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• Police pleased at cut in gun crime

  Andy TatumSWINDON'S most senior police officer has welcomed new figures showing Wiltshire has bucked the national trend on gun crime. read more

• Tax-free charity lift

  CHILDREN'S charity Barnado's South West has called on business to take advantage a new incentive for payroll giving. read more

• John goes digital to spin up cash

  John Sandford-Hart on the hand-cycle he covered 76.6 miles on for the tsunami fund. 27/1/5SUFFERING terrible leg injuries in a power boating accident didn't stop determined John Sandford-Hart from doing his bit for the tsunami fund - not once, but three times. read more

• You just can get staff nowadays

  A business that has a plan to become a £100 million company used a Swindon recruitment firm. read more

• Warning on hoax charities

  BOGUS charities could be using the tsunami disaster to target unsuspecting members of the public, Wiltshire trading standards officers warned this week. read more

• Youthful outlook

  CONNEXIONS Wiltshire and Swindon's new chief executive has pledged to work closely with businesses to help the local economy. read more

• Asia quake: A test of faith?

  THE Asian Tsunami and the effect it has had on peoples' faith is to be the subject of two seminars at Sarum College, in Salisbury's Cathedral Close, on Wednesday, February 16. read more

• Starting a lawn firm

  FORMER RAF airman and Honda worker Simon Roberts of Swindon is setting up a lawn care firm. read more

• Good-quality books wanted

  SALISBURY SPCK is holding a book sale in aid of the tsunami appeal, on Friday and Saturday next week, 10am to 4pm, in the United Reformed Church. read more

• Kind-hearted youngster sells his Christmas presents to aid appeal

  A KIND-HEARTED eight-year-old showed that you are never too young to help others, when he sold his toys and books to raise money for the victims of the tsunami. read more

• Film show

  THERE will be another opportunity to enjoy a wildlife film show at Coombe Bissett village hall on Tuesday, February 15, at 2.30pm. read more

• Next stop London for photo exhibition

  A PHOTOGRAPHIC exhibition that captures the human cost of the Asian earthquake was successfully launched in Salisbury, on Saturday. read more

• Real Affinity at marketing firm

  Marketing communications firm Holly Benson has been sold for £2.36 million. Holly Benson has two sites in Wootton Bassett, one on the Dorcan industrial estate and also offices in Oxford and Milton Keynes. read more

• New health chief faces an exciting challenge

  Dr Ruth HallAVON, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority has named its new director of public health. Dr Ruth Hall, is currently the chief Medical officer for Wales and will become the region's new director of public health from June 1 2005. read more

• Honda car sales are continuing to increase

  JAPANESE car firm Honda has become the UK's second highest selling Japanese car producer, overtaking Nissan. read more

• Please help save my life

  Sean Sadler, who desperately needs a life saving bone marrow transplant with his wife PatA CANCER sufferer has made a desperate appeal to Swindon residents to become bone marrow donors. read more

• New health chief faces an exciting challenge

  Dr Ruth HallAVON, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority has named its new director of public health. read more

• Achtung! One of our councillors is missing

  A SALISBURY district councillor has been condemned by his constituents after he moved to Germany but didn't give up his seat. read more

• Day centres face closure threat

  TWO day centres in Salisbury that support and help people with mental health problems face closure, as the south Wiltshire primary care trust battles to save £1.5m. read more

• Baby death trial doctor denies misconduct

  A HOME Office pathologist, accused of providing misleading evidence that wrongly convicted a mother of murdering her two babies, appeared before the General Medical Council, this week. read more

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