Author JK Rowling, has revealed one of her characters will be killed off in the next Harry Potter book. But she kept fans guessing over which one of them will die. Rowling was asked on her website: "Are you going to kill off any more characters?" She
A SWINDON film company has been inundated with requests from hopefuls wanting to appear in a new production. Plexus7 is making a film called Anti-Social Behaviour set on a Swindon council estate. The plot centres on pensioner Alan Richards, who plots
Our TV went off at 4pm on Friday, Sept 24 and came on at 11pm but only with BBC1 and 2, HTV and channels 4 and 5. I tried to phone NTL and finally got through on the Wednesday after being on hold for 35 minutes. I was passed to a woman who put me on hold
A RARE BOOK of stories by Aesop, printed in December 1497, was auctioned by Chris Albury of Dominic Winter in Swindon for £16,675. The book, called Vita et Fabulae, is one of only three copies known to exist in the world, and the only one outside Italy
PRO-HUNT protesters are small minded morons who like see pain and brutality inflicted on poor defenceless animals. G BUCKINGHAM Swindon
SOME of your correspondents are confusing large scale development with the need for a new university. There need not be factories, warehouses and thousands of houses next to Coate Water just to allow the landowners to graciously give a small area to Bath
I WANTED to write and thank the kind staff of Lloyds Chemist, Stratton Crossroads who went to the aid of my father-in-law John Tully when he fell over a few weeks ago. They cleaned his wounds and dressed them (at no cost) and made sure that both he and
I APPLAUD the council's move to sell the public paper-thin plastic sacks, and the promise to take away garden waste, to be recycled. And all this for the cost of only £1 per sack. It seems almost generous, except that every time I put out my official
I READ your story regarding traffic calming in Pinehurst (EA Oct 6) with a sense of despair. It states that each year 14 people are injured on the estate many of whom are children. It also states that between September 1999 and August 2002, 20 youngsters
I refer to the letter about skydiving from Mr & Mrs Pattison, (Letters October 1) Due to the proximity of this airfield (approx 750 metres from the residential areas of Covingham, Dorcan, Liden and Wanborough) the Planning Committee granted Temporary
HOW sad we were to read the letter from M Johnston (Tuesday) concerning us moving to Marlborough Road. What century are you living in? Look out the window and you will find there is a doctors' surgery, at least one retirement home, a home for the mentally
28803/1IN a world of large-scale commercialism and big business, one age-old industry is witnessing a reverse trend. Micro-breweries are popping up across the country, as traditional ales and beers are making a marked comeback. Jenny Haworth takes a look
KATIE Bizley is reaching for the sky in her new career and is looking forward to an inflatable Halloween. Katie, 18, works at Smiles Party World in the covered market and is celebrating passing her professional qualification exam. She is now studying
POLICE are examining CCTV footage in a bid to identify a man who defecated and urinated in a communal area of a block of council flats in Swindon. He was caught on camera in the building after performing the unsavoury act in the laundry room at Hatherleigh
MAGISTRATES banned Leigh Brydon from the roads after hearing he was more than twice the legal drink drive limit when police stopped his Honda Civic in Cranmore Avenue. Brydon, 38, of Netherton Close, Park South, admitted driving with excess alcohol and
Cherie Blair revealed a possible date for the next election during a talk about her new book at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. The Prime Minister's wife told an amused audience yesterday that charity nights she hosts at Downing street were "fully
