The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
Return . . Iffy Onuora is back tonight with TranmereANDY KING is anxious to avoid a promotion-denting 'Iffy' defeat by Tranmere Rovers at the County Ground tonight. Victory for Town would stretch the club's unbeaten run to 10 matches and defy the pessimists
A brilliant night of entertainment featuring three great jazz bands in one bill is promised next Tuesday at Salisbury's City Hall. Pasadena Roof Orchestra, Dutch Swing College Band and Terry Lightfoot and his Jazzmen provide the triple bill. Duncan Galloway
MENTION Teffont in Hollywood and more than one Oscar winner could probably tell you about the hospitality at Howard's House, the exclusive country house hotel in Teffont, which has entertained the likes of Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise and Sir John Gielgud
SKATERS in Highworth need a leader to spearhead their fight for somewhere to practice. The Highworth Sk8ters have been trying to build a skate area for several years. About £25,000 is needed, but fundraising was put on hold when the group's chairman,
WAR veteran Harold Cruse has proved a popular patient at Salisbury District Hospital. The 90-year-old, from Shrewton, who had a right hip replacement operation earlier this month, was in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the war and took part in the
ANGRY motorists are claiming they have been illegally snapped by a speed camera positioned on a bridge over the A303 at Solstice Park, Amesbury, where major building work is under way for a new business park and road bridge. They say there were no speed
STRICT checks are made by engineers and police officers before speed cameras start operating at the Solstice Park road works site on the A303, a police officer confirmed this week. Because of the size of the project and its proximity to the fast A303
DRUIDS have expressed concern about how a tunnel underneath Stonehenge would be constructed but say they support the principle of improving the significant spiritual site. Speaking at the inquiry on behalf of the Druid Network and British Druid Order,
OBJECTORS to the Stonehenge Tunnel have started giving evidence at the public inquiry into the £200m roadbuilding scheme. Richard Maguire, representing east Amesbury residents, who live closest to the proposed road, opposed the plans, claiming lack of
THE six-mile stretch of the A303 trunk road between Parkhouse and Amesbury might have been peaceful over the weekend but the same could not be said for roads through Amesbury, the Bourne Valley and in and around Salisbury. The stretch of the A303 was
Ref. 29344-26LACY drawers worn by pop-diva Madonna have gone on sale at a Swindon store. The knickers, which were worn by the actress and singer in the film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita have gone on sale for £1,950 at the Infinitely
SUPERMARKET chain Tesco has launched an appeal which will benefit Wroughton's Prospect Hospice. Help the Hospices, a national organisation, is Tesco's charity of the year. It supports hospices such as Prospect, by providing grants, training, information
THE partnership between Salisbury company Personal Pension Management Ltd and Salisbury Playhouse rose to new heights last month with the presentation of an Arts & Business National Award. Known as the UK's most prestigious awards in their field,
PAUL Sample Corporate Communications Ltd, of Salisbury, has completed a three-year corporate re-branding of Headway, the brain injury association. Headway, a national registered charity, was set up to promote understanding of all aspects of brain injury
THIS year's National Training Awards are now open for entries. The Learning & Skills Council, Wiltshire and Swindon, is encouraging companies and individuals to enter before the deadline of April 30. In 2003 the awards attracted more than 1,000 entries
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
JUST how healthy are you? You can find out in 15 minutes at the Milford Hall Hotel, in Salisbury, on March 10. There, Salisbury businessman Tony Kaye will demonstrate the BioPhotonic Scanner, the first of its kind in the world. The scanner, patented by
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
MANY callers to the police during Thursday's snowfalls complained that they had not seen any gritting lorries. As vehicles got stuck and many were abandoned, there was anger from some motorists, who claimed that not enough was done, particularly on the
HEAVY snow falls across south Wiltshire last Thursday evening spelled long delays for workers trying to get home and brought chaos to Friday morning commuters. Police had to deal with several accidents and abandoned vehicles and, as the snow turned to
ENGLAND return to Twickenham on Saturday for their first meaningful game at the home of the sport since being crowned world champions, writes Sarah McQuillen. Ireland's visit for the eagerly awaited Six Nations clash provides a double celebration for
A MOTHER from Perham Down, near Tidworth, braved Saturday's bitterly cold weather to stand outside and collect money for the hospital that saved her daughter's life. Pam Fleming (27) painted her face and donned a bright red wig to stand in the Old George
SNOW not only caused havoc on the roads last week, it was responsible for dislodging a parapet on the top of one of Salisbury's most beautiful buildings, creating a major safety hazard. The decorative parapet walls on top of Old Library Chambers, in Chipper
A DAIRY farmer in Little Langford has made an emotional plea to the government to stamp out bovine tuberculosis in badgers and help save his livelihood. Nicholas Helyer's farm has been closed with TB since March 2003. The disease was first diagnosed in
INNOCENT passengers will not suffer because of the actions of a group of vandals, Wilts & Dorset Bus Company has pledged. The company's operations manager, Chris Gordon, made the pledge following two attacks on a bus in Gainsborough Close, on Salisbury's
OBJECTORS to the Stonehenge Tunnel have started giving evidence at the public inquiry into the £200m roadbuilding scheme. Richard Maguire, representing east Amesbury residents, who live closest to the proposed road, opposed the plans, claiming lack of
THE sound of her children's laughter is something Karen McDonnell never dreamed she would hear. Now, after life-changing surgery, the mother-of-two is learning to adjust to the everyday sounds most of us take for granted. Thanks to a cochlea implant operation
Ref. 29289-25BUSINESSES could be putting workers' lives at risk because they are refusing to recognise the dangers of asbestos, according to a health and safety expert. Keith Taylor described the lethal dust, used to insulate buildings, as a ticking time
This is how uber-composer Richard Strauss once described his inspiration behind Also Sprach Zara- thustra: "I wished to convey by means of music an idea of the development of the human race from its origin, through the various phases of its development
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
Ref. 29347-12A mother-of-two who walked part of a 50-mile trek in her flip-flops in memory of her father who had multiple sclerosis is urging others to sign up for the challenge. Julie Kick, 35, of Tanners Close, Wootton Bassett, put her feet to the test
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
MARCH 1- 13, BATH: The beauty, humour and darkness of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream were brought to vivid life in a family adaptation that had the children rolling in the aisles with laughter. TRB's Young Productions used an enchanting mixture
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
Ref. 29346-7SWINDON said goodbye to supergran Queenie Lea yesterday in a ceremony attended by all her 11 children. Mrs Lea, of Cricklade Road, who had 37 grandchildren, 64 great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren, was laid to rest after
Ref. 29161-129DOCTORS' surgeries across Swindon are changing their appointment procedures so that people can see a doctor more easily. As a result of too many missed appointments and complaints that patients had to wait for weeks to see a GP, many surgeries
Ref. 29352-21THE Post Office is to permanently close an Eldene post box after repeated attacks on postal workers. The latest attack left a postman with facial injuries. The post box, in the shopping centre, has been a trouble spot for more than four years
Ref. 29353-06THIEVES who stole £3,000 worth of computer screens from Bradon Forest School have forced pupils back to the drawing board. The Purton secondary has just opened its new technology block and students had been preparing to use the latest computers
AFTER breaking the ice at South Cerney AC's Wick Waters match lake poor results would have been expected, but 27 anglers out of the 30 that fished the three-way Angling Times Club Super Cup caught 317lb of fish. The event saw South Cerney, Abbey Lake
Ref. 29351-14A CHAIN of florists based in Swindon has closed without warning. Speculation is now mounting that George Davis and Son, which has its head office in Kiln Lane, in Cheney Manor, may have gone out of business. The company is one of the area's
Chippenham Ladies thrashed St Ivel Barbarians 50-5 in their return league fixture. Their first meeting earlier in the season was a very close affair but this time around, Chippenham showed their vast improvement, underlined by an eight-try romp. The game
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
Demolition work is progressing well at the former Princess Mar-garet Hospital, according to the developers. Bloor Homes, the owner of the 24-acre site in Okus Road, plans to create a range of homes ranging from one-bedroom apartments to five-bedroom houses
Ref. 29253-65SEEING an NHS dentist in Swindon could be even more of a challenge than it already appears. The Evening Advertiser reported earlier this month that the town is suffering from a shortage of NHS dentists, with only a handful taking on new adult
Ref. 29299--20A WOMAN who installed a CCTV camera after raiders struck at Christmas has fallen victim to another theft. Angela Baker, 42, of Perrys Lane, Wroughton, was distraught to discover her son's £3,000 motorbike had been stolen in the early hours
TWO young people who have recently achieved the Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award will meet royalty this month. Matthew Johnson, 20, of Abbey Meads, and Susan Offler, 25, of Covingham, will be going to St James's Palace in two weeks to receive their awards
CONMEN tricked two elderly people in Penhill yesterday claiming he would do some gardening work. In the first incident a man told a disabled woman in Corsham Road claiming he would give her patio and garden a "general tidy up" but wanted an upfront fee
TEN roads in Swindon will be resurfaced with micro asphalt during the next three weeks. The scheme, which began on Monday, will improve skid resistance, extend the road's life and improve the running surface. It is set to cost £95,000. Some road closures
MORE than £12,000 is to be spent in three streets to improve short term parking facilities. The scheme, which could be established as early as April would see ticket machines installed in Wood Street and Market Square to help businesses and residents
Swindon's Male Voice Choir will be sing at St Paul's Church, St Paul's Drive, Covingham. All proceeds from the March 13 concert will go to the Swindon's NSPCC. Admission to the 7.30pm show will be £5 ticket only, obtainable from Jean Gasson on 01793 525454
The Big Conversation event will take place next Saturday at the Even Swindon Community Centre in Jennings Street. The session, which is part of the Labour Party's national public consultation, is open from 10am until 12.45pm. People are welcome air views
Ref. 29347-12A mother-of-two who walked part of a 50-mile trek in her flip-flops in memory of her father who had multiple sclerosis is urging others to sign up for the challenge. Julie Kick, 35, of Tanners Close, Wootton Bassett, put her feet to the test
Supporters of a major project which will eventually help create a new inland waterway network around Swindon are calling on members of the public to get behind them. The Cotswold Canals Trust is disappointed because the Herit-age Lottery Fund has deferred
ADVENTURER David Hempleman-Adams admits he will be "winging it" when he attempts to break the world altitude record in a traditional wicker basket balloon. Swindon-born David, 46, was due to fly out this week to prepare for a crack at the Federation Aeronautique
Ref. 29289-25BUSINESSES could be putting workers' lives at risk because they are refusing to recognise the dangers of asbestos, according to a health and safety expert. Keith Taylor described the lethal dust, used to insulate buildings, as a ticking time
WE are permanently in great need of new, used, foreign, British and all other kind of postage stamps for the Sunshine Fund For Blind Children and are desperate for more contacts in the UK and abroad. The stamps are sold and this is how we raise much-needed
ONCE again complaints have come in regarding litter, as stated in the Evening Advertiser on February 19, 2004. It was asked if something could be done about keeping the town centre clean and tidy. The answer is simple people should stop dropping litter
THIS letter is in response to the column in the Evening Advertiser on February 18 by Jeff King "Football writer and DJ on life in Swindon after Barcelona". I wonder if he reads the letters printed in your paper? I think not. There have been numerous letters
IF Frank Avenell's 3,500 petitioners are typical of pensioners as a whole, then it is likely some 1,500 of them are entitled to at least some reduction in council tax, which they have failed to claim. For instance, it now appears that 83-year-old Ms Winkfield
AM I the only one to have noticed the significance of the road safety signs that have sprung up along Pinehurst Road and the Circle? These signs state that there have been 71 accidents in this area in the last five years, 23 of which were speed related
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Sixpenny Handley village hall THE completely eccentric and utterly charming Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain played a blinder at Sixpenny Handley and, I dare say, it will be talked about for many years to come
THE baby blues hits a staggering 80 per cent of mums every year in the UK. Of them, as many as 17 per cent suffer the full effects of postnatal depression. Comedy queen and mother-of-three Ruby Wax knows all about PND, having suffered bouts of it after
MANY callers to the police during Thursday's snowfalls complained that they had not seen any gritting lorries. As vehicles got stuck and many were abandoned, there was anger from some motorists, who claimed that not enough was done, particularly on the
HEAVY snow falls across south Wiltshire last Thursday evening spelled long delays for workers trying to get home and brought chaos to Friday morning commuters. Police had to deal with several accidents and abandoned vehicles and, as the snow turned to
A MOTHER from Perham Down, near Tidworth, braved Saturday's bitterly cold weather to stand outside and collect money for the hospital that saved her daughter's life. Pam Fleming (27) painted her face and donned a bright red wig to stand in the Old George
SALISBURY Fair Trade Coalition - Salisbury district council and Oxfam - is urging people to celebrate Fair Trade Fortnight, which runs until March 14. The fortnight was officially launched on Tuesday, with visitors to the city's Market Square being waited
A QUIDHAMPTON doctor has presented a cheque for £3,000 to the Salisbury Area Young Musicians to ensure the memory of his late wife will carry on through music. Dr Christopher Glaysher handed the cheque to director Chris Holmes at St Edmund's Girls' School
SALISBURY district council's environmental services team will be doing its bit to persuade everyone to give up cigarettes on National No Smoking Day, on March 10. Environmental health officers from the council will be on a special stall at the Cross Keys
SNOW not only caused havoc on the roads last week, it was responsible for dislodging a parapet on the top of one of Salisbury's most beautiful buildings, creating a major safety hazard. The decorative parapet walls on top of Old Library Chambers, in Chipper
A DAIRY farmer in Little Langford has made an emotional plea to the government to stamp out bovine tuberculosis in badgers and help save his livelihood. Nicholas Helyer's farm has been closed with TB since March 2003. The disease was first diagnosed in
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
THE Go Ahead group, which bought the Wilts & Dorset Bus Company last August, has made few changes to it, says boss Alex Carter. Mr Carter, managing director of the £30m turnover company, said Go Ahead had deliberately held back from making dynamic
WITH gas and electricity prices continuing to rise, the Energy Saving Trust is advising businesses to invest in renewable energy, such as solar power. The trust's photovoltaic programme manager, Kirk Archibald, said that with predictions of wholesale
THE new owners of Chippenham's largest employment estate, Langley Park, have promised to bring extra jobs to the town. Ashtenne Holdings plc, a property investment and active management specialist, has exchanged contracts with current owners the Skelton
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
A 270-TONNE bridge was slid into place over the main Salisbury-Exeter railway line at Skew Bridge in the early hours of Sunday. The massive bridge was the first of two being installed at Skew Bridge in a £3m project by the Highways Agency to improve safety
SALISBURY Fair Trade Coalition - Salisbury district council and Oxfam - is urging people to celebrate Fair Trade Fortnight, which runs until March 14. The fortnight was officially launched on Tuesday, with visitors to the city's Market Square being waited
A QUIDHAMPTON doctor has presented a cheque for £3,000 to the Salisbury Area Young Musicians to ensure the memory of his late wife will carry on through music. Dr Christopher Glaysher handed the cheque to director Chris Holmes at St Edmund's Girls' School
SALISBURY district council's environmental services team will be doing its bit to persuade everyone to give up cigarettes on National No Smoking Day, on March 10. Environmental health officers from the council will be on a special stall at the Cross Keys
A DEVELOPMENT company seeking to build on part of Old Sarum airfield has lost a legal challenge to Salisbury district council's new local plan. Dutch-owned company Blanefield Properties, which owns the World War I aerodrome, mounted the challenge at the
EXTRA farmers' markets, a new craft market and more visits by French and continental stallholders are likely this year in Salisbury's Market Square, despite fears that they could undermine the twice-weekly charter market. The new markets will visit the
STRICT checks are made by engineers and police officers before speed cameras start operating at the Solstice Park road works site on the A303, a police officer confirmed this week. Because of the size of the project and its proximity to the fast A303
Mark . . swapped pinstripes for overallsFINANCIAL futures trader Mark Embury has turned his back on the world of high finance to launch his own plumbing and drain repair business. Mark, aged 30, was a derivatives broker in the London Metal Exchange for
WROUGHTON engineering consultants The Halcrow Group is involved in the development of a £3 billion tourism, leisure and entertainment project that is set to open in 2006. Launched in October 2003, Dubailand is part of Dubai's plan to transform the emirate
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
Michael Wills has got a cheek (letters Feb 25) saying that what puts people off politics is campaigners like me being rude about politicians like him! Perhaps folks are disillusioned with politics because the government went ahead with a war despite two
Ref. 29334-19A BED and breakfast owner has been conned by a man claiming to be a commando visiting RAF Lyneham for a parachuting course. Now Merle Baker is warning other guesthouse owners to be wary in case the thief, who claimed he was a Royal Marine
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
JUNE 04, BATH: When eminent theatre director Sir Peter Hall put together a company and a package of plays for a summer residency at Bath Theatre Royal last year it was a gamble. But it paid off, the audiences flocked in and a delighted Sir Peter, together
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
Ref. 29300-59FORMER pupils at Dorcan School are invited to reminisce about their classroom days. Erica Whitcher, 26, of Eastville Road, Pinehurst, has organised a reunion on March 12 for pupils who left in 1994. The reunion will be held in Fusion bar,
The Gannett Foundation supports projects which take a creative approach to fundamental issues affecting young people and disabled people. Grants will be for £1000-£5000 but larger grants may be made for exceptional projects. Your completed application
RESIDENTS living near the Shaftesbury Pub in Swindon say the arson attack which severely damaged the building this week was inevitable. Since it shut two years ago the bar and restaurant in Park South has become a magnet for vandals and troublemakers.
AN 88-year-old pensioner held a thief in a headlock after his friend was attacked on the way home from bingo. But the attempt to thwart the robbery failed and the have-a-go hero ended up in hospital nursing bruised ribs. The friends two women and a man
Ref. 29256-15RANTING amputee David Lewis has been given 48 hours to quit his sheltered home after a booze-fuelled reign of terror. Swindon County Court heard yesterday how the 62-year-old had breached an injunction banning him from abusing and threatening
TOMMY SAUNDERS is throwing caution to the wind in a bid to halt Swindon Supermarine's slide down the Dr Martens Western Division table. Six defeats in seven league games since the manager's arrival in January have seen Marine fall from the top half of
Check out our all new Wiltshire tourism section in association with Wiltshires Official Tourism website Visit Wiltshire. The website has some great new sections including Wiltshire features, Taste trails and Wiltshire attractions. The stunning countryside
SUPERMARKET chain Tesco has launched an appeal which will benefit Wroughton's Prospect Hospice. Help the Hospices, a national organisation, is Tesco's charity of the year. It supports hospices such as Prospect, by providing grants, training, information
Ref. 29276-08Dancers from a Swindon dance and performing arts school have a lot to celebrate having notched up a host of medals and trophies at a recent festival. Around 20 students from the Tanwood School of Dance and Performing Arts, based in Dowling
HIGHWAY chiefs felt the full fury of more than 100 Liden residents who want plans for the Commonhead flyover confined to the dustbin. Scores of residents living near the A419 fear the £13 million scheme will cause additional noise and ruin the landscape
Ref. 29327-11A WEDDING photograph lying forgotten in a loft has sparked a second mystery. The photograph of an affluent but unknown couple taken in 1923 appeared in the Evening Advertiser last week and reminded Amy Stebbing of her mystery wedding pictures
Ref. 29334-19A BED and breakfast owner has been conned by a man claiming to be a commando visiting RAF Lyneham for a parachuting course. Now Merle Baker is warning other guesthouse owners to be wary in case the thief, who claimed he was a Royal Marine
AN evening of clairvoyance will take place next month to raise cash for a sensory garden at Broad Town Pre-school. Clairvoyants Jenny Docherty and Roy Hawks-worth will be on stage at 7.30pm in Broad Hinton Village Hall on March 12. Pre-school committee
Ref. 29344-26LACY drawers worn by pop-diva Madonna have gone on sale at a Swindon store. The knickers, which were worn by the actress and singer in the film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita have gone on sale for £1,950 at the Infinitely
MICHAEL Wills will join representatives from the police, Swin-don council and assorted parish coun-cillors on Friday to find a way of combating anti-social behaviour in Stratton St Margaret. The North Swindon MP will join the town's anti-social behaviour
THE ignorance of Mrs E Fell of Wroughton about the funding of the Steam Museum (EA 19/2) is surprising. I assume she is an avid reader of the Evening Advertiser. She would have read in the past that when the council applied for the lottery grant in the
IF you are not already aware, you will be horrified to find out that British horses and ponies could once again be exported LIVE from the UK to face a long, uncertain journey to their death in Europe. We must act now to stop it. A British law that has
THE front page on February 25, headed "Drugs ring is smashed" showed the pictures of three heroin dealers who had been sentenced to a total of 20 years imprisonment. As it costs about £40,000 per year to keep a prisoner in jail, this trio is going to
ONCE again we have spent a miserable Saturday afternoon in the multi-storey car park by the Wyvern Theatre. Having had a busy day at the Roundabout Cafe in the Pilgrim Centre, we were looking forward to an afternoon of leisure. However, when we arrived
