizes Town Reserves. The victory was just a fourth of the season for Nando Rossi’s side and they have now climbed above both Vale of Pewsey and
SWINDON Town have taken their latest punt on a youngster from the Cayman Islands, offering 12-year-old Barry-Dre Tibbetts a trial in August. Tibbetts, who plays for Elite Sports Club, will hope to follow in the footsteps of Sebastian Martinez,
SWINDON Spitfires United got the better of a hard-fought battle with Melksham to book their place in the Wiltshire League Cup Final thanks to a penalty shoot-out success. Sandra Higgins-Hughes’ long ball allowed Mel Bristow to open the scoring
Under 15 Division 1 STANLEY Park Youth secured a third league title in a row with a fine 3-0 win over Wroughton Youth. With both sides still in contention to finish top, Stanley went in at the break 1-0 up thanks to a goal from Jordan Clark
SWINDON Wildcats ace Aaron Nell has been called up to the Great Britain Senior Prospects squad to face Romania in Scotland next month. The 25-year-old forward has five senior GB appearances to his name but Nell has not played international ice
KYLE Howarth says the decision to return to the Swindon Robins for the 2015 season was a no-brainer. Howarth spent the second half of the 2013 campaign at the Abbey Stadium but rode for the Coventry Bees last term. However, Great Britain under
AVTAR Construction clinched the Premier Division title with four games to spare when they came from behind to earn a 1-1 draw at home to third-placed Village Inn. It is actually the first time Avtar have dropped points this season, having won all
IT WAS goals galore throughout the league as no fewer than 98 strikes found the net in the 14 fixtures that went ahead. The most interesting game was in Division Two as Peter Myall grabbed a five-goal haul to help Wanborough edge a 7-6 thriller
JORDAN Turnbull is hoping the County Ground fans can be the 12th man this Saturday, as Swindon Town prepare to take on MK Dons. Fresh from making his debut for England Under 20s, Turnbull returns to Swindon as they prepare for a pair of season
A GRIEVING family suffered a cruel added blow on Friday when a shameless raider broke into their car at Kingsdown Crematorium while they mourned just yards away. Jamie and Helen Ashby were still wiping away the tears of an emotional send-off for
A SPORTS project which transformed the lives of thousands of disadvantaged Swindon teens has scooped a prestigious national award.The Swindon branch of StreetGames, which aims to give 14 to 25-year-olds the chance to shine by taking part in sports and
