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  • Getting ready to go digital

    THE countdown to a digital television revolution in Swindon has begun. And people are being urged to start preparing for the changes now - as they will take place in the next two years. Digital UK, the body charged with organising the switchover, says

  • Phil's vision of Coate wins our picture competition

    Click here to see a larger version of the winning picture. DAYBREAK at Coate provided the inspirational image that secured first place for amateur photographer Phil Selby in our Adver picture competition. Readers voted for the image after it was published

  • Can’t work, wont work, get out of your house?

    Caroline Flint the housing minister thinks it would be a good idea to turf out wasters from their council houses if they don’t get a job. What a cracker! That’s right Caroline it won’t cost more to put them up elsewhere will it? Because even homeless

  • Farewell to a 'quiet and gentle man'

    THE people of Upper Stratton will bid farewell to a vicar, architect, coal mine worker and counsellor at St Bartholomew's Church. The Rev Keith Greenslade died on January 22 after a long illness, but he made a lasting impression on the parishioners of

  • Well served by new Mc-qualification

    A recruitment firm says the new A-level offered by fast food giant McDonald's is a good way to gain a qualification. The fast food chain, which has four branches in Swindon, is to offer its own nationally recognised qualification from this week. It

  • Bags of rubbish collected in Seven Fields clean-up

    MORE than 50 bags of rubbish were collected in a clean-up operation at the Seven Fields nature reserve in Penhill. A combined effort between the council and a local conservation group also collected a number of shopping trolleys, car tyres and tree

  • Tories blast council plan

    THE Government has drawn fierce Tory criticism over moves to axe the five councils in Wiltshire and replace them with an all-purpose authority. Under an order set to be backed by the Commons, the districts of Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury and West

  • Rescuers brush up on skills

    MEMBERS of Wiltshire's Search and Rescue Team have been put through their paces in a five-hour training mission. The 18 members met near Burderop Park on Sunday before embarking on an exercise to find two missing 12-year-old children. They broke up

  • Winter or Summer

    Checking my Spanish Cudeca Calendar for the next Fiesta, l look and admire the photo which is of Almendros enflor - Almond Blossom, this is another natural beautiful sight in Spain, a mass of white and pink blossom every which way you look. I think back

  • Flip-flops and lollipops in revellers' survival kit

    FLEET Street could soon see boozers swapping high heels for flip-flops in the early hours. Revellers will be handed an emergency kit at the end of the night to help them get home safely. A personal alarm, bottle of water, condom, lollipop and flip-flops

  • Timely tribute to Busby babes

    ON February 6, 1958 Manchester United changed forever as the Munich tragedy shaped both the history and future of the club. Twenty three of the 44 passengers on board the Elizabethan charter aircraft G-ALZU died, when it crashed on take-off from Munich

  • Use it or lose it challenge for library

    A GROUP hoping to encourage people to use Old Town Library has been set up as campaigners continue their fight to keep it open - for good. Thirty people gathered yesterday at the Civic Offices to hand a 450-signature petition to the mayor against the

  • Pay it back call over Town debt

    A COUNCILLOR has called on Swindon Town's new chairman to pay back in full the £415,000 it owes to the council. Coun David Glaholm (Independent, Penhill) says that he hopes multi-millionaire Andrew Fitton can be persuaded to pay back the money to help

  • 'Cowardly kick' aimed at teenager

    A TEENAGER admitted to delivering a cowardly kick' to Henry Webster as he lay on the ground, a court heard yesterday. Victim Henry Webster, 16, was punched, kicked and smashed repeatedly on the head with a hammer on a tennis court at Ridgeway School

  • Sheldon Fry

    EX-ARMY lad Sheldon Fry, 23, from Abbey Meads, was nominated by his friend Aaron Webb.

  • Tea by David Pike

    Travelling down the information super highwayin a Morris Minorit was as though he was, somehowblandly, missing the point;his psyche slipped out of jointas he forgot his own namewho he wasand what on earthhe was doing there?So, he punched adventure'into

  • Fit for anything... Ali Morse

    ALI MORSE, 27, works for the Research Councils at Polaris House, North Star, Swindon. She is married to firefighter Lee. They are currently busy building an extension to their house in Haydon Wick Health/fitness AIMS for 2008: To lose approx half a

  • Ring the changes

    AMY Winehouse is never far from the front pages, but recently it was her hair-do that hit the headlines. The singer swapped her trademark beehive and long dark locks in favour of a new peroxide-blonde bob. With the paparazzi favourite seemingly experiencing

  • RUGBY: Payne picked for England

    WROUGHTON-BORN prop forward Tim Payne will line-up for England in Sunday's Six Nations clash against Italy in Rome. Wasps' Payne, whose parents Roger and Penny still live in Wootton Bassett, won the last of his five caps in last season's Six Nations

  • Learning on the job for pupils

    THE introduction of a set of 17 new diplomas is the biggest shake- up in secondary education since the arrival of GCSEs 20 years ago to replace O-Levels. From September, teenagers in Swindon will be among the first in the country to tackle the diplomas

  • Wednesday fear

    Hello again, Well, it's Wednesday – and that means weigh in day. It's not been a bad week, especially compared to last week's lacklustre effort when I actually out on weight without any good excuse... it's that will power thing again! Fingers crossed

  • Residents shocked by show of force as police rush in

    STUNNED residents spilled on to the streets after armed police brandishing machine guns arrested a man in his home. Police vehicles had rushed to The Bungalows, in Pinehurst, after a man was reported to be brandishing a knife outside his home. Numerous

  • Plans for super council come under fire

    PLANS to axe Wiltshire's five councils and replace them with one authority have come under fire. Under an order, set to be backed by the House of Commons, the districts of Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury and West Wiltshire will be swept away, along

  • HOCKEY: Damian, Darren and the two Daves sink Devizes

    THE four D's kept North Wilts' promotion hopes alive after scoring all four goals in a 4-0 victory over second-placed Devizes A at Dorcan. In complete contrast to last week's 3-2 humbling at City of Bath A in the Avon Division, this was a comfortable

  • Howell must play it straight in India

    DAVID Howell admits he will need to keep on the straight and narrow this week as he prepares to tackle one of his most interesting European Tour challenges to date. The Swindon ace is in Delhi for the EMAAR-MGF Indian Masters, where a little bit of history

  • DARTS: Wilts are back in tune on the Tyne

    WILTSHIRE darts team badly needed a comprehensive win to revive their 2007/08 hopes of promotion and a quick return to Division 3 after suffering two successive defeats, writes DAVE EATON. This they did with aplomb as they bounced back to winning ways