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10:00pm Thursday 4th December 2008
A JUDGE has put off passing sentence on an ex-con who burgled a former friend’s flat in retaliation for him slashing the tyres on his camper van.
9:00pm Thursday 4th December 2008
CONSTRUCTION students have helped build a better life for villagers in the Gambia.
8:00pm Thursday 4th December 2008
PARISHES in Swindon are pressing ahead with plans to adopt their phone boxes.
6:59pm Thursday 4th December 2008
SHOPPERS in Malmesbury need to change their ways or they will be left with a ‘ghost town’.
3:40pm Thursday 4th December 2008
A PROFESSIONAL harpist will be adding celestial sounds to the angelic choir of the Janice Thompson Performance Trust at the charity’s garland of carols show this weekend.
3:11pm Thursday 4th December 2008
THE Lapland-style theme park in the New Forest has shut down, after more than 2,000 people complained that it was a rip-off.
2:40pm Thursday 4th December 2008
SWINDON Council hopes to raise £2m from eight properties that will go under the hammer next week.
1:50pm Thursday 4th December 2008
A YOUNG entrepreneur gave Nova Hreod pupils inspiration to follow their dreams.
12:20pm Thursday 4th December 2008
THE Brunel shopping centre's Christmas Gift Appeal has come up with an interesting concept of seasonal goodwill for Swindon youngsters.
11:40am Thursday 4th December 2008
A GAME of musical chairs has taken place in Swindon Council’s cabinet.
10:20am Thursday 4th December 2008
SCHOOLS will come under scrutiny in an effort to improve the town’s GCSE results.
9:00am Thursday 4th December 2008
PLUCKY pensioner Paul Nichols fought back when a thief tried to rob him of cash he had taken out for elderly neighbours.
8:10am Thursday 4th December 2008
NURSE Tracy Davies is calling for changes to parking restrictions at the Great Western Hospital after she and 14 colleagues were slapped with £50 fines.
7:00am Thursday 4th December 2008
Gordon Brown presented a slimmed-down legislative programme in a Queen’s Speech focused on measures to help Britain through the economic downturn.
10:07pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
A WARRANT has been issued for the arrest of a conman after he failed to cough up tens of thousands of pounds in ill gotten gains.
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The fire engine is back from the National Railway Museum – soon it will be looking pristine once more at Steam, where work preparing it for exhibition to the public before Christmas has begun.
Storytelling is an integral part of both summer and winter events at Lower Shaw Farm.
THE celebrations for the end of the First World War in Highworth are fondly remembered by 100-year-old Queenie Cull.
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