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Sex education expert award

2:10pm Saturday 13th March 2010

SEX education expert Gail McVicar has scooped a national award for her unique approach to the subject in schools.

Mum and daughter think of Paul, one year on

12:10pm Saturday 13th March 2010

FOUR-YEAR-OLD Lucy Cole and her mum Louise will send a balloon to the heavens today to mark a painful anniversary.

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Have you got what it takes to be Miss Swindon?

11:10am Saturday 13th March 2010

DO YOU think you’ve got what it takes to be a beauty queen?

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Man's sex attack on woman in alleyway

10:00am Saturday 13th March 2010

A WOMAN suffered a serious sexual assault down an alleyway just yards from a busy Swindon road.

Anger over bus noise

9:50am Saturday 13th March 2010

SLEEP deprived residents have set up a campaigning website to stop ‘noise, light and air pollution’ from a neighbourhood bus depot.

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Watch out, there's an eagle owl about

7:26pm Friday 12th March 2010

AN escaped owl may now be so hungry it could resort to killing dogs and cats.

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MP James Gray doesn’t want to travel on standard ticket

6:10pm Friday 12th March 2010

North Wiltshire MP James Gray has joined dozens of fellow MPs requesting the right to first-class train travel.

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Row over hospital parking charges

1:20pm Friday 12th March 2010

Great Western Hospital could face fresh scrutiny over its parking after a Which? report revealed a catalogue of problems patients face with NHS car parks.

School expansion approved

12:10pm Friday 12th March 2010

MORE than 200 extra children will be able attend a Swindon school after councillors backed expansion plans.

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Threat of Network Rail strike moves closer

11:20am Friday 12th March 2010

THOUSANDS of Network Rail maintenance workers have voted in favour of strikes in a row over jobs, bringing the threat of industrial action over Easter closer.

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Bikers hit back over procession concern

10:50am Friday 12th March 2010

ANGRY bikers have rejected claims they are disrespecting the people of Wootton Bassett by staging a procession through the town on Sunday.

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Celebration for the Evening Star at Steam

10:40am Friday 12th March 2010

RAILWAY enthusiasts have a chance to celebrate the 50th birthday tomorrow of one of Swindon’s best-loved locomotives at Steam.

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