Comment on Wiltshire news, read blogs, columns and letters from the Swindon Advertiser.

Look at town finances

4:35pm Friday 1st June 2012

I was recently told that our MPs are going to join a group to fight fraud in the country and to try to resolve it for the better. Can I suggest they first take a look at this town and what is going on?

Hospital has boosted car parking spaces

5:07pm Friday 1st June 2012

I would like to respond to recent letters published in the Advertiser about Parking at Great Western Hospital.

Easy way to deliver a boost to ecomomy

5:15pm Friday 1st June 2012

Why is it that we have been able to send a man to the moon, get trains to travel along thousands of miles of track and arrive almost on time, organise buses to collect and deliver us at certain times and places, arrange for overnight artics to deliver bread and milk etc to our local shops and yet some, no not some, but all companies who are linked to a utility or major delivery warehouse or company are unable to give you a time more exact than between 8am and 1pm or morning or afternoon or, in a few cases, between 8am and 5pm. Why is this?

Who is holding back the town?

5:16pm Friday 1st June 2012

Being interested in all things Old Town and particularly the Locarno, I was interested to read the following, part of the statement released by Steve Rosier on the developer’s website.

Tories to blame for Swindon job losses

5:19pm Friday 1st June 2012

It is not often I find myself disagreeing with Dr Hill, but in his letter (Adver, May 10) he’s missed the point.

Has the time come to forgive Luke?

5:27pm Friday 1st June 2012

To drink drive and kill two innocent people and maim a third for life is appalling which anybody who has any form of conscience has to agree. I am referring to the young goalkeeper Luke McCormick. But justice is being done and nothing on earth can ever bring the victims back or to make good that family's tragic loss. The pain of the father, especially wheelchair bound, is going to take years to get over and each day slowly and surely it will start to get a little easier as will the need to forgive Luke’s shortcomings. Whatever the judiciary decide, this may not seem like justice in the short term.

Use less water – use a hose, not a bucket!

4:50pm Wednesday 23rd May 2012

I find myself a little bemused by the hose pipe ban for domestic homes by Thames Water.

Tories’ achievements

5:03pm Wednesday 23rd May 2012

As I read the letter from ex-Councillor Perry (Cons, Dorcan) I had a certain amount of sympathy as I too have been defeated at the polls in local government elections.

Poll support welcome

5:08pm Wednesday 23rd May 2012

Thank you to the people of Old Town. The decision to stand as an independent candidate for Old Town was taken late in the day and left only one month to prepare and deliver material across the ward.

A blasphemous outlook

5:08pm Wednesday 23rd May 2012

It was a nice change to see Prince Charles involved in a bit of light hearted fun by reading the weather forecast for BBC Scotland last week.