The last few months have seen me lazily neglect this blog. And to be honest, I can’t think of an excuse why I‘ve been so lazy. So let’s just get straight back into the swing of things, shall we? I love pigs. I love looking at them. I love eating
POLICE are appealing for help in ensuring the welfare and safety of a woman in Swindon. At about 2.45am on Sunday, a distressed woman approached a man outside Domino’s Pizza in the High Street in Old Town. She then walked down a pathway towards the Lawn
THE chief of one of the towns biggest employers is committed to recognising his own customers more after appearing on a TV show. Npower chief operating officer Kevin McCullough assumed the identity of unemployed ‘Tom Nixon’ in tonight’s Channel 4’s award-winning
A BURST water main has forced police to close a town centre road at rush hour. The emergency services were alerted to the burst pipe in Milton Road shortly after 5pm this afternoon. The road has been cordoned off and is likely to remain closed for
NEW plans are being drawn up to revive Swindon’s beleaguered Mechanics’ Institute, but the council is not revealing what they are. The council has been in talks with Prince’s Regeneration Trust, Prince Charles’ charity, since early 2010 is discuss a
A MASTERPLAN for the expansion of Swindon has sparked an unprecedented reaction. The number of individual responses to the council’s Core Strategy has been counted by the council — and amounts to about 1,400. The figure is a new record and the council
A DRUG dealer who pleaded with a judge not to jail him because he feared it would mean his dog being put down has not been put behind bars. Steven Wells was caught in a police raid at his home moments after he had sold some cannabis to a man. And,
FUMING Gary Patchett has accused two of his top riders of ‘a lack of professionalism’ following Swindon’s crushing 59-33 defeat to Eastbourne on Saturday. While the emphatic nature of the loss riled the Robins co-owner enough, it was the conduct of number
CANCER survivor Alisanne Buck believes many patients are refusing life-saving radiotherapy treatment because they cannot face travelling to Oxford to receive it. The 45-year-old, of Squirrel Crescent, Wootton Bassett, was diagnosed with breast cancer
PAOLO Di Canio will today speak with the Football Association in the hope of getting a decision to suspend Alberto Comazzi for the first game of the season rescinded. Town received a letter towards the end of last week from the FA saying that Comazzi
PAOLO Di Canio tasted defeat for the first time since becoming Swindon manager on Saturday but, as is always the case in pre-season, the result was not what mattered. While it would have been nice to see the Robins maintain their 100 per cent record
Phil Smith has resigned himself to being the number two goalkeeper this season once Mattia Lanzano returns to full fitness. The long-serving Robins keeper impressed in Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Reading, making some crucial saves that prevented
