MAY 5 will not just be a chance to choose who governs Swindon. Alongside the regular, yearly local election, in which one third of the town’s council seats are up for grabs, voters will also be voting on... er, how to vote. The Alternative
VOLKSWAGEN enthusiasts have raised thousands of pounds more than expected for a trio of charities. The Dub Aid event saw hundreds of VW van drivers and their friends camp at Castle Combe, followed by a convoy-style parade though Wootton Bassett in March
FUN and games are being enjoyed in the sun as Roves Farm celebrated the May Bank Holiday weekend. Roves Farm in Sevenhampton had maypole dancing, quoits, hopscotch, a tin can alley and skittles for children to enjoy. Joy, five, and Leo
A GROUP of residents spent more than an hour making strange shapes in from of bemused onlookers in a Swindon park this weekend. The morning martial arts session was Swindon’s contribution to world Tai Chi Day. It saw 18 practitioners of Tai Chi
A SWINDON man, who slashed his former best friend with a knife after meeting him in the street, has been jailed for 18 months. Simon Pritchard had already fallen out with his victim after his girlfriend had a fling with him when they had briefly separated
SWINDON and District Samaritans are celebrating the arrival of a new van which will help them to deliver a groundbreaking service for vulnerable young people. The vehicle, which was bought after months of fundraising, has been needed since the previous
WORK has begun to provide a new home for children’s charity Hop, Skip and Jump, which will open its doors in July. The regeneration of the Upper Shaw Farm Community Centre is due to be completed by July 15, thanks to the work of volunteers
A WHIRLWIND romance has led to 65 years of marriage for Wootton Bassett couple Cyril and Moira Ponting. The couple, of Ballards Ash, met in the middle of a Wiltshire field in 1945, when she was a Land Girl and he was on land reclamation work for the
COVINGHAM Drive is a place for everyone, according to the people who live and work there. Since its foundations were set in the 1960s, the area has been the perfect place to lay down roots, from families and young couples to pensioners, it has everything
I’ve become quite an old hand at TV Royal Wedding watching, having just notched up my seventh with Will and Kate’s on Friday. I got my first practise run at royal marathons in the womb, quite literally, when my heavily pregnant mum watched
A MOTHER and her son had to be taken to hospital and an officer was injured after a police response car crashed on the way to a burglary. The 36-year-old mother was driving a Rover 414 along Windsor Road, Lawn, when a Honda Civic with police
PEOPLE clogging up the A&E department at Great Western Hospital for unnecessary reasons will be turned away under a new campaign launched today. Health chiefs are warning people that the department should only be used for urgent medical reasons after
Swindon MPs are rising high in the sexy stakes according to a new website. Users of Sexymp.co.uk pick which MP they favour out of two randomly selected photos. The score is then calculated for each MP’s individual tally while the user picks from the
