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Taking a sideways look at life: Keep fit my way

7:40am Tuesday 21st May 2013

LOTTO funding to the tune of 240 grand has been awarded to the Tri-Active Project, a Swindon Council initiative promoting running, swimming and cycling.

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Taking a sideways look at life: Packing ’em in

12:40pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

WITH potential funding cuts hovering over the Arts Centre and the Wyvern Theatre like the shadow of the gibbet, I assume suggestions as to how they might bring in more cash are welcome.

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Taking a sideways look at life: Sleeping Beauties

7:40am Tuesday 30th April 2013

TOMORROW at 6pm in the Great Western Hospital’s lecture theatre, an ear, nose and throat expert called Deepak Gupta will deliver a free public health talk about snoring, its causes and its possible treatments.

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Taking a sideways look at life: It's men's work

7:40am Tuesday 23rd April 2013

SAY what you like about the council, but it’s usually spot on when it comes to the environment, recycling and such.

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Taking a sideways look at life: Lots to talk about

7:30am Tuesday 16th April 2013

COLEVIEW senior citizen Ernie Reynolds has campaigned for and organised two speakers’ corners in Swindon – one near the Pilgrim Centre and one in The Parade.

Twigs plants the seeds of recovery

8:10pm Wednesday 10th April 2013

“WHEN I first got here I was just a shaking wreck,” said Bridget Armitage-Jones, 54, from Haydon Wick.

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Taking a sideways look at life: Smile for the camera

7:30am Tuesday 9th April 2013

A CAMPAIGN group called Big Brother Watch isn’t exactly impressed with a council plan to link up dozens of CCTV cameras to its central control room in Rodbourne Cheney.

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BARRIE HUDSON: Courting ridicule

8:00pm Monday 1st April 2013

PLANS are underway to help victims of crime through the experience of going to court.

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Taking a chance

7:20am Tuesday 26th March 2013

I CAN’T wait for the Swindon version of Monopoly, which is being prepared by a great games outfit called Winning Moves under licence from copyright holder Hasbro.

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Send in the medics...hic

8:00am Tuesday 19th March 2013

OVERWORKED ambulance crews have lately found themselves sent, complete with lights and sirens, to such life-threatening medical conditions as hiccups and a spot of backache.

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