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Prizewinning Student

Prizewinning Student

9:41am Friday 19th October 2012

Local student, Abigail Jarrett, had double reason to celebrate when she graduated from the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester on Saturday, 6th October. As well as achieving a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Business Management - International Food and Agribusiness, she was also awarded a College Book Prize “for best dissertation”.

Vaulting fun at Ridgeway

2:59pm Monday 24th October 2011

I’m Ed. I’m a year 8 and I’ve been going to vaulting for a year and a bit now and I’m really enjoying it because there is such a different variety of all the tricks you can do. Vaulting is where you have trampettes and a vault and you can do all exciting things over them like front flips, dives, handsprings(which is like doing a handstand over a vault), and loads more exciting things.

Rocking the music scene in Swindon

11:58am Monday 14th March 2011

Young rock band Beyond the Break are an up and coming, fresh new sound hitting the teenage music hotspots.

Save the Oasis

9:54am Tuesday 22nd February 2011

We all were surprised to hear that Swindon’s much beloved Oasis leisure centre had fallen into a state of disarray and that Swindon Borough Council had plans for it to be replaced by something else.

Going Gaga for music

10:24am Tuesday 22nd June 2010

SWINDON'S Oasis Leisure Centre a suitable stage to host the growing and improving number of acts that visit?

Fugative let loose

Fugative

4:04pm Tuesday 4th August 2009

On Wednesday 22nd July, young adults from Swindon made their way to the hottest nightclub for under 18s - Liquid and Envy.

Scouting for Girls at the Oasis

Scouting for girls concert which was held at the Oasis

4:32pm Tuesday 18th November 2008

It was hot, it was sweaty and me and my mates were proper packed near the front. But when Scouting for Girls, the night’s live band, came on stage, no one seemed to care at all.

Review: Is This a Fix? by The Automatic

12:16pm Wednesday 24th September 2008

WHEN you create a monster of your own making, such as The Automatic's first number one hit Monster, it is a hard act to follow.

Something to sing about

Maggie Macdonald and Deanna Winstanley.

12:22pm Wednesday 24th September 2008

A MUSICAL diversion gave school pupils a chance to shine in the spotlight.



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Still, at least the elves have small hands and are good at the fiddly stuff. That’s why electronic toys usually come perfectly assembled, but if an ordinary person tries to take them apart all the bits spring out and vanish behind the sofa, in the pile of the carpet or among the seed in the budgie’s cage.  − Santa

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Is it too early to say we are now play-off contenders? I’m not 100 per cent sure either way just yet because we all know an injury to any key players could cost us, but it is looking more and more positive as the weeks go on. − Dan The Fan

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