Ashley Heath, co-ordinator of PlayWrite ASPIRING playwrights should be sharpening up their pencils for the chance to have their play performed in next year's One Act Play Theatre Festival. Extracts from the PlayWrite project's top three plays will be
JAMIE Cureton has stressed that one defeat 'doesn't make a crisis' after Town's disappointing opening to the campaign at Barnsley. On a personal level, the 31-year-old has vowed to step forward and take the spot-kicks should Andy King's men be awarded
SWINDON businesses are being urged to prepare for new legislation, outlawing age discrimination in employment and training. Swindon-based law firm BLB, which has offices in Commercial Road, is advising businesses to update their employment policies to
A PROPERTY maintenance firm has celebrated its first birthday. Eagle Property Maintenance, based at the Central Trading Estate in Old Town, celebrated the landmark anniversary last week. The firm is the brainchild of director John Eyles. It specialises
Gorilla Man Stanley Sparks. Refs: 78771-54CROWDS lined Wootton Bassett's streets as the High Street Festival got off to a rocking start. The Bewley Brothers opened the festival as they sang classic hits from the Blues Brothers. And as clowns, jugglers
The canal at the bottom of Kingshill. Ref: 78726-93BRINGING the Wilts and Berks Canal back to Swindon could be the missing link in the town centre's redevelopment, it has been claimed. The historic waterway could return within 10 years, according to the
A DARK shadow has been cast over one of Swindon's most beautiful spots. With panoramic views across the town, Lawn Woods is usually a popular place for dog walkers, runners and for people who want get away from the hustle and bustle of urban streets.
YOUR Swindon Advertiser is heading off on tour today. We are visiting the towns and villages around Swindon to meet our readers in their communities. The Advertiser is read each day by about 63,500 people, many of whom live outside Swindon itself. This
Lyn Babage gets the barbecue going during a week of events to raise money for the son of Jacquie KentA WEEK of events has kicked off to raise money for the teenage son of murdered mum Jacquie Kent. Landlord of the Abbey Meads pub, Lyn Babbage, wanted
Swindon Town fans Kevin Spackman and his daughter Emily. Ref: 78761-18THERE would have to be a good reason to spend an August weekend travelling all the way to Barnsley and back. And for this group of loyal Swindon Town FC fans it is pride in their local
The canal at the bottom of Kingshill. Ref: 78726-93BRINGING the canal back to Swindon could be the missing link in the town centre's redevelopment, it has been claimed. The historic waterway could return within 10 years, according to the Wilts and Berks
Ashley Heath, co-ordinator of PlayWrite ASPIRING playwrights should be sharpening up their pencils for the chance to have their play performed in next year's One Act Play Theatre Festival. Extracts from the PlayWrite project's top three plays will be
Cirencester Town completed their pre-season campaign with a 2-1 home win against a Bristol Rovers XI. The visitors took the lead against the run of play when a great pass from Chris Lines was headed back across the box by Lewis Powell and Yuan Caijin
A HI-TECH road sign will warn drivers in Shrivenham to slow down. The area's first 'vehicle activated sign' will be put on Townsend Road in a bid to make drivers stick to the 30mph limit. The speed limit flashes up on the sign when a car approaches it
THAMESDOWN bus company is operating a new route from Priory Vale to Shaw. It comes after the number 19 service was taken off the company's schedule and replaced with the number 18. Concerned passengers were worried that they could not get to Shaw directly
THE Rodbourne Cheney Residents' Association has organised a new insurance scheme for voluntary groups. Les White, pictured, the chairman of the association, decided it was too expensive to pay for insurance separately. He held a meeting with Swindon Council
A PERMANENT deputy chief executive will not be named at Swindon Council until October. When the authority advertised for five new group directors it said one of them would also be made deputy chief executive. But although four of the five posts have now
COMMUNITY champions in Swindon are being urged to apply for special funding. Grants are available from the Department for Education and Skills to help run voluntary groups. The deadline for applications is Thursday, September 15. Voluntary Action Swindon
RAF Lyneham has been presented with a prize sword for its peacetime work. The Wiltshire airbase has been given the Wilkinson Sword of Peace for 2004 despite stiff competition from RAF stations around the country. It was awarded for the base's work in
From left Gemma Roberts, Dorinda Moffat, Kim Dempsey and Lisa Cox. Ref: 78708-100A MOULIN Rouge theme night has raised hundreds of pounds for charity. Dorinda Moffat, 25, organised the night to raise money for the North Wiltshire branch of the Motor Neurone
FORMER Foreign Secretary Robin Cook was a good friend to Swindon, according to one of the town's MPs. Mr Cook, who died on Saturday, had been due to visit the town in November. Yesterday North Swindon MP Michael Wills described the news of Mr Cook's death
A MOVIE-THEMED night will raise money for troubled youths. Lisa Cox, of Eldene, was attacked in her own home by a youth last year. But the 27-year-old is holding the fundraiser to try to stop people like the teenager who attacked and burgled her from
Stephanie BaldwinA SWINDON beauty competed in a national competition to find the country's hottest bikini babes. Stephanie Baldwin, of Toothill, made it to the final of Nuts Magazine's Boardmasters Babes competition at Fistral beach in Newquay at the
BEFORE any more of our green fields are covered in concrete and asphalt, surely the obvious way is to have a referendum, or is our council too frightened of what the result could be? We've had our marches, demonstrations and petitions (22,000 signatures
ON July 25 you reported that Swindon Primary Care Trust is to run a screening service for diabetics at risk of going blind. Why is this to be yet another public, private partnership? Both the Health Service Journal and the Audit Office have published
Hampshire stormed up to second place in the Frizzell County Championship First Division behind Kent with an emphatic 178-run victory over Gloucestershire at Cheltenham College. Stand-in captain Shaun Udal took a season's best 6-61 with his off-spin as
WILTSHIRE produced their best batting display of the season by far in their penultimate Minor Counties Championship game of the season. Asked to bat first by Shropshire, they made hay while the sun shone at Whitchurch as the hosts bowlers toiled. Wiltshire
Philip Weston led the way with 72 as Gloucestershire, minus Jon Lewis, eased their totesport League relegation fears with a comfortable five-wicket win over Hampshire at Cheltenham. After winning the toss, the Hawks slumped from 78-1 to 186 all out, wasting
RAF Lyneham has been presented with a prize sword for its peacetime work. The Wiltshire airbase has been given the Wilkinson Sword of Peace for 2004 despite stiff competition from RAF stations around the country. It was awarded for the base's work in
From left Gemma Roberts, Dorinda Moffat, Kim Dempsey and Lisa Cox. Ref: 78708-100A MOULIN Rouge theme night has raised hundreds of pounds for charity. Dorinda Moffat, 25, organised the night to raise money for the North Wiltshire branch of the Motor Neurone
Ashley Heath, co-ordinator of PlayWrite ASPIRING playwrights should be sharpening up their pencils for the chance to have their play performed in next year's One Act Play Theatre Festival. Extracts from the PlayWrite project's top three plays will be
AN EXHIBITION firm has helped a deaf awareness company for free because it considers it a good cause. Deaf Essential required some exhibition stands for a seminar and approached Access Displays Ltd, but the exhibition firm would not give them a price.
A SWINDON hi-tech security firm is facing a bright future after a massive cash investment. TSSI, which is based in the Groundwell Industrial Estate in North Swindon, is aiming to double its turnover and increase its staff following £3.5m investment from
A SWINDON teaching union representative has given his reaction to plans to reform further education colleges. The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has set out plans to overhaul the sector to make sure that it provides students with skills needed by employers
A FATHER and son driving team will find out today if they can still compete in a charity car rally to Mongolia. John Barker, 58, and his son Mark, 30, set off last Saturday in a Robin Reliant to take part in the Mongol Rally. But they had only got as
Safe and sound Adam Dangerfield with his mum Ruth and Ian Russell of Asda Wal-Mart RUTH Dangerfield was beside herself when she accidentally locked her baby son inside her car. Eighteen-month-old Adam was screaming for his mum but she had no way of getting
Film shot by the coastguard shows the crew being rescuedFIVE Swindonians were saved by helicopter and lifeboats in a dramatic rescue after their speedboat started sinking off the Dorset coast. A day trip turned to disaster for the crew which included
THE family of Kenny Brimson are still receiving support from people in Swindon. They appealed for help to raise money to buy a headstone for the Swindon musician, right, who died in 1997. Since the Advertiser featured the story his family has been inundated
WORKING steam engines will return to Swindon's Steam Museum of the Great Western Railway over the weekend of September 17 and 18. They will run on a specially laid 180-metre line. The demonstration will be part of the 2005 Swindon Railway Convention,
BILLIE Piper fans are disrupting filming of the new series of Doctor Who. The BBC is pleading with fans to stop taking photos of the show's stars, Swindon-born Billie and David Tenant during filming in Cardiff because it is interrupting the recording.
SWINDON'S buses have been recruited in the fight against council tenants who refuse to pay their rent. More than £1m is currently owed to Swindon Council in unpaid rent and last year 68 tenants were evicted from their homes because of non-payment. But
THE British Korean Veterans' Association is trying to contact former members of HM Armed Forces who served in Korea/Japan from 1950 to 1953 and also those servicemen and women who served in these two places at a later date with the Peacekeeping Force
I COME from a generation that used to be able to go out in the evening in safety and at reasonable prices...so when someone kindly took me to the cinema I was amazed to find a seat cost £6. Why would anyone want to go out into the dangerous streets of
I WAS very concerned to see that the Environment Agency is encouraging angling as a pastime. Surely people can think of more productive things to do with their spare time than to cause harm and suffering to fish and destroy our riversides in the process
I live in the new area of Priory Vale. I have lived here for just over a year and I rely on the Thamesdown bus service as I do not drive. My daughter is due to start school this September at Shaw Ridge Primary. I chose the school as it was on the number
