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  • Learn how to plan your own funeral

    THE chance to learn how to plan your own funeral is being offered as the newest part-time courses at New College. The ‘Funerals to Plan For – make your wishes known’ course, is being run in partnership with funeral directors. It includes burials, cremations

  • SPEEDWAY RESULT: Swindon Robins 51, Eastbourne Eagles 41

    SWINDON powered to a second home Elite League victory in a row as they stormed past high-flying Eastbourne 51-41 in front of the Sky Sports cameras. SKY SPORTS ELITE LEAGUE, ABBEY STADIUM SWINDON ROBINS 51: Scott Nicholls (3-2-2-3-1-

  • Still raising the roof 40 years on

    SEQUINS and whooping formed part of a roof-raising rehearsal as a Swindon musical institution prepared to take to the stage later this month. Kentwood Show Choir will perform for two nights at the Wyvern Theatre and are busy gearing up for performances

  • Dogs have their day on agility course

    MAN’S best friend was put through its paces yesterday in a bid to find Swindon’s canniest canine. A dog agility course was one of the attractions at a charity-run event in Lydiard Park in West Swindon. It saw around 150 dogs of all shapes and sizes

  • Council to clamp down on advert eyesores

    ACTION is under way to stamp out the blight of random advertising hoardings in the town, according to the council. Unsightly billboards and logo-covered vehicles can be seen on public roads and grassland throughout the town. The council has said it

  • Agent defends Sheehan trial

    ALAN Sheehan’s agent has responded to comments from Swindon caretaker boss Paul Bodin regarding the defender’s decision to go on trial with Preston today, insisting the move was arranged with the complete knowledge of the club. The former

  • Highworth goes all Elizabethan

    HUNDREDS of people gathered in Highworth’s Market Square for a journey back to Elizabethan times. Adults and children – many in period costume – crowded into the town for the May Day Elizabethan Market on Saturday. The town was buzzing as people enjoyed

  • Bab-Ba Black Sheep has a daughter

    A BLACK sheep who was orphaned just an hour after being born has a spring in her step after giving birth to her own lamb. Lou-Lou, as she is now called was featured in the Adver three years ago after her mum was savaged by a pair of out of control huskies

  • Teachers facing fake Facebook claims

    A headteacher has claimed that staff nationwide are increasingly suffering abuse on social networking sites. Mike Welsh, who is head of Goddard Park Primary School in Swindon, was among a series of headteachers who warned about internet abuse at the

  • Robins primed for Eastbourne test

    SWINDON will be hoping to bring down another of the Elite League’s big boys tonight as the Sky Sports cameras pay their first visit to Blunsdon in 2011. The Robins chalked up their first home victory of the year on Thursday with an impressive

  • Dawn Chorus for Swindon Literature Festival

    AS the sun rose over Swindon a dawn chorus got this year’s literature festival off to an early start. Literature lovers gathered this morning in Lawn Woods to mark the start of the 18th Swindon Festival of Literature. Organisers have

  • Explosive victory for Noureddine

    SWINDON’S Noureddine Meddoune needed just over a minute to dispose of Latvian Florians Strupits at the ‘Rumble by the Avon’ event at the Olympiad in Chippenham. The Moroccan held a three-stone weight advantage and the contest was a mismatch from the

  • Swindon caretaker boss Bodin questions players' commitment

    PAUL Bodin was concerned that one or two players did not show the kind of commitment to play for Swindon Town he demands as the Robins completed an already miserable campaign without a home win in 2011 following Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to Oldham. Despite

  • Kelvin eyes title shot

    KELVIN Young is targeting a title shot before 2011 is out after he racked up the seventh win of his pro career against Dean Walker. The Swindon middleweight outpointed his 32-year-old Sheffield opponent 40-37 in Chippenham on Saturday night, and is confident

  • Swindon cops on the hunt for jewel robbers

    POLICE are on the hunt for some butter-fingered jewellery thieves who dropped much of their loot during their escape. The brazen gang smashed their way into a jewellers’ store in broad daylight, before making off with what police described

  • Bodin blasts want-away Sheehan

    PAUL Bodin has expressed his disappointment with the conduct of Alan Sheehan following the Irishman’s decision to go on trial with Preston this week, and warned any other Swindon players considering following suit not to expect to be involved in Saturday

  • Outstanding sporting achievements at Prior Park School

    Prior Park Prep School pupils finished last term by triumphing in the sporting arena, with no less than five pupils becoming County players and five pupils receiving ‘Player of the Year’ awards from their sports clubs. In hockey, having been selected