CYCLE theft, graffiti and shed break-ins are just some of the crimes that will targeted by the town’s Community Safety Partnership this week. The Week of Action, organised by Swindon’s Community Safety Partnership (CSP), is running until Friday. It
KIND-HEARTED volunteers are helping people still affected by the earthquake in Haiti two years ago. Seventeen Cricklade-based volunteers from the Community Partners Association UK left yesterday to embark on a 17-hour commute to work in a small Dominican
SKY SPORTS ELITE LEAGUE, ARENA-ESSEX RACEWAY LAKESIDE HAMMERS: Davey Watt (2-0-1-2)5, Kauko Nieminen (0-2*-2-3-0-0)7+1, Peter Karlsson (2-3-2-EF-R-3)10, Kim Nilsson (1*-0-1*-0-0)2+2, rider replacement, Richie Worrall (X-1*-2)3+1, Robert
NEW signing Gary Roberts believes his experience of the League One promotion race could prove vital in Swindon’s quest for Championship football. The winger has spent the last four seasons at Huddersfield Town, where he lost a play-off final to Peterborough
WHEELCHAIR tennis player Louise Hunt has been included on the women's singles entry list for the London 2012 Paralympics. The entries were released by the ITF today with Hunt among their number, and the British Paralympic Association is due
ANDY Williams’ desire to compete at the top end of League One is what convinced the striker to leave Yeovil to join Paolo Di Canio’s Swindon Town revolution. The 25-year-old fired 17 goals last season as the Huish Park side finished 17th in League One
SWINDON Town have this afternoon confirmed the signings of James Collins, Andy Williams and Gary Roberts. The trio are Town boss Paolo Di Canio’s first signings of the summer, as he bids to revamp his squad for the club’s assault on League
POLICE are still appealing for witnesses to the crash that claimed the life of popular teenager Costi Voulgaris. Constantine Voulgaris, known as Costi, aged 19, from Swindon died in the collision that occurred on Marlborough Road, Old Town
RUNNERS dashed around the houses in Purton yesterday as part of this year’s Helping Hand Carnival. Festivities, which started this weekend, also saw a mile of coins being placed through the village and revellers enjoying a pig roast on Saturday – despite
SWINDON Town’s fixture list for the 2012/13 League One campaign was released this morning. The Robins’ season is bookended by two long away trips - firstly to Hartlepool on the opening day of the league term and then to Scunthorpe on the final
DOZENS of men and women are dying every year from ‘Swindon Disease’ as the deadly legacy of workplace exposure to asbestos continues to takes its toll. The most recent figures show 107 people have died from industrial-related illnesses in Swindon and
IT WAS like history repeating itself for the Vitale family as a dozen family members shared the aisle on Sarah Vitale-Hanratty’s special day. The 11 Vitale sisters hit the headlines 12 years ago when youngest sibling Sandra was the last to
A CONVOY of cars will follow the hearse of tragic Costi Voulgaris as it passes through the town, his friends have vowed. A date has not yet been set for the funeral of the 19-year-old, who died in a crash in Marlborough Road, but his friends from Swindon
A MAN who set a house on fire in the middle of the night after taking a legal high which ‘disagreed with him’ has been jailed for two years and three months. David Nurdin thought people were coming through the floor boards to kill him after he accidentally
THEY may not have won the TV talent show, but Twist & Pulse Dance Company showed Cricklade they had talent when they performed at Cricklade Town Festival. The dance act, who made it through to the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent this year, were put
DENNIS Smith suffered a sense of déjà vu as he was knocked out by Dave Chisnall in the Players Championship event in Birmingham yesterday. Fresh from being knocked out of the UK Open by the man from St Helens, Smith suffered the same fate in the Midlands
SWINDON team manager Alun Rossiter has insisted former Robin Lee Richardson will never be forgotten, but is hoping his side will be focused on speedway when they return to Purfleet to take on Lakeside tonight. The two sides went head-to-head
ALUN Rossiter is convinced his Swindon Robins side will give a better account of themselves when they make their second visit of the season to the Arena Essex Raceway to face Lakeside this evening. The Robins lost 50-40 to the Hammers on May 18 in difficult
POP QUIZ, Town fans - which player has represented Swindon the most number of times in the 21st century? Yes, you’ve guessed it, although the headlines might have given you a bit of a helping hand. David Duke, the Scottish left winger
THERE can be no room for sentiment at Swindon Town as the Robins aim for back to back promotions, according to interim chairman Jeremy Wray. Following elevation from League Two last term, Town’s management have set the target of a return to
