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No going pro for Cox!
BOXING: JAMIE Cox's Olympic dream is well and truly back on track after ending an uncertain couple of months by revealing he is staying amateur until at least Beijing 2008. Since winning Commonwealth gold in Melbourne in March, Cox has almost been
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A senior chance for Lukas
TEENAGE striker Lukas Jutkiewicz has been offered the chance to join the senior ranks at the County Ground and four other young guns will make the step up next season. The 17-year-old striker played a part in the final four matches of Town's campaign
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Miglioranzi is first out of the door
STEFANI Miglioranzi's four year-stay at the County Ground appears to be over with both manager and midfielder believing the time is right for a fresh challenge. The Brazilian is thought to have other options after a season disrupted by injury and loss
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Get a job at the games
IT HAS already led to "no room at the inn" signs being put up in hotels across the town. But Swindon's employment market is also set to receive a shot in the arm thanks to next month's UK Corporate Games. Games organisers have a number of jobs reserved
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Car sales down
THE April new car market figures just released reflect the findings of a snap-shot survey carried out on franchised car dealers over the past few days. April registration figures are down 9.1 per cent to 163,216 units. Sue Robinson, director of the
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Find a solution
DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry figures show that there were 23,351 individual insolvencies in England and Wales in the first quarter of 2006. This was an increase of 12.9 per cent on the previous quarter and an increase of 73.4 per cent on the same
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Sneak preview
OLD Town-based travel counsellor Fiona Woodruffe was one of the first people in the UK to get a look inside the newest and largest cruise ship in the world, Freedom of the Seas, when it docked at Southampton. Launched by Royal Caribbean, the ship can
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An incentive to visit the show
THE National Incentive Show 2006 and The National Direct Marketing Show 2006 will be held from September 19-21 at the NEC, Birmingham. Entry to both events is free of charge and visitors only need to register once, allowing them to move freely between
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Flower power at the pumps
SUMMER has officially started at Arkell's Brewery, which has not only launched its 2006 Summer Ale, but also radically redesigned the Summer Ale pump clip in the shape of a sunflower. And brewery managing director James Arkell says the new pump clip
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Bosses warned over job sting
EMPLOYERS in Swindon are being warned to be on the lookout for bogus job applicants trying to cash in on the Age Discrimination Act when it comes into force in October. The introduction of the legislation has been heralded as the biggest development
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Honour for air tattoo founder
ONE of the founders of the Royal International Air Tattoo has been given a medal for his services to aviation. Tattoo director Tim Prince who, along with Paul Bowen, founded the show in 1971, has been awarded the Jeffrey Quill Medal, for his contribution
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Charity given £6,000 boost to achieve goals
WILTSHIRE-BASED charity Shaw Trust has been awarded a £6,000 GWR FM Community Trust grant to help 48 people turn their lives around. The funding will be used to deliver Goals (Gaining Opportunities and Living Skills) training as part of the charity's
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Cash rows may need a referee
FUTURE funding quarrels between Swindon Council and Whitehall could be settled with the help of an independent body, a top Government adviser has said. Sir Michael Lyons said yesterday local authorities must receive adequate funding from Central Government
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Students get buzzy with Ron
HANG a potential worker egg upside down and you will create a queen bee. That was one of the lessons learned by three students who picked up the buzz of beekeeping at Stanton Park on Saturday. Course instructor Ron Hoskins, of the Swindon and District
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Violent ex locked up
A DAD-OF-THREE has been jailed for breaking a restraining order just two days after it was made. Christopher Lesley, 34, was handed the order to keep him away from his ex, Tracey Walters, by Swindon Magistrates' Court on April 26. She is convinced that
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Some of us are on right track
REGARDING your article concerning the clean-up of the Railway Village, your phone poll asked is the root of the problem with the bedsits. I myself have lived in one of the bedsits for the last nine years and I take a dim view to being classed as trouble
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Police are the ones getting a bad deal
THE Adver reported the other week that a judge had let a dealer back onto the street again. In the same paper was a story about a man who had conned a young girl into letting him have her games machine, so he could sell it to buy drugs. While I think
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Will Labour wake up to NHS crisis?
THE sheer chutzpah of Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt is truly amazing. In declaring that there would be no impact on patient care with the loss from the NHS of thousands of doctors and nurses, she is either stupid or insane, and as she has risen
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Working for general good
I WOULD like to thank the 642 people of Central Ward who showed faith and voted for me in the recent council elections, those who chose not to vote for me but gave up their time to listen to my point of view and finally all who helped me in my short five-week
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Memories of Coate
READING a story (SA, April 28) about Coate Water reminded me of my earliest memories of it. As a child my eldest brother John was in charge of another brother Ron, sister Patricia and myself. Mother had given John money for the entrance fee one penny
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Memories of Coate
READING a story (SA, April 28) about Coate Water reminded me of my earliest memories of it. As a child my eldest brother John was in charge of another brother Ron, sister Patricia and myself. Mother had given John money for the entrance fee one penny
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A subject close to Kate’s heart
SHE has reported from wars to Miss World and everything in between. But now Kate Adie has turned her attention to the subject of foundlings children abandoned at birth and has written a book, Noboby's Children, chronicling some of their stories. The
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Good trains but coffee is terrible
SWINDON has terrible coffee. That was what Isambard Kingdom Brunel thought of the hot beverages served in the waiting room at the town's station, according to Andrew Kelly. Mr Kelly, who was joined by Melanie Kelly, was giving a talk on their book Brunel
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Children have a fun time
PUPPET shows and storytelling kept youngsters at Lower Shaw Farm spellbound. The Children And Families Day on Sunday saw a series of workshops for all ages throughout the day. Author James Carter brought poetry and guitar playing together in a writing
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New venture for TV quiz show ‘cheat’
DISGRACED quiz show contestant Charles Ingram has re-launched himself as a thriller writer. Mr Ingram, a former Army major who is appealing after a court ruled he had cheated, with a friend coughing the correct answers, on TV show Who Wants to be a Millionaire
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Error sees more mail go astray
ROYAL Mail's wrong deliveries continue. Despite being warned by the Adver two weeks ago that mail was going astray, the latest round of wrong deliveries landed Great Western Hospital mail in the Advertiser postbag yesterday. The Royal Mail blamed the
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Route one!
IFFY Onuora will lay his route back to League One before Town's board later this week and has no reason to believe he won't be allowed the chance to steer a successful course at the helm. The manager read in at least one national newspaper yesterday
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Toys galore at pre-school playtime
PLAY TIME at Holy Family Pre-School has got even better thanks to a donation of toys. Children can also enjoy the fresh air after the grant from the Dettol Foundation was used to buy soft bark for an outside play area. Among the new purchases are a
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Motorist guilty of road rage attack
MOTORIST Joby Pironi has been warned he faces a jail term after a jury found him guilty of a road rage attack which left a man with a fractured skull. The 27-year-old, from Rodbourne, who has two previous convictions for assault, was told he was "at
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Oak trees are to line Lawns
A GLORY of Old Town's Victorian past is set to make a return. In the 19th Century, an avenue of trees linked the Lawn Woods to Old Town's High Street but powerful storms in 1989 damaged some of the trees and bought others crashing to the ground. Now
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A musical date with the Queen
GIVING a musical performance is usually cause for a certain amount of nerves but Fiona Cullen says she is not fazed even though she'll be playing for the Queen next week. Fiona, who appropriately lives in Windsor Road, in Lawn, is set to tickle the
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Owner finds his missing rare bike
A RARE mountain bike and two motorcycles worth a combined £7,000, which were stolen from a garage behind a house in Cheney Manor Road on Friday night, have been recovered. The bikes were stolen from behind the house sometime between 11.15pm on Friday
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Marathon runs up £2,400 for charity
A HIGHWORTH man has raised nearly £2,400 for charity after running in last month's London Marathon. Graham Seeley, 49, of Cricklade Road, pictured, completed the gruelling 26.2-mile event in four hours and eight minutes raising a total of £2,389 in the
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Thanks for bandstand donations
EVERYONE who contributed to the Pipers Area Residents' Association's appeal for renovating the Old Town bandstand is being thanked. The committee members will be handing over a cheque for £5,075 at the Mayor's Parlour tomorrow. The money was collected
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BT staff get hands dirty
EXECUTIVES from across the globe have been getting their hands dirty in Swindon. Building sandpits, laying paths, and erecting fence posts are not the tasks BP executives are used to doing during their normal working day. But the group came together
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Dad denies plot to kill children
A MUM collapsed in despair after dashing home to find her children gone and a note from her ex saying he was going to kill them, a court heard. The West Swindon woman had been enjoying a night out in town when she received a series of chilling texts
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Deal aims to reduce people’s energy bill
SWINDON Council has signed a contract with British Gas as part of Britain's biggest independent initiative to tackle household fuel poverty. The British Gas "here to help" scheme is an alliance including social housing firms and five major national charities
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Council’s website nets award in national survey
WILTSHIRE County Council's website has performed well in a recent national survey. The survey of council websites, undertaken by the Society of Information Technology Managers, found www.wiltshire.gov.uk did well in three areas. The site was rated as
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Mental health talk
MENTAL health will be the topic of conversation at the Swindon and Marlborough Amnesty International group meeting this week. The group, which is meeting on Thursday, will be listening to a talk by Cathie Aitken, of mental health charity Mind. She will
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Good Samaritans come to aid of diabetic man
TWO good Samaritans, who helped a diabetic man after he collapsed, are being sought by police. The incident happened at 11pm on Sunday, April 23 in York Road, at the junction of Southampton Street, near the council offices. The man collapsed after suffering
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A musical date with the Queen
GIVING a musical performance is usually cause for a certain amount of nerves but Fiona Cullen says she is not fazed even though she'll be playing for the Queen next week. Fiona, who appropriately lives in Windsor Road, in Lawn, is set to tickle the
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Raiders target breakers yard
THIRTY catalytic converters and two alloy wheels were stolen from a yard in Brindley Close, Cheney Manor. The break-in happened between 5pm on Sunday and 8.45am yesterday. The property was taken from a metal container in the yard of Ford Breakers. Police
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Traffic is delayed
MOTORISTS faced long queues during rush hour after a car mounted the kerb on Drakes Way. The blue Fiat came to a standstill at around 8am yesterday after leaving the road at the roundabout with Queens Drive and caused congestion as it was recovered.
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Pair in court on drugs charges
A 23-YEAR-OLD Londoner has been remanded in custody after being convicted of drug dealing offences in Swindon. Richard James, from Brixton, south London, admitted having heroin and cocaine with intent to supply on Thursday February 2. A second man,
