A HANDFUL of schools from across Wiltshire could soon be learning much more about life on the farm. A special event being staged later this week will spell out the benefits of schools growing their own food, visiting farms and even sourcing produce from
CHRISTMAS Cares will offer the homeless people of Swindon a chance to be safe and happy again this year. The charity provides hot food, clean clothes, showers and warm beds to people living on Swindon's streets over the festive period. The Methodist
A SHOP owner whose staff sold booze to a 16-year-old girl is keeping his licence. VK Stores' Mohamed Hussain left his Cricklade Road shop in the hands of a friend, who then sold a bottle of cherry Lambrini to a girl recruited by Swindon Council's trading
Are you as fed up as I am at the continual stream of handy hints on how to save energy and “think green” that keep appearing in magazine articles? I’ve turned my central heating down one degree so many times now that it doesn’t even come on. I don’t step
WILTSHIRE'S new top cop has vowed to improve the force's quality of service to the public. Brian Moore will join as Wiltshire Police's Chief Constable and has immediately set his sights on making the county one of the safest in the country. He says
BUSINESSES are reeling from fuel price rises at the town's pumps. Many of Swindon's companies, which rely on petrol and diesel to fuel their firms, said prices breaking the £1 a litre mark would hit them hard. Taxi company V-Cars said the town's self-employed
STAFF at Welcome Break's Membury Services are aiming to raise thousands of pounds for BBC Children in Need by asking customers to spare a penny when they use the service station toilets. The service station on the M4, near Swindon, has launched its Spend
NATIONWIDE has been recognised as a leading employer and has been awarded Investors in People (IIP) Champion status for a further three years. IIP is a national award which recognises those organisations that improve business performance through its
CHANGES to recycling and bin collections in Swindon have been jumbled in the past few years, according to a Friends of the Earth campaigner. Jean Saunders lives just outside Swindon but has been keeping tabs on the recycling schemes and bin collections
IT started as quite a good idea, but there was no accounting for the torrential rain or heavy, south-westerly winds which turned the BUPA Great South Run as one of the wettest ever. The idea was to run in fancy dress at this showpiece event in Portsmouth
IT started as quite a good idea, but there was no accounting for the torrential rain or heavy, south-westerly winds which turned the BUPA Great South Run as one of the wettest ever. The idea was to run in fancy dress at this showpiece event in Portsmouth
IT started as quite a good idea, but there was no accounting for the torrential rain or heavy, south-westerly winds which turned the BUPA Great South Run as one of the wettest ever. The idea was to run in fancy dress at this showpiece event in Portsmouth
IT used to be simple. In years gone by we used to bag up our rubbish, put it in our bin and leave it outside for collection once a week. But as time has ticked by Britain, its politicians and its population, have woken up to the reality that the lives
MARKS & Spencer posted better-than-expected profits today but said the economic outlook was "uncertain". The firm posted underlying pre-tax profits of £451.8m for the half-year to September 29, 11.5 per cent ahead of last year. Chief executive Stuart
THE Three Blondes beat all the odds to complete in a charity car rally in Italy. Swindon friends Diana Shepherdson and Tami Brown broke down twice with a faulty fuel pump and overcame boiling hot temperatures to finish the four-day challenge. They travelled
DEACON'S robber Jbril Ogulana has admitted a firearms offence in relation to the raid on the jewellery store last summer. The 22-year-old Londoner had initially denied possessing the imitation pistol, which had been adapted to fire live rounds. But
A DAD who glassed a pal has been handed a suspended jail term after a court heard how he had been drinking while taking prescription drugs. Peter Kibblewhite had been causing trouble in a pub before smashing a pint glass into the head of a friend who
A CHIPPENHAM business is hosting a reception and advice session for local organisations, wanting to avoid missed enquiries throughout the Christmas season. Hosted Business Solutions aims to provide answers for those organisations with staff attending
A WILTSHIRE farmer's wife has become the talk of the food industry after her recipe for rhubarb chutney won a national competition. Tracklements, which makes speciality mustards, chutneys and preserves at a base near Malmesbury, organised the competition
I have a moral dilemma. You seem to suffer more of these as you get older because the wiser you get, the more you think about things - and the more you think about things, the more you get a nagging feeling when something just doesn't seem quite right
Would the person at Swindon council who decided to send out the change of collection day for wheelie bins notice to people in West Swindon like to add themselves to the voluntary redundancy list? Last Tuesday, after the dustmen had been, we had notices
The National Year of Reading will be in 2008. This should be a time to encourage participation and celebrate the joy of reading. Sadly three million blind, partially-sighted, dyslexic and other print disabled readers risk being excluded from this nationwide
BRAZIL has officially secured the immense challenge of hosting the 2014 football World Cup. I relish the thought of seeing the most prestigious form of the joga bonita (beautiful game) being played in South America for the first time since Argentina
Mr Warner, with proof of the state of the country's pension funds, should now tell us what he makes of the report out from the National Association of Pension Funds, which wants to cut the payout to those who leave pension funds early, for instance to
REGARDING the article Council shows off its slimmer figure' (SA, November 2), our elected representatives must think the people of Swindon have incredibly short memories. We do not. It was not that long ago that the council signed a new contract with
IN the wake of the Ufton Nervet level crossing crash we again hear calls for some sort of devices to alert train drivers to the danger of a road vehicle blocking the railway. Readers who are not former railway staff may be surprised to learn that, until
I READ with interest your article concerning the Front Garden development. It was stated that the development is worth £1bn. As a council taxpayer, I care little about the value of the project but am deeply concerned that the council extract the maximum
THE West of England Squash Masters tournament, held at Nightingales Hotel and Leisure Club over the weekend, has been hailed a great success. Around 110 men and women from club to national standard took to the courts for the competition which concluded
ANNE Snelgrove is urging more people of 60 and upwards to sign up with Swindon Borough Council and make the most of free bus travel which will be extended to anywhere in England from next April (SA, October 30). About 25,000 of us have signed up and
IN 1957, and with his team struggling to play a fixture because of a shortage of referees, Ken Mulraney made the decision to become a qualified official. And that moment marked the start of a long journey for the Wilts FA stalwart, which sadly ended
TICKETS for the forthcoming Sugababes concert at the Oasis have sold out. The pop pin-ups will be in town on April 22. Fans snapped up the 3,000 tickets for the concert within two days of them going on sale. The girl band have had six No 1 hits, shooting
Swindon Sunday League DENSE fog failed to halt a reduced league programme due to Wilts Sunday Cup ties, writes STEVE ASHLEY. A Mike Dolan double and a goal from Lewis Polden gave Rodbourne Arms a 3-0 win over Queenstown Sunday. The victory was enough
LAWN A recorded their first win of the season in a closely- fought Division One match against Pinehurst A in the Swindon & District League. Excellent play by 13-year-old goal shooter Georgina Tait and accurate shooting from the experienced Kathryn Sell
CLAIRE White's first goal of the season could not prevent Swindon Spitfires from crashing to a 4-1 defeat to Bristol Academy in South West Women's Football League Division One North. In an end-to-end contest, Spitfires were behind in the 19th minute
ERIK Bochna has followed fellow Slovak forward Marek Hornak out of the revolving Link Centre doors as head coach Peter Russell looks to transform Wildcats' flagging fortunes. Bochna, who signed from French Elite League outfit CPH Dijon in the summer,
JOHN Fisher is determined to turn up the heat on the Hellenic League's pacesetters with victory over Hook Norton at the Elms tonight. The Highworth boss insists anything less than three points will be unacceptable as his side look to close the 12-point
SUPERMARINE chief Mark Collier will use tonight's Wilts Premier Shield clash with Blue Square Premier outfit Salisbury City to give some of his fringe players a chance to impress. All five substitutes from the 3-1 reverse at Merthyr Tydfil will start
MINETY 2nd ran in three tries to record a 22-5 victory at Wootton Bassett 2nd in Dorset & Wilts Divison 3 North. The opened the scoring when Miles Murphy made good ground before flicking the ball to Andrew Hibbard, who rampaged on to score. Wesley was
RUGBY players past and present came together at the weekend to help celebrate Supermarine Ladies' 50th anniversary. The current teams took on a vets side of ladies which included Rachael, Joanne and Heidi Jellyman, who started the ladies section 18 years
CIVIL Service joined Wootton Bassett at the top of Division One of the Indoor Cricket League when they defeated Wanborough by 15 runs in a low-scoring encounter. Arran Dickinson's 31 proved vital as Civil Service were dismissed for just 93. Nalgo got
A JUDO player and coach from Swindon both scooped bronze medals at the Great Britain Masters Championships in Thetford. Roy Walker and his coach Lee Adams were among more than 150 male and female judoka from across the four home nations who took part
North Wilts Youth & Minors League Under 18 Wootton Bassett Town A went joint top of the league with a comfortable 6-2 win over stablemates Wootton Bassett Town B. It was the B side who went in front early on when David Bray scored from the penalty
Swindon & District League DUE to Wilts Cup commitments, the Premier League only had one game, which turned out to be a goal feast between Shield and Dagger and Spectrum with the Dagger running out 6-2 winners. The game was finely balanced 1-1 at half-time
SPECIALIST shops could soon be flocking to Old Town. Under a new long-term plan, created to guide the development of Swindon for the next 20 years, Old Town has been earmarked as a niche shopping destination for the borough. The plan says that the area's
North Berks League SUPERB goalkeeping by Childrey stand-in Darren Males could not prevent Steve Pitson from rolling in the only goal winner for Saxton Rovers four minutes from the end of their North Berks Cup tie. In the A.G. Kingham Cup, holders Shrivenham
FEWER hours will be spent cleaning the town's hospital and cooking for patients, it has been revealed. Staff who clean and cook at the Great Western Hospital are set to have their hours cut under the new plans. Public sector union Unison says the move
GRAFFITI continues to scar the town because homeowners are not giving graffiti cleaners permission to remove tags. More than 900 private properties in the town are still marked with tags despite Swindon Council offering to wipe them off for free. The
A TEENAGER has had 19 graffiti charges against him dropped. The 13-year-old, of Gorse Hill, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was originally charged with 20 counts after police raided the home where he lives with his mum. The teenager was thought
SLOVAKIAN forward Erik Bochna has been released by the Swindon npower Wildcats following his poor start to the EPL season. Bochna becomes the second import to feel the blade of head coach Peter Russell's axe after Marek Hornak left the Link Centre last
