Wednesday, July 5 Tiny Tots Toddler Group is at Even Swindon Community Centre, from 9.30am to 11.30am. (01793) 421408. Tiddlers Toddlers mums and toddlers group meets at Broadgreen Centre, Salisbury Street, from 9.45am to 12.45pm. (01793) 481309. Mother
Tuesday, July 4 Trivia Quiz is at the Swindon Superbowl, Mullins Bar, Shaw Ridge, from 9pm. Free entry. Winners scoop a crate of beer. St John Ambulance meets at Training Centre, Oakfield School, from 7pm to 10pm. (01793) 535733/641595/430586. Air Training
HALF Way Down The Line, an exhibition of paintings and photographs by Richard Gagola is at the Arts Centre, Devizes Road, Old Town. The display of 30 pieces explores the mystery of Swindon from a variety of perspectives. Richard's show is based on the
Big Momma's House (12) Crime comedy with Martin Lawrence. Adver rating: 1/10 UGC, Cineworld Chill Factor (15) Comedy thriller, starring Skeet Ulrich. Adver rating: 4/10 Cineworld Chicken Run (U) Animated comedy from the makers of Wallace and Gromit. Featuring
Wyvern Theatre, Swindon: Sunday July 16 Janice Thompson Singers present a Summer gala Concert. Tickets: £5. Time. 7.30pm. (01793) 524481 Arts Centre, Devizes Road, Old Town: Friday/Saturday Killer Parties present Crime In Their Eyes, a murder mystery
ENGLAND masseur Steve Slattery has been talking exclusively to the Evening Advertiser about the disappointment Kevin Keegan's men felt at their performance in Euro 2000. Slattery, who has been working with the squad for the last four years, said that
Tuesday, July 4 Disco party is at The Flag and Whistle, Station Road. Free. Free pool and happy hour, 5-9pm. Pattern Store Bar, Penzance Drive, Swindon. Chart and soul sounds of the summer is at Jacksons, Shaw Ridge. Free. Karaoke is at Jacksons, Shaw
A GROUP of vigilantes, who broke down the door of a flat where they believed a teenage girl was being corrupted into prostitution and drugs, cheated prison when they appeared in court. Michael Rawlings, 50, his daughter Kelly, 20, and Kevin Docherty,
A TOTAL of 24 teams will take part in the 2000 Wiltshire Bowls Mixed Galas. This new competition was staged for the first time last year at two venues with 16 teams taking part. This year's Mixed Galas will be held on Saturday July 8 at three venues with
SHRIVENHAM, leaders of Division One of the Stroud and Swindon sponsored Swindon and District Four Rink Bowls League, were made to struggle for their latest victory over Cricklade. A 22-14 win by John Winskill over Cricklade's Dave Mitchell tipped the
COLIN TODD expects eleven new faces to turn up for the start of pre-season training on Thursday, July 6. The Swindon boss is hoping to see the fruits of his tough summer recruitment campaign as he continues to rebuild the ravaged squad. Five of the players
BERNIE the cat spent the night on the tiles then carried on with her fun when firefighters arrived to rescue her by disappearing down a chimney. The small, long-haired, ginger and white cat, who has only ever been out on her own once before, went missing
WORK at junction 16 of the M4 is causing traffic chaos in narrow village lanes around Swindon. As commuters try to avoid the snarled-up traffic on the M4 junction, people in the surrounding villages are suffering as cars jam up the narrow roads near their
SUPPORT has been flooding in for Upper Stratton vicar Reverend Peter Stone who is to undergo a sex change. The 46-year-old says he has been heartened by words of kindness from complete strangers as well as his parishioners who have stopped him in the
JULIE Roberts has just returned from a ten-day trip to Zambia to see the work of international charity WaterAid in action in one of the world's poorest and drought-prone countries. Here Julie, a 38-year-old office worker at Thames Water in Swindon, tells
WILTSHIRE Health Authority has hit back at critics of Swindon's new hospital who claim it has too few beds to cope with expected patient numbers. The new £148 million Commonhead hospital, which is due to be completed in 2002, will have fewer bed spaces
NATIONWIDE Building Society is celebrating a spectacular victory in its campaign against cashpoint charges. HSBC, Barclays Bank and Lloyds TSB have all announced that they had decided to abolish fees. They fell to public pressure following a campaign
THE 420 children at Penhill Primary school have pulled out all the stops to collect more than 22,000 Tesco computer vouchers. That works out at at just over 500 each the equivalent of £5,000 worth of groceries since January. We had mums and dads, aunts
FOR Leslie and Gertie Holland their 60th wedding anniversary celebrations could not have been better. The Purton couple had their dreams come true when they showed up at their son Matt's house at Lower Shaw Farm on Sunday, July 2. Suddenly, out of the
SIXTY childcare places are to be created in Swindon thanks to a £32,000 lottery grant. The New Opportunities fund allocated the cash to provide out of school care places at Grange Infants School and Ferndale Infants School. The handout is in line with
ON June 30 it was reported that Coun Jim D'Avila stated that council housing would be sold off within five years if the Tories get back into power. Since it is only a few weeks ago that the current Labour Government was proposing to dispose of all council
YOUR article Complaints at PMH increase (Evening Advertiser, June 29) are not just a matter of concern so far as PMH is concerned, but are sadly indicative of the standard of hospital care that may be expected in the future unless there is a massive increase
Tuesday, July 4 Shrivenham Barber Shop Singers meet at the Alexander Hall, Language Centre, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham at 7.30pm. Thursday, July 6 Ridgeway Harmony Chorus Men's Quartet and Chorus singing barbershop style is at the Walcot
Tuesday, July 4 Swindon Bridge Club meets at Allied Dunbar Social Club, Ocotal Way at 7.15pm. (01793) 813747. Swindon Higashi Karate Kai, karate and self defence at the Oasis Leisure Centre 7.30pm to 9.30pm. (01793) 330401. Swindon Croquet Club meet at
Tuesday, July 4 Stenson Express American Line Dancing at Even Swindon Community Centre, Rodbourne, is from 8-9pm for absolute beginners and 9-10pm improvers. (01793) 435459 Merengue Workshop is at the Ellendune Centre, Wroughton from 8-10pm for £7. Swindon
IF YOU were expecting The Chemical Brothers' trance-style set then The Toxic Twins would come as quite a shock to the system. Gary and Maggie play the haunting sounds of Delta blues, the soul-searching folk style of Bob Dylan, the uptempo Bob Marley and
THE whole nation was bitterly disappointed that England failed to progress past the first stage of the European Championships, but Steve Slattery felt it more than most. The Swindon businessman, who works with the England squad as a masseur, stayed up
Wednesday, July 5 Classix Night is at Angelo's Nightclub, Fleet Street, Swindon from 9.30pm to 2am. Guest DJs play at bar 150, Victoria Road. Free. Revival night DJs spin a mix from old skool to charts at Mondo Mondo, 25-27a John Street, Swindon. Free
WILTSHIRE made a swift exit in the regional final staged at Bath after gaining a narrow 30-29 win over Devon in the opening round of the National Under-25's Two Fours competition. The team showed one change, with Highworth's England junior trialist Neil
GRAHAM Shadwell, Wiltshire's outstanding young bowler from Cooper-Avon Tyres, Melksham, the 1999 national junior singles champion, has been selected to represent England in a three-match Test Series against Australia Under 25's. This will be played at
THE Wiltshire county bowls championships have reached the last 16 stage in the singles, pairs, triples and fours. A place at Worthing in the English Bowls Association awaits the two finalists in all four competitions. There have been several surprise
WILTSHIRE'S lingering hopes of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Middleton Cup were extinguished as they lost to Dorset at Wimborne. After the home defeat by table-topping Devon a fortnight ago, they had to win their final match and rely on Cornwall
MEMBERS of the Highworth and District Floral Art Society will be enjoying a demonstration called A Floral Dance at their next meeting. It takes place on Thursday, July 6, at Highworth Warneford School at 7.30pm and the demonstrator will be Christine Randle
A CORSHAM TV company has won a second major international award in a year. Ian Gall Television won the Silver Screen Award in the public relations category at the US International Film & Video Festival at a presentation ceremony in Chicago. It follows
AN ARMY of workers turned out to begin the mammoth task of extending Blunsdon's steam railway line. Two cranes helped the voluntary workers out on Saturday and Sunday as they started to clear a path for a railway track to be laid down between the existing
ALEETZA Woods, star of TV's Home And Away, proved a real daredevil, leaping 10,000 feet from a rare French plane to launch Aladdin, Swindon's millennium panto. I wasn't scared at all until I was hanging off the plane waiting to jump and then I looked
HORSE lover Dean Watts spent a special day at the races before emigrating to Australia. He especially enjoyed the 2.45pm at Bath, which was officially called The Dean Watts Going Down Under Classified Stakes. Dean, 31, of Westmorland Road, was determined
PARENTS of pupils at a Swindon school have been warned of the symptoms of meningitis after a teenager contracted the disease. Christopher Mitchell became ill at the beginning of last week and was taken to Princess Margaret Hospital on Thursday, June 29
WROUGHTON mum Tracey Martin is asking Prime Minister Tony Blair to install fridges in every school in Britain to make pupils' packed lunches safe. Tracey, 36, of Maunsell Way, believes there are enormous health and safety risks when children leave their
A GROUP of vigilantes, who broke down the door of a flat where they believed a teenage girl was being corrupted into prostitution and drugs, cheated prison when they appeared in court. Michael Rawlings, 50, his daughter Kelly, 20, and Kevin Docherty,
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a private cricket pitch in Chiseldon have been withdrawn by the developers. Campaigners in the village had been fighting for the proposal to be withdrawn for months. The developers DDCS had planned to relocate cricket games
A PENHILL man has had a jail term lengthened to 18 months after a court heard how he was caught handling a stolen caravan. Michael O'Driscoll was appearing before Swindon Crown Court a week after a judge in Swansea jailed him for 15 months after he admitted
SWINDON no longer has its own cable television channel. Called Swindon's Local Channel, it has been replaced by a text information service, ending more than 30 years of local programming in the town. The Evening Advertiser exclusively revealed the decision
AFTER the row last year over how much of the education budget Swindon was delegating to schools, the new figures show a considerable improvement. The figure is now 85.8 per cent, making it the 12th highest out of the 46 unitary authorities. It means an
SWINDON'S persistent young offenders are being dealt with more speedily barely a month after agencies pledged to work more closely together. Figures released by the Lord Chancellor's Department reveal the number of days from arrest to sentence in the
SWINDON youngsters were given a glimpse into the world of plasticine models used in animated films. The five children, aged from eight to 14, were shown how to create the models and the methods used in bringing them magically to life on the big screen
ON June 25 Pam Rivers sadly died. Pam has been campaigning for animals for most of her life. For almost 30 years she has organised the Swindon Animal Fayre. Most weekends you would find Pam and her husband Sid with a market stall or at a car boot sale
I WAS taught in my youth that it dishonoured and even insulted the Queen to fly the Union Jack upside down, yet to my dismay on the last two visits of royalty to the town the small flags sold for people to wave have been upside down, as photographed in
WITH reference to recent letters regarding black sacks and refuse let me clarify the situation about dustbins and black sacks. I don't know where the rumours have come from but the refuse collection service will empty refuse bins. We would prefer it if
UNLIKE those who will be supporting a nationwide petrol boycott (Evening Advertiser, vox pop, June 30), Swindon Friends of the Earth will be supporting car-free days instead. The price of petrol goes nowhere near to cover the cost of pollution to the
I READ recently of local concern regarding asylum seekers and the problems they are allegedly causing. Perhaps if people went on holiday to their countries then the local economy would benefit and those who seek asylum on economic grounds might be persuaded
