SWINDON Robins boss Alun Rossiter was left disgusted by comments aimed at his riders from home fans in the aftermath of tonight’s dramatic 51-39 loss at King’s Lynn, a result which ended their Knockout Cup campaign. Tensions were high following
A SENSATIONAL last-heat win from King’s Lynn Stars’ Robert Lambert, despite an earlier horror crash, ended Swindon Robins’ hopes of reaching the Knockout Cup Final. The Robins lost 93-87 on aggregate as Lambert and Erik Riss recorded a match-winning
CRICKLADE'S four-time Commonwealth Games medallist Laura Halford has announced her retirement from the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. Halford, who claimed a silver medal at this year's Games on Australia's Gold Coast, revealed via her Instagram social
A NEW defibrillator could save lives in Liden. The lifesaving kit can be used to help restart the heart in people who have suffered cardiac arrest. Kevin Parry, chairman of Nythe, Eldene and Liden Parish Council, said the £995 Philips defibrillator
COURT staff had to use a defendant’s own copy of the charges against her, because police had not sent them to the Crown Prosecution Service. Zoe Bell, 29, appeared before Swindon magistrates to plead guilty to stealing booze, meat, dashboard cameras
ONE of Swindon Town’s most senior fans got to meet her hero on Saturday. Peggy Oke met the club’s 1969 League Cup Final goalscoring hero Don Rogers during half-time at Town’s home match against Bury. Carers at the Bluebell Care Home in Moredon
A GET-fit initiative has smashed its participation targets just five days after launching. Councillors had hoped 20,000 people would sign up to Beat the Street, a new physical activity initiative that turns Swindon into a massive game. Since
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A POLICE dog escaped from its cage and bit an exhibitor at the Emergency Services Show. An internal investigation has been launched after the dog attack at the Kemble airfield event on Sunday. Wiltshire Police apologised to the member of the
An 18-year-old has been arrested following a chase in pursuit of a stolen BMW in Dorcan. Three police cars and a helicopter closed in on the suspect after the chase that ended at Morrisons on Dorcan Way at around 10.40 this morning. Police
THE UK Space Agency is looking for companies and groups to give house room - or rather, garden room, to space trees. Pips from the apple tree in Sir Isaac Newton's garden in Lincolnshire were shot into space with Tim Peake as part of his mission
POLICE have swooped on a quiet street in Eldene and blocked it to traffic. The activity in Charles Macpherson Gardens is concentrated on a black BMW X4 which is being loaded on to a recovery truck. The police helicopter was seen circling overhead
WHY do virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa have a female voices? How do we ensure technology does not absorb unconscious racial bias? Should a driverless car swerve to avoid a pedestrian in the road if that means crashing and endangering its passenger
NEW COLLEGE will be unveiling its new £800,000 all weather sports pitch next week. The new facility will be situated on Buckhurst Fields behind the college and it was thanks to the Premier League and the FA Facilities Fund, which awarded a grant
THE moment rescuers dragged her husband’s lifeless body from the Caribbean sea is burned into widow Sue Fawcett’s memory. Roy had been snorkelling off coral beach Paradise Island two days before he and wife Sue were due to return from their dream
TWO Swindon engineers have impressed the Prime Minister with their electric-powered mini at the Zero Emissions Vehicle Summit. Swindon Powertrain, a high-performance car specialist, showed off their latest prototype at the two-day summit in Birmingham
MORE than 400 children in Swindon are at risk of ‘significant harm’ according to the borough council’s children’s services team. Not only is that a significant increase in just a few months, it’s close to double the national average for children
The brewery had almost 50 different cask ales and beers on offer, including the Pioneer New Zealand IPA, harking back to Arkells breweries set up in New Zealand by John Arkell’s descendants. George Arkell, managing director at Arkells, told the
CHURCH bells were ringing loudly at Christ Church in Old Town this weekend as people from across Swindon turned out for the annual Autumn Fair. Community stalls, graveyard history walks, and a chance to climb the 46-steps of the tower to have a
PHIL Brown has admitted the absence of Michael Doughty deprives Swindon Town of a key influence but is not prepared to let his team hide behind the loss of their top scorer as their League Two campaign proceeds. Doughty, who has five goals to his
SO, before we dissect where it all went wrong, surely we can all agree that it really did all go wrong? No point in sweetening the pill, or pretending otherwise, as Phil Brown admirably declined to do afterwards. This was a horror show. The sort
ALUN Rossiter has been handed a triple blow ahead of Swindon Robins’ Knockout Cup semi-final second leg with injuries crippling his side. Both Adam Ellis and teenager Zach Wajtknecht will be absent, Ellis having damaged his shoulder, while Wajtknecht
FRAUDSTERS are playing on the heartstrings of the lonely to drain them of cash. Det Sgt Jon Lee of Wiltshire Police’s fraud squad said the so-called romance frauds were among the most dispiriting his team investigated. “People believe there’s
