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• Don't destroy all our values

  I AM totally disgusted with the dismemberment of my old regiment. It seems that the Government is determined to destroy all the values that we stood for. read more

• RSPCA shop wants help

  THE RSPCA's North Wiltshire branch is making a plea for volunteers to help runs its Swindon shop. read more

• Funding lifeline is offered by church

  PEOPLE working on community projects in Swindon are being encouraged to apply for church funding. read more

• Deb's cutting edge offer to boost appeal

  74490-19A Swindon hairdresser is celebrating 30 years in the business by donating a day's takings to the tsunami appeal. read more

• Tsunami could have killed 440 Britons

  The official toll of Britons dead or missing in the Asian tsunami disaster has more than doubled to 440. read more

• Girl pays a poetic tribute

  74486-20FIFTEEN-year-old Kelly Morshead, from Broad Hinton, has been helping out with the relief effort being organised at Wroughton Airfield. read more

• 'I'm fed up with constant crime'

  74476-21A TRADER who has been the victim of five thefts in just over two years is furious with what he claims is a lack of action by police. read more

• Making our voice heard

  74477-17SWINDON schools will have a voice in the corridors of power now that a local head teacher has been elected to a top committee. read more

• Wheel of fortune

  Rotary International is about to celebrate its centenary but there is far more to this organisation than a group of men in suits who do their bit for the community. NIGEL KERTON found out what Rotary is really all about read more

• Yobs scratch word on car

  VANDALS left their mark on a car in Wootton Bassett. The offenders scratched an offensive word on the passenger side door of a blue Toyota Lucida Estima in Fairfield on during Monday night. read more

• A dramatic exit!

  WESTLECOT Ladies were pipped at the post in a tense and dramatic national inter-club championship match that went right down to the wire. read more

• No homes here say residents

  RESIDENTS are objecting to plans to build 24 homes on the former Co-op site in Highworth. They say the development will overlook their homes and be out of character with the area around the Cherry Orchard site. read more

• Additional meeting on council tax

  SWINDON Council has announced an extra public meeting about council tax. Less than a dozen members of the public attended the first meeting on Tuesday, to the disappointment of council leader Coun Mike Bawden. read more

• Irish dance for Lourdes

  A FUNDRAISING dance is to be held at the Thistle Hotel in Fleming Way, Swindon to raise money so that disabled youngsters can be taken to Lourdes at Easter time. read more

• Take chance to learn skill

  FAST-TRACK Arabic, talking about books and an introduction to the Baha'i faith are just some of the courses on offer as part of Swindon College's new part-time programme. read more

• An amazing aid effort

  74402-73THE MASSIVE relief operation based in Wroughton is still receiving a huge number of donations. read more

• Labour is suffering amnesia

  I SEE that Mr Benfield is suffering from the Labour complaint, amnesia (you forget my nanny application and you will still get a knighthood in the Honours List). read more

• I see the rats

  IN response to your article on January 3, about the rat population in Swindon, I would disagree with what Gavin Calthrop (spokesman for Swindon Council) says. read more

• Can you help?

  I WONDER is any of your readers know the whereabouts of a person who was living in Cedars Close in the mid 1950s. read more

• Still short life

  G SCOTT's view (Letters Jan 3) that organic is best for animals, is only correct up to a point. read more

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