Taking care of business

Swindon Station workers during a recent rail strike. Picture: DAVE COX

Swindon hit by days of strikes disrupting train journeys
TWO more days of strikes by railway workers will affect train services for the rest of this week.

Rashik Parmar MBE (inset) is now the group CEO of BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT. Main picture: GETTY.

Swindon group using IT to help save the world appoints new boss

Cost of living support payment offered to thousands of Nationwide employees

Nationwide is paying staff a one off £1,200 cost of living support payment

Town centre bus travel shop closing permanently

Concerns raised about closure of town centre bus travel shop

Intel backs fashion fundraiser for Swindon social enterprise helping young people

Intel backs fashion fundraiser for Swindon social enterprise helping young people

InSwindon BID reveals facelift to 'modernise' how people think about the town centre

Bid firm reveals facelift and new website to promote town centre

MP calls for 'urgent review' as Wiltshire fuel companies criticised over prices

Water pouring out of the leak on Greenbridge Road

Major water leak left flooding Swindon road for EIGHTEEN hours

Emma Turner and Scott Salmon at the Purton Cattery

Cattery opens as police officer swaps catching criminals with caring for cats

Cottage Dental Practice and Implant Clinic manager Joanne Neil, receptionist Angela Wilson, new owner receptionist, Aikusa Hacatrjana, trainee dental nurse Liberty Lee, and dental nurse Pushpa Ale

Dental practice's new owner promises longer opening hours

The dry landscape around the GWH and the River Thames near Ashton Keynes completely dried up Photo: Brian Marshall

Swindon's drought status confirmed by Environment Agency

Collect and send in tokens to decide which of Swindon's pubs is the best. Picture: GETTY

Last days in competition: Which is Swindon's best pub?

Paolo Cianci in his deli, which has seen its monthly energy bills more-than-double despite using less electricity.

Town centre deli owner furious as monthly energy bill more than doubles

Swindon Town FC CEO Rob Angus, V Cars Regional Drive Director Jack Price and Danny Lee Head of Commercial at Swindon Town FC.

Sponsor announces partnership with Swindon Town Football Club

A Post Office is reopening in a new location in Stratton. Picture: GETTY

Post Office branch reopening in new Swindon location next month

Shadow Rail Minister Tan Dhesi in the Crossrail Integration Facility at Siemens Mobility in Chippenham.

Shadow Minister visits Wiltshire firm that helped build new £19billion train line

ITAE Productions said they did not believe the ad was offensive, adding that West was “notorious for murder, but that he was also a father, and that this was relevant to his crimes” (PA)

Fred West Father's Day promotion advert banned

A digital rendering of the Fleming Way plans and Gary Sumner explaining them to locals

Council says it has 'learnt its lesson' ahead of two-year road closure

GMB reps at the Amazon site in Swindon

STRIKE Swindon Amazon workers down tools in strike over pay rises and treatment

The Beeble Founders: Matt & Nicola. Photo: Beeble

Unusual Wiltshire business featured on This Morning win's national award for third time

One of the Too Good To Go 'magic bags'. Photo: Les Kaner.

How you can get cheap pub food in Wiltshire for as little as £4

Newlyweds Tom and Mairead Titcombe manage the pub together with a team of staff

Swindon's newest pub 'could be the town's best' as competition heats up

Tamzin Shipway's pet hotel has been in huge demand this summer.

Take a look inside the booming pet hotel started by Wiltshire teen

The Wroughton Airfield base in question

Earthline has months to tear down buildings after losing appeal

Over 1,500 businesses in Swindon are struggling financially as cost of living crisis rages on

More than 1,500 Swindon businesses in significant financial distress

Ben Lee, John Stopher, Richard Davies, Sue Green and Rick Dring

Wiltshire finance experts help owner of £75m company sell it to business group

The seating area for The Confessional is empty and the restaurant seems to have shut suddenly.

Mystery over sudden closure of Swindon burger restaurant

The soon-to-be-closed Next Home store just before its opening in 2012

West Swindon's Next Home store to close for good

Staff enjoying Stonewood Group’s 50th anniversary celebration at Biddestone Cricket Club

Wiltshire construction company celebrates 50th anniversary

The Adver is looking for charities doing great work in our community, who could do with just that bit more help, to be nominated to take a share of £16,000 we’re making available.

Apply for Swindon Advertiser's £16,000 cash giveaway

An aerial view of Cheney Manor Industrial Estate - Photo: FI Real Estate Management

Three new long-term tenants moving into Cheney Manor Industrial Estate

The best new restaurants to visit in Swindon this summer

The best new restaurants to visit in Swindon this summer

Alex Call (AKA Bert) and Michael Ritchie at Bert's Books in Old Town.

Independent bookshop owner celebrates successful start to dream job

The Mela restaurant’s new owner Rajib Malaker with head chef Porimol Dey

Mela prepares to reopen with new owner after improving food hygiene

James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson visited Swindon as part of their Lochdown special on Amazon Prime. PICTURE: PA Photo/Amazon Prime

Remembering when The Grand Tour lads came to Swindon

Swindon Town have launched a new partnership with Proper Cornish.

Swindon Town announce new matchday food supplier ahead of first home game

Horror as children caught climbing on top of closed Oasis leisure centre dome

Horror as children caught climbing on top of closed Oasis dome

Businesses are not feeling good about the future as costs rise and the amount of new work dries up. Picture: GETTY

NATWEST: Business optimism plummets as demand dries up and costs keep rising

Darren Simons and Violet McLaren at The Victoria, and Lauren Turner at The Clifton

Swindon's Best Pub finalists on why they deserve your vote

Hungry Swindonians queue to get a pizza the action - but the chicken parm steals the show

Hungry locals queue for a pizza the action at new Swindon restaurant

Chef launches 'unique' brunch and breakfast takeaway to fill gap in market

Meet the Swindon chef who has launched 'unique' brunch and breakfast takeaway

File picture: GETTY IMAGES

Swindon photographer wants to help devastated couples hit by wedding firm's collapse

Sheila Guyatt used to work at Burma Castrol and now lives in a retirement community built on the site. Pictures: MCCARTHY STONE.

Retired Burmah Castrol worker back on familiar ground

Plea to neighbours after man becomes fed up with poo streaming into his garden

Man's plea to neighbours after poo streams into garden SIX times

A shortlist of the 10 best pubs in Swindon has been revealed after a reader vote. Picture: GETTY

The 10 best pubs in Swindon according to Adver readers

Luke Monday and Annie Macefield have taken over The Check Inn

Popular Swindon pub to get another landlord after three turbulent years

Jill Crooks and Anne Saunders from Swindon Carers Centre with Harry Threlfall, customer services manager at Pebley Beach

Swindon's 21,000 unpaid carers supported by car dealership

The final phase of the Badbury Park development will be launched later this week. Picture: REDROW

68 new homes built near Swindon motorway junction

Image: Instagram @layedwards

Love Island star shares visits to Swindon pubs and restaurants on Instagram

Thieves run off with jewellery from Regent Street shop

Police hunt pair who raided town centre jewellers for engagement ring

One of the sites where Avonline is working for Virgin Media in Chippenham.

Roadworkers given hi-vis jackets that say 'English-speaking' on

Jimmy Hyslop of Athena Plastering at his workshop in Wroughton. Picture: DAVE COX

Plasterer starts training new recruits after Covid prompts change of career

Parish council, Nepalese Association and Nationwide to team up for family fun day

Family fun day promises free activities over the bank holiday weekend

Lloyds Bank in RWB is set to close in December.

'It fills me with fear' - Royal Wootton Bassett residents react to Lloyds Bank closing