ALUN Rossiter insists his side must approach Monday’s away meeting at Wolverhampton with the same attitude as they did for last season’s play-off final, following a devastating 41-49 loss at home to Belle Vue Aces last night. The Robins’ play-off
Singer-songwriter Dan Owen knocks it out of the park with his gravelly voice on his debut album, while Gabrielle returns after an 11-year break. DAN OWEN - STAY AWAKE WITH ME Dan Owen, a 25-year-old former carpenter from Shrewsbury, has a distinctive
SWINDON Robins’ play-off credentials took a massive hit at the Abbey Stadium tonight when they were downed 41-49 by Belle Vue Aces. Fresh from bagging a shock away win at Somerset Rebels the night previous, Mark Lemon’s Aces threw a further spanner
DAVID Howell recovered from a poor start but still left himself with work to do to make the cut at the Nordea Masters in Sweden yesterday. Howell, marking his return to tour action after four weeks, carded a one-over-par 71 at the Hills Golf Club
Ben Mitchell and his clan give it a go on a nature weekend at the Haven Perran Sands holiday park. Marie gives out a squeal of delight as the sparks fly when she makes a ball of cotton wool burst into flames. We have just learnt our first survival
Maggie Rawlinson has danced the Argentine Tango with A-lister Hollywood star Jude Law, but this week she has her feet firmly back on the ground, directing 150 Swindon youngsters in a full scale musical. Maggie is both director and choreographer
Swindon musician, Rob Richings, has been back in the studio he set up with his brother James, to record a new EP which will be out in the autumn, prior to his Irish tour. Rob’s debut album, Parkas and Boots, was based on songs about his childhood
SWINDON Town boss Phil Brown has missed an opportunity to sign a young Premier League starlet, but remains in dialogue with three loan targets including Shrewsbury winger Abo Eisa. Brown, 59, is looking to add to his defensive options on the left
TODAY youngsters across Swindon collected their A level results. The Adver was out and about capturing some of the moments when they opened the fateful envelopes on camera. Here's a gallery of some of the pictures our photographer took.
A GUITAR played by Beatle George Harrison at the band’s final appearance at Liverpool’s famous Cavern Club in 1963 is to be sold by auction in Wiltshire next month. The Australian-made Maton Mastersound MS-500 is expected to fetch in the region
A STAR studded cast with David Suchet and Brendan Coyle takes to the stage in Arthur Miller’s riveting drama, The Price, this week. Running at the Theatre Royal in Bath till August 25, Suchet (famous for his roles in Poirot, Great Expectations,
HERITAGE railway volunteers have lifted track from the old Didcot power station that will help them in their bid to return to Cricklade. Swindon and Cricklade Railway had been donated several panels of track removed from the western side by the
POLICE want the public’s help to find a teen who went missing two weeks ago. Saeedul Ali, 17, was last seen at 8am on 29 July at a house in Beckhampton Street, Swindon. Wiltshire Police said: “There are concerns for his safety and anyone who
Singer Aretha Franklin became known as the Queen of Soul for a string of seminal pop songs throughout a career that spanned five decades. She won 18 Grammy awards and is estimated to have sold more than 75 million records. Here is a selection
Some Part of Something - Whiskey Shivers I always prefer my roots music ragged, and so anything described as “frenetic bluegrass, ” or “apocalyptic Americana” is always going to be something that I’m going to be drawn to. Roots music is the
PORSCHE Centre Swindon has won a bronze medal at an international film awards. The movie made by the showroom, run by Dick Lovett Group, is called Passion Restored and took third place in the Porsche Classic Partner Movie Competition. It tells
SWINDON Town manager Phil Brown spoke to the media ahead of Saturday's League Two clash with promoted Tranmere Rovers at the Energy Check County Ground. See what the boss had to say below and read more build-up to this weekend's fixture in our
Okay, I’ll get this out of the way first off and talk about a show that I have been pretty excited about since it was first announced. Those who know me are aware that I’m pretty fanatical about New Model Army and have been listening to and watching
If you don’t live near Moredon you might be unfamiliar with the area’s local recreation ground, but you may well have driven past it. Located next door to Nova Hreod Academy and facing on to Akers Way, its playing fields are well used by local sports
SWINDON 1952: A party of 50 boys from Cotswold School, Ashton Keynes, with members of their school staff were entertained to tea by the Swindon Central Townswomen’s Guild, at the Baptist Tabernacle School Room in Temple Street, Swindon. The boys
TRAGIC teenage love story Romeo and Juliet is coming to the Phoenix Theatre at New College tonight. Whole Hog Productions, in partnership with Performing Arts at New College Swindon, are presenting the play for Summer Shakespeare 2018, with performances
ROLL up, roll up, roll up for the fabulous Gifford's Circus, as the 2018 summer tour brings this popular vintage show to Marlborough Common soon - and tickets are already selling fast. The circus is coming to town on August 31 and will stay until
SNAP up some tickets for Immersion Theatre's magical outdoor performance of family classic Peter Pan, at Lydiard Park next week. You are invited to soar away to Neverland, to get reading to think magic thought and fly high on Friday August 24, when
A PINEHURST paedophile has avoided being sent straight to prison. Richard Gordan Soffe admitted making 32 indecent images of children. They included one child sex abuse image judged to be in the most serious category. The majority of the pictures
Internationally renowned designer Kaffe Fassett brings a riot of colour to Bath’s Victoria Gallery in an exhibition called A Celebration of Flowers. Fassett makes a welcome return to Bath, a city he has been associated with since the 1960s when
Brendan Coyle stars as Victor Franz in Arthur Miller’s riveting drama, The Price, alongside David Suchet (Poirot, Great Expectations, Maxwell), Adrian Lukis (The Crown, Pride and Prejudice, Peak Practice) and Sara Stewart (Doctor Foster, Unforgotten
THE Swindon charity SNDogs has experienced its worst ever summer of rehoming the animals it takes in because of the heatwave. The charity, which finds homes for rescued dogs, says soaring temperatures through June and July has made it too hot to
SIX intrepid staff from Purton Vets are donning their running gear on Sunday to take part in a full 20-mile Tough Mudder event. They will tackle the extreme obstacle course on the Badminton House Estate near Old Sodbury to raise money for research
IF you have one too many handbags taking up space at home, why not donate it to children's hospice at home Jessie May for its first ever Handbag Amnesty event. The charity, which has a base in Swindon and helps local families care for children with
Justin Sullivan, lead singer from New Model Army, is playing a solo gig tonight at the Vic, Old Town, Swindon from 8pm. Over the last 40 years the songwriter has written some 250 songs always full of passion, fury and poetry. Justin is the only one
AIRDRIEONIANS beat Everton 8-5 to win the Frank Etherington Memorial Trophy in a fundraising final at Highworth Bowls Club last Sunday(12 August). The football-themed event raised £400 for the Brighter Futures Appeal for a £2.9 million new radiotherapy
Here are the main figures in this year's A-level results: - The proportion of candidates receiving top grades is the highest since 2012. A total of 26.4% entrants scored either an A or A*, up slightly on 26.3% in 2017. - 8.0% of entrants received
According to BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac, Bad Sounds, do not live up to their name, as she made their song, Wages, the hottest record in the world last year and their track, Avalanche, her tune of the week. 2017 was a good year for the hip-hop, rock
AFTER starting the season at 100mph against Macclesfield with one of the most exciting finishes to a game ever seen at the County Ground, Town have been slowly going down the gears and after the past week it seems they are struggling to get out of
A VETERAN who has lived in a caravan for four years wants a site set up to give former troops a home. Nathan Gray joined the army in 1995 and was stationed in Bosnia but was medically discharged in 1998 after being wounded. That experience has affected
RATS at a council-owned sheltered housing scheme for the elderly in Highworth are making residents and neighbours lives a misery, one has claimed. The man who lives close to the Middi Haines Court complex of 16 flats and 20 bungalows said he saw
Poor light, heavy rain, standing water and spray are making driving conditions difficult in Swindon and Wiltshire this morning. Despite sunrise before 6am, low cloud mean it's still very gloomy, and rain has been falling for hours, meaning the roads
SWINDON will play musical locomotives next week when a GWR engine comes home to the place where it was built more than a century ago. The Edwardian loco, 2818 will be brought down on a low-loader to Steam from the National Railway Museum in York
The proud industrial and military heritage of Swindon has been beautifully marked by a new sculpture. A 5.5 meter high laser-cut sculpture, designed and created by local historian and artist Dr Mike Pringle was unveiled at the Orbital shopping centre
DESIGNS for a proposed block of flats are so boring that one councillor said she was happy they weren’t going to be built in her ward. Coun Vera Tomlinson, ward councillor for St Andrews, slammed the revised plans for the 28 flats on the Delta
Photographers have just over six weeks to get out among some of the most photogenic sites in Wiltshire and Swindon to snap up a brilliant prize. It could be a shot of Stonehenge or Avebury or the village of Laycock - where photography was born -
A Level students in Swindon seem to have bucked the national trend of lower success rates. Overall they have exceeded the national pass rate for A-E marks. Whereas the national rate of passes has dropped from 97.9 last year to 97.6 per cent, SWindon
There is only one public loo for every 36,000 people in Swindon, new figures have revealed. That’s three times more people per toilet than the rest of the country. The British Toilet Association used a Freedom of Information request to reveal
THERE were mixed fortunes for Swindon-based DUO Motorsport with HMS Racing at the Rockingham International Super Sportscar Circuit last weekend. Rob Austin, representing HMS Racing, appeared at the Northamptonshire-based track in what could be the
FOLLOWING a four week lay-off David Howell says he is looking forward to getting back into the swing of things at the Nordea Masters in Sweden. The 43-year-old took some time off from European Tour action in an attempt to rest a niggling shoulder
ALUN Rossiter says the stage is set for the Swindon Robins to tackle Belle Vue Aces at the Abbey Stadium tonight. After persistent troubles with the track over recent weeks, the Robins returned home and to winning ways last time out with a victory
YOUNGSTER Joe Romanski admits he is in the middle of a steep learning curve after making the step up into Swindon Town’s senior ranks. The teenager became the first player born after the year 2000 to play for the club, when he made his debut against
RETURNING forward Marc Richards could make a surprise return to the County Ground this Saturday as Swindon Town host Tranmere Rovers in their latest League Two contest. Initially it was feared Richards would be out until the end of September after
PADDY Fitzpatrick says he would like to pursue Conor Benn for a future bout with Swindon’s Ryan Martin. Welterweight Martin, who has a record of 10 wins, four via knockout and two defeats has recorded back-to-back wins this year. Now his trainer
IT’S a busy week for me with a home meeting for the Robins against Belle Vue Aces tomorrow before I set off for Denmark and the World U21 Team Cup Final. Speedway always has ups and downs and racing in this weekend’s final will be a big positive
CHIPPENHAM Town boss Mark Collier says he plans to reach out to Swindon Town manager Phil Brown in a bid to extend Will Henry’s loan deal at Hardenhuish Park. After the return of Lawrence Vigouroux and addition of Luke McCormick, Henry found himself
SWINDON GP Tessa Hicks swapped her familiar surroundings for a trip of a lifetime as she took to the seas in August last year for an 11-month voyage. Tessa, who had no previous sailing experience, cast off from Liverpool’s Albert Docks last year
MORE than 300 families in Swindon have ventured outdoors this summer to practise their communication and literacy skills. They are taking part in a new Lost Words Trail around the town which began on August 4 and runs throughout the school summer
