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• Restaurant - Bistro Papillon, Bath

  TUCKED away down a quaint pedestrianised street, just around the corner from the Royal Crescent, you will find Bistro Papillon. read more

• Four years' jail for indecent attacks

  FORMER cinema projectionist Albert Horton has been jailed for sex attacks that took place nearly 20 years ago. read more

• Couple roll up to the church on time in a two-tonne truck

  Ref. 29091-13ROMANTIC Adrian Iles made sure his fiance Helen got to the church on time for their wedding by giving her a lift in his two-tonne truck. read more

• Explorer to get award

  SWINDON-born adventurer David Hempleman-Adams is to receive an award from the Duke of York in London next month. read more

• Back to work

  A LOCOMOTIVE which is part of the proud history of the Great Western Railway is to go back to work. read more

• Man, 29, arrested for hacking into services website

  A MAN has been arrested after allegedly hacking into the Swindon-based Forces Reunited website. read more

• Three men face trial for drugs offences

  THE trial of three men facing a string of international drug trafficking and money laundering charges is due to start today. read more

• Nowhere to run

  THE man in charge of Swindon's speed cameras has admitted that they fail to stop speeding motorists. read more

• Swindon in the hunt

  SWINDON maintained their hopes of an end-of-season promotion play-off as they shrugged off the late loss of fly-half Stuart Cock to defeat to win 20-14 at Chipping Norton in Berks, Bucks & Oxon One. read more

• Classy Marlborough stay on the pace

  MARLBOROUGH warmed up for next week's potential Dorset & Wilts Two North title decider with Cricklade by rattling up another half-century of points in a 55-12 defeat of Supermarine 2nd. read more

• Steamy goings-on

  SWINDON COUNCIL FEATURE: Watching Swindon Council's to-ings and fro-ings can be more entertaining than your favourite soap. MICHAEL LITCHFIELD looks at what really went on at the recent tax-setting meeting. read more

• The leader was ready to resign

  SWINDON COUNCIL FEATURE: COUNCIL leader Mike Bawden was ready to resign just before the weekend. read more

• Restaurant - Ha Ha Bar & Canteen, Bath

  LOOKING for somewhere sophisticated to eat in Bath is not much of a chore. You are surrounded by grandiose Georgian buildings housing some of the south west's best eateries. It just all rides on what you are looking for. read more

• Restaurant - The Wife Of Bath, Bath

  I HAD heard good things about the Wife Of Bath restaurant and so decided to go along and check it out for myself. But after a very disappointing meal I am afraid I can't see what all the fuss is about. read more

• Let's go for it

  TOWN should set their sights on automatic promotion and scare the living daylights out of sides above them, believes manager Andy King. read more

• QuintiQ joins consortium in pitch for £13b contract

  QINETIQ at Boscombe Down could earn about £30m over the next few years for design support and a flight test programme for the RAF's new in-flight refuelling plane. read more

• QuintiQ joins consortium in pitch for £13b contract

  QINETIQ at Boscombe Down could earn about £30m over the next few years for design support and a flight test programme for the RAF's new in-flight refuelling plane. read more

• Former drug user to become vicar

  A FORMER drug user is to become a vicar at Bemerton Heath, in Salisbury. read more

• Design a bigger profit

  Do you judge a business by the way its office looks? And can good design really make profits rise? read more

• Students have voice in politics

  Ref. 29052-39WHOEVER said young people are disinterested in politics obviously never met students from Wootton Bassett School. read more

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