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Cleaned Up!
RHYS Evans has enjoyed a clean sweep in the accolade stakes yet some tough talking lies ahead over the next few days as the goalkeeper wrestles over a stick or twist' dilemma. The 24-year-old is your choice as the 2005-06 Swindon Advertiser Player of
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On This Day
10 years ago: Town ended a title-winning campaign with a disappointing 0-0 draw against Stockport County at the County Ground. The match attracted 14,697 supporters. 20 years ago: Another fantastic season. A Peter Coyne goal at Crewe Alexandra secured
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Peter The Great!
UNBELIEVABLE' was the verdict of hat-trick hero Peter Thorne after Town's 6-0 thrashing of Huddersfield in October 1996, writes JON RITSON. A devastating 20-minute spell saw the Terriers terrorised, leaving then boss Brian Horton to bemoan his worst
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Happy Onuora willing to add to coaching staff
IFFY Onuora is not adverse to strengthening Town's coaching set-up over the summer although it would have to be the right' person. However, the manager is keen to stress that while he may be tender in managerial experience, he is far from isolated as
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I'll Keep You in the Picture
SEAN O'Hanlon has promised to deliver a swift answer when he sits down with Iffy Onuora on Monday. The manager has said he will be straight and frank with his dealings and the Town captain is equally keen to adopt that approach. He is not about to discuss
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Panthers set to pounce
PANTHERS, Swindon's recreational ice hockey team, open their home season at the Link Centre tomorrow when they face Streatham Chiefs, their main championship rivals. Last year Chiefs narrowly pipped Panthers to the league title on goal difference and
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Rodbourne in the hunt for repeat
RODBOURNE Cheney Working Men's Club are on course to retain their CIU team championship, writes DAVE EATON. It was only last year in 2005 that they finally broke their duck in this competition, despite a club member winning the national CIU individual
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Purley Way could get punters off to fun start
Salisbury opens its gates for the 2006 season with the ever popular Family Fun Day tomorrow. The opening six furlong Totesport.com Handicap could go to Clive Cox's Purley Way, but will face stiff opposition from Mick Channon's Obe Brave and Trafalgar
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Jessica on song with three wins
Young show jumping star Jessica Mendoza, who has just turned 10, enjoyed an "exceptional" run at the Unex Towerlands arena's junior BSJA show in Essex. The Wootton Bassett based rider began her run at the three day show, which drew many of the country's
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Sean begins with a bang
NEW trainer Sean Curran got his career off to a flying start when his first Flat runner, Explosive Fox, won at Wolverhampton. Having had time to digest the 16-1 success, the National Hunt jockey-turned-trainer is even more determined to carve out a career
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Around the clubs
Broome Manor's Miles Mackman was the leading Wiltshire player in the 72-hole West of England Open Amateur Stroke-play Championship at Royal North Devon. He finished 26th on 298, ten over par for the 6,665-yard Westward Ho links and 15 behind the winner
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Young Hannah is County Star
HANNAH Turland, the exciting 11-year-old Tidworth golfer, was the star turn for Wiltshire women as they tied 4 1/2 4 1/2 with Somerset at Tall Pines, writes ERNIE NEWELL. Turland, who earned a crucial point in her debut for the full county team in Wiltshire's
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A week is a long time in speedway
WHAT a difference seven days makes! This time last week, there were people wanting my head, now it's all smiles. What a result it was at Eastbourne last Saturday! People can say that they were a weak side but they had not lost a match at home up to
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Leigh out to hit top gear
LEIGH ADAMS will be hoping for better luck today when he competes in the European Grand Prix in Wroclaw, Poland. In the opening round a fortnight ago in the Slovenian GP semi-final the Robins skipper was miles ahead, but was denied victory and a place
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Time to wake up to realities
IT appears to me that humanity, and the affluent minority of the rich world especially, are intent on a sleep walk into the future with dire consequences for generations to come in the not too distant future. There is some hope if only more people
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How tough on causes of crime?
AS an embattled Prime Minister struggles to secure his place in history he may well wish to reflect on his abject failure to achieve any of his great promises to the British people. The latest fiasco surrounding the release into the community of criminals
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Treasure to be found
I WOULD like to thank the Adver for flagging up (April 27) the importance of the Richard Jefferies Museum at Coate. It has been an ongoing struggle to get Swindon Council to maintain Jefferies' home, and attacks by vandals only make the situation worse
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Free to pass
I too now have a free bus pass and was surprised when Mr and Mrs Humphries said he and she were given a ticket, and asked where they were going. I have been travelling into town from Nythe since receiving my pass and I've never been given a ticket
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Taxing puzzle
DID this council think it is arrogant enough to foist a warden scheme on tenants, charge them £4 a month extra on their rents and expect to get away without comment. We have never been informed of what powers they have, how many are there, where do
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Kindly vicar is mourned
RESIDENTS of Wanborough have paid tribute to a former vicar, who has died. The Rev Geoffrey Powell was responsible for setting up the village's parish magazine in the 1960s and it is still going strong today. He has been described as father figure
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‘Friend’ crept into bedroom of a teenager half his age
A MAN who crept into a 15-year-old girl's bedroom and molested her while her six-year-old brother slept in the next bed has escaped a jail term. Craig Parfitt, 31, of Coriander Way, Taw Hill, was given a 36-month community order and told to complete
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Controversial graves policy set for change
THE Government is redrawing guidelines which have seen hundreds of gravestones toppled because of health and safety fears. The move follows Wootton Bassett Town Council's controversial decision to remove and lie down 58 headstones and memorials after
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These men ‘are the lowest of the low’
AN 83-year-old man says thieves who conned their way into his home before stealing his money are the lowest of the low. Trevor Fry's wife has Parkinson's disease and was in hospital when the burglars struck and he says she would have been devastated
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Eric is voted in
SWINDON's New college has a new Student Union president. Eric Murray's Funtime campaign earned him more than 52 per cent of the student vote. "I'm delighted to have won and pleased that it was such a good turnout," said Eric, 18, from Wootton Bassett
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Mobility club is launched
THE Mobility Explorers Club will be officially launched at a special event at Broadgreen Community Centre in Salisbury Street today. The club aims to give scooter and wheelchair users in Swindon the opportunity to make new friends, learn new skills
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Skippers rope in money
AN outbreak of aching legs has hit staff and pupils at Freshbrook Primary School. But it's not a mystery illness, it is just the after-effects of their 12-hour charity skipathon. The event, which was in aid of the British Heart Foundation, was organised
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Labour slide has ‘bottomed out’
LABOUR'S unpopularity has now "bottomed out" in Swindon said one the town's MPs after disappointment at the ballot box. North Swindon's Michael Wills said there is no evidence that Labour will continue to slide in the polls. The ruling Conservatives
