AN MP has joined the fight to stop drivers using a busy Swindon road as a racetrack. South Swindon MP Anne Snelgrove has backed residents' calls for the speed cameras in Queens Drive to be reinstated before someone is killed. And Mrs Snelgrove has called
THE weather may have ruined the weekend for thousands of people at the Royal International Air Tattoo, but the show went on elsewhere on Saturday. Hundreds of people piled onto the field next to the County Ground athletics track for the town's first
POLICE are calling for witnesses to a burglary in Wroughton on Saturday. A house in The Pitchings was entered by an offender or offenders between 9.10am and 11.50am. A Sony 32-inch television was taken and it is believed that the burglars got into the
AN 18-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to having cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply. Stephanie Nicholson admitted she had the drugs for supply when she was arrested on October 24 last year. Another 18-year-old girl, Rowanne Spalding, also pleaded
BUDDING West End stars wowed packed audiences with their performances of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Children from St Catherine's Catholic Primary School in Davenwood, Upper Stratton, brought the house down on Wednesday and Thursday
DAVID Howell will be grateful his Open invitation has long been secured after a ragged final round left him a fair way down the field at Loch Lomond. A card soiled by six bogeys - including three on the bounce at the start of the back nine - was partially
I have been having a few "difficulties" at school with Jordan this week. I had the dreaded "Can I have a word please?" from his teacher, when I went to pick him up on Wednesday. Jordan was red in the face and tearful, he had obviously had a paddy. It
COMPANIES across Swindon have been gearing up for a cycling challenge. The Swindon Workplace Cycling Challenge has been created to get more people thinking about heading for work on a bike. It starts on Monday and runs until July 27 with a prize going
SWINDON continues to counter gloomy business trends. The leader of the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce has said the town, and the region, is sidestepping the economic downturn and that the future looks bright. Paul Briggs, chief executive of the Thames
PUPILS stepped back in time to celebrate Wootton Bassett Infant School's 150th birthday. The children, aged from four to seven, dressed in pinafores, cloth bonnets, flat caps and long shorts . Headteacher Mark Hazzard also got into the spirit by marching
BURGLAR Benjamin Thompson is behind bars after breaking into a home while on a suspended sentence. Thompson stole electrical items from the town-centre property while the occupants were out. After being caught, the 29-year-old admitted breaking into
Swindon Police are investigating claims that a bizarre religious cult is operating from premises in County Road. They are concerned that ordinary people are being forced into parting with their money in the hope of being admitted into the Kingdom of
