ALUN Rossiter is remaining coy over Swindon Robins’ SGB Premiership title prospects, although their brilliant run of form has at least given him confidence that they can be in the shake-up. Swindon made it five victories in eight days by thumping
SWINDON Robins made it a magnificent seven SGB Premiership wins in a row and five in the space of eight days when they ran riot against Rye House Rockets this evening. That run of form stretches back to the last time the Rockets visited the Abbey
10:38pm After a hectic schedule, we have to wait a full week for our next Swindon meeting. That is back at the Abbey
WEEKS of hot weather have led to Oak and Furrows wildlife rescue centre facing the busiest summer staff have ever known. They are looking after hundreds of animal patients and have launched an appeal for help in feeding them. Founder Serena
NEARLY 8,000 letters have been sent to patients at Eldene Surgery after a member of medical staff was suspended amid concerns they allegedly worked outside their level of trained competence.The Swindon Clinical Commissioning Group made the news public
OPPORTUNIST thieves struck twice in quick succession on Wednesday as they targeted cars in the town centre. Andrew Kumar parked his Audi A3 in Spring Gardens at around 6pm before heading into the nearby Kiss Gym.He was only gone for 45 minutes but when
HUNGRY visitors tucked into tasty cooked breakfasts when a new community café opened its doors in Park North. The new café, called The Gate, has set up in the former children’s centre at Goddard Park Community Primary School. Volunteers from the Swindon
A HISTORY fan is trying to find long-lost Swindonian relatives. Pat Thomas, along with her second cousin Jackie Petty, are trying to trace their connected family tree to find one of their distant relatives who they’ve never met but still believe
DUNKIRK (12A, 106 mins) Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Harry Styles, Tom Hardy, Jack Lowden, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Cillian Murphy, Tom Glynn-Carney, Barry Keoghan, James D'Arcy. Director: Christopher Nolan.BREVITY is the soul
WHEN director Simon Phillips staged the world premiere of his production of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest to great acclaim in Australia in 2015, the crowds went wild. Now this thrillingly inventive stage show is holding its UK premiere at the
WHEN the news on everybody’s lips is happening elsewhere, newspapers such as the Adver like to find a local angle.This week in 1969, doing so was more of a challenge than usual, as the big story was happing about a quarter of a million miles away, where
Swindon 1951: The 4th Swindon Boy Scouts took part in the Soap Box Derby. Quaint looking four-wheeled craft with bicycle pedals in place of engines, that looked like soap boxes on wheels, sped along the Filton Bypass. 1961: The Swindon Corporation
THE photographs on this page were taken 43 years ago at RAF Lyneham. The black-robed man who dominates them is Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, who had just fled a coup organised against him by the military cabal which ran Greece at the
Enjoy an outdoor evening at the opera OPERALUNA will present The Magic Flute at The Ellis Theatre at Marlborough College on Saturday, July 22. Heritage Opera, Northwest England’s professional touring opera company, is delighted to be returning
The search is on for star legal eagles who aim to soar in Law Society awards The Gloucestershire & Wiltshire incorporated Law Society (GWILS) – the voice of solicitors, trainees, paralegals, legal secretaries and legal executives in the two
TO celebrate the icon’s 50 year recording career, the UK’s very own ‘voice of Neil’ Bob Drury (The Neil Diamond Story) takes to the road with Viva Neil Diamond, a brand-new one-man stage show simply bursting with Neil Diamond gems! Enjoy once more
A new chief takes over the helm of Swindon's business leaders. Kevin Gwilliam, general manager of the Brunel Shopping Centre, has been appointed president of the Swindon Chamber of Commerce. In a unanimous vote, Kevin was elected to lead the
An Evening with former Chelsea football ace Kerry Dixon takes place on Saturday, July 22 at 7.30pm at the Swindon RAFA Club, Belle Vue Road. Kerry will be talking about his career both with Chelsea Football Club and his time in the England team.
Such stuff as dreams are made on can be seen next week in a new adaptation of one of the Bard's most popular plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream.Swindon's Gatecrash Theatre is presenting its annual Yearn and Learn production at the Arts Centre
KELLY Jones and drummer Stuart Cable grew up in a little Welsh village and jammed together before forming a rock band.Kelly’s dad was a backing singer for Roy Orbison in the 1960s so he encouraged his son, allowing the boys to practise in his garage.This
Eighteen-year-old Declan McKenna is setting the music world on fire... FLICKY HARRISON finds out why TURN on almost any popular radio music station and Humongous, the latest single from singer/songwriter Declan McKenna, will be on the set list.
Eschewing more familiar golfing spots, OWEN HOULIHAN heads to France WHEN it comes to planning a short golfing trip further afield, conversations regarding location have usually coalesced around the usual suspects. The sun-kissed fairways of
He's staying away SINCE my son and his wife split up last year he’s stayed away from his ex-wife and their four-year-old daughter. I am sure this isn’t good for him or for her and, what’s more, he has stopped visiting me as frequently too.
MUSIC festivals are like buses at this time of year, you wait for one to come along and the next thing you know you are trying to budget your booze and CD allowance to accommodate three. But more of that in a while. WSTR might sound like a radio
IF the Old World evolution of dream-pop led to a less tangible, less structured form, The Veldt’s hazy, neo-psychedelic New World echoes were always grounded in a soft r’n’b groove, something which added warmth to what can often be a clinical and non-organic
SOMETIMES you’ve just got to hand over to the experts and let them do their thing. In this case it was four Castor Fiber colleagues who set about an enormous engineering task, transforming a patch of degraded land into wildlife-rich, biodiverse
“Rip-off” surcharges levied by companies on customers who pay with debit or credit cards are to end at the beginning of next year, the Government has announced.The new rules will ban companies from charging up to 20 per cent more for purchases such as
LAST week we looked at the sorts of music you might like to listen to when the Tour de France is on the telly and the peloton is bowling along flat roads towards a climactic sprint finale. Such stages are typical of the grand tour’s inaugural week, but
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I WAs pleased to read last week that Ofsted’s Regional Director Bradley Simmons has been encouraged by the work taking place in our schools to improve standards and educational outcomes. His praise will be welcomed by everyone involved in education
Swindon 1951: An old postcard showing a moment of Wootton Bassett history was sent to the Swindon Advertiser offices. The coloured card, printed by an old Swindon firm, Tomkins and Barrett, reproduced an old engraving of an election procession
FORMER Swindon Town midfielder Fitzroy Simpson has thanked the club for the time given to developing his son Jordan following his move to Forest Green Rovers yesterday. Despite recently signing his first professional contract with Town just last
RISING levels of violence and theft are behind the largest annual increase in crime recorded by police in a decade, figures show. The number of crimes recorded by police in England and Wales was nearly five million in the year to March, according
FAIRFORD Town will begin life back in the Hellenic League Premier Division with a trip to Tuffley Rovers. The opening day of the season fixtures for the league have been announced this morning, with the Cinder Lane side, who won Division One West
THE dates for Swindon Town’s group stage fixtures of the Checkatrade Trophy have been confirmed this morning. Town will start the competition, which they exited at the first knock-out stage last season to Luton Town, by welcoming Terry Westley’
SWINDON Robins skipper Jason Doyle admitted it was a pleasure to return to a buoyant team at Wimborne Road yesterday. Since breaking three bones in his right foot, the Robins won five meetings, including back-to-back victories over league leaders
PLUMBER Shaun Higgins wasn’t expecting to come face-to-face with the past. It was a cold January day and the Highworth plumber was touring Christ Church with the Old Town church’s warden. Shaun had been brought in to refit the church’s century-old
REVELLERS have been blamed for an attack on an Eldene house and car that left residents ‘petrified’. Officers were called to Stubsmead, off Eldene Drive, at 11.45pm on Saturday evening after reports of a gang of youths shouting abuse at a house
THE Brunel Shopping Centre has unveiled a summer of free entertainment for children and families throughout the school holidays.Every Wednesday, between July 26 and the end of August, there will be free seaside-themed activities at the centre as part
Lydiard Park has been recognised by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy as one of the very best in the world - and is now the proud owner of a new flag to prove it. The Swindon Borough Council-owned park is among a record-breaking 1,797 parks
THE Orbital shopping centre became a library as part of a literacy-themed event designed to inspire youngsters to develop a love of reading.Children from Oliver Tomkins Church of England Infant and Junior School and Hazlewood Academy were treated to a
A MAN who is accused of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl is to face trial by judge and jury. Philip Derham is said to have touched the youngster on a number of occasions during a six week period last autumn. The 38-year-old denied five
TURN over your tusks and trinkets and play a part in securing a future for the giants of the animal world. That is the message behind a new ivory surrender campaign launched by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and backed by North
I WAs pleased to read last week that Ofsted’s Regional Director Bradley Simmons has been encouraged by the work taking place in our schools to improve standards and educational outcomes. His praise will be welcomed by everyone involved in education
TADSTOCK 2017 - A MUSIC FESTIVAL THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE! www.tadstock.co.uk 25 to 28th AUGUST 2017, KENCOT HILL FARM, GL7 3QY A festival for the people, powered by the planet. Supporting youth music, creativity and development with
Following the recent success of their Blooming Great Tea Party John Lewis Partners wanted to support terminal illness charity, Marie Curie, further.The team decided to arrange a collection at their store for unwanted clothing, accessories and shoes.Veronica
A YOUNG man made homeless because of a difficult relationship with his step-father has been given one last chance to stay out of prison by magistrates in Swindon. Patrick Aaron Cunnington, 20, of Shrivenham Road, pleaded guilty to two burglaries
A NEW Costa coffee shop opened in the Debenhams on the Parade in the town centre yesterday. Mayor Maureen Penny cut the ceremonial ribbon to mark the opening and customers flocked to the shop to grab a cuppa. Sue Cowling from Blunsdon and Irene
LONGLEAT is playing a vital role in a last ditch international race to save the world’s rarest rhino from extinction.The northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni), whose wild population was estimated in the thousands as recently as 1960, was
A DOG viciously attacked an 11-year-old boy when he cycled along the path behind Tregoze Primary School. Bailey Skull, from Freshbrook, had to have four stitches on his lower forearm to repair the top puncture wound and a further four butterfly
AN INQUEST jury has found that multiple failures by Chippenham man Shaun Carter's employers contributed to his death when he was crushed by his dumper truck as toppled over the side of a large spoil heap. In a narrative conclusion, the jury of
A CAR left the M4 this morning, travelling westbound between junctions 16 and 17, after a crash involving another vehicle. It is not known whether anyone was hurt and one lane is closed while emergency services were at the scene and recovery work
VOLUNTEERS working to restore a vintage railway coach to replace one destroyed in an arson attack need welding gear to finish the job as soon as possible. An appeal in the Advertiser last month by the Swindon and Cricklade Railway for skilled welders
A CORONER has backed widespread concerns over the lack of pedestrian safety on the Kingsdown crossroads after an inquest found a young mum died while trying to cross and dodge traffic. Nina Maggs tragically died on February 23 as she made her way
PRE-SEASON is upon us and the new League Two campaign is creeping up on the horizon but, while much of the focus among Swindon Town fans has been on new manager David Flitcroft and his squad, Trust STFC have continued to be busy behind the scenes.
THE eyes of the golfing world will descend on Royal Birkdale today as the 146th Open Championship begins. Back in 2008, David Howell recorded his highest finish in a major when he claimed a tie for seventh on the Southport links, and ahead of this
A SELECTION of photographer Les Aubrey's pictures as Swindon Robins delivered a stunning display to beat Poole Pirates 56-36 on the south coast.
