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• Gulf veteran's health is worse

  Martin Curtis Picture Ref: 73428-18A FORMER airman believes Gulf War Syndrome is forcing him to give up work. read more

• Town gears up for Brunel date

  HE was a small man who thought big. read more

• Strangecoach!

  Mike Bawden, left, and Jemima Milton, right, receive a petition from Chiseldon residents Picture Ref: 76941 VILLAGERS have presented Swindon Council with a petition calling for their bus service into Swindon to be saved. read more

• Mast campaign row rumbles on

  Karen Kelly and son Morgan, front row, left with other protesters at Moredon Picture Ref: 76948-35A MOTHER heading a campaign to get a mobile phone mast moved was yesterday warning of alleged health dangers. read more

• Garden designer Phil plants an idea to make fund grow

  Phil Osman, garden designer Picture Ref: 76003MACMILLAN CANCER RELIEF: GARDENERS could benefit, from a Swindon Cancer Appeal plant sale on May 21 being organised by garden designer, Phil Osman. read more

• Why head is light-headed

  Goddard Park Primary pupils Connor Pipps, Ayesha Miah, Kate Wheaton and Joshua Fowler Picture Ref: 76937-40MACMILLAN CANCER RELIEF: YOUNGSTER'S have been discovering a charitable streak in their head-teacher. read more

• Rural fears in North Wilts

  IN contrast to Swindon's two seats North Wiltshire is a mainly rural constituency. read more

• Beware the M4 bridges

  Police traffic surveillance van Picture Ref: 25104-39FROM noon today drivers on the M4 in Wiltshire face a £60 fine for driving nine miles per hour over the speed limit. read more

• Chairman fears school closure is done deal

  THE chairman of governors at a Swindon primary school fears the decision has already been made to close it. read more

• Fly the flag

  Rex Barnett Picture Ref: 76947-30A PATRIOTIC pensioner from Greenmeadow is calling for people around Swindon to make more of St George's Day. read more

• Teen tells of abuse

  A TEENAGER with a mental age of eight said he took his clothes off at 44-year-old Craig Taylor's house so his parents would not know he had been smoking, a court heard. read more

• Bloomin' nice

  AFTER seeing your photograph last week of snake's head fritillaries in a garden, I thought you might like to see a photo of some of the plants growing in my window box. read more

• Where is it?

  I WAS looking through the archive sections on your website at Tesco and their planning for the Ocotal Way site and noticed that a sum of money for Gorse Hill was promised if they got their planning permission. read more

• No vision

  RE: the Coate Water debate (Join us in the Coate fight, EA, April 6). read more

• Bad timing

  MANY people were away on holiday this easter. read more

• I could be wild about Camilla

  SO the Royal Wedding is over . . . what a lot of fuss about nothing. I vowed I wouldn't watch a second of it, but watched the lot, and I'm glad I did. read more

• Cost of keeping fit for over 75s

  WHEN the new Swindon Card replaced the old Gold Card which was free and ran for ten years, it was said that the new card, which costs senior citizens £5, would save money. read more

• Old Town and Lawn scoop energy cash

  OLD Town and Lawn have been crowned Swindon's most energy efficient areas. read more

• Ramps taken in lorry raid

  THIEVES have made off with a set of aluminium lorry ramps. read more

• Greens see red at the plans

  Against the scheme Alan Hayward Picture Ref: 71459-11BATTLE FOR COATE: THE development of Coate has attracted fierce opposition from green campaigners. read more

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