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Dad follows son into boxing ring
5:00pm Thursday 18th March 2010
THE father of wheelchair fund teenager Charlie Dawson will be taking to the boxing ring to give something back to the club that helped his son.
Prospect staff praised for their work
4:10pm Thursday 18th March 2010
Prospect Hospice’s chief executive Vicki Morrey paid tribute to staff and volunteers at a special presentation evening held at the Blunsdon House Hotel.
Fair fun at Steam
3:00pm Thursday 18th March 2010
MUMS, dads and little ones are invited to a bumper Swindon Baby Fair at the Steam Museum on May 13 and 14.
Fears over drug linked to deaths
2:00pm Thursday 18th March 2010
POLICE fear Meow Meow could claim another young life after seizing the drug for the first time in Swindon.
Football fans arrested
1:10pm Thursday 18th March 2010
POLICE arrested 12 Swindon Town fans after a fight erupted before a football match against Southampton.
Choirs hit right note at music festival
12:00pm Thursday 18th March 2010
EVERYTHING came together in perfect harmony for the first day of this year’s Swindon Music Festival.
Police stop-search ‘disproportionate’
11:00am Thursday 18th March 2010
BLACK people are four times more likely than those who are white or Asian to be stopped and searched by police in Wiltshire, new research claims.
Calls for better signs after TV man’s death
10:00am Thursday 18th March 2010
A coroner has called on highway chiefs to put up more warning signs on a dangerous Cotswolds road bend where a talented TV picture editor died in a motorcycle accident.
MPs pleased as unemployment falls again
9:30am Thursday 18th March 2010
THE DOLE queues in Swindon shortened last month – with 82 fewer people claiming jobless benefits since the previous count.
Teenager jumped red light and injured pedestrian
9:00am Thursday 18th March 2010
A teenage motorist driving through a red light hit a pedestrian so hard with the wing mirror of his car that it fell off.
Oxford blast Swindon over music survey
7:50am Thursday 18th March 2010
FIRST it was roundabouts, and now Swindon is facing a double assault on its reputation – this time through music.
Rory’s scantastic visit
7:10am Thursday 18th March 2010
Political comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner cut the ribbon on the £1.2m state-of-the-art CT scanner at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital yesterday.
Prospect shops enjoy a bumper turnover
6:30am Thursday 18th March 2010
PROSPECT Hospice is saying thanks a million to its charity shop customers after raising a fifth of its fundraising target for the year.
History: When Old Town was centre of depravity
11:40pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
Little London Court is today a complex of smart, new offices, but the area once had the dubious reputation of being the meanest street in Old Swindon.
Great Western Hospital may face £2m cuts
11:30pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
Great Western Hospital could lose £2 million a year under a new £20 billion efficiency savings bid by the NHS over the next four years.
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