SWINDON Supermarine made safe progress in the Southern League Challenge Cup tonight with a 4-1 win at home to Yate Town. Lee Spalding’s side led 1-0 at half-time through Connor Thompson’s strike, having earlier missed the chance to break the deadlock
COURT: A landscape gardener accused of stealing thousands will stand trial. Benjamin Stevens, 30, of Whitworth Road, faces four counts of breaching unfair trading rules for failing to provide the proper business documents to his clients between
If you have come here expecting this column to be its usual light-hearted self, I’m afraid you are going to be disappointed. It’s difficult to be light-hearted about suicide. But it’s a subject we need to talk about, and in more ways than one
HALF a century after becoming involved with local politics, John Foley’s motivations remain the same. “If you want to improve your community, you mustn’t sit back and let other people do it. “You’ve got to get up and say, ‘I want to do this,
THE maximum sentence for people who attack NHS and Emergency Services workers has been doubled to a year in prison. This has been proclaimed by our lawmakers and other members of the Great and the Good as a fine step forward in protecting the often
WILTSHIRE'S U16 Elite squad moved into into second place in the Channel League after beating Somerset 8-7. The morning foursomes saw Wiltshire take a 3-2 advantage but after seven holes of the singles, Wiltshire were down in every match except one
SWINDON 1952: Swindon Public Cleansing Department mixed business with pleasure on their annual outing. The first port of call was the Refuse Disposal Works at Wembley, which at the time served a population of 161,369 and disposed of 28,000 tons
Nearly half of young drivers in the south west say the black box scheme is ‘unfair’ according to new research. The research by Quote Goat, which surveyed 1,000 young drivers in the UK aged 17 to 24 on their perception towards car insurance, found
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Nearly half a million pounds of Swindon taxpayers' money has been saved by the borough council's fraud team in the first five months of the financial year. A project targeting council tax single person discount fraud has identified £136,999 of additional
A LITTLE-known programme that helps homeless people turn their lives around is celebrating its first decade. The Sandwich People, run by the salvation Army at its Booth House hostel in the town centre, is a social enterprise creating opportunities
A MOTION urging the leaders of Swindon Borough Council to writento the Prime Minister, the town's two Conservative MPs and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, calling for a second referendum on Brexit will be debated on Thursday
Racing driver Jackie Stewart said something along the lines that every man thinks he’s an excellent driver, and an excellent lover. I certainly think I’m a decent driver, but having thought it would be a doddle to find the White Hart Inn - it’s
FORMER Swindon Town defender Stephen Darby has announced his retirement from football, aged 29, after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. The right-back, who began his career at his hometown club Liverpool, received the diagnosis from a
Lemon peel not olives, and shaken not stirred - everyone knows how the world’s most famous fictional spy likes his martinis. Now the Ian Fleming Estate has teamed up with London’s award-winning Bar Swift, to offer 50 cocktail recipes in book called
The Habit of Art Salisbury Playhouse Until Saturday, September 22 A CLUTTERED rehearsal room is the atmospheric setting for the current superb revival of Alan Bennett's play within a play, The Habit of Art, in which fact and fiction merge
A TEENAGER with a rare form of cancer hopes to bring her family with her when she goes to America for vital life-saving treatment. Chloe Venton from Park South has battled Ewing’s sarcoma for months while completing her GCSEs at New College in
Racing driver Jackie Stewart said something along the lines that every man thinks he’s an excellent driver, and an excellent lover. I certainly think I’m a decent driver, but having thought it would be a doddle to find the White Hart Inn - it’s
THIS week we are happily returning to the subject of vegan chocolate. Strangely, when we are fortunate enough to receive consignments of vegan chocolate to sample here at the Adver offices (it's a tough job but someone's got to do it), my non-vegan
SHOES worth £200 have been stolen from an Old Town shop. The boxed shoes were grabbed from Blaylocks on Bath Road shortly after 3.30pm on September 12, then the offender ran out. Police are appealing for information and have released an image
POLICE: A suspected drug dealer is wanted on a court warrant. Brian Tchenda, 22, from north London, failed to appear at Swindon Crown Court on Friday. Police have appealed for information regarding his whereabouts. A spokeswoman said: "Although
AN 18-year-old was arrested after police swooped on a quiet Eldene street in a pursuit involving a stolen BMW. Three police cars and a helicopter closed in on the suspect after officers spotted the high-powered X4, which had been stolen during a
FAMILY run sandwich shop Franklin’s brings an authentic taste of northern England to Swindon, with such traditional dishes as pease pudding, and fresh meat collected from the George Franklin family butcher’s in Sunderland. The roast sandwich shop
A ‘no deal’ Brexit would cost Honda ‘tens of millions of pounds’ and damage its competitiveness, the company has said. But the Japanese car maker has said it would continue to use its plant in Swindon even if the UK leaves the EU without a deal
UPDATE 10.20AM: All lanes have been reopened on the M4 eastbound between junctions 16 and 15 after this morning's crash. Delays of up to 20 minutes remain in the area. Two lanes of the motorway were initially shut following the accident.
A NEW coffee shop in Redhouse will give the local community a place to meet and somewhere budding artists can show off their work. Justin Tomlinson MP was the special guest at the official opening of Kingdom Coffee House on Isambard Way. It
A KNIFE amnesty will help take dangerous weapons off Swindon’s streets, police hope. The two-week knife amnesty will see people encouraged to drop illegal weapons into five police stations across the county. Officers want everything, from lock knives
A PARISH council will investigate whether to draw up a neighbourhood plan, despite a public meeting being told it could cost thousands and be overtaken by a new borough plan. South Swindon Parish Council is looking into how a neighbourhood plan
The size, and shape, of a proposed new housing development in Shaw in Swindon has lead to some puzzlement. And the thought that perhaps it’s an attempt to avoid having to build affordable homes. Swindon Borough Council owns a patch of green
The use by Swindon Borough Council of a weedkiller which may cause cancer has been criticised by the Labour opposition. Workers for Swindon Borough Council keep weeds on the town’s roads and pavements down by use of the herbicide glyphosate - it
POLICE recorded more than 200 child abuse image offences in Wiltshire last year. The NSPCC has warned that offenders are using social networks to target children for abuse online, grooming and manipulating them into sending naked images. A freedom
STUDENTS across Swindon will get a hard-hitting road safety presentation from bereaved parents and the emergency services this month. The presentations is part of the Safe Drive, Stay Alive campaign which uses powerful personal testimony and dramatic
A GCSE pupil has thanked Bruck Payne Associates for boosting her confidence after she went to the company's career pop-up stand. The business consultancy and training centre, based in Royal Wootton Bassett, invited local directors to the stand to
A Star-studded line-up of speakers has been confirmed for the Swindon and Wiltshire Growth Summit in October. The event will provide an opportunity for networking over breakfast and lunch with influential business leaders from across Swindon and
NATIONWIDE returned to Swindon Sunday League Division Three action this weekend and came out on top of a nine-goal thriller which saw them triumph 6-3 at home against The Abbey Mead. Andrew Goodchild opened his goalscoring account for the season
WROUGHTON emphatically destroyed the Wiltshire Senior League Premier Division's remaining 100 per cent record as they thrashed reigning champions Kintbury Rangers 5-1 on Saturday. Shane Hibbert's early penalty sent the villagers on their way and
PHIL Brown has accepted that several of his personnel calls for Saturday's home defeat by Bury simply did not come off, but insists his Swindon Town squad must also examine their application to the task in hand as they lick their wounds after the County
SWINDON Wildcats will have to wait until Wednesday to learn the fate of netminder Renny Marr after he lashed out in the club’s 3-2 Autumn Cup defeat to Hull Pirates on Sunday. Marr was given a match penalty in the 51st minute after retaliating to
SWINDON Supermarine boss Lee Spalding says it is important his troops make the most of home advantage as they welcome Yate Town to the Webbswood Stadium this evening. Marine go into the Southern League Challenge Cup preliminary round clash off the
ASHTON Keynes made it back-to-back wins at the weekend after registering a comfortable 5-1 win over Wheatsheaf Stratton. Nick Gregory will take the majority of the plaudits and rightly so as he scored four times, in addition to Robert Watson’s goal
IMAGES from Les Aubrey as Swindon Robins Knockout Cup final hopes were ended by a second leg defeat at King's Lynn Stars last night.
IF it seems too good to be true it probably is, a senior Wiltshire cyber detective has said. Det Insp Gemma Vinton runs the new digital investigations and intelligence unit. Based at Wiltshire Police’s Devizes headquarters, it helps detectives
PAEDOPHILES are using computer games and apps to target vulnerable boys in Swindon, police have warned. PCSO Alan Aldersley-Byrne, who tours Wiltshire schools and colleges offering anti-crime advice, said criminals sought out those with few friends
The NHS wants all front-line healthcare workers to have a flu jab this winter, warning trusts that staff refusing the vaccine could be banned from treating patients. Last winter more than 20 per cent of frontline NHS workers at the Great Western
COURT: A Taw Hill man who destroyed a woman’s passport will have to do 160 hours of unpaid work. Roderick Webb, 57, of Galloway Road, pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman, destroying her passport and damaging her mobile phone. Magistrates told
COURT: A man who admitted assaulting his partner and setting fire to her clothing has avoided jail. Haydn Andrews, 25, of Deacon Street, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and a criminal damage charge. Magistrates sentenced him to 18 weeks
